EICR Testing and Certificates in Deptford
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Deptford — council housing and regeneration schemes, from the Pepys Estate to Convoys Wharf.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Deptford, New Cross, Lewisham, Forest Hill, Catford 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.
Scorch marks around a socket, or a hot smell off the fuse box? Something's overheating - cut the power and let an emergency electrician track it down before it flares into something worse. Holding a failed report full of C1 and C2 codes? eicr remedial work turns that coded list into fixed faults and a satisfactory result you can actually use. If an agent, licence application or new tenancy means you need a landlord electrical safety certificate, an eicr certificate to BS 7671 covers the 5-yearly duty - and in a lettings patch like Deptford, tenancies rarely wait for paperwork. Lights that flicker or chew through bulbs often trace back to worn circuits that only rewiring properly cures. Whatever's on your list, EICR testing anywhere in Deptford starts with a booked time, findings explained without jargon, and a priced plan - so the worry stops being vague and starts being solvable.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Deptford
Comparing a few firms before you commit? Sensible. What you're buying from an EICR electrician in Deptford is a survey first, a written quote for anything that needs correcting second, and documentation at the end that an agent, a council officer or a solicitor will accept without argument - in that order, never the other way round. We work for private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations and councils, and portfolio landlords, and just as readily for homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers and sellers mid-transaction, and small businesses. A single studio above a shop is booked, tested and certificated to exactly the standard a block-wide compliance contract gets - nobody gets the quick version because the job is small.
The test itself is physical: circuits dead-tested and live-tested, the board opened up, earthing and bonding checked, results measured and written down against BS 7671. What you receive is an eicr certificate recording either a satisfactory outcome or a coded schedule of exactly what's wrong and how seriously. Deptford turns over tenants quickly, and that churn is where documentation slips - though a valid satisfactory report under five years old still stands when a new tenant moves in, so you're not automatically buying a fresh inspection every time a let changes hands. You supply the existing report and carry on. Where the five-year cycle genuinely has run out, or nobody can find the last one, an EICR settles it properly.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Deptford's rented stock leans heavily on shared houses and converted flats, and those are the lets with the most boxes to tick. One package covers the electrical report, testing of the appliances you supply, and the smoke and CO alarm checks, all scheduled together rather than trickling in across three separate months. Agents get the paperwork returned as a single dated bundle per property, which makes renewal tracking something you can actually do from a spreadsheet. And if you've inherited a portfolio with no records at all - common enough round here and towards New Cross - we'll start with a survey of what exists before quoting, so landlord electrical safety becomes a plan with dates rather than a panic every autumn.
EICR Remedial Works
An unsatisfactory result is triggered by C1, C2 or FI observations. That FI matters and gets forgotten: it means further investigation is needed before the item can be coded, and it fails the report just as a C2 does. Missing RCD protection is judged on circumstance - a C2 where the risk is real, a C3 where it isn't - so it's never an automatic verdict on its own. We price remedials straight from the coded schedule, so you can see what's compulsory and what's advisory. Older conversions round here throw up overloaded circuits, unprotected joints buried in walls and degraded rubber insulation. When it's done you get written confirmation and whichever certificate the work calls for. Putting an unsatisfactory eicr right is cheaper the week you get it than the month a tenant complains.
Related electrical work in Deptford
- Fuse box and consumer unit upgrades - when testing proves the existing board can't give the protection the circuits need.
- Full and partial rewiring - for installations too far gone to repair circuit by circuit, in stages if occupied.
- Emergency electricians, 24/7 - total power loss, scorched fittings or a tripping board that won't reset.
- PAT testing - appliances left in a furnished let, plus equipment in shops, cafés and small offices.
Leave a known C2 sitting until renewal season and you'll be booking remedials in the same fortnight as everyone else.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Deptford
Shocks and Tingles from Taps and Appliances
"Got a shock from the tap" - or a tingle off the washing machine. That usually means exposed metalwork has become live: earthing or bonding that's missing or inadequate, an appliance leaking to its casing, or occasionally a deteriorating supply neutral on the network side. Protection has failed either way. Isolate now and treat any shock or tingle from metalwork as a same-hour problem, never a weekend one.
Total Power Loss Across the Property
"No electricity in the whole house - just mine." Once the network's ruled out, it's often the main switch or RCD holding a fault inside the installation, a blown cutout fuse, or a failed connection at the tails. A property that can't hold its main switch on has a live fault somewhere, and fridges and heating don't wait. Losing power across the whole property gets diagnosed circuit by circuit, fast.
HMO Licence Electrical Compliance
"Council licence needs an electrical certificate" - standard condition: a current satisfactory electrical installation condition report, held and produced on request. Deptford's shared houses often run loads their original wiring was never designed for, and Amendment 2 AFDD requirements now touch HMO socket circuits at the next board change. Start the HMO licence electrical work early enough to absorb a failed report and its 28-day remedial window.
Rewireable Fuse Boxes and Missing RCDs
"Old fuse box - is it safe?" If it still takes fuse wire, the installation predates RCD requirements, and the box is often just the visible tip: years of wrong-gauge wire and heat may have damaged carriers and terminals, and the cabling behind it can be similarly dated. Plannable work - but move it up the list if the property's rented, being sold, or blowing fuses. An old fuse box with no RCD is a known risk you're choosing to keep every day it stays.
Weighing Up Electricians in Deptford?
Take your time - then make it useful. If you're holding an unsatisfactory EICR, send it over - the remedials get priced code by code; if the worry is a fault that's still small, book an electrician while it stays that way. You'll get a written figure and a straight explanation, and the decision stays entirely yours.
Electrical Safety Across Deptford's Housing Stock
Few places in South East London put sixty years of housing side by side like Deptford does - riverside towers from the 1960s, terraces older than the wiring regulations themselves, and cranes still adding new blocks in between. Each layer produces its own strand of testing work.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Pepys Estate is the anchor of the area's council stock: a dense cluster of 1960s high-rise and low-rise blocks where the compliance load runs on two levels at once. Communal risers, lateral mains and landlord supplies of that vintage sit on BS 7671 periodic-inspection cycles, while the council tenancies inside the flats carry their own EICR duties under the 2025 social-sector extension - covering earlier social tenancies from 1 May 2026, with transitional provisions to 1 November 2026. For blocks of this age, that typically means remedial schedules and board replacements arriving in batches rather than one-offs, which is exactly why programming the testing beats reacting to it.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Convoys Wharf is a decade-plus pipeline: every block handed over enters its first fixed-installation certification and starts communal EICR cycles from day one, and any flat that's rented out picks up the 5-yearly duty immediately. Deptford Landings works the same way in phases - first communal fixed-wire cycles on completion, and buy-to-let purchases inside it needing tenancy EICRs straight away, with north Deptford also sitting in the Evelyn selective licensing ward as of mid-2026. New stock isn't exempt stock; it's stock whose paperwork clock has just started.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Between the estates and the new quarters run the Victorian terraces and shop parades, plenty of them carved into flats over the decades. Conversions of that age tend to carry accumulated non-compliant DIY alterations - buried joints, borrowed circuits, additions nobody certificated - which is why a landlord eicr in Deptford's older stock so often produces a longer observations list than the owner expected. Budgeting for a few C3s (and the odd C2) before the inspection is more realistic than assuming a clean sheet.
From a single conversion flat to a phase of new handovers, the pattern here rewards the same move: a 5 year electrical check booked against the calendar, not the crisis. Stock this varied doesn't fail predictably - but unmanaged, it fails expensively.
Electrical Safety Services Across Deptford and Nearby Areas
Everything on this page - eicr Deptford landlords rely on, remedials, board changes, emergency work - covers the whole SE8 patch: the high street and its flats-over-shops, the riverside developments, and the streets running towards New Cross and Lewisham. Portfolios rarely stop at one postcode, so we also work across South East London, with dedicated coverage in Catford and Forest Hill. One electrician across all your addresses means one standard of paperwork - and no certificate quietly expiring in the borough you check least.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Deptford
What actually happens on the visit?
The engineer inspects the board, then tests each circuit in turn - so expect the power off in stages while that happens. An average flat takes roughly two hours; bigger houses and commercial units take longer because there's simply more to test. Nothing gets condemned by guesswork: every observation is recorded, coded and explained. Knowing the drill beats dreading it - most people are surprised how routine it is.
How is the price worked out?
By the installation, not the postcode: circuit count, number of boards, property size and access set the figure, and you'll have it in writing before anything's booked. If the report turns up faults, the remedial pricing lists each coded item separately so you can see what's urgent and what's advisory. Two minutes of detail from you now gets a firm number instead of a fortnight of maybes.
Will you do just one flat or one shop?
Happily. A single-flat inspection, one shop unit, a nervous homeowner with a dated fuse box - all get the same engineer and test routine, and the same properly explained reporting, as a 200-home portfolio client. The small job you book this week is the big invoice you avoid next year.
My last electrician failed the property - can you do the remedials?
Yes - and you won't be charged another inspection fee to get there. We work from the existing unsatisfactory report, price the C1, C2 and FI items, complete the repairs and re-test so the paperwork ends up satisfactory. For rented homes the 28-day remedial window is the deadline that matters - the sooner the codes are priced, the more of that window you keep.
How fast can this be arranged?
Same-day appointments are available for all our services, and the phone line's answered 24/7 for bookings - useful when a licence renewal or tenancy start has crept up. If eicr testing in Deptford is being lined up against a fixed date, earlier means options; later means whatever's left.
Sort Your Deptford EICR Today
That's the full picture - how we test, what the codes mean, what happens if a report fails. The next step is simple: request a written quote for your electrical work, whether it's one flat's landlord electrical safety duty or a block's worth of inspections. A date in the diary beats a deadline on the doormat.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Deptford — 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.