EICR Testing and Certificates in Hammersmith
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Hammersmith — council housing, regeneration schemes and housing-association estates, from H&F Homes to Fulham Reach.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Hammersmith, Brook Green, Shepherds Bush, Fulham, Ravenscourt Park 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.
Scorch marks around a socket, or a hot, fishy smell off the consumer unit? Switch it off at the board and treat it as urgent - that's a job for an emergency electrician, not Monday's to-do list. "EICR failed, what now?" has a straightforward answer too: eicr remedial work fixes the coded faults, re-tests, and sees the paperwork reissued. Agents and landlords who need paperwork for a let near the Broadway can have an eicr certificate arranged as a simple booked visit - it's the eicr testing Hammersmith letting agents lean on when renewals stack up. And lighting that flickers, dims or chews through bulbs in an older flat usually means tired circuits where rewiring is the honest fix, not another fuse. None of this improves by waiting. All of it improves with one appointment in the diary.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Hammersmith
Most people arrive here with a date attached - a tenancy starting, a five year electrical check that's expired, or a sale where the solicitor has asked for paperwork nobody can find. The sequence never changes: we inspect and test the fixed wiring first, you get the report with every observation coded and explained in plain English, and anything needing correction comes back to you as a clear written quote before work starts. The line is answered 24/7, and same-day appointments are available when a check-in date refuses to move.
That suits private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations and councils with portfolios to keep straight - and just as much homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers and sellers mid-chain, and the small businesses trading from the shopping streets. One studio above a shopfront gets the same engineer, the same test schedule and the same paperwork as a 200-home programme. Whatever the property, the job an eicr electrician Hammersmith owners book is identical: test it properly, code it honestly, price the fix clearly.
An electrical installation condition report is a measured test of the fixed installation - circuits, board, earthing, bonding - assessed against BS 7671. Not a walk round with a torch. Hammersmith's rental density puts a lot of that work inside mansion flats and big Edwardian houses split into units around Brook Green, where original circuits have been extended, re-routed and added to by several different hands over the decades, and nobody kept the drawings. What you receive is the schedule of observations, each coded C1, C2, C3 or FI, plus an explanation of which ones actually drive the outcome - C1, C2 and FI make a report unsatisfactory, while C3 is advisory and doesn't on its own. Book an EICR while your current one still has months left, not after it's lapsed.
EICR Remedial Works
An unsatisfactory result isn't a disaster. It's a list. C1 means danger present and gets made safe there and then; C2 is potentially dangerous and needs putting right; FI means something couldn't be established from testing alone and has to be investigated. In converted flats round here the usual culprits are inadequate main bonding to the incoming services, buried junction boxes left behind by non-compliant DIY alterations, and socket circuits without the 30mA RCD protection current standards expect - coded C2 or C3 depending on what that circuit feeds and where it runs. We price the schedule line by line, essential work separated from advisory, then put the faults right and re-test. Completion comes with written confirmation of the work plus the appropriate certification - a satisfactory EICR, an Electrical Installation Certificate or a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Running compliance job by job across several tenancies costs more than it should, and something always slips. This bundles the EICR, testing of any appliances you supply with the let, and the smoke and CO alarm checks into one scheduled visit, certificated together for the tenancy file. Agents looking after flats over retail tend to run it as a rolling programme so nothing expires mid-tenancy - and a valid satisfactory report under five years old carries over to an incoming tenant, so there's no re-testing every time keys change hands. Social landlords work to their own timetable under the Social Housing (Electrical Safety) Standards 2025: new tenancies from 1 December 2025, earlier ones from 1 May 2026 with transitional provisions allowing that first inspection up to 1 November 2026. Bundle the compliance work and it stops being a scramble.
Related electrical work in Hammersmith
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - for boards that testing shows no longer protect the circuits properly.
- Rewiring and part rewires - for perished rubber-insulated circuits and installations too far gone to patch.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - for burning smells, dead sockets and anything unsafe that can't wait.
- PAT testing - for appliances supplied with a furnished let, an HMO or an office.
A report that runs out mid-tenancy turns a routine appointment into a compliance problem, and the fix always costs less than the explanation.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Hammersmith
Shocks and Tingling from Metalwork
"Got a shock from the tap." A tingle off the washing machine, a nip from a light switch. Often the cause is earthing or bonding that's missing or inadequate, letting metalwork go live - sometimes a leaking appliance, occasionally a deteriorating neutral out on the network. Protection has failed either way, so switch off what you safely can and treat any shock or tingle as an emergency today, not a curiosity for the weekend.
Whole-Property Power Loss
No electricity in the whole house while the street's lights are on? It's usually the main switch or RCD holding out on an internal fault, a blown DNO cutout, or a failed main switch or tails connection. Once the network's ruled out, it's an emergency - fridges thaw and heating dies by the hour. Get a total power loss diagnosed rather than repeatedly forcing the switch back on.
Ageing Wiring and Rewire Decisions
"Surveyor says rewire needed" is a familiar line in W6's older terraces and conversions. Behind it there's often original rubber-sheathed cable, unearthed lighting circuits, or a patchwork of partial rewires that skipped the oldest runs. It's plannable work - unless testing finds live degradation, when circuits get isolated first. Settle whether a rewire is genuinely due before the decorating budget gets spent.
Commercial Fixed-Wire Testing and Certificates
"Insurance wants electrical test certificate" - common around a commercial centre this size. The driver is the Electricity at Work Regulations duty to maintain, evidenced by periodic testing on a 3-5 year cycle; sometimes it's a lease event, sometimes no records survived the last tenant. Plannable against the renewal date, though C1 or C2 findings in an occupied unit become urgent. Line up the fixed-wire testing before the insurer sets your deadline for you.
An electrical installation condition report Hammersmith businesses and landlords can actually act on starts with the inspection - and every symptom above gets dearer the longer it runs.
Weighing Up Who Should Do Your EICR?
No rush from our end - pick carefully. If there's already an unsatisfactory eicr on your desk, forward the schedule and the remedial price comes back based on the codes themselves, nothing padded. Not there yet? Then book the electrician while the fault's still small; that's the cheaper of the two versions of this job. Same-day appointments are available, and the phone's answered 24/7.
Electrical Safety Across Hammersmith's Housing Stock
Hammersmith packs council estates, housing-association portfolios, riverside regeneration and Victorian conversions into a remarkably small patch - and each slice carries a different electrical duty with a different clock running on it.
Council and ALMO Housing
Hammersmith & Fulham Council is the landlord and electrical duty-holder for its own stock, running a programmed electrical repairs, maintenance and rewiring contract - and since 1 November 2025 the social-sector electrical safety duty has layered mandatory five-yearly EICRs, PAT testing and 28-day remedial deadlines on top, covering and reach earlier social tenancies from 1 May 2026, with transitional provisions allowing the first inspection before 1 November 2026, with first inspections due by 1 November 2026. Queen Caroline Estate, minutes from the Broadway, shows what that looks like on the ground: communal installations on periodic inspection, tenanted flats under the live duty, and retrofit activity adding certifiable works as it goes. Blocks of that era typically still carry equipment their inspection programmes exist to catch.
Housing-Association Stock
Notting Hill Genesis manages hundreds of blocks in this one borough - compliance at that scale runs as cyclical programmes rather than one-off jobs, combining communal periodic inspection with the social-sector EICR duty across tenanted homes. A2Dominion adds brand-new tenancies at the Civic Campus to its borough stock, folding fresh certification records into the five-yearly cycle from day one.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Fulham Reach's completed riverside apartments sit on five-yearly EICR cycles with managing agents holding the communal fixed-installation duties, plus non-domestic testing for amenity and retail floors. Sovereign Court in the town centre mixes private rented flats, affordable tenancies and commercial units across eight managed buildings - three different testing regimes inside one scheme. The Civic Campus beside the listed town hall repeats the split: A2Dominion tenancies under the social duty, privately managed flats on landlord EICRs. It's the landlord eicr Hammersmith managing agents handle in volume, and it rewards being scheduled block-wide.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Between the schemes sit the terraces and mansion-block conversions that make up so much of W6's private rental market. This is where inspection earns its fee: decades of undocumented alterations, consumer units still lacking RCD protection, the occasional stretch of perished rubber insulation waiting behind original skirting.
Each of these portfolios has a compliance date already printed on it somewhere. The organisations that thrive on the new duties are simply the ones who found theirs first.
Electrical Safety Services Across Hammersmith and Nearby Areas
Engineers doing eicr Hammersmith work are in the surrounding streets daily too - the pockets below get the same service, as do Fulham to the south and Shepherds Bush to the north, all within our West London patch.
Brook Green (W6)
Brook Green's tall red-brick terraces and mansion flats in W6 hold a lot of long-standing rental stock, much of it converted generations ago. Installations here vary enormously between flats in the same building, so a 5 year electrical check tends to be genuinely informative rather than a formality. Landlords letting to the area's professional tenants do well to test between tenancies, when access is easy.
Ravenscourt Park
Around the park, period houses - some still single dwellings, plenty split into flats - carry wiring of very mixed ages behind well-kept frontages. Home buyers and sellers here often commission an electrical installation condition report before exchange, because a rewire discovered after completion rewrites the budget. Knowing before you sign is worth far more than finding out after.
Both areas share one truth with the rest of W6: certificates expire on a schedule, and the diary always fills faster than the deadline moves.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Hammersmith
Who's responsible for arranging the EICR - landlord or agent?
Legally, the duty under the 2020 Regulations sits with the private landlord - but in practice managing agents often instruct the work on their behalf. Either can book with us; what matters is that someone owns the renewal date, because "I thought the agent had it" is not a defence a council has much patience with. If nobody's tracked yours down yet, that's today's job.
What actually happens on the day?
The engineer inspects the consumer unit, wiring, accessories, earthing and bonding, then tests each circuit in turn - power goes off per circuit, not for the whole visit. Occupied flats and busy shops are fine; we agree timings around tenants and trading. You'll know at the end whether the outcome is satisfactory, and the written report follows with every observation coded and explained. A visit this contained is rarely worth postponing a whole quarter for.
How is the work priced?
Everything is quoted in writing beforehand. The main variables: circuit count, property size and age, board accessibility, and whether several units can be done in one trip - a block of flats near the Broadway prices very differently per unit than the same flats booked individually. For anyone comparing eicr testing in Hammersmith, a fixed written figure is also your best protection against day-rate drift.
Is a one-off small job worth your while?
Completely - and it's a yes without caveats. One flat, one shop unit, a homeowner wanting the wiring checked before a loft conversion: the process and the care are identical whether the instruction covers a single dwelling or a 200-home programme. Small certificates lapse just as expensively as big ones, so there's no such thing as a job too minor to diarise.
The report came back unsatisfactory - how bad is that?
Less bad than ignoring it. The coded schedule tells you exactly what failed and why; C1 and C2 items need remedying - within 28 days for private landlords - then a re-test confirms the fix and the certificate is reissued. An unsatisfactory eicr handled promptly is paperwork; handled slowly, it's a penalty conversation with the council.
Sort Your EICR While It's Still Routine
If the questions above covered your situation, the next move is simple: describe the property and we'll put a written quote in front of you - no pressure, just a figure and a date. From inspection to a landlord electrical safety certificate with the codes properly explained, the whole thing runs on the timetable you set. Certificates only get more urgent; quotes don't get more expensive for being asked early.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Hammersmith — 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.