EICR Testing and Certificates in Peckham
EICRs, landlord certificates and letting compliance for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Peckham — regeneration schemes and managed blocks and rental developments, from the Ledbury Estate to Gloucester Grove TMO.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Peckham, Nunhead, Camberwell, East Dulwich, Rotherhithe 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 Southwark
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since March 2022, running to March 2027
- Selective licensingDesignation 1 - 5 wards: Champion Hill, Faraday, Goose Green, Newington, St Giles — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since March 2022, running to March 2027
- Selective licensing14 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since November 2023, running to November 2028
- 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 - or a fuse box that's warm to the touch - isn't something to sleep on, and it's exactly what our emergency electrician cover exists for. An EICR that's come back unsatisfactory with C1, C2 or FI codes feels worse than it usually is; priced properly, most of it is straightforward eicr remedial work. If an agent's chasing you for a landlord electrical safety certificate on a Peckham tenancy or licence renewal, an eicr certificate is a booked appointment, not a saga. And lights that flicker, dim or eat bulbs in an older conversion often trace back to tired circuits that rewiring settles for good. With eicr testing Peckham landlords can book for days ahead - not weeks - the fix is nearly always smaller than the worry.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Peckham
Most enquiries here start the same way: a renewal date creeping up, a shared house being brought properly into line, or a solicitor asking for something before a sale can move. However it starts, the sequence doesn't change - an engineer walks the installation, tests it, the written report comes back with every code explained, and anything needing correction is quoted in writing before work begins. That's how private landlords, letting and managing agents, portfolio owners, housing associations and council teams use us, and equally how HMO landlords, homeowners, sellers, buyers and the traders along the high street do.
Nobody gets bumped down the list for having one property. A single bedsit and a 200-home programme get the same engineer time and the same quality of report - which is all most people mean when they search for an eicr electrician Peckham locals actually recommend.
The EICR itself is a hands-on inspection backed by dead and live testing: consumer unit, every final circuit, earthing arrangement, main bonding, a sample of accessories, all measured against BS 7671. What lands on your desk is an electrical safety certificate Peckham agents and lenders accept, or a coded schedule if something needs putting right. C1 flags danger present, C2 potentially dangerous, FI a further investigation needed before anyone can judge it - C3 is advice and never makes a report unsatisfactory by itself. Shared houses are the local pinch point: multiple occupiers, extension leads everywhere, alterations layered on over decades and no record of who did what. Testing is what settles it. Same-day EICR appointments available.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Rental churn round Nunhead and Peckham Rye is relentless, and compliance falls over when it's spread across three different contractors on three different cycles. The landlord package puts the EICR, PAT testing on the kit you supply and the alarm side - smoke and CO - into one scheduled attendance, certificated together so the tenancy file is complete on day one rather than three months in. Useful for converted terraces let room by room, where a single coordinated visit saves chasing access to the same building four times. One thing landlords often get wrong: a report that's still satisfactory and less than five years old doesn't have to be redone because somebody new moves in - you hand the existing one to the incoming tenant.
EICR Remedial Works
Where a report comes back unsatisfactory, remedial work is what clears the C1, C2 and FI items - bonding, unprotected additions, circuits carrying more than they were cabled for. We price it straight off the report's coded list so nothing arrives as a surprise, then re-test and close it out with written confirmation and the certification the job needs. Advisory C3 items you can plan for; the coded faults are the ones worth clearing now.
Related electrical work in Peckham
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - new boards where test results, not appearances, show the old one isn't protecting circuits.
- Rewiring and part rewires - recabling in full or room by room once old insulation turns brittle.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - night and weekend emergency attendance for dead supplies, burning smells and circuits that trip instantly.
- PAT testing - testing and labelling of the appliances you provide with a let, office or shop.
Faults don't stand still while you decide - and the tenant who reports one to the council makes the decision for you.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Peckham
Shocks or Tingling from Taps and Appliances
Got a shock from the tap, or a tingle off the washing machine? That's usually exposed metalwork going live - missing or inadequate bonding, an appliance leaking to its casing, or occasionally a network fault on the supply neutral. Treat it as an emergency: protection has failed somewhere. Stop using the circuit and get the shock investigated straight away - this is never a wait-and-see symptom.
Whole-Property Power Loss
No electricity in the whole flat, and next door's lights are on? Once a network outage is ruled out, it's often the main switch or RCD holding off on an internal fault - or a failed cutout, meter or tails connection. A property that can't hold its main switch on has a live fault, and fridges and heating go down by the hour. Total power loss needs same-visit diagnosis, not resetting and hoping.
RCDs and Trip Switches That Keep Tripping
Trip switch keeps tripping, sometimes at the worst moment? Common culprits: a faulty appliance leaking to earth, moisture in an outdoor circuit or light fitting, or cumulative leakage across circuits sharing one RCD. It's a same-day job - an electrical installation condition report Peckham tenants trigger with complaints often starts exactly here. If it won't reset at all, or anything smells hot, treat the tripping as an emergency.
Old Wiring and Properties Needing a Rewire
Surveyor flagged old wiring on a place you're buying near Peckham Rye? Conversions of that era often still carry rubber-insulated circuits, lighting without earths, or a patchwork of partial rewires that dodged the oldest runs. It's plannable work - unless testing finds live degradation, when the affected circuits get isolated while the rewire is priced. In a rental patch this busy, wiring questions answered before exchange are far cheaper than after.
Every one of these starts the same way: someone decides today's oddity isn't normal. The ones who don't usually meet the same fault again - bigger.
Weighing Up Electricians for Your EICR?
Sensible - this is exactly the job to compare quotes on. If a report's already flagged problems, send the schedule over and you'll get an itemised remedial price back, codes explained in plain English. Booking a 5 year electrical check before a small fault turns into a big one is the cheaper order of events. The line's answered 24/7, so the comparison can end whenever you're ready.
Electrical Safety Across Peckham's Housing Stock
Peckham's stock tells you what work it needs before you open a single fuse box. And along Old Kent Road, the retail and industrial belt - Cantium Retail Park trading since 1992, the Asda superstore, Southernwood Retail Park and the Glengall Road industrial estate behind them - generates steady fixed-wire testing demand under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, though with Cantium approved for redevelopment of over 1,000 homes and towers up to 48 storeys (and Southernwood consented for 724 homes), any occupier there should be planning test cycles around a lease horizon, not a lifetime.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
The Ledbury Estate rebuild hands over new council homes phase by phase, and each handover starts a clock: under the social-sector duty, brand-new installations enter a 5-yearly EICR cycle from the date of the Electrical Installation Certificate - first-cycle compliance on stock that's never been tested before. Tustin Estate works the same way, with newly handed-over homes inside the live duty from first tenancy while retained blocks sit in the council's catch-up programme. The North Peckham Estate - the old Five Estates - is the interesting one: its replacement housing is now 20 to 30 years old, and boards from that late-1990s build era are reaching the age where periodic inspections start returning C2s across council, housing-association and ex-shared-ownership rented homes alike.
Council and ALMO Housing
Gloucester Grove's TMO shows how compliance actually gets bought around here - tenant management organisations procure communal electrical testing and emergency-lighting work directly on council-owned blocks, separate from borough-wide contracts. For a TMO board, a priced, itemised programme beats a vague day rate every time.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Between the estates, the terraces towards Nunhead and East Dulwich carry decades of accumulated alterations - buried junctions, mismatched cable, additions that were never certificated. That's precisely what a landlord eicr Peckham conversion-flat owners commission tends to surface, and why the smart ones commission it before a tenancy change forces the timetable.
Whoever's responsible for this stock - council, TMO, agent or a landlord with one flat over a shop - the pattern holds: installations age on their own schedule, and the report only gets longer the later it's written.
Electrical Safety Services Across Peckham and Nearby Areas
The eicr Peckham page you're reading covers more than the SE15 core - our engineers work the surrounding pockets daily, and each has its own character. We also cover the wider borough through our Southwark page, with neighbouring patches like Bermondsey and Camberwell served in their own right.
Old Kent Road (SE1 / SE15)
A corridor in transition: shops and sheds trading today, consented towers tomorrow. Occupiers here need periodic testing under the Electricity at Work Regulations, while landlords along the SE1 and SE15 stretches juggle flats above commercial units - dual-duty properties where one unsatisfactory eicr can stall both the lease and the tenancy.
Nunhead (SE15)
Quieter, older, and full of Victorian terraces split into flats over the decades. The recurring theme in Nunhead is inherited wiring - alterations nobody documented, lighting circuits without earths - so buyers and landlords here tend to want testing before commitments, not after. A 5 year electrical check often surfaces what three surveys missed.
Peckham Rye
Around the Rye, period houses sit alongside mansion flats and newer infill, much of it rented. Landlord electrical safety paperwork drives most bookings - agents want current reports with the c1 c2 c3 codes explained so remedials can be priced, approved and closed out inside the 28-day window without drama.
Wherever you sit on that map, the stock decides the work - and putting a date in the diary is what stops the stock deciding your costs.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Peckham
What decides the cost of an EICR?
Mostly circuits, not floor area. A one-bed conversion flat with six circuits is a quicker test than a five-storey HMO with three boards, so we quote from what you've actually got. Age matters too - older installations take longer to test carefully. You'll get a fixed written price before anyone attends, so the number can't drift on the day. Getting that price is the quickest way to stop guessing.
How long does the inspection take, and will the power go off?
Expect roughly two to four hours for a typical flat or house, longer for commercial premises. Circuits are isolated one at a time for dead testing, so power's off in short stretches rather than all day. Tenanted properties are fine - we work around occupiers routinely. Booking eicr testing in Peckham for a gap between tenancies is even easier, which is why agents line it up with check-out.
What paperwork do I actually get?
The full electrical installation condition report: the satisfactory/unsatisfactory outcome, a schedule of every observation with its code, and the test results behind them. If anything's coded, we explain what each item means and attach a priced remedial quote - so a landlord can show a council, lender or insurer exactly where things stand. A report you understand is worth more than one you file unread.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes - genuinely. A single-flat EICR, one shop unit, a homeowner who just wants the wiring checked before a loft conversion: all of it gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme. Small jobs are how most of our long-term landlord relationships started. If it's electrical and it needs certifying, it's worth a booking.
Who's responsible for the EICR - me or my agent?
Legally, the landlord - the 2020 Regulations put the duty (and the civil penalties, up to £40,000 per breach since 1 November 2025) on you, not the agent, even when the agent arranges it. So it pays to hold your own copy and know your renewal date. Five years passes quietly; the penalty for letting it lapse doesn't.
Ready to Put a Date on Your EICR?
You've seen how we work: inspect, explain the codes, price the fixes in writing. If that's the kind of clarity you've been comparing for, the next step is a written quote for your electrical work - whether it's one conversion flat off Peckham Rye or a spread of tenancies needing their landlord electrical safety records brought current. Ask for the quote; the decision gets easy once the number's in front of you.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Peckham — 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.