EICR Testing and Certificates in Kennington
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Kennington — council housing, regeneration schemes and housing-association estates, from the Cotton Gardens Estate to Knight's Walk.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Kennington, Brixton, Oval, Vauxhall, Clapham 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 Lambeth
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since December 2021, running to December 2026
- Selective licensing4 wards: Knights Hill, Streatham Common & Vale, Streatham Hill East, Streatham St Leonards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since September 2024, running to September 2029
- Selective licensing19 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since September 2025, running to August 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.
Smoke or a scorch mark at a socket or the fuse box means the wiring's already failing - isolate it and let an emergency electrician find the fault properly. If an inspection has just handed you an unsatisfactory result with C1, C2 or FI codes attached, eicr remedial work is how those codes get fixed, re-tested and signed off. Agent chasing a landlord electrical certificate before a tenancy starts? Around Kennington and Oval - where flats above shops and estate blocks change hands constantly - an eicr certificate is the document that keeps the let on schedule. And lights that flicker, dim or eat bulbs are often a warning that circuits are due rewiring, not a quirk to live with. Whatever the symptom, eicr testing Kennington wide starts with a proper inspection and ends with a written quote - so the decision's made on facts, not worry.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Kennington
Whoever's asking you for the certificate - a council compliance team, a managing agent, a commercial landlord, a solicitor holding up a sale - the route through is the same. An engineer surveys and tests the installation, the cost of any remedial work is confirmed in writing before it starts, and what you keep at the end is documentation: the report, the codes explained in plain English, and certification for the work carried out. Councils and housing associations, portfolio landlords and letting and managing agents make up a good share of that - private landlords too. So do homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers and sellers, and the offices and shops that keep this end of the borough busy.
Nothing here is too small. One flat in a mansion block gets the same testing regime and the same report as a 200-home schedule. Our engineers are qualified to the standards the work requires, and the EICR electrician Kennington agents keep on file is usually the one who explained the codes properly the first time.
Testing is physical: the supply goes off, circuits are proved, insulation resistance and earth fault loop impedance are measured, protective devices are verified. Then everything observed is coded. Danger present is a C1. Potentially dangerous is a C2. Anything that couldn't be resolved on site is an FI, and an advisory improvement is a C3. Only the first three drive an unsatisfactory outcome. Round Kennington the stock swings between converted Georgian terraces, interwar mansion blocks with communal risers and modern commercial fit-outs - each testing differently. Commercial premises don't all sit on the same interval either; higher-risk settings run to shorter cycles than the five years private rented homes work to. You'll get your eicr certificate Kennington compliance files need, or an itemised schedule explaining exactly why not. Get the installation tested before the deadline lands on someone else's desk.
EICR Remedial Works
Fixing what a report codes is the part most people underestimate, so we itemise it. C1s get made safe immediately. C2s and FI items get scheduled, priced and explained - including what happens if they're left. Inadequate main bonding is a frequent one in older blocks: protective bonding to the water or gas service either missing, undersized for the supply, or connected somewhere it shouldn't be, leaving touchable metalwork able to rise to dangerous potential during a fault. It's rarely a big job on its own. It's a big deal if it's ignored. After correction we re-test and issue written confirmation with the appropriate certificate - EIC or Minor Works - and if a fresh full report is required, we quote for that as separate work. Book the remedial visit rather than sitting on the schedule.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
One booking covering the EICR, appliance testing on landlord-supplied equipment, and smoke and CO alarm checks, all certificated together for the tenancy file. For social landlords the timing is worth pinning down properly: the Social Housing (Electrical Safety) Standards 2025 apply to social tenancies granted on or after 1 December 2025, while for tenancies granted before that date the regulations came into force on 1 May 2026 - with transitional provisions allowing the initial inspection and equipment checks to be completed before 1 November 2026. Private landlords have their own five-yearly duty and their own penalty exposure. Either way, scheduling a block of properties as one programme beats chasing them one at a time. Arrange a landlord package across the properties you manage.
Related electrical work in Kennington
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - for landlords and blocks where the board itself is the limiting factor.
- Rewiring and part rewires - whole-property and partial rewires for owners and landlords facing widespread cable failure.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - unsafe situations that can't wait; the line's answered any hour, call-outs run 24/7.
- PAT testing - for offices, shops and furnished tenancies where supplied appliances need documented testing.
The cheapest version of this job is always the one booked before somebody else sets the deadline for you.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Kennington
Electric Shocks From Taps, Switches and Appliances
That tap giving you a shock, or the washing machine tingling under your hand? Somewhere, metalwork has gone live - commonly earthing or bonding that's missing or undersized, an appliance leaking to its casing, or now and then a deteriorating supply neutral. Protection has failed, full stop. Isolate what you safely can and get shocks or tingles from metalwork dealt with as an emergency - never wait-and-see.
Total Power Loss in One Property
Whole house dead while the street's lit up? The usual culprits: an RCD or main switch dropping out on a fault inside the installation, or a blown DNO cutout - supply-side, so check with the network first. A main switch that refuses to stay on means a live fault underneath, and fridges, medication and heating lose by the hour. Complete power loss gets an emergency response once the network side is cleared.
Flickering Lights and Blown Bulbs
Lights keep flickering, or dim whenever an appliance kicks in? One misbehaving fitting is often a loose connection or an LED/dimmer mismatch - annoying, not urgent. But flicker across the whole property can point at a failing neutral, and that's a different conversation. Any heat, buzzing or smell alongside it, move fast. Getting persistent flickering diagnosed same-day keeps a loose connection from becoming a burnt one.
Fixed-Wire Testing for Business Premises
Insurance wants an electrical test certificate and nobody can find one? The Electricity at Work Regulations duty is typically evidenced by periodic testing every 3-5 years, and records seldom survive a change of occupier. Kennington's shops, cafés and offices can book an electrical installation condition report Kennington traders can slot around opening hours - though any C1 or C2 found becomes urgent in an occupied business. Sorting commercial fixed-wire testing before the renewal letter beats negotiating cover without it.
Getting EICR Quotes In? Add Ours
No pressure, just paper: send over the unsatisfactory eicr you're sitting on and you'll get a written remedial price broken down code by code - easy to compare, easy to question. Nothing failed yet? Then book the inspection while it's still routine. Faults found on your schedule cost less than faults that pick their own moment.
Electrical Safety Across Kennington's Housing Stock
Kennington's compliance map is unusually crowded: council towers, stock-transfer estates, PFI-managed regeneration and new social rent homes all within a short walk of each other - and each with a different organisation holding the landlord eicr Kennington duty.
Council and ALMO Housing
China Walk Estate and Lambeth Towers typify the borough's retained stock in north Lambeth: mixed medium- and high-rise blocks whose landlord supplies, communal lighting and tenanted flats all sit inside the council's rolling 5-year EICR schedule. On estates of this age, each inspection round tends to feed a remedial list - bonding, boards, communal fittings - that has to be cleared before the cycle closes. The programme never really stops; it just moves block to block.
Housing-Association Stock
The Ethelred Estate shows how stock transfer complicates testing: WATMOS holds the duty for transferred homes while the council keeps retained blocks like Ward Point - two distinct buyers of landlord electrical testing on one 1970s estate. WATMOS Community Homes carries the same responsibility across its wider north Lambeth and Streatham Hill portfolio: flat EICRs on rented homes plus communal fixed-installation testing. When duty-holders split mid-estate, the compliance file that names who owns which installation is worth as much as the test results.
Tower Blocks and High-Rise Homes
Cotton Gardens Estate's three 1968 towers are vertical installations as much as homes - risers, lateral mains and communal lighting running the full height, all on ongoing periodic inspection, with flat-level EICRs across the tenanted homes under the council's 5-year schedule. In towers this age the communal side often works harder than any single flat, and defects found in a riser affect every landing above it.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Knight's Walk's newly handed-over social rent homes carry fresh electrical installation certificates that roll straight into a recurring 5-year cycle from the date of the Electrical Installation Certificate issued at handover. Myatts Field North - the Oval Quarter - is a denser case: Pinnacle-managed PFI blocks alongside Notting Hill Genesis rented homes, both needing flat-level and communal periodic inspection, with private lets in the market blocks adding 2020-Regulations demand on top. PFI management means compliance is contractually programmed; miss a date and it isn't just a safety gap, it's a contract breach.
However new or old the block, a 5 year electrical check missed anywhere in this patch has an owner - and increasingly, an auditor. Duty-holders who know their next test date rarely meet their enforcement team.
Electrical Safety Services Across Kennington and Nearby Areas
Booking an eicr Kennington way covers the neighbouring pockets too - the patch between the river and Brixton is small enough that the same engineer handles all of it.
Oval (SE11)
Around the cricket ground, SE11 mixes mansion-block flats with newer apartment schemes and busy roadside commercial units. Leaseholders letting flats here need current landlord certificates, while shops and cafés carry their own fixed-wire duties. Two different documents, one visit each - and both easier arranged before a renewal date forces the issue.
Lambeth North / Lambeth Walk
The streets behind Lambeth Walk hold post-war estate blocks and maisonettes, much of it social or ex-council stock. Buyers and leaseholders in these blocks often discover the flat's own wiring is their responsibility even when the block isn't. A pre-purchase inspection here answers the question a survey only raises.
Vassall / Myatt's Fields
Between Camberwell New Road and the park, Victorian terraces sit alongside dense 2010s regeneration housing - old wiring problems and first-cycle testing side by side in SW9 and SE5. Rental compliance drives most demand: tenanted homes need their reports current whichever era they were built. The older the wiring, the less sense waiting makes.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Kennington
What drives the price of an EICR?
Circuits, mostly - every one gets inspected and tested, so a studio with six circuits costs less than a maisonette with fourteen. Board age and access matter too. You get a fixed written figure before anything's booked, and it doesn't move on the day. What does move is the remedial bill on wiring left untested for years - usually upwards.
How long does the visit take, and is the power off the whole time?
Most flats: two hours, maybe four. Houses and commercial units: longer. Each circuit is only isolated while it's actually under test, rather than everything going off at once, and we agree timing with tenants or staff beforehand. For businesses booking eicr testing in Kennington, quieter trading windows work well - one more reason to book ahead of the deadline rather than inside it.
Will you do a single flat, or do you only take on blocks?
One flat, one shop front, one terrace - absolutely. A single-flat eicr gets exactly the attention a 200-home portfolio programme does; most of our work is ordinary properties, one at a time. Small jobs stay small when they're dealt with promptly. That's the whole trick.
What paperwork comes out of it?
The full electrical installation condition report: every circuit's results, each observation carrying its C1, C2, C3 or FI code, and a plain-English explanation of what each code means for you. If it's unsatisfactory, a written remedial quote comes with it - and after the fixes, re-testing and a satisfactory reissue. Agents, councils, insurers and solicitors all recognise the document. Having it ready is invariably cheaper than being asked for it.
I'm the landlord but my agent handles everything - whose problem is compliance?
Legally, yours. The 2020 Regulations put the duty on the landlord, and since 1 November 2025 the civil penalty cap sits at £40,000 per breach under SI 2025/1043. An agent can arrange the test; they don't absorb the fine. If you can't say for certain your report is current, that's a question worth closing this week - not one to leave with the agent's inbox.
Book the Kennington Inspection and Move On
You know what the paperwork covers and who's responsible - the rest is a diary entry. Name the property and we'll send a written quote covering the inspection - or clearing an unsatisfactory eicr you already hold. The phone's answered 24/7 and same-day appointments are available. Ten minutes now and the compliance question stops following you around.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Kennington — 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.