EICR Testing and Certificates in New Addington
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across New Addington — council housing, from the New Addington estate to the Fieldway estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving New Addington, South Croydon, Croydon, Purley, South Norwood 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 Croydon
- Additional HMO licensing (announced)borough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — starts September 2026
- Selective licensing (announced)14 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — starts September 2026
- 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.
If there's a burning smell coming off a plug socket or at the fuse board, don't investigate it yourself - flip the circuit off and let an emergency electrician find the overheating joint before it scorches more than the faceplate. "EICR failed, what now?" is a question with a calm answer: the coded faults get priced, the eicr remedial work gets done, and the report comes back satisfactory. Need a landlord electrical certificate because a tenancy's starting or the council's asking? An eicr certificate slotted around your date - with every code explained afterwards - takes that worry off the table. Lights flickering or bulbs blowing week after week in an older New Addington house tends to mean connections or circuits wearing out, and targeted rewiring deals with the cause rather than the symptom. Each of these has a fixed, known route to sorted - the only unknown is how long you sit on it.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in New Addington
Post-war estate housing dominates up here, plenty of it bought under right-to-buy and now let privately - so properties are often on their second or third owner and nobody's certain what's been altered along the way. We test before we advise: inspection first, a coded report you can actually read, then a written quote if something needs putting right. That's the sequence an EICR electrician in New Addington should be following. Private landlords, portfolio owners, letting agents, managing agents, councils and housing associations all use that route, and so do homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers, sellers and small businesses. Got one ex-council semi to sort out? It's booked and tested to exactly the standard a 200-property rollout gets.
An electrical installation condition report is both the 5 year electrical check a landlord needs and the reassurance a buyer wants - a measured test of the fixed wiring against BS 7671, results coded rather than summarised. An unsatisfactory verdict needs a C1, a C2 or an FI on the report; C3s are improvement notes. On housing of this era the pattern repeats: original circuits still doing their job, then a run of later additions - an outside socket, a shed supply, a shower circuit - put in by whoever owned the place at the time, with no paperwork behind any of it. Testing is what separates the sound alterations from the ones that need attention. Get an EICR booked in and the guesswork stops.
EICR Remedial Works
Unsatisfactory doesn't mean rewire. It means specific circuits or components have been coded and need attention - C1 danger present, made safe straight away; C2 potentially dangerous, corrected; FI unresolved, investigated properly. On stock like this a good half of the remedial work is undoing amateur alterations: junction boxes plastered into walls, undersized cable feeding a garage, an earth that stops halfway along a run. Plenty of it turns out smaller than people fear once it's been properly diagnosed, which is exactly why guessing at the fix costs more than testing for it. When the work's finished you get written confirmation along with the appropriate certification, an Electrical Installation Certificate or a Minor Works Certificate depending on what was altered. What remedial work actually involves.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Letting one or two properties locally? The landlord safety package rolls the EICR, PAT testing on appliances you supply, and smoke and CO alarm checks into one visit, with certification issued for the tenancy. And a valid satisfactory report under five years old carries over to a new tenant - a change of tenancy on its own doesn't mean paying for another test.
Related electrical work in New Addington
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - swapping old boards for RCD-protected units, once a report has coded the existing one.
- Part rewires and full rewires - kitchen, upstairs or whole-house recabling where the existing cable has deteriorated badly.
- Emergency electrician, any hour - 24/7 call-out when a tenant loses power, smells burning or keeps tripping.
- PAT testing - checks on appliances supplied with the let, from cookers and fridges to kettles and heaters.
The cheapest version of this job is the one booked before a tenant, a buyer or an inspector forces it.
Electrical Problems We Fix in New Addington
Tingles and Shocks from Taps or Metalwork
"Got a shock from the tap" - or the faintest tingle off a washing machine or switch - is the installation telling you its protection has failed. Possible culprits: earthing or bonding that's absent or undersized, an appliance leaking to its casing, or a supply neutral on its way out (a network fault, that one). Don't wait this one out. Kill the supply at the board if you need to, and treat a shock or tingle from any metalwork as tonight's problem.
Every Circuit Dead at Once
"No electricity in the whole house" - check the neighbours first: if the whole street's dark or the DNO cutout has gone, that's the network's problem, not your wiring's. But if the main switch trips straight back off, something inside is faulting, and a cold house with a warming freezer gets worse by the hour. A full power loss is emergency work the moment the network's ruled out.
Dimming Lights and Bulbs That Keep Dying
"Lights dim when the kettle goes on" - in one fitting, that's often a slack connection at the switch or the ceiling rose, or LEDs that don't get on with an ageing dimmer. Across the whole house, or with buzzing, heat or a smell attached, it needs treating as urgent because a failing neutral may be involved. Either way, get the flickering looked at properly before a loose joint becomes a burnt one.
Original Wiring and the Rewire Question
"Does my house need rewiring?" In homes from this estate's build era, sometimes yes in part - original rubber-insulated cable still in service, lighting circuits without earths, or a string of partial rewires that dodged the oldest runs. It's plannable work unless testing finds live degradation, which gets isolated on the spot. An electrical installation condition report New Addington buyers and owners can act on is the honest starting point - then plan the rewire on evidence, at this year's prices rather than a crisis's.
Picking an Electrician for the EICR?
Take the unhurried route: ask how they walk you through the codes and whether remedials are priced from the schedule itself. If you're holding an unsatisfactory eicr right now, pass it across and the remedial quote comes back in writing, item by item. Nothing failed yet? Book the inspection while every fault on the list is still a small one - that's the whole trick.
Electrical Safety Across New Addington's Housing Stock
New Addington is one of the clearest housing stories in the borough: planned estate stock, built in a couple of concentrated waves, now split between a social landlord and hundreds of private owners - and that split defines who owes what electrically.
Council and ALMO Housing
The New Addington estate itself is concentrated single-landlord territory, where the compliance load sits in the communal fabric: rising mains, landlord distribution boards and communal lighting all need periodic BS 7671 inspection on programmed cycles. The Fieldway estate carries the same profile at scale - a large mid-century council housing area under one social landlord, whose ageing communal fixed-wire installations sit on their own periodic-inspection cycles. The interesting layer is the homes that left the council's books: houses and maisonettes bought under Right to Buy on both estates and now let privately fall under the borough-wide additional and selective licensing EICR conditions, which means an individual landlord - often owning exactly one property - carries duties the neighbouring social homes handle through a whole compliance department.
That's the crux for this area. A landlord eicr New Addington licensing officers will accept isn't a portfolio problem here; it's a single-house problem multiplied across an estate, and the owners involved rarely have an agent chasing dates for them. Mid-century installations also mean the findings are of their era: bonding fitted to older rules, boards replaced piecemeal over decades, extensions and conservatory circuits added by whoever was cheapest that year. Nothing there is alarming in itself - but it's exactly what a 5 year electrical check is designed to surface while it's still a quote rather than a hazard.
For owner-occupiers there's no legal EICR duty, but the same era logic applies: an electrical safety certificate New Addington buyers ask for at sale time increasingly decides how smoothly a sale goes. Hold one ex-council house, a private let or a communal riser's paperwork - the stock here rewards the same habit - inspection booked by the calendar, because on estates this age the wiring doesn't announce its own deadlines.
Electrical Safety Services Across New Addington and Nearby Areas
Sitting up on the plateau at the end of the tram line, New Addington is a straightforward run for our engineers - and so is everywhere around it. The same visits, reports and written quotes cover Croydon town centre, Norbury and the full South East London patch, so a landlord with an eicr New Addington booking and another property across the borough can put both on one arrangement. Distance never changes the standard of the report - but delay changes the size of the remedial list, so the postcode's no reason to put it off.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in New Addington
What will an EICR cost me?
It depends on circuits, bedrooms and the installation's age - an untouched mid-century house needs more testing time than one rewired in recent memory, so quotes are set per property and confirmed in writing ahead of the visit. Remedials, if any, come as a separate itemised price keyed to the report's codes. What never varies: no surprise extras mid-job. The longer an old installation goes untested, the longer that second list tends to get.
Does the power have to go off?
Yes, in stages - each circuit is isolated while it's tested, so expect short outages room by room over a two-to-four-hour visit. Tenants cope fine when they're warned about freezers and routers in advance. Sorting access early is half the job; leaving it to the deadline week is how visits get rescheduled and windows get missed.
Is the report enough for the council or my agent?
A complete electrical installation condition report is exactly what they're entitled to ask for - each observation carrying its C1, C2, C3 or FI code, plus our plain-English notes on which items are mandatory fixes. Councils can demand it within 7 days of asking, and tenants must receive it within 28 days of the inspection. Having eicr testing in New Addington done and filed ahead of any request keeps it admin instead of enforcement.
Do you bother with single houses?
They're most of what this area is - so yes, absolutely. One ex-council house, one maisonette, one shop on the parade: identical process, instruments and reporting to a programme two hundred homes deep. There's no minimum and no small-job premium. The single-property landlords who book promptly are consistently the ones licensing enforcement never writes to.
What happens after a fail?
You get a plan, not a punishment: C1, C2 and FI items priced from the schedule, fixed within the 28-day window rented homes get, then re-tested and the report closed out with the appropriate certification. Most post-war houses fail on a handful of fixable items, not catastrophes. Acting inside the window keeps it routine - drifting past it invites penalties that dwarf the cost of the work.
Time to Book Your New Addington EICR
Nothing above needs deciding twice: the property gets inspected, the codes get explained, and the electrical work gets a written quote you can hold us to. Pass over the address and your date (a tenancy, a licence, a sale, or simple peace of mind) and it's handled from there. A landlord electrical safety file that's complete this week is one less letter to dread next year.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in New Addington — 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.