EICR Testing and Certificates in Hampstead
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Hampstead — council housing, from the Chalcots Estate to the Alexandra Road Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Hampstead, Swiss Cottage, Kentish Town, South Hampstead, West Hampstead 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 Camden
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since December 2025, running to December 2030
- 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 is never a tomorrow problem - isolate it, and our emergency electrician will find the arcing joint or overloaded circuit behind it before it becomes a fire. If your report's come back unsatisfactory with C1, C2 or FI codes and you're staring at a 28-day window, our eicr remedial work clears the coded list and gets the paperwork reissued. Landlords and agents across NW3 needing an eicr certificate for a tenancy, licence or renewal get a booking that works around tenants - eicr testing Hampstead flats need is mostly about access, and we're used to that. And lights that flicker or dim in a converted house usually mean tired wiring; proper rewiring fixes the cause, not the symptom. Every one of these gets cheaper the earlier it's caught.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Hampstead
Take your time comparing - it's the sensible way round with this kind of work. What you're buying is an inspection, a written price for anything it codes, the work, and documentation you can hand to an agent or a lender without explaining it twice. We work for private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations, councils and portfolio owners, and just as readily for homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers, sellers and small businesses. One flat in a mansion block is tested to the same standard as a 200-home portfolio programme - no shorter visit because the job's smaller. Managing agents looking for an eicr electrician Hampstead blocks can be handed to want one diary and one point of contact. That's how we run it.
The electrical installation condition report is a measured test of the fixed wiring against BS 7671: insulation resistance, earth fault loop impedance, continuity, protective devices, then a judgement on each finding. High-density period stock is what drives demand here - large houses divided into flats, purpose-built blocks with communal risers, the same up through Belsize Park, and individual flats where the wiring hasn't been disturbed since long before the current owner arrived. That last group is where degraded rubber insulation turns up: perished, brittle, cracking away from the conductor as soon as it's handled. You'll get either a satisfactory result or a coded schedule explained properly, with the important distinction made clear - C3 is advisory, and only C1, C2 or FI make the report unsatisfactory. Book the EICR before a renewal or a sale sets the date for you.
EICR Remedial Works
When the report comes back with work on it, we quote from the observations directly - each C1, C2 and FI priced on its own line so you can see exactly what you're agreeing to. Then the remedial work is carried out and re-tested, signed off in writing with the matching certification: an Electrical Installation Certificate where circuits have been replaced, a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate for smaller corrections. If a completely new report is needed afterwards, it's quoted separately rather than dressed up as an amendment to someone else's. Rented homes have 28 days from the report. In flats round here it's typically inadequate main bonding and old rubber-insulated circuits driving the schedule, and no, the age of the board doesn't decide the outcome on its own - testing does, and some older equipment stays satisfactory in service.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Letting agents managing several flats in one building don't want three separate visits. The landlord electrical safety package covers the EICR, PAT testing and smoke and CO alarm compliance in a single scheduled attendance per property, certificated together for the tenancy and diarised to renewal. Bookings are taken 24/7, and same-day appointments are available where access has opened up unexpectedly and you'd rather use it than lose it.
Related electrical work in Hampstead
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - modern RCD or RCBO boards where the current unit falls short of standards.
- Rewiring and part rewires - replacement of aged circuits, whole property or room by room, certificated at completion.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - call-outs at any hour for burning smells, total power loss or damaged live wiring.
- PAT testing - appliance testing for furnished lets, serviced flats, offices and shops.
Old rubber insulation doesn't improve with another tenancy on top of it - the schedule only ever grows.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Hampstead
Some of this is emergency work; some of it starts the day an electrical installation condition report Hampstead landlords commissioned comes back with codes on it. Either way, these are the four we're called about most.
Burning Smells from Sockets and Fuse Boards
"Burning smell from plug socket" - or that odd fishy smell near the electrics. It's usually a loose termination arcing under load, or an overloaded adaptor or extension lead, sometimes just a failing appliance plug. Treat it as a live fire risk: switch the circuit off now, 999 if anything's actually smoking, then get the burning smell traced before you switch back on.
Shocks or Tingling from Taps and Appliances
A tingle from the washing machine or a small shock from a tap means protection has failed somewhere - often missing or inadequate earthing and bonding, a faulty appliance leaking to its casing, or occasionally a deteriorating supply neutral. That's never a wait-and-see symptom. Isolate the appliance and have the shock investigated the same day.
Unsatisfactory EICRs with C1, C2 or FI Codes
"EICR failed - what now?" The codes usually trace back to missing RCD protection, tired bonding, ageing wiring or a fuse board with no earth-leakage protection, plus the odd decade of DIY. Rented homes carry a legal 28-day remedial window, and any C1 needs dealing with today whatever the tenure. We price straight off the unsatisfactory report, code by code.
RCDs and Trip Switches That Keep Tripping
A trip switch that keeps going is a live fault announcing itself - often a leaking appliance, moisture in an outdoor circuit or fitting, or cumulative earth leakage across circuits sharing one RCD. Book it same-day; if it won't reset at all or anything smells warm, treat it as an emergency. Persistent tripping rarely stops on its own - it escalates.
In a rental market like this one, every week a known fault sits on the list, the eventual bill grows and the void risk with it.
Still Comparing Electricians for the Job?
Fair enough - this work deserves a considered choice. If your report's already come back as an unsatisfactory eicr, send it over and we'll return a written remedial quote priced against each code, no pressure attached. And if a fault from the list above sounds familiar, book an electrician before a small fault turns into a rewire-sized one.
Electrical Safety Across Hampstead's Housing Stock
Hampstead's buildings don't behave like one market. Council towers on the Swiss Cottage side, listed concrete, grand houses carved into flats - each generates its own kind of electrical work, and each catches a different responsible person out. There's a serious commercial layer too: the Royal Free Hospital on Pond Street, centred on its 12-storey cruciform tower opened in 1974 and run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, is a 1970s-era building services estate of exactly the kind that carries large-scale periodic inspection and testing duties under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Chalcots Estate's five high-rise blocks are Camden Council tenanted stock, sitting inside the council's 5-yearly EICR survey and remedial cycle - communal and landlord installations across the towers, which means high-volume periodic testing for whichever contractor holds the electrical term contract at any given time. Nearby, the Alexandra Road Estate (Alexandra & Ainsworth) adds a twist you won't find elsewhere: Grade II* listing across 520 flats of late-1970s installations makes rewiring, containment runs and consumer-unit replacement heritage-sensitive work, all still recurring inside that same council cycle. Stock like this rewards contractors who plan the paperwork as carefully as the testing.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Then there's the bulk of the private market: stucco villas and red-brick houses split into flats long ago, and a rental character strong enough that the 2020 Regulations' 5-yearly cycle applies to a large slice of NW3. What turns up on inspection in this stock is rarely dramatic - missing RCD protection on socket circuits, main bonding that was never upsized, boards several owners old - but it's precisely what pushes a report to unsatisfactory. If you hold a landlord eicr Hampstead agents are asking about at renewal, the smart move is testing early in the tenancy cycle, so any remedials land in your diary rather than inside a 28-day legal deadline.
Buildings this varied don't suit a one-size inspection - and the owners who schedule ahead of the cycle are the ones who never meet the deadline pressure at all.
Electrical Safety Services Across Hampstead and Nearby Areas
The eicr Hampstead work we do spills naturally into the surrounding postcodes - same engineers, same process, same paperwork. Portfolio landlords often hold one flat here and another towards Camden Town or Bloomsbury, and it all runs off one booking diary.
South Hampstead (NW6)
Mansion blocks and red-brick conversions dominate here, most of them let through agents. That makes the landlord electrical safety certificate the bread-and-butter job in NW6 - five-year cycles, tenant access arranged through the agent, and remedial quotes itemised so freeholder and leaseholder know whose cost is whose.
Swiss Cottage (NW3)
Denser stock around the centre - post-war blocks, mansion flats, plenty of managed buildings. Older boards without RCD protection are the common find, so consumer unit upgrades and the 5 year electrical check tend to arrive together. Managing agents here usually book several flats in one visit; it prices better that way.
West Hampstead (NW6)
Terraces carved into flats and a fast-moving lettings market mean certificates are needed on short notice between tenancies. We slot EICR visits into void periods so the paperwork's ready before the new tenant signs. Wiring in these conversions often hides old alterations - worth testing before they surface mid-tenancy.
Belsize Park
Stucco villas split into generous flats, many with wiring that predates the current owner by decades. Rewiring enquiries come up here more than anywhere else on this page, usually after an unsatisfactory eicr flags degraded insulation. Planned early, a part rewire can be phased; left late, it's an upheaval.
Highgate (N6)
Period houses, long ownerships, and a steady trade in pre-purchase electrical surveys - buyers of N6 houses increasingly want an electrical installation condition report before exchange. We test, explain the codes, and give a written price for anything found, which is strong negotiating material either side of the sale.
Wider coverage across the borough and beyond sits on our North London page. Wherever the property is, certificates dated this month beat excuses dated next year.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Hampstead
How is the cost of an EICR worked out?
By the size of the installation - number of circuits, number of boards, and how accessible everything is. A one-bed flat is a different job from a five-storey house split into units. We confirm a fixed written price before anything's booked, so there's no meter running on the day. Pin the price down now and it's one less unknown in your renewal budget.
How long does the inspection take?
For a typical flat, usually a few hours; larger houses and HMOs take longer because every circuit gets dead and live testing, not a walk-round with a clipboard. Eicr testing in Hampstead conversions can run longer still where old alterations need tracing. Booking a proper slot early beats squeezing a rushed one in against a deadline.
What do we actually receive afterwards?
The full electrical installation condition report - not just a pass or fail. Every observation is coded C1, C2, C3 or FI, and we go through what each one means for you in plain English. If it's unsatisfactory, a written remedial quote itemised against the codes follows, so the route back to a satisfactory report is already priced. That document trail is exactly what a council or insurer will ask to see.
Do you take on small jobs - one flat, one shop?
Yes, without hesitation. A single-flat eicr gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme - same testing depth, same paperwork, same engineer standard. Plenty of our portfolio clients started as one landlord with one flat in NW6. There's no job too small to certificate properly.
Who's legally responsible for the EICR - landlord or agent?
The duty under the 2020 Regulations sits with the landlord: inspection at least every 5 years, report to tenants, and remedials within 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies -. Agents usually arrange it, but the penalty exposure - up to £40,000 per breach since SI 2025/1043 took effect on 1 November 2025 - lands on the property owner. If you're not certain when your current report expires, checking today is considerably cheaper than a council reminder.
Ready to Get Your EICR Booked In?
You've seen how we work: proper testing, codes explained, and a written quote for anything that needs fixing. If you need an eicr certificate Hampstead agents and councils will accept, the phone line's answered 24/7 and same-day appointments are available. Ask for your written quote today - the report you book this week is the deadline you won't be chasing next month.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Hampstead — 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.