EICR Testing and Certificates in Catford
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Catford — council housing, regeneration schemes and housing-association estates, from Milford Towers to Excalibur Estate regeneration.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Catford, Bellingham, Forest Hill, Lewisham, Sydenham 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 Lewisham
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since April 2022, running to April 2027
- Selective licensingDesignation 1 - 6 wards: Brockley, Catford South, Lewisham Central, New Cross, Perry Vale, Rushey Green — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since July 2024, running to June 2029
- Selective licensingDesignation 2 - 5 wards: Crofton Park, Evelyn, Ladywell, Lee Green, Sydenham — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since July 2024, running to June 2029
- Selective licensingDesignation 3 - 5 wards: Bellingham, Downham, Forest Hill, Grove Park, Whitefoot — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since July 2024, running to June 2029
- 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.
A burning smell from a plug socket isn't something to sleep on - kill the circuit and have an emergency electrician trace the fault before it turns into a fire. An EICR that's come back unsatisfactory with C1, C2 or FI codes feels like a mess, but eicr remedial work puts the coded faults right and gets the report closed out with the appropriate certification. Need a landlord electrical safety certificate for a tenancy, a licence application or a renewal? An eicr certificate tested to BS 7671 is exactly the paperwork your agent - or Lewisham's licensing team - will ask to see. And lights that flicker, dim or eat bulbs usually point to tired circuits that rewiring fixes for good. We handle EICR testing across Catford every week, from Rushey Green flats to Bellingham houses - so you'll get a straight answer, the codes explained, and a written quote before anything else happens.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Catford
Most people looking for an EICR electrician in Catford already have a date in their head - a tenancy starting, a licence application sitting half-finished, a sale that's suddenly moving. So here's the shape of it: an engineer tests the installation, you get the report back with every observation coded and explained in plain English, and anything needing correction comes to you as a written quote before a single cable is touched. Same process for private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations and councils, portfolio landlords - and equally for homeowners, HMO landlords, people buying or selling, and the small businesses along Rushey Green. One flat gets the same engineer, the same test schedule and the same paperwork as a two-hundred-home programme.
An electrical installation condition report is a measured test of what's actually there - circuits, protective devices, earthing, bonding - judged against BS 7671 rather than against how tidy the board looks. That matters here, because Catford's rented stock swings from interwar cottage-estate houses out towards Bellingham to flats sitting directly over shop units, and electrically those two have almost nothing in common. Age of the equipment never decides the outcome; deterioration and defects do, and only testing shows which you've got. Under the 2020 Regulations a private rented home needs a valid report on a five-year cycle. Same-day EICR appointments are available when a deadline's already breathing down your neck, so book EICR testing in Catford and you'll know exactly where you stand.
EICR Remedial Works
Unsatisfactory usually sounds worse than it is. It means at least one C1, C2 or FI observation is sitting on the schedule - danger present, potentially dangerous, or something the inspector couldn't fully assess without further investigation. C3s are advisory and don't fail a report on their own. We work the coded schedule line by line and quote it in writing, splitting what must be put right from what's merely recommended. In older Catford flats the recurring ones are absent main bonding to the incoming services and decades of amateur alterations behind kitchen units. Once the work's finished you get written confirmation plus the certification that fits it - an installation certificate, or a minor works certificate for smaller corrections. Another firm's report isn't ours to amend; where a fresh inspection is wanted, remedial work and re-testing get quoted separately.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Run rentals rather than live in one and the compliance dates never line up. The electrical report falls due in March, the alarms got checked in November, and the appliances you supplied with the let have never been looked at. We schedule the eicr certificate, the appliance testing and the smoke and CO alarm checks into one booked visit so the tenancy pack is complete and dated, instead of you chasing a landlord electrical safety certificate the week before check-in. For agents holding mixed stock - an ex-council maisonette, a converted terrace, a flat over a shop - we sequence by property and hand the documents over as a set. Bookings are taken 24/7, year round, so the diary side can happen at eleven at night even though the landlord package itself runs as booked appointments.
Related electrical work in Catford
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - for boards that testing shows can no longer protect the circuits feeding them.
- Rewiring and part rewires - where perished rubber-insulated cable makes patching pointless, whole property or one floor at a time.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - burning smells, dead sockets, a board that won't stay in, any hour.
- PAT testing - for appliances supplied with a tenancy, or equipment running in a shop or office.
Every month a coded fault sits on file, the fix gets bigger and the paper trail gets harder to explain.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Catford
Burning Smells and Scorched Sockets
"Socket scorched brown" - or that odd fishy smell you can't place near the fuse box. It's usually a loose termination arcing under load, an overloaded adaptor, or a failing appliance rather than the fixed wiring - but you can't know which from the outside. Treat it as a live fire risk: isolate the circuit now, 999 if anything's smoking, then get the burning smell traced properly before it's allowed back on.
Council Enforcement and EICR Demands
"Council asking for an EICR" is a letter with teeth - you've got 7 days to produce the report, and penalties run per breach, not per visit. Often there's simply no current report, or an unsatisfactory one whose remedial work was never proven inside its 28 days. Left alone, the council can order the work itself and bill you. Answering a council EICR demand quickly is far cheaper than testing their patience.
Unsatisfactory Reports and Coded Defects
"C2 on my EICR - what now?" Usually it's missing RCD protection, inadequate main bonding to gas or water, or ageing wiring, with an old board anchoring several observations at once. Rented homes get 28 days to fix C1 and C2 items; a C1 is urgent today whatever the tenure. Send over your unsatisfactory EICR and the codes become a priced list instead of a worry.
Certificates for Tenancies and Licences
"Landlord electrical certificate needed" - a new tenancy, an HMO or selective licence application, or the 5-year cycle under the 2020 Regulations coming round. With Catford's rental turnover, the smart move is working back from the tenancy or licence date and leaving slack for the 28-day remedial window in case the electrical installation condition report comes back unsatisfactory. Booking the landlord EICR early costs nothing extra; booking it late can cost you a move-in date.
Comparing Electricians for Your EICR?
Sensible - this is paperwork worth getting right first time. Send us your unsatisfactory EICR and the remedials get priced straight from the codes, or book an inspection before a small fault grows into a dearer one. Either way you deal with engineers qualified to the standards the work requires, and you'll have a written quote in your hand before deciding anything.
Electrical Safety Across Catford's Housing Stock
Catford's stock is a proper cross-section of a century of London housing, and each slice generates its own testing workload. Even the civic quarter joins in: the Broadway Theatre on Rushey Green - a Grade II listed 1932 Art Deco venue with an 800-seat auditorium - is exactly the kind of public building where the Electricity at Work Regulations put stage and house systems on planned inspection and testing, alongside the shops and food businesses trading either side of it.
Council and ALMO Housing
Milford Towers is the obvious case study: a 1970s deck-access estate that's staying in use for at least another decade, which means an ageing fixed installation running on live periodic-inspection cycles rather than waiting for redevelopment to make the question go away. The rented flats inside it carry flat-level EICR duties of their own. Down at the other end of the scale, the Downham Estate holds thousands of houses and low-rise flats now around the hundred-year mark under a single community landlord - recurring domestic testing and communal fixed-wiring inspection at genuine portfolio scale. Privately let ex-right-to-buy houses on Downham also sit inside the borough's selective licensing Designation 3 as of mid-2026, so a current satisfactory report is part of the licence evidence, not an optional extra.
Housing-Association Stock
Phoenix Community Housing manages around 7,600 homes across the borough's south, largely interwar houses and low-rise flats - and since the Social Housing (Electrical Safety) Standards 2025 took effect (new tenancies from December 2025, all existing tenancies from 1 May 2026), every one of those tenancies now carries a flat-level EICR duty. L&Q and Notting Hill Genesis hold Lewisham stock under the same regime, and the planned management transition at Milford Towers will pull compliance responsibility back towards the council. For asset managers, that's first-cycle reports, remedial schedules and board upgrades landing across whole portfolios at once.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
The Excalibur Estate regeneration adds a different rhythm: each completed phase hands over new social-rent homes that enter landlord eicr duties in Catford from the very first tenancy, while the remaining prefabs stay occupied - and stay testable - until they're replaced.
Whoever the responsible person is, the pattern's the same: this area's stock doesn't let inspection cycles idle, and a programme booked ahead of its dates always costs less than one chased after them.
Electrical Safety Services Across Catford and Nearby Areas
Our engineers cover the whole SE6 patch and the neighbourhoods around it - the same eicr Catford landlords book is available in every pocket below, and across the wider South East London area when a portfolio spreads further. We also run regular work in Deptford and Forest Hill, so a managing agent with stock in three postcodes doesn't need three electricians.
Bellingham (SE6)
Bellingham's interwar cottage-estate stock is approaching a century old, and original or part-modernised wiring in these houses tends to surface bonding and RCD observations at inspection. Plenty are privately let, which puts them on the 5-year cycle. A pre-tenancy test here beats discovering the board's age mid-tenancy.
Downham (BR1 / SE12)
Straddling BR1 and SE12, Downham is dominated by 1920s-30s estate housing - solid stock, but its age makes insulation resistance and old alterations the usual findings. Former council houses now privately let here also need their licensing paperwork in order. Booking the report alongside the licence application keeps both moving together.
Grove Park
Grove Park mixes suburban semis with pockets of flats, much of it mid-century. Owner-occupiers here often haven't had a periodic inspection in decades - worth doing before a rewire-scale surprise appears during a kitchen refit or sale. Sellers with a recent satisfactory report close faster.
Rushey Green
The town-centre stretch means flats above shops, converted uppers and commercial units side by side - mixed-use buildings where landlord duties and Electricity at Work obligations overlap. If you hold both the shop and the flat above it, one visit can test the lot. Split responsibilities are exactly where certificates quietly lapse.
Catford South
Catford South's Victorian and Edwardian terraces include a good share of conversion flats, and conversions are where buried junction boxes and undersized additions from past decades like to hide. Landlords here should leave remedial slack before a tenancy start. What the last owner did to the wiring is only ever one inspection away from being your problem.
Chinbrook
On the Grove Park-Mottingham edge, Chinbrook's low-rise estate and post-war housing generates steady periodic testing and fuse board replacement work. It's quieter stock, but quiet isn't the same as compliant - a dated board still codes the same. An inspection now settles the question for the next five years.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Catford
What decides the cost of an EICR?
Mostly the size of the installation - number of circuits and bedrooms, one board or several, and how easy the access is. A one-bed conversion flat is a different job from an HMO over three floors. You'll get a fixed written price before we book anything, and if the report finds faults, the remedial quote is itemised code by code so you can see exactly what you're paying to fix. Guessing at cost is what keeps people delaying - a firm number usually ends the delay.
How long does the inspection take?
Typically a couple of hours for an average flat, longer for larger houses or commercial units - the engineer is testing every circuit, not glancing at the board. Power gets interrupted circuit by circuit while testing, so tenants should expect brief outages. Same-day EICR appointments are available if a deadline's crept up on you.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes - unambiguously. A single-flat EICR, one shop unit on Rushey Green, a homeowner who just wants the wiring checked: all welcome. That single flat sees the same engineer, the same test schedule and the same clear reporting as a 200-home portfolio programme. Small jobs booked promptly stay small; ignored ones don't.
What paperwork do I actually get?
The full electrical installation condition report - not just a certificate page - with every C1, C2, C3 and FI observation explained in plain terms, plus what each code means for what you must do next. Landlords get exactly what tenants, agents and the council are entitled to ask for. If it's unsatisfactory, you'll also get a priced plan to satisfactory. That file is your defence the day anyone asks questions.
Who's responsible when the report fails - me or the tenant?
The landlord, always: the 2020 Regulations give you 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies - to finish and evidence C1 and C2 remedials, and civil penalties can reach £40,000 per breach since November 2025. Getting eicr testing in Catford booked a few weeks before your renewal date is what keeps that window comfortable rather than frantic.
Ready to Get Your Catford EICR Booked?
If your 5 year electrical check is due - or a tenancy, a licence or a sale is waiting on the certificate - ask for a written quote for the work and pick a date that suits. Calls are answered 24/7, bookings included. You've read how we handle the job; the only thing left to test is the wiring.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Catford — 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.