EICR Testing and Certificates in Kentish Town
EICRs, landlord certificates and letting compliance for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Kentish Town — regeneration schemes and council housing, from the West Kentish Town Estate to the Whittington Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Kentish Town, Gospel Oak, Hampstead, Camden Town, King's Cross 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.
That burning smell from a plug socket you keep noticing? Kill the circuit and let our emergency electrician trace what's overheating - scorch marks are a warning you only get once. "EICR failed, what now?" is a question we answer daily around NW5: our eicr remedial work turns the coded schedule into fixed faults and a satisfactory re-test inside the legal window. Need a landlord electrical safety certificate for a tenancy, licence application or renewal? We schedule an eicr certificate visit around your tenants and hand back paperwork the council will accept - eicr testing Kentish Town rentals depend on shouldn't hold up a let. And lights flickering or bulbs blowing again and again often point to wiring on its way out; rewiring deals with the root of it. None of these problems shrinks with time - the version you fix today is the cheapest one you'll ever be offered.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Kentish Town
People look for an eicr electrician in Kentish Town for one of two reasons: a deadline that's crept up, or a report they can't make sense of. Either way the order is the same - we inspect and test first, you get the report with every code explained in plain English, and anything needing correction comes back as an itemised written quote. That suits private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations, councils and portfolio landlords, and equally homeowners, HMO landlords, people buying or selling, and the small businesses along the parades. One flat above a shop gets the same engineer and the same standard of report as a 200-home portfolio programme. The line's answered 24/7 and same-day appointments are available.
An electrical installation condition report is a proper test of the fixed wiring - board, circuits, earthing, bonding - not a walk round with a torch. We isolate, test and record everything against BS 7671, then hand over a report that either reads satisfactory or lists observations coded C1, C2, C3 or FI. Only C1, C2 and FI make a report unsatisfactory. A C3 is advisory and sits perfectly happily alongside a pass, which surprises a lot of people. Kentish Town stock keeps this interesting: flats over the shop parades, big Victorian houses carved into two and three lets, most of it altered by several different hands over the decades. Book EICR testing and certificates when your five-year cycle falls due, before a new tenancy starts, or ahead of a purchase.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Most landlords here aren't chasing one piece of paper - they want a flat compliant and back on the market without three visits and three invoices. The package pulls the EICR, PAT testing on anything you supply, and smoke and CO alarm checks into one scheduled attendance, certificated for the tenancy. Agents holding flats across Kentish Town and Camden Town can have a batch booked around tenant access rather than around our diary, which is usually the real bottleneck. Worth knowing too: a valid satisfactory report under five years old carries over, so you hand the existing one to the incoming tenant instead of paying for a fresh test at every changeover. Book the landlord electrical safety package when a tenancy turns, or when the electrical safety certificate on a Kentish Town let is close to expiring.
EICR Remedial Works
Report come back unsatisfactory? It's a job list, not a disaster. We take the C1s first - danger present, made safe on the visit where possible - then the C2s, then any FI items needing something opened up before they can be coded properly. When the work's done you get written confirmation of what was carried out plus the certification that matches it: an Electrical Installation Certificate, a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate, or a fresh EICR where one is required or agreed. We don't amend somebody else's report. Missing RCD protection turns up on plenty of older boards round here; how it's coded depends on the circuit, where it runs and the risk - C2 in some situations, C3 in others. EICR remedial works are quoted item by item, so you can stage them if the budget needs staging.
Related electrical work in Kentish Town
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - modern protection and clear circuit labelling for flats and houses running ageing boards.
- Rewiring and part rewires - where perished insulation or tired cabling makes patch repairs a waste of money.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - burning smells, dead circuits, a board that won't stay on, any hour.
- PAT testing - appliance checks for landlords supplying white goods and for small commercial premises.
A C2 you knew about in March is a bigger, dearer job by autumn - and a flat you can't advertise in the meantime.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Kentish Town
Four situations bring NW5 readers to this page more than any others - two of them dangerous, two of them deadline-driven. If one's yours, here's what's probably going on and how fast to move. (If you're starting from scratch, an electrical installation condition report Kentish Town landlords can rely on is usually the first step.)
Shocks and Tingling from Taps or Appliances
Got a shock from the tap, or a tingle off the washing machine? Something is making exposed metalwork live - often missing or inadequate earthing and bonding, sometimes an appliance leaking to its casing, occasionally a deteriorating supply neutral, which is a network fault. Protection has failed either way. Stop using it, isolate, and treat any shock or tingle as an emergency - never a wait-and-see.
Council Demands for an EICR
"The council's asking for my EICR" - and you've got 7 days to supply it once requested. Usually the report doesn't exist, has expired, or its remedial work was never evidenced within the 28 days. Left unanswered, the council can serve a remedial notice, arrange the work itself and recover costs - and penalties run per breach. Council enforcement over an EICR is the one deadline you don't negotiate with.
HMO and Property Licence Electrics
Licence conditions mean holding a current satisfactory EICR and producing it on request - and shared houses carry loads their original wiring never anticipated. At the next board change, BS 7671 Amendment 2 brings AFDD requirements into play for HMO socket circuits. Start the licence electrical work early enough to absorb a failed report plus its 28-day remedial window before your application or renewal date.
Rewireable Fuse Boxes Without RCDs
"Old fuse box - is it safe?" If it takes fuse wire and has no trip switches, the installation predates RCD requirements, and the wiring behind it is often of similar vintage; years of wrong-gauge fuse wire can also have cooked carriers and terminals. Plannable work - but move it up the list if the property's rented, being sold, or showing symptoms. An ageing board with no RCD is one of the most frequent findings, coded on the risk it presents else.
In a licensing borough with this much rented stock, the gap between "known about" and "dealt with" is where the penalties live.
Weighing Up Your EICR Options?
Take your time - but if any problem above has a deadline on it, the comparison shopping shouldn't outlast the clock. Send over your unsatisfactory eicr and we'll price the remedials code by code in writing, or book an electrician while the fault's still a small one. Either way you'll know exactly what the job costs before anyone lifts a screwdriver.
Electrical Safety Across Kentish Town's Housing Stock
Kentish Town's electrical work splits three ways: regeneration estates living through long transition years, landmark council terraces, and the private terraces-turned-flats in between. There's a higher-risk layer too - the Wellesley Road Care Home in Gospel Oak, a 60-bed purpose-designed home at 1 Wellesley Road operated by Shaw healthcare in collaboration with Camden Council, is exactly the kind of sleeping premises where fixed-wire testing on shorter cycles and PAT on equipment are standard compliance expectations under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
The West Kentish Town Estate shows how long the electrical tail of regeneration really is: existing blocks remain occupied - and on the council's 5-yearly EICR cycle under the live social-sector duty - right through phased demolition, while every new-build handover adds first-cycle certification and testing stock. Bacton Low Rise tells the same story inside the six-estate Gospel Oak regeneration area: occupied estate stock stays on its 5-yearly cycles for years before demolition, then handovers bring fresh first-cycle work. The Wendling Estate, awaiting phased redevelopment, still has to keep its 1960s-70s installations EICR-compliant for however long the wait runs. For anyone responsible for buildings in that limbo, "it's coming down eventually" is not a compliance position - the duty holds until the keys do.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Whittington Estate at Highgate New Town - those landmark 1970s council terraces - sits inside Camden's 5-yearly EICR survey and remedial programme under the live social-sector duty, with original-generation installations now well into the age bracket where periodic inspection starts producing meaningful remedial lists.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Around all of that runs the private market: Victorian terraces subdivided into flats, with the rental character that puts much of NW5 on the private-sector 5-yearly cycle too. Typical findings are undramatic but decisive - sockets lacking RCD protection, bonding sized for another decade's plumbing, and layered DIY from successive conversions. When the landlord eicr Kentish Town agents flagged as expiring reaches the top of your list, remember the arithmetic: test early and remedials are a diary entry; test late and they're a 28-day statutory sprint with a tenancy waiting on the outcome.
Electrical Safety Services Across Kentish Town and Nearby Areas
Our eicr Kentish Town patch runs well past the high street - the same engineers cover the neighbouring pockets below, and busier landlords pair jobs here with flats towards Camden Town in a single day's schedule.
Gospel Oak (NW3)
A dense mix of estate blocks and older terraces on the Hampstead Heath edge of NW3. With so much social and rented stock side by side, the recurring job is the 5 year electrical check and the remedial lists that follow - plus PAT and alarm compliance where properties are let room by room. Boards here are frequently a generation behind the wiring standards.
Dartmouth Park
Handsome Victorian terraces climbing the hill, many still single dwellings, many others quietly split into flats decades back. Owners here tend to book an electrical installation condition report before a sale or a refurbishment - and it's the right instinct, because concealed junctions and dated circuits surface at the worst possible moment mid-project if nobody tested first.
Tufnell Park (Camden side)
On the Camden side of Tufnell Park the story is conversions and shared houses, which drags licensing into the picture: a current satisfactory report is the paperwork a licence stands on. Landlords with an unsatisfactory eicr in hand come to us for itemised remedial pricing so the licence application doesn't stall while the clock runs.
Portfolios that stretch further - down to Bloomsbury or across the wider North London area - run through the same booking diary and the same paperwork standard. The certificates all expire eventually; the landlords who diarise them simply never receive the 7-day letter.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Kentish Town
What decides the price of an EICR?
Circuits, boards and access - that's the honest answer. A studio flat with one small board is a quick job; a converted house with three flats and three metering positions isn't. We ask a few questions up front and give you a fixed figure in writing before you commit. Getting that number today means your renewal budget stops being a guess.
Will the tenants need to move out during testing?
No - eicr testing in Kentish Town lets is almost always done with tenants in place. We need access to the board and to sockets and fittings around the property, and the power goes off circuit by circuit rather than all day. We arrange timing with the tenant or agent directly if you want us to. The longer a booking waits, the harder that access diary gets - start it early.
What happens if the report comes back unsatisfactory?
You get the report with each C1, C2, C3 and FI observation explained, plus remedial pricing in writing, code by code. On a rented property you've then got 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies - to complete the remedial work, so having the quote in the same envelope as the report matters. We re-test after the fixes and the paperwork shows satisfactory. Sitting on a failed report doesn't pause the clock - it just spends it.
Is a single flat or one shop too small a job?
Not remotely. Yes - and a one-flat eicr is inspected exactly as thoroughly as a 200-home portfolio programme would be, with the same certificates at the end. One shop unit, one buy-to-let, your own home before a sale: all standard work for us. Small jobs booked promptly stay small; that's rather the point.
Who has to hold the certificate - me or my agent?
Legally, the landlord. The 2020 Regulations put the duty - inspection at least every 5 years, copies to tenants, remedials inside 28 days, report to the council within 7 days of a request - on the property owner, whoever does the admin. With civil penalties of up to £40,000 per breach under SI 2025/1043 since 1 November 2025, it's worth confirming today which of your properties has a live report and which is quietly out of date.
Let's Get Your Inspection in the Diary
If the answers above covered your hesitations, the next step is a written quote for the work you actually need - an eicr certificate Kentish Town councils and agents will accept, remedials, or both. The line's answered 24/7 and same-day appointments are available. A dated certificate in your file beats a reminder letter from the council every single time.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Kentish Town — 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.