EICR Testing and Certificates in New Cross
EICRs, landlord certificates and letting compliance for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across New Cross — regeneration schemes, council housing and managed blocks and rental developments, from Achilles Street regeneration to the Honor Oak Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving New Cross, Deptford, Brockley, Lewisham, Forest Hill 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 Lewisham
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since April 2022, running to April 2027
- Selective licensingDesignation 1 - 6 wards: Brockley, Catford South, Lewisham Central, New Cross, Perry Vale, Rushey Green — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since July 2024, running to June 2029
- Selective licensingDesignation 2 - 5 wards: Crofton Park, Evelyn, Ladywell, Lee Green, Sydenham — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since July 2024, running to June 2029
- Selective licensingDesignation 3 - 5 wards: Bellingham, Downham, Forest Hill, Grove Park, Whitefoot — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since July 2024, running to June 2029
- 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 fishy, hot-plastic smell near a socket or the fuse box? Don't shrug it off - isolate it and treat it as urgent, because that's precisely the call our emergency electrician service exists to take, day or night. If a report's just landed marked unsatisfactory and you're staring at C1, C2 or FI wondering what happens now, eicr remedial work is how those codes get fixed, re-tested and signed off within the 28-day window. Chasing an electrical safety certificate in New Cross for a tenancy, licence or renewal? An eicr certificate visit puts the paperwork in your hand without drama. And flickering lights or bulbs that keep blowing in a converted flat usually point at wiring near the end of its life - a rewiring conversation, not a bulb problem. In a lettings market this busy, eicr testing New Cross appointments reward the people who book before the deadline bites.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in New Cross
Shared houses, student lets and flats above trading units - that's a big slice of what an EICR electrician in New Cross gets asked to test, and it's work where the paperwork is scrutinised harder than most. Our process doesn't vary: survey and test first, a written quote for anything that needs putting right, then the documents on completion. Private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations, councils and portfolio landlords all use it, and so do homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers and sellers, and small businesses along the main roads. Got one flat? It's booked, tested and certificated exactly as a two-hundred-property programme would be - the size of the instruction changes nothing about the standard.
An inspection here often means a house occupied room by room, which changes how the job is run more than what's tested. Circuits get dead-tested and live-tested against BS 7671, the board comes off, earthing and bonding are checked, and everything measured goes on the record. HMO landlords tend to want the licensing side nailed down, so we work around occupancy and give you an unsatisfactory eicr with codes explained, or a satisfactory one, rather than a verdict you have to decode yourself. Bookings are taken 24/7, year round, which helps when the only person who can let us in is a tenant on shifts. Get EICR testing in New Cross done before a licence renewal, not during one.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Multi-let properties collect obligations. The electrical report, the appliances left in a furnished house, the smoke and CO alarms across three floors - separately they're three appointments and three sets of chasing. As one package they're a single visit and one dated bundle of documents per property, which is what an agent or a licensing officer actually wants to see. For landlords holding several houses around Telegraph Hill and Brockley we sequence visits property by property so tenants get one disruption, not a rolling series of them. Same-day appointments are available where a deadline has genuinely run out. A landlord electrical safety certificate alongside the rest of the pack keeps the whole file in step.
EICR Remedial Works
Three code types make a report unsatisfactory: C1, C2 and FI. That last one - further investigation required - surprises people, because nothing has been proven dangerous yet; the inspector simply couldn't establish the condition of something and it can't be left unresolved. C3 is advisory and stands apart from all three. Where houses have been split for multiple occupation over the years, what surfaces is predictable enough: sockets added on spurs off spurs, junction boxes plastered into walls, an overloaded circuit feeding half a floor of kitchen appliances. We quote off the coded schedule in writing so nothing is bundled into a vague figure, and on completion we hand over written confirmation and the relevant certificate for what was carried out. Clearing C1 and C2 items properly is the difference between a licence application progressing and stalling.
Related electrical work in New Cross
- Fuse box upgrades - for boards testing shows can't protect the circuits behind them to current standards.
- Rewiring and part rewires - for wiring too degraded to repair, staged floor by floor in occupied houses.
- Emergency electricians, day or night - sudden power loss, scorch marks, or a board that trips the moment it's reset.
- PAT testing - appliances supplied in furnished lets, plus kit in shops, takeaways and small offices.
A C2 you know about and haven't fixed is far harder to explain than one you've just found.
Electrical Problems We Fix in New Cross
Shared houses, converted flats and busy shopfronts throw up a predictable set of faults. Here's how they look from your side - and how quickly each needs dealing with. Several of them are the same defects an electrical installation condition report New Cross landlords commission would flag before they ever became a phone call.
Burning Smells from Sockets or the Fuse Box
A fishy smell near the electrics, a socket scorched brown, warmth where there shouldn't be any. Often it's a loose termination arcing under load, or an overloaded adaptor or extension - sometimes just a failing plug. Either way it's a live fire risk: kill the circuit now, dial 999 if anything's actually smoking, and get the source of the burning smell traced before you switch it back on.
Electric Shocks and Tingling Metalwork
A tingle off the washing machine or a belt from the tap means the metalwork is sitting live - usually because earthing or bonding is missing or inadequate, occasionally an appliance leaking to its casing or a deteriorating supply neutral. The protection that should've caught it didn't. Isolate, stop touching it, and treat a shock or tingle as an emergency every single time.
RCDs and Trip Switches That Keep Tripping
The trip switch keeps going and you're resetting it three times a night. Common causes: an appliance leaking current to earth, moisture in an outdoor circuit or light fitting, or background leakage stacked across too many circuits on one shared RCD. It's a same-day job - and an emergency if it won't reset at all or anything smells warm. Repeated tripping is a fault talking to you; resetting isn't fixing.
Sockets Down in One Part of the House
No power upstairs, or half the kitchen dead while the lights carry on. Usually a tripped breaker or blown fuse on that circuit, a connection that's failed mid-run, or a broken ring leg quietly overloading what's left. Failing joints are where heat damage starts, so a partial loss of power wants tracing today - leaving it running on a damaged circuit is how small faults graduate.
Still Shopping Around for an Electrician?
Fair enough - a 5 year electrical check is only worth what the person signing it knows. If any of the faults above sound familiar, the cheapest moment to act is now, while it's still small. Book an electrician in, or send over a failed report and we'll price the remedials from the schedule. Faults don't do waiting lists.
Electrical Safety Across New Cross's Housing Stock
Few patches of south-east London concentrate as many different landlord types into one postcode: council walk-ups, a PFI-managed neighbourhood, build-to-rent towers going up, and terraces full of multi-let conversions. Each one generates its own strand of testing work.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Honor Oak Estate is a big concentration of interwar walk-up blocks - which means ageing landlord installations and communal supplies already on recurring test cycles, with flat-level EICR duties across the tenanted homes arriving under the 2025 social-sector extension. Over at Achilles Street, the existing estate blocks stay on periodic electrical testing right through a decade-long decant and build programme, and every new council block that completes enters landlord EICR duties on handover. Interwar boards and risers weren't designed for today's loads; each inspection round tends to feed a remedial list.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Besson Street shows where the area's heading: a single-landlord build-to-rent block under a Grainger joint venture, where all 324 private tenancies need a 5-yearly EICR under the 2020 Regulations alongside communal fixed-wire testing - one client, hundreds of certificates on a rolling calendar. Behind it sits New Bermondsey on the Surrey Canal Triangle, a long-run pipeline of dense residential towers whose installations will need initial certification, then periodic communal EICRs, with rented units starting tenancy cycles from first letting. First-cycle certification is exactly when snags are cheapest to catch.
Private Blocks and Managed Developments
The Regenter B3 Brockley PFI, managed by Pinnacle Group, covers 1,810 homes with repairs and compliance obligations attached - and its 2027 handover back to the council is the kind of milestone that typically triggers condition surveys and a reconciliation of compliance records, electrical certification included. Anyone running a landlord eicr New Cross programme at that scale knows the records matter as much as the testing: a certificate you can't produce might as well not exist.
Every strand of this stock is on a clock - first cycles, five-year renewals, handover audits. The operators who come out clean are the ones whose testing was booked a season early, not a fortnight late.
Electrical Safety Services Across New Cross and Nearby Areas
Work on eicr New Cross jobs naturally spills over the SE14 boundary - we're regularly in neighbouring Deptford, down through Catford, and across the wider South East London patch for agents who'd rather hand one firm the whole portfolio.
Brockley (SE4)
Brockley's conservation-area streets are lined with tall Victorian houses, and a healthy share are split into flats - classic territory for period wiring that's been extended, altered and patched over generations. Landlords here mostly come to us for the electrical installation condition report at tenancy renewal, and for the corrective work SE4's conversions tend to throw up.
Crofton Park
Crofton Park's Edwardian terraces around the station mix long-term owners with a steady rented layer. The pattern we find in SE4's quieter streets: original boards still in service, sockets added over decades, and no RCD cover where current standards expect it. Owners plan board upgrades; landlords fold them into the 5 year electrical check cycle. Both are cheaper unhurried.
Telegraph Hill
Up on Telegraph Hill the SE14 stock is handsome, tall and old - four-storey Victorian terraces, many multi-let, some HMO-licensed. Height and room count push inspection times up, and shared-house loads punish tired circuits. Landlord electrical safety paperwork is the bread and butter here, with rewires following where testing shows insulation giving up.
The certificates covering all these streets expire on fixed dates - the diary decides whether renewal is routine or a scramble.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in New Cross
What actually happens during the inspection?
Every circuit gets visually inspected and then tested - dead tests with the power off, live tests with it on - checking the installation against BS 7671. Power's off for part of the visit, so tenants should expect some disruption, though we sequence it to keep the interruption short. What you can't see behind the walls is the whole reason the test exists; guessing isn't an option worth taking.
Landlord or agent - whose job is the EICR?
The legal duty under the 2020 Regulations sits with the landlord, but in practice agents commission most of the eicr testing in New Cross we do, because they hold the keys and the compliance file. Either can instruct; what matters is that a satisfactory report exists, is under five years old, and reaches the tenant. A missing certificate is a £40,000-cap conversation with the council nobody wants - sorted in one booked visit.
What will it cost me?
Pricing follows the installation: circuit count, property size, board access, and whether it's a straightforward flat or a licensed HMO with more to check. Everything's confirmed in writing up front - the test, the report, the codes explained, and separate written pricing if remedials are needed. What genuinely inflates cost is deferral: defects compound, deadlines don't.
Is a one-off small job worth your time?
Completely. A single conversion flat, one shop unit, an eicr certificate New Cross homebuyers want before exchange - every one gets the identical process and rigour we'd bring to a 200-home programme. No minimum, no sniffiness. Booking it this week simply means it stops occupying your head.
The report failed - how bad is it?
Rarely as bad as it reads. C1 and C2 items on a rented property must be fixed within 28 days, C3s are recommendations, FI means further investigation. We price the fixes from the schedule, do the work, re-test, and the paperwork ends up satisfactory. The trap is idling for a fortnight first - the deadline runs from the report's date, not from when you got round to reading it.
Sort the Certificate - Then Forget About It
That's the real offer: a properly tested installation, a report where every code makes sense, and written pricing for anything that needs work. One conversion flat in Brockley or a whole managed portfolio - the landlord electrical safety certificate New Cross properties need is a phone call and a booked appointment away. Ask for your written quote and put the deadline behind you.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in New Cross — 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.