EICR Testing and Certificates in Hornsey
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Hornsey — council housing, regeneration schemes and managed blocks and rental developments, from the Campsbourne Estate to New River Village.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Hornsey, Crouch End, Wood Green, Highgate (Haringey side), Tottenham 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 Haringey
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since June 2024, running to June 2029
- Selective licensing14 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since November 2022, running to November 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.
A burning smell from a plug socket isn't something to sleep on - kill the circuit at the board and have our emergency electrician check it before a warm connection becomes a fire. If your report's come back unsatisfactory with C1, C2 or FI codes, our eicr remedial work puts the faults right and gets it closed out with the appropriate certification. Letting out one of N8's converted terraces and need paperwork for a tenancy or renewal? We handle the eicr testing Hornsey agents ask for and issue the eicr certificate your council will accept. And lights that flicker whatever bulb you fit are often the wiring itself asking for rewiring. Whatever's brought you here, it starts with a proper inspection and a written quote - you'll know exactly what's wrong before you spend a penny.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Hornsey
Nobody enjoys shopping around for an electrical test, so here's the whole process up front. Survey and test first, then a written report where the observations are explained rather than dumped on you as codes, then - only if something needs doing - an itemised quote you can weigh up in your own time. That's how we work for private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations, councils and portfolio landlords, and it's identical for homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers, sellers and the small businesses trading along the parades. One studio flat gets the same test procedure and the same report as a 200-home portfolio; small jobs are jobs. Bookings are taken 24/7 and same-day appointments are available.
Testing under an electrical installation condition report means the fixed wiring gets examined and measured properly - circuits tested, protective devices verified, earthing and bonding checked, results written up against BS 7671. Any C1, C2 or FI and the outcome is unsatisfactory; a C3 is a recommendation you can plan for rather than a failure. What people wanting an eicr electrician in Hornsey often expect is a verdict on the age of their board, but age alone never decides it - older equipment is assessed for deterioration and defects, and some of it tests perfectly serviceable while newer installations sometimes don't. Hornsey's terraces cut into two and three flats, each with their own additions, are where testing earns its keep. Book EICR testing and certificates when the five-year cycle comes round, before letting, or before a sale gets going.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
A tenancy needs more than one certificate, and chasing them separately is how landlords end up with a file full of gaps. The package covers the EICR, PAT testing on appliances you supply and the smoke and CO alarm checks in a single scheduled visit, certificated for the tenancy. It's a sensible fit for the flat-above-shop lets you find towards Crouch End and Wood Green, where access is awkward and getting three trades through the same door twice is nobody's idea of a good month. Agents can batch several properties into one run. And where a report is satisfactory and still inside its five years, it carries over to an incoming tenant - a change of occupier doesn't automatically mean paying for another test. Book the landlord electrical safety package before marketing, not after the tenant's unpacked.
EICR Remedial Works
An unsatisfactory report needs reading before it needs reacting to. Danger-present observations come first, isolated or corrected on the spot where possible; potentially dangerous ones are put right next; entries marked for further investigation get examined, so the code landing on them is based on evidence. Once it's done you'll have it in writing, with the certificate belonging to the work - an Electrical Installation Certificate for new circuits, a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate for smaller corrections, or a fresh EICR if one has been agreed. Editing a report another firm produced isn't on the table. Non-compliant DIY alterations are the recurring find in this area's converted flats - buried joints, missing earths, cable that's the wrong size for what's now plugged in. EICR remedial works come with a price against every single entry, never one vague total.
Related electrical work in Hornsey
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - ageing fuse boxes replaced with boards carrying the protection current circuits expect.
- Rewiring and part rewires - recabling a property, or one circuit, where existing wiring can't be salvaged.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - no power, tripping that won't reset, or anything hot, smoking or sparking.
- PAT testing - appliance checks for part-furnished flats, HMO communal kit and small premises.
A fault found in a report and left there stops being an observation and starts being a liability the day a tenant reports it.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Hornsey
Plenty of these show up on an electrical installation condition report in Hornsey before they show up as smoke. But when one lands on you mid-tenancy, here's how we handle the four we're asked about most.
Scorched Sockets and Burning Smells
"Burning smell from a plug socket" - or that odd fishy smell near the fuse box - is the call we take most seriously. It's usually a loose termination arcing under load, an overloaded adaptor, or sometimes just a failing appliance plug. Isolate the circuit now; 999 first if anything's smoking. Then treat that burning smell from your electrics as the emergency it is - arcing never repairs itself.
No Power Across the Whole Property
"No electricity in the whole house, but next door's fine." Often the main switch or RCD has tripped on an internal fault; sometimes it's a network outage or a blown cutout fuse, which is supply-side. Once the network's ruled out, an installation that won't hold its main switch on has a live fault - and fridges, routers and heating go down by the hour. Losing power across the whole property is an act-today problem.
Trip Switches That Won't Stay On
"The RCD keeps tripping and I've unplugged everything." Common culprits: an appliance leaking current to earth, moisture in an outdoor circuit or light fitting, or cumulative earth leakage across circuits sharing one RCD. It's a same-day job - and an emergency if it won't reset at all or anything smells warm. Proper diagnosis beats resetting it on repeat, so get a tripping RCD traced before it stops resetting altogether.
Half the Sockets Dead, the Rest Fine
"No power upstairs, lights still work." That pattern usually means a tripped MCB, a failed connection at a socket or junction mid-circuit, or a broken leg on a ring final leaving part of it dead - or quietly overloaded. Failed connections are where heat damage starts, which is why partial power loss gets a same-day slot with us. In a let, one dead circuit reported today is a far smaller conversation than a scorched backbox next month.
Comparing Electricians for Your Hornsey EICR?
Sensible - that's how we'd do it too. Ask every firm for the same three things in writing: the price, what's covered, and what happens if the report's unsatisfactory. Send us your failed report for a remedial quote, or book the inspection itself - either way you get a written answer to compare, not a vague promise. Same-day EICR appointments available when the deadline's already breathing on you.
Electrical Safety Across Hornsey's Housing Stock
Hornsey packs a lot of tenures into a small patch of N8 - council estates, a big private apartment quarter, a regeneration pipeline and streets of converted terraces, most of it densely let. That mix is exactly why "landlord EICR Hornsey" is such a common search here: half the buildings answer to an agent, a freeholder or a housing provider with a compliance calendar to keep.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Campsbourne Estate is the principal concentration of council stock in N8, and estates of that age carry two workloads at once: periodic fixed-wire testing on ageing landlord and communal installations, and board or rewire upgrades inside the homes themselves. The new infill block enters an EICR cycle from its first let. With the Social Housing (Electrical Safety) Standards 2025 now live law - new social tenancies from 1 December 2025, all existing ones from 1 May 2026 - that testing programme isn't optional admin any more.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Alexandra Gate (formerly Clarendon) on the Hornsey gasworks is handing over in phases - 1,700+ homes from St William, with Berkeley Living's build-to-rent collection, Foundry Yard, launching from spring 2026. Each phase puts a managing agent, housing association or BTR operator on the hook for communal fixed-wire testing, plus the Electrical Installation Certificate issued for each flat at completion - the first periodic EICR falling due five years from the date of that certificate. New buildings don't mean no duties - they mean first-cycle ones. The Grade II* former Hornsey Town Hall, reopened in 2025 as the Dao by Dorsett hotel with an arts centre and 146 new apartments in its grounds, adds hotel and assembly-venue testing under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 on top.
Private Blocks and Managed Developments
New River Village is well past its developer defect period, which changes the game: the block's managing agent now owns communal fixed-wire testing outright, and every leasehold flat that's let sits in the 5-year electrical check cycle for private tenancies. Blocks at this stage often discover their communal schedules and flat-level certificates have drifted out of sync.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Between the estates and the new quarters sit the converted Victorian terraces that give Hornsey its rental character. Installations altered flat-by-flat over decades tend to hide non-compliant DIY work - buried junctions, missing earths - that only inspection finds. On stock like this, the electrical safety certificate Hornsey landlords need is rarely a formality first time round; budgeting for a few remedials up front is cheaper than discovering them with a tenant in place.
Electrical Safety Services Across Hornsey and Nearby Areas
Most of our eicr Hornsey bookings come from the N8 core, but the same engineers cover the neighbouring patches as part of our wider North London round - so a landlord with flats in three postcodes only needs one number in the diary.
Crouch End (N8)
Edwardian terraces, mansion flats and a long run of flats above the Broadway's shops and restaurants. That mix generates two steady jobs: landlord certificates for the professional rental market, and fixed-wire testing for the traders underneath them. Mixed-use buildings age on two clocks at once - worth testing both before either one forces the issue.
Muswell Hill (N10)
Big Edwardian family houses, many split into generous conversions, plus owner-occupiers finally tackling wiring that predates their extension plans. Here it's pre-purchase EICRs, part rewires and board upgrades more than tenancy paperwork. On houses this size, a survey before the renovation quote saves redesigning the kitchen twice.
Stroud Green
Dense terraced conversions running down towards N4, one of the most heavily rented streetscapes we cover. Landlord electrical safety work dominates - reports, remedials, the lot - and older shared buildings often need bonding and RCD upgrades to get a satisfactory outcome. A booked inspection now beats a tenant's complaint later.
Highgate (Haringey side) (N6)
Period property with real value at stake, some of it listed, much of it wired and rewired in layers over a century. These installations reward careful, methodical testing - and punish assumptions. Whether it's a 5 year electrical check on a let or a condition report before works, the older the wiring, the less you want to be the last person to look at it.
We also run regular routes through Tottenham and Wood Green, so slots in this corner of the borough come up most days. The areas above don't wait well - wiring faults compound quietly, and the cheapest inspection is always the one booked before something forces it.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Hornsey
What decides the price of an EICR?
Mostly the size of the installation - number of circuits, number of boards, and how accessible everything is. A one-bed conversion is a different job from a five-bed HMO. You get a written price when you book, and if the report finds problems, the remedial quote is itemised separately so you can see exactly what each code costs to clear. No surprises on the day is the whole point - and prices only get harder to plan for once a deadline's involved.
How long does the inspection take?
Depends on circuits and access, but allow a few hours for a typical flat and longer for a larger house or commercial unit. We test the fixed installation properly rather than racing through a checklist - a rushed report that misses a fault helps nobody. Getting eicr testing in Hornsey booked a couple of weeks ahead usually gets you a slot that fits around tenants or trading hours.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes, without hesitation. A single conversion flat, one shop unit, a private homeowner wanting peace of mind - they get the same engineer, the same test sheet and the same written report as a portfolio instruction covering hundreds of homes. Small jobs booked promptly stay small; that's rather the trick.
What paperwork do I actually get?
The electrical installation condition report itself, with every observation coded C1, C2, C3 or FI and explained in plain English. Remedial or rewiring work comes with an Electrical Installation Certificate; the landlord package adds PAT and alarm documentation. It's the file a council, letting agent or buyer's solicitor actually asks for - worth having before they ask.
What happens if my report comes back unsatisfactory?
For a private rented property, the 2020 Regulations give you 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies - to complete the remedial work, and civil penalties for breaches now run up to £40,000 since 1 November 2025. We quote the fixes, do them, re-test and confirm the installation satisfactory. The 28 days goes quickly once quotes and access get involved - the earlier the report's in your hands, the more room you've got.
Ready to Sort Your EICR in Hornsey?
You've seen how we work: proper inspection, an electrical safety certificate with every code explained, and a written quote for anything that needs fixing. Get a written quote for your electrical work and cross it off the list - the phone line's answered 24/7, so booking takes two minutes whenever it suits you.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Hornsey — 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.