EICR Testing and Certificates in Fulham
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Fulham — council housing and regeneration schemes, from Clem Attlee Court to King's Road Park.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Fulham, West Brompton, West Kensington, Hammersmith, Shepherds Bush 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 Hammersmith and Fulham
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since June 2022, running to June 2027
- Selective licensing24 designated street sections (not ward-based), including parts of Askew Road, Goldhawk Road, King Street and others — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since June 2022, running to June 2027
- 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.
That burning smell from a plug socket - don't sleep on it. Kill the circuit, and if anything's smoking, it's 999 first, then our emergency electrician, because scorching means heat where heat shouldn't be. An EICR that's come back unsatisfactory with C1, C2 or FI codes isn't a dead end either: eicr remedial work puts the listed faults right and gets the report closed out with the appropriate certification. If you're a landlord or agent needing the paperwork for a tenancy or licence, the eicr testing Fulham landlords book with us runs as a fixed appointment ending in an eicr certificate you can hand straight over. And lights that flicker, dim or eat bulbs usually point to tired circuits that proper rewiring settles for good. Every one of these gets smaller the day a qualified engineer actually looks at it - and bigger every week nobody does.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Fulham
Density is what makes electrical compliance here awkward. Flats stacked above flats, mansion blocks with shared risers, riverside developments with tight access rules - and a managing agent somewhere holding the whole file together. However complicated the building, our sequence stays boring on purpose: inspect and test, report back with every finding coded and explained, then quote in writing for anything needing correction. Decisions get made on findings, not assumptions.
Managing agents, block managers, portfolio landlords, housing providers and local authority teams all use us - as do homeowners with no compliance duty whatsoever, buyers acting on a survey, HMO landlords, and small offices and shops around Parsons Green and the Fulham Road. A studio flat is a booked, certificated job in its own right, not something bolted onto a block programme when we happen to be passing. Same-day appointments can usually be arranged, and the line is answered 24/7.
An electrical installation condition report tests the fixed wiring against BS 7671 and comes back either satisfactory or with a schedule of coded defects: a C1 flags present danger, a C2 something potentially dangerous, an FI something unresolved that needs investigating, and a C3 a recommended improvement. C3s alone don't make a report unsatisfactory, which is worth knowing before anyone uses one to sell you a rewire. One thing agents get tangled in: communal installations - stairwells, landings, landlord supplies to common parts - sit outside the dwelling-specific rented-sector regulations, though wider duties still require them to be maintained and inspected. Book the EICR per demise, and if you need an EICR electrician Fulham block managers can schedule around resident access, plan it early.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Agents in this part of London juggle far more than the wiring test. There's appliance testing across furnished lets, alarm checks as tenancies turn, and a compliance file that has to survive an audit. A single compliance package runs all of it through one visit per property, certificates issued together and diarised to one renewal point - one folder, one date, one point of contact. Where a portfolio spans converted terraces off Munster Road and newer riverside flats towards Imperial Wharf, we'll phase attendance building by building so residents are told once rather than four times. Renewals bunch badly when nobody plans them; a bundled schedule is how you stop that.
EICR Remedial Works
The coded items are the whole job. Present danger is put beyond reach while the electrician is on site; C2 and FI items each carry their own price, so you can see precisely which are obligations and which are suggestions. Kitchen and bathroom circuits are the usual culprits in converted flats - and on RCD protection specifically, absence isn't an automatic fail: it's C2 or C3 depending on the circuit, where it sits and what risk it presents. That distinction changes what you're obliged to spend. Completion means a written account of the corrections plus whichever certificate covers them, EIC or Minor Works as the job requires; a further inspection, if one is genuinely needed, is quoted as a separate item rather than folded in quietly. Remedial work scheduled around void periods costs a fraction of the same job squeezed into an occupied flat.
Related electrical work in Fulham
- Consumer unit replacement - updated boards for flats, houses and landlord supplies still relying on outdated equipment.
- Staged rewiring - phased recabling for owners and freeholders whose circuits no longer pass testing.
- Emergency electricians - 24/7 emergency response for dangerous faults, water reaching circuits and sudden loss of power.
- PAT testing - equipment testing for serviced apartments, furnished lets and small offices where appliances come with the property.
Every month a coded defect stays on the file, access gets harder, tenants get less patient and the invoice gets bigger.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Fulham
Burning Smells and Scorched Sockets
"Burning smell from plug socket" - or that odd fishy smell 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. Treat it as an emergency: isolate the circuit now, 999 if anything's smoking, then get the source of that smell traced before it becomes a fire investigation.
Shocks and Tingles from Taps and Appliances
A shock from the tap, a tingle off the washing machine. Often it's missing or inadequate earthing and bonding letting metalwork go live - sometimes a faulty appliance, occasionally a network fault on the supply neutral. Either way, protection has failed. This is never wait-and-see: isolate what you can and have the shock diagnosed properly the same day.
HMO and Licence Electrical Work
"Council licence needs electrical certificate" lands in a lot of SW6 inboxes - shared houses are a big slice of the local rental character. Licence conditions typically require a current satisfactory electrical installation condition report Fulham's council can ask to see, and shared houses often carry loads their original circuits weren't designed for. It's deadline-driven, so start the licence electrical work early enough to absorb a bad report and its 28-day remedial window.
Old Wiring and Possible Rewires
"Surveyor says rewire needed" - common in period stock just bought. Often it's original rubber-sheathed cable still in service, lighting circuits without earths, or a patchwork of partial rewires that dodged the oldest runs. Plannable, unless testing finds live degradation - then affected circuits get isolated first. Find out whether the house genuinely needs rewiring before you budget the refurb, not after the plasterer's been.
Every one of these problems is at its cheapest today. Left alone, they only trade up.
Comparing Electricians for Your EICR?
Take your time - this is a job worth choosing well. If an unsatisfactory eicr is already sitting in your inbox, send it over and we'll price the remedial work from the actual codes on the schedule, not a guess over the phone. Or book an electrician before a small fault turns into a rewire. The line's answered 24/7, and same-day appointments are available.
Electrical Safety Across Fulham's Housing Stock
Fulham's stock splits three ways - post-war council estates, period terraces cut into flats, and a river's edge of managed new-build. Each generates its own kind of electrical work, and knowing which is which is half the job.
Council and ALMO Housing
Clem Attlee Court is typical of the mid-century estates here: landlord installations now decades old, communal circuits on recurring BS 7671 inspection, and tenanted flats sitting under the social-sector EICR duty - live for earlier social tenancies from 1 May 2026, with transitional provisions to 1 November 2026 - while the new Edith Summerskill House next to it adds first-cycle certification on handover. Fulham Court's pre-war walk-ups are a rewire-likelihood generation; when estate-scale inspection reaches boards and circuits that age, dated distribution equipment surfaces in numbers. And Sulivan Court near Parsons Green concentrates 1950s wiring on one site, with lift modernisation adding certifiable electrical work on top of the flat-by-flat cycle. Stock like this is bread-and-butter for periodic inspection programmes - the volume rewards planning rather than reacting.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
King's Road Park is a multi-phase pipeline: each block that completes brings first-tenancy EICR cycles and communal fixed-wire testing as it occupies, and as of July 2026 the later towers remain forthcoming rather than built. New installations still need their certification regime set up from day one - arguably the easiest moment to get a property's compliance file right.
Private Blocks and Managed Developments
Imperial Wharf is the mature end of the same story: completed managed blocks whose rented flats are now into their fourth or fifth five-yearly check, giving agents a steady per-flat and communal testing rhythm. Lillie Square by West Brompton station, let from 2016-18, is into second-cycle renewals with communal duties across the blocks. This is exactly the landlord eicr Fulham managing agents tend to batch - same building, multiple flats, one visit.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
The Victorian and Edwardian terraces between the estates are where surprises live: converted flats with non-compliant DIY alterations accumulated over decades, boards without RCD protection, the odd run of degraded rubber insulation. No two conversions test the same, which is why the report matters more here than anywhere.
Whichever slice of this stock you're responsible for, its next inspection date already exists - the only question is whether it's in your diary or waiting to ambush a tenancy.
Electrical Safety Services Across Fulham and Nearby Areas
The eicr Fulham work we do doesn't stop at one postcode - the same engineers cover the neighbouring pockets below, plus Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush to the north, as part of our wider West London coverage.
West Kensington (W14)
W14 is mansion-block and conversion territory - tall Victorian terraces split into flats, many privately let. That mix throws up shared supplies, older boards and landlord electrical safety files that need keeping current across several units at once. EICR renewals here are best booked building-wide rather than flat by flat.
Sands End (including Imperial Wharf)
Sands End pairs older streets with big managed riverside developments around Imperial Wharf, where rented apartments run on rolling five-year cycles. For agents, that's steady certificate turnover; for leaseholders letting a single flat, it's one report every cycle - easy to forget until a renewal demands it.
Parsons Green
The flat-fronted terraces and conversions around the green are classic period stock: handsome upstairs, elderly wiring behind the walls. A 5 year electrical check often finds circuits without RCD protection or old alterations from previous owners. Buyers and landlords here benefit from testing before money changes hands.
Munster / Fulham Cross
The dense terraced grid of the Munster and Fulham Cross end of SW6 carries a strong rental character - shared houses, HMOs and converted flats back to back. Licence conditions and tenancy turnover both drive certificate demand, so an unsatisfactory eicr with a 28-day clock is worth planning for, not discovering.
Barons Court
Barons Court's red-brick mansion blocks and carved-up terraces in W14 mix long leaseholds with student and professional lets. Older communal installations and flat-level boards of very different vintages sit in the same building - which is why reports here vary so much door to door. Test before you assume.
West Brompton (SW10)
Around the station, SW10 blends period conversions with newer managed blocks near the exhibition-centre fringes. Investor-owned flats on the newer side are hitting their second inspection cycle, while the older stock still hides pre-modern boards. Either way, the electrical installation condition report tells you which one you own.
Chelsea Harbour
Chelsea Harbour is almost entirely managed development - serviced apartments, high-spec flats and marina-side premises in SW10. The installations are younger, but rented units still carry the same five-yearly duty, and concierge-managed access makes appointment-based testing straightforward to arrange. Certificates lapse here quietly; diarise the renewal before the agent chases it.
Wherever you are on this map, the next certificate date is already fixed - getting ahead of it is the cheap version of compliance.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Fulham
What decides the price of an EICR?
Mostly the size and age of the installation - number of circuits, number of bedrooms, how accessible the board is, and whether it's one flat or a whole building. A purpose-built two-bed takes less time than a rambling conversion with three generations of alterations. We quote in writing before anything's booked, so you're comparing a real figure, not an estimate that grows on the day. Pin the number down now and it can't surprise you later.
How long does the inspection take, and will the power be off?
Most single dwellings take a few hours. Power is off circuit by circuit while each is tested, not all day - we'll tell tenants what to expect beforehand. Waiting for a "quiet week" is how certificates lapse; the visit is shorter than the vacancy you'd risk without one.
What paperwork do I actually get?
An electrical installation condition report against BS 7671: satisfactory or unsatisfactory, with every observation coded. C1 means danger present, C2 potentially dangerous, C3 improvement recommended, FI further investigation - and we explain what yours mean rather than leaving you to google the c1 c2 c3 codes. Landlords get the document councils and agents ask for; buyers get a genuine picture of what they're purchasing. A report you understand is one you can act on straight away.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes - unambiguously. A single-flat EICR gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme. One shop unit, one buy-to-let, a homeowner who just wants the wiring checked: all normal bookings for us, with same-day appointments available. Small jobs left unbooked have a habit of becoming urgent ones.
What happens if my report comes back unsatisfactory?
You get the coded schedule, a written quote for the remedial work, and - for private landlords under the 2020 Regulations - a 28-day window to complete C1 and C2 items. We do the repairs, re-test, and issue the appropriate certification and written confirmation. Anyone searching for eicr testing in Fulham after a failed report is already inside that window, so the sooner the schedule's priced, the more of those 28 days you keep.
Ready to Get Your EICR Booked?
You've seen how we work - now tell us about the property. Whether it's one flat in Sands End or a managed block, you'll get a written quote to compare and, once the inspection's done, a report with the codes explained rather than just listed. It's the landlord electrical safety side sorted properly, first time. Bookings are taken 24/7, so the diary's open whenever you're ready.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Fulham — 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.