EICR Testing and Certificates in Greenwich
EICRs, landlord certificates and letting compliance for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Greenwich — regeneration schemes, high-rise residential towers and housing-association estates, from Greenwich Peninsula to New Capital Quay.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Greenwich, North Greenwich, Westcombe Park, Blackheath, Kidbrooke 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 Greenwich
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since January 2024, running to December 2028
- Selective licensingParts of 5 wards: Plumstead, Glyndon, Shooters Hill, Woolwich Common, Woolwich Riverside (street/postcode-level - council postcode checker available) — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since October 2022, running to September 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.
Scorch marks creeping round a socket, or that whiff of hot plastic at the fuse box, means something's arcing - our emergency electrician makes the circuit safe before it can spread. Staring at an unsatisfactory report full of C2s and wondering what happens next? That's what eicr remedial work is for: fix the codes, re-test, reissue. If it's a landlord electrical certificate you need for a tenancy or licence, we run eicr testing Greenwich agents can file straight with the council - each eicr certificate arrives with its codes translated into plain English. And lighting that flickers however many bulbs you swap is the wiring talking to you; rewiring ends the conversation for good. None of it gets cheaper by waiting, and the quote's always in writing before any work starts.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Greenwich
Two questions come up before anyone books: what happens on the day, and what am I holding at the end of it. Test the installation. Price the findings in writing. Hand over the report and talk it through - that's the whole shape of it, studio or managed block.
Private landlords, the agents running their portfolios, housing association and council teams and portfolio owners are a big part of the work. So are homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers, sellers and small businesses trading from shop units and offices. One studio gets the same test schedule as a block-wide instruction, and is quoted the same way. Same-day EICR appointments available.
An electrical installation condition report is measured work: insulation resistance, earth loop impedance, RCD operation and continuity, checked against BS 7671, then written up either as satisfactory or as a coded schedule of what needs correcting. Private rented homes run the five-year cycle set by the 2020 Regulations. Owner-occupiers carry no duty at all, though sales and refurbishments prompt plenty of reports anyway. Local housing swings between Georgian and Victorian terraces near the town centre and recent apartment blocks out towards the Peninsula, and those two ends of the market throw up completely different observations.
EICR Remedial Works
A report is failed by C1, C2 and FI entries only - danger present, potential danger, and anything the engineer had to leave open for investigation. C3 is advisory alone; it fails nothing, so a schedule full of C3s isn't the emergency some quotations make it sound. We carry out remedial work against the report's own observation numbering, priced in writing line by line, so a landlord or agent can approve the required items now and diarise the rest. In tenanted flats the work is sequenced around access - one visit where the scope allows. You finish with confirmation in writing plus whichever certificate the completed work requires.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
The landlord electrical safety package bundles the report, appliance testing on supplied items and the smoke and CO alarm checks as a single scheduled attendance, with the certificates dated together for the tenancy file. It suits managed portfolios here particularly well: a lot of the rental stock is newer apartments, and a new installation's Electrical Installation Certificate ordinarily covers the documentation duty for five years from issue - so the first flat-level EICR falls later than many new landlords assume, while the alarms and appliances still need attention in the meantime. Get that schedule right once and a property stops generating surprise deadlines. Arranging that is the everyday work of an EICR electrician Greenwich agents rely on.
Related electrical work in Greenwich
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - board replacements where protection, capacity or condition no longer suits the installation.
- Rewiring and part rewires - for cable that repair won't rescue, across whole properties or single circuits.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - lost supply, burning smells or a tripping board, attended day or night.
- PAT testing - let appliances, office equipment and shop kit, tested, labelled and listed on a register.
Compliance dates only ever move one way. The quiet week to sort this is the one before the deadline.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Greenwich
Electric Shocks and Tingling from Metalwork
"Got a shock from the tap" - even a faint tingle off a washing machine or switch. Often it's earthing or bonding that's missing or undersized, an appliance leaking to its casing, or occasionally a supply-side network fault. Protection has failed either way, so this is isolate-now territory, never wait-and-see. Report any shock or tingling from metalwork straight away and keep clear until it's traced.
Council EICR Demands and Enforcement Notices
"Council asking for EICR" is a letter with teeth: once requested, the report must be supplied within 7 days, and penalty exposure runs per breach. Usually there's no current report, or remedials were never evidenced inside the 28 days. Treat it like an emergency with a legal deadline - respond to council EICR enforcement before the next letter is a fine.
HMO and Property Licence Electrical Requirements
"Selective licence EICR" or HMO conditions demanding a current satisfactory report? Shared houses also carry loads their original circuits never anticipated, and AFDD requirements under BS 7671 Amendment 2 come into play for HMO socket circuits at the next board change. Start well before the licence date - licence-driven electrical work needs room for the remedial window too.
Commercial Fixed-Wire Testing for Businesses
"Insurance wants an electrical test certificate" - or a lease event does, or nothing survives from the last occupier. The Electricity at Work Regulations duty to maintain is what a 3-5 year testing cycle evidences in practice. Around a commercial centre like Greenwich, an electrical installation condition report Greenwich businesses can show their insurer is routine for us. Plan it against the renewal date - book fixed-wire testing before the insurer asks twice; C1 or C2 findings in an occupied unit become urgent works overnight.
Weighing Up Who Should Test Your Greenwich Property?
Take your time - but test the testers. A decent firm will itemise remedials line by line and explain every observation on the electrical installation condition report without jargon. Send over your failed report - or just the address and tenure - and judge us on the written quote that comes back. A small coded fault priced today rarely stays small once it's ignored.
Electrical Safety Across Greenwich's Housing Stock
Greenwich is unusual: most areas we cover are dominated by old wiring, but here a huge share of the work comes from stock that's new - and newness has its own compliance rhythm.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Greenwich Peninsula, the Knight Dragon scheme, holds the borough's biggest concentration of first-cycle EICR demand - institutional rental blocks testable on block-wide instructions, thousands of individually-let flats sitting under the 2020 Regulations, plus communal and landlord installations on every completed plot. Greenwich Millennium Village tells the next chapter: its early phases date from the 2000s, old enough that periodic inspections now routinely turn up remedials, and its mixed tenure puts private landlord duties and housing-association duties in the same cores. New stock doesn't mean no findings - it means findings arrive on a predictable schedule you can plan for. Miss the first cycle and you're firefighting the second.
Tower Blocks and High-Rise Homes
New Capital Quay is the pattern in one address: nearly a thousand heavily-let flats under single management, generating recurring tenancy EICRs for its many buy-to-let owners alongside communal and landlord installation testing across 11 cores. For any landlord eicr Greenwich blocks like this need, the economics favour coordination - one instruction covering several flats beats five separate call-outs every time.
Housing-Association Stock
The social-sector electrical duty is now live law, and it lands here concretely. A2Dominion's existing tenancies are all covered from 1 May 2026, with first inspections due by 1 November 2026. Southern Housing's new Greenwich handovers enter the duty from first tenancy - first-cycle EICRs, PAT and communal testing on a single provider instruction. And the Hyde Group's Charlton Riverside blocks remain pipeline, but its existing Greenwich stock carries live duties today. For providers, the question isn't whether to programme the testing - it's whether the programme starts before or after the deadline does.
Whichever tenure you sit in, an electrical safety certificate Greenwich agents, landlords and providers can actually produce on demand is the whole game. The stock here is documented, managed and dated - which means a missed inspection cycle isn't an oversight anyone can hide. Put the next inspection in the diary while it's still your choice.
Electrical Safety Services Across Greenwich and Nearby Areas
From the river down through Blackheath and out to Eltham, our engineers work the whole of South East London - and eicr Greenwich work clusters in the pockets below.
East Greenwich
Terraced streets between Trafalgar Road and the river, heavily converted into flats and lets. Landlord certificates dominate here, and older conversions tend to carry accumulated DIY alterations that only surface under test. If your report's due this year, leave slack for remedials.
Charlton (SE7)
Charlton's SE7 mix of Victorian terraces and post-war infill produces steady testing and board-upgrade work. Plenty of homes still run on fuse boards without RCD protection - the single observation we clear most often. Upgrading before the inspection beats paying for both visits the hard way.
North Greenwich (SE10)
The SE10 blocks around the tube and the O2 are largely modern, heavily tenanted, and reaching their first periodic inspections. First-cycle reports are quick when they're planned - and chaotic when a lease event forces them. Buy-to-let owners here would do well to log the anniversary now.
Greenwich Peninsula
Purpose-built rental towers and individually-let flats side by side, plus the communal installations that serve them. We handle single-flat certificates and block-wide programmes on the same terms. If you own one flat in a tower, don't assume the building's testing covers your tenancy - it doesn't.
Westcombe Park (SE3)
Big Victorian villas on the SE3 slopes, many carved into maisonettes decades ago. Original-era wiring plus modern loads makes rewiring assessments the characteristic job here. A 5 year electrical check in stock this age is genuinely worth doing properly, whatever the tenure.
Charlton Riverside
An area mid-transformation: industrial units and early residential phases, with major schemes coming. Businesses here need fixed-wire testing evidence for insurers; incoming residential will bring first-cycle duties once their handover certification period ends. Whichever side you're on, certificates sorted early never hold up a lease or a letting - missing ones always do.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Greenwich
What actually happens during the visit?
The engineer inspects the consumer unit, then tests each circuit in turn against BS 7671 - insulation, earthing, protective devices, the lot. Power goes off in short bursts while circuits are tested, so tenants need a heads-up. You're welcome to ask questions as they go; a good inspection is one you understand. When you know what the visit involves, there's no reason to keep putting it off.
How is the price worked out?
By the installation, not the postcode: circuits, boards, and how accessible everything is. A studio flat and a three-storey HMO are different jobs and priced as such - you'll have a fixed figure before anyone attends. If the result's unsatisfactory, remedials are quoted per item so you can approve exactly what you choose. Getting the number in writing first is precisely why people stop stalling and book.
Will you do just one flat or one shop?
Happily, yes. A single-flat EICR, one retail unit, a private homeowner wanting peace of mind - we treat a solitary booking with the same rigour as a 200-home portfolio programme. The diary doesn't discriminate by size, so there's nothing to gain from waiting until you've "got enough" work to justify it.
The report failed - am I in trouble?
Not if you act inside the window. For rented homes the 2020 Regulations give 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies - to complete remedial work and evidence it; an unsatisfactory eicr handled promptly is routine, not a crisis. C1 items get made safe immediately, C2s scheduled, C3s discussed on merit. It only becomes trouble when the report sits in a drawer while the deadline runs.
Do offices and shops in Greenwich need this too?
Yes - differently. There's no landlord-style regulation for most business premises, but the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 duty to maintain applies, and insurers increasingly want current test certificates. Cycles of 3-5 years are typical depending on the premises. With eicr testing in Greenwich commercial units bookable around trading hours, the sensible move is scheduling before your renewal paperwork demands it in a hurry.
Sort Your Greenwich EICR While It's Still Routine
If the questions are answered, the next move is simple: request a written quote for your electrical work - flat, block, shop or portfolio. You'll get a firm price, a booked date, and a landlord electrical safety report explained properly once it's done. Certificates handled early are paperwork; handled late, they're a problem with a deadline.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Greenwich — 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.