EICR Testing and Certificates in Camberwell
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Camberwell — council housing, including the Sceaux Gardens Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Camberwell, Peckham, East Dulwich, Bermondsey, Elephant & Castle and surrounding areas.
EICR prices
From £106.80 inc VAT (£89 + VAT)
| Property | Price inc VAT | Ex VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Studio flat | £106.80 | £89 |
| 1-bedroom property | £132 | £110 |
| 2-bedroom property | £192 | £160 |
| 3-bedroom property | £240 | £200 |
| 4-bedroom property | £300 | £250 |
| 5-bedroom property | £360 | £300 |
| Commercial EICR | from £288 | from £240 |
| HMO or multiple consumer units | Quoted individually | |
- Full Electrical Installation Condition Report with observation and test schedules
- C1, C2, C3 and FI observations explained in plain English
- Written remedial quote if the report is unsatisfactory — remedial work priced separately
Residential prices are based on property size and assume one consumer unit, a normal circuit count and reasonable access. Converted properties, HMOs, multiple boards and unusually complex installations are quoted individually.
The price is confirmed before attendance from the property details supplied. If the installation materially differs - additional consumer units, or an undeclared commercial area - we explain and agree any change in scope before testing continues.
Property licensing in Southwark
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since March 2022, running to March 2027
- Selective licensingDesignation 1 - 5 wards: Champion Hill, Faraday, Goose Green, Newington, St Giles — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since March 2022, running to March 2027
- Selective licensing14 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since November 2023, running to November 2028
- Mandatory HMO licensingqualifying larger HMOs — applies nationally, not a local scheme
Licence applications and renewals ask for current electrical safety documentation. Check your property's exact status and any exemptions with the council before applying.
Smoke or a scorching smell at a socket or fuse box is the one electrical symptom you never sit on - kill the circuit and our emergency electrician will find what's cooking before it spreads. Just had an EICR come back unsatisfactory? Those C1, C2 or FI codes translate into a fixed list of eicr remedial work we price line by line, so "failed" turns into "fixed and re-certified" inside the 28-day window. Camberwell's flats turn over quickly, and any landlord who's been told a certificate's needed for a tenancy or licence can book an eicr certificate with the findings explained, not just emailed. As for lights that flicker or dim across half the house - that's often ageing circuits telling you rewiring is due, not a bulb problem. Whichever of these is yours, eicr testing Camberwell properties rely on gets cheaper and calmer the earlier it's booked - deadlines and faults both harden the longer they're ignored.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Camberwell
If you're weighing up quotes rather than reacting to an emergency, this is what you're actually comparing. An EICR electrician in Camberwell should inspect and test before saying anything about cost, give you a report where every code is explained rather than left as a letter and a number, and quote corrective work in writing so you can decide what's obligation and what's improvement. We work that way for private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations, councils and portfolio landlords - and for homeowners, HMO landlords, people selling or buying, and small businesses up towards Denmark Hill. One flat or an entire managed estate - no difference to the attention the installation gets.
Camberwell mixes Georgian and Victorian houses divided into flats with substantial post-war estate blocks, and each brings its own testing story. What doesn't change is the method: circuits measured against BS 7671, the board opened and examined, earthing and bonding checked, then either a satisfactory electrical safety certificate or a coded schedule setting out what needs attention and how urgently. Worth knowing where the pressure comes from - civil penalties for breaching the private rented sector electrical safety duty were raised to a maximum of £40,000 by SI 2025/1043, in force from 1 November 2025. That's specific to the landlord EICR duty rather than a general housing fine. Same-day appointments are available, so EICR testing in Camberwell needn't wait for a gap in next month's diary.
EICR Remedial Works
The codes decide everything, so read them before you read the price. C1 is danger present and gets dealt with straight away. C2 is potentially dangerous. FI means further investigation is needed before an item can be judged, and it counts towards an unsatisfactory outcome alongside C1 and C2. C3 is advisory - nothing failed. Missing RCD protection is coded on the circumstances: C2 where the circuit and its location carry real risk, C3 where they don't. In flats carved out of large old houses we routinely find alterations made without earths, buried junction boxes and circuits carrying loads they were never sized for. Communal landings, incidentally, fall outside the dwelling-specific rented sector rules while still needing maintenance and inspection. Written confirmation and the correct certificate follow the work, and remedial repairs are re-tested rather than simply signed off.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Letting a flat here means three separate obligations with three separate dates: the electrical report, the appliances you supply, and the smoke and CO alarms. Booked as one package they happen in a single visit and come back as one dated document set - far easier to track than three certificates arriving across a year. The landlord package is the same service whether you hold one property near Champion Hill or fifty across the borough.
Related electrical work in Camberwell
- Fuse box and consumer unit upgrades - where testing proves the board can no longer protect its circuits adequately.
- Rewiring and part rewires - for wiring beyond repair, staged so tenants or family can stay put.
- Emergency electricians, 24/7 - lost supply, burning smells, or a circuit that trips every time it's reset.
- PAT testing - appliances provided with a let, plus equipment in shops, salons and small offices.
Known faults don't wait politely for your next budget cycle - they wait until something else fails alongside them.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Camberwell
Burning Smells from Sockets or the Fuse Box
"Fishy smell from the electrics" is how most people describe it - hot plastic has that odour. The usual culprits are a loose termination arcing under load, an overloaded adaptor or extension, or a failing appliance plug. Treat it as a live fire risk: isolate the circuit immediately, dial 999 if anything's smoking, and have the overheating traced and repaired before it gets a second chance.
Council Demands and Penalty Threats
Letter from the council asking for your EICR? You've got 7 days to supply it - and if none exists, or remedial work was never evidenced within its 28-day window, the council can serve a remedial notice, arrange the work itself and recover costs, with penalty exposure running per breach. This is an emergency with a legal clock. Act on council EICR enforcement the day the letter lands, not the week after.
Certificates for Tenancies, Licences and Renewals
Need a landlord electrical certificate for a new tenancy or licence application? That's the 5-year cycle under the PRS Regulations 2020 coming round - or a licensing condition needing a current satisfactory report. It's plannable, but date-bound: work back from the tenancy start, and leave slack for the 28-day remedial window in case the electrical installation condition report Camberwell agents are waiting on comes back coded. Booking the landlord EICR early is what keeps that slack available.
Sockets Down in Part of the Property
No power upstairs but the lights still work? Usually a tripped MCB, a failed connection at a socket or junction box, or a broken ring final leg - which quietly overloads whatever's left carrying the load. Failed connections are where heat damage begins, so it's a same-day matter. Getting the dead circuit diagnosed today is a small job; the arcing it can hide isn't.
Getting Quotes for EICR Work in Camberwell?
Good - compare properly. Send over your unsatisfactory eicr and we'll price every coded item separately in writing, so you can see exactly what each fix costs and hold it against any other quote. Got a fault instead of a report? Book an electrician while it's still a small job. Faults and 28-day deadlines share one habit: neither improves while you're deciding.
Electrical Safety Across Camberwell's Housing Stock
Camberwell's streets mix council blocks, carved-up period terraces and a busy rental market - and each of those produces a different kind of electrical work.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Sceaux Gardens Estate - home to Lakanal House - sits at the centre of the borough's building-safety story, and that legacy keeps compliance scrutiny high across Camberwell's council blocks generally. Landlord electrical installations in these buildings are tested and remediated under the same regulator-supervised programme as the rest of the council stock, which sets a visible local benchmark: documented cycles, evidenced remedials, no gaps. Ex-council flats sold off and now let privately don't inherit that programme, though - each one needs its own 5-yearly report under the 2020 Regulations, and that's the landlord eicr Camberwell leaseholders most often overlook until a licence or tenancy forces the question.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
No named roll-call needed here - walk any residential street off Camberwell Church Street and you're looking at Georgian and Victorian terraces converted into flats decades ago. Conversions age badly, electrically: several generations of alterations share one riser, boards multiply in hallway cupboards, and non-compliant DIY additions surface every time an inspector lifts a floorboard. For landlords this stock produces longer observation lists than purpose-built flats, so the 5 year electrical check is worth booking with remedial time budgeted in - an unsatisfactory eicr with no slack before a tenancy date is how people end up paying premium rates for ordinary work.
Beyond the housing, Denmark Hill carries one of south London's biggest non-domestic electrical estates: King's College Hospital and the Maudsley serve Camberwell from a campus straddling the borough boundary, running periodic fixed-wire cycles under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989. That concentration of institutional testing sets the tone locally - inspection here is routine infrastructure, not an optional extra.
Whatever slice of this stock you're responsible for, the mechanics are the same: a dated cycle, a report, and a window to act on it. The owners who treat the report date as the finish line - rather than the start of a scramble - are the ones the deadlines never bite.
Electrical Safety Services Across Camberwell and Nearby Areas
Every eicr Camberwell booking sits on a patch we work daily, and the wider Southwark area is all within the same day's reach - useful when a portfolio doesn't stop at one postcode.
Champion Hill
Champion Hill's mix of student housing, estate blocks and Victorian villas in SE5 creates two very different workloads: managed accommodation needing communal testing and PAT programmes, and older houses - many now HMOs - where landlord electrical safety renewals meet genuinely aged wiring. HMO licence conditions don't wait for convenient timing, so the report is worth having before the application, not during it.
Denmark Hill
Around Denmark Hill station and the hospital campus, SE5's flats and conversions house a lot of hospital and student tenants - short tenancies, frequent changeovers, and a certificate needed at each turn. Fuse board upgrades follow naturally where reports flag missing RCD protection in older conversions. With tenants queuing for every vacancy, an expired certificate is the one thing that shouldn't be holding a let open.
We cover the neighbouring patches on the same rounds - Bermondsey to the north, East Dulwich just south - so multi-property landlords can stack visits into one day. The renewal dates across a portfolio rarely align themselves; a single organised booking run is what stops them arriving as five separate surprises.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Camberwell
What will my EICR cost?
It depends on the size of the installation - bedrooms, circuits and boards, plus how accessible everything is. Converted flats sharing old risers take longer than modern purpose-built ones. You'll have a fixed price in writing before we arrive, and it won't move on the day. Older installations don't get cheaper to inspect with age, so there's no saving in waiting.
How disruptive is the inspection?
Less than people expect. Power goes off circuit by circuit during dead testing, not all at once, and a typical flat takes a couple of hours - larger houses a morning. We liaise with tenants directly where that helps, and leave everything as found. One scheduled interruption is nothing next to the unscheduled kind a hidden fault eventually causes.
What paperwork do I end up with?
The full electrical installation condition report: every circuit tested, every observation coded C1, C2, C3 or FI, with the codes explained to you in plain English rather than left to Google. Unsatisfactory items come with a written remedial quote, and once corrected, the re-test evidence completes the file for eicr testing in Camberwell tenancies, licences or sales. Paperwork you can actually explain is worth more than paperwork you merely possess.
Will you do just one flat?
Happily. A single conversion flat, one takeaway unit, a homeowner who wants the wiring checked before plastering - that's everyday work here, not a favour. The one-property landlord gets exactly the treatment a 200-home portfolio programme gets: same instruments, same care, same explained results. What we won't do is rush it because it's small.
How fast can this happen if I'm against a deadline?
Same-day appointments are available for all our services, and the phone's answered around the clock, so a licence application or tenancy start doesn't have to slip. What we can't compress is what the report finds - remedials take the time they take. Which is the whole argument for testing at the front of your timeline instead of the end of it.
Let's Get Your EICR in the Diary
If the questions are answered, the next move is a written quote for your electrical work - one call or message and it's with you, with a date to match. Your eicr certificate Camberwell tenancy or licence needs arrives with every code explained and any remedials priced. The report will say what it says; the only part you control is how much time you leave to deal with it.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Camberwell — each one has its own page.
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades — when an EICR flags an old board with no RCD protection.
- Rewiring and part rewires — when circuits are past their service life rather than repairable.
- 24/7 emergency electricians — when something is happening right now — the line is answered 24/7.
- PAT testing — for appliances in let and commercial properties.