EICR Testing and Certificates in Pimlico
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Pimlico — council housing, regeneration schemes and housing-association estates, from the Churchill Gardens Estate to Dolphin Square.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Pimlico, Westminster, Marylebone, Paddington, St John's Wood 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 Westminster
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since August 2021, running to August 2026
- Selective licensing8 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since November 2025, running to November 2030
- Selective licensing7 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since November 2025, running to November 2030
- Additional HMO licensing (announced)borough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — starts August 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.
Scorch marks creeping round a socket, or a burning smell you can't place near the fuse box - that's an isolate-it-now situation, and our emergency electrician exists for exactly this. "EICR failed, what now?" is a question we answer daily: eicr remedial work takes the coded schedule you've been handed, prices it, fixes it and re-tests it back to satisfactory. If you let flats in SW1V and the agent's chasing paperwork for a tenancy or renewal, the eicr certificate gets booked to the tenancy date, not to some distant slot. And when lights flicker, dim or chew through bulbs, the wiring feeding them is usually the real story - targeted rewiring puts it to bed permanently. Each of these has a boring, fixable explanation once someone qualified opens the board - and every one of them stays smaller the sooner that happens.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Pimlico
Here's what an inspection day actually looks like, because most people asking for one have never watched it happen. The engineer needs access to the board and to every room, power goes off in stages while circuits are tested, and a flat usually takes a few hours rather than a whole day. Afterwards you get the report with the findings explained, then a written quote for any corrections. That order never changes.
Landlords, letting and managing agents, portfolio owners, councils and housing associations use us for scheduled testing across their stock. Homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers, sellers and small business tenants use us for exactly the same work on a single address - and one flat is planned, tested and certificated to the standard a two-hundred-property rollout gets.
An eicr electrician Pimlico landlords book once tends to get booked again, mainly because the report comes back readable.
The test covers the fixed installation: consumer unit and protective devices, earthing and bonding, circuit insulation, the condition of accessories and anything that can be safely opened. Results are coded, and only C1, C2 or FI observations make the report unsatisfactory - C3 is an improvement recommendation and doesn't fail anything by itself. Pimlico's white stucco terraces, chopped into flats over generations with each conversion adding its own circuits, are the stock that produces the longest schedules. Worth knowing: a valid satisfactory report under five years old carries over to a new tenant, so a change of tenancy on its own doesn't trigger a fresh inspection - the existing report is simply supplied. Arrange an EICR against the certificate's own expiry date and you'll never test twice unnecessarily.
EICR Remedial Works
Corrections come in an order dictated by risk, not convenience. Anything coded C1 is made safe during the visit. C2 items - no earth at a socket, main bonding to the incoming water and gas services missing or undersized, joints hidden inside walls, circuits carrying loads far beyond their design - are scheduled and priced individually, with the reasoning attached. FI observations mean further investigation; sometimes that turns up more, sometimes it clears the item. Finished work is evidenced in writing, along with the certification it calls for: a Minor Works certificate, an Electrical Installation Certificate, or a new EICR where that was agreed separately. Large post-war blocks in this part of Westminster need repeatable remedial work, not one-off fixes. Remedial work postponed to next quarter rarely stays the same size.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Most landlord compliance failures aren't dramatic - they're a date missed because three obligations were tracked in three places. The package deals with all three in one visit: fixed-wiring testing, appliance testing on anything supplied with the let, and the carbon monoxide and smoke alarm checks, certificated together and dated to the let. For a landlord with a couple of converted flats in the grid streets, that's the whole tenancy pack sorted in an afternoon. Agents running larger portfolios use it to bring properties onto a common renewal rhythm instead of a scattered one. The landlord electrical safety package makes the paperwork a routine rather than a rescue.
Related electrical work in Pimlico
- Fuse box and consumer unit upgrades for boards unable to give the circuits the protection they now need.
- Rewires and part rewires where cabling has perished and repairing around it stops making financial sense.
- Emergency electricians answering 24/7 for power loss, hot fittings and faults that shouldn't wait until Monday.
- PAT testing on appliances supplied with a let, plus office and shop-floor equipment.
The cheapest version of this job is always the one booked while you still have options; the dearest is the one booked the day a tenant moves in.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Pimlico
Scorched Sockets and Burning Smells
Socket scorched brown, or a fishy, hot-plastic smell from the electrics? The usual suspects are a connection that's worked loose and arcs under load, an overworked adaptor or extension, or an appliance plug on its way out - not always the fixed wiring, but never something to test by waiting. Switch that circuit off now; 999 first if anything's alight. Then get the burning smell traced today.
Power Off in the Whole Property
No electricity in the whole flat, main fuse suspected? It's either the main switch or RCD dropping out on an internal fault, or the supply side - a network outage or blown DNO cutout, which the network operator must fix. Once neighbours are confirmed live, an installation that trips the moment the main switch goes back up is an emergency: whole-property power loss goes to the front of the queue.
RCDs and Trip Switches That Keep Tripping
Trip switch keeps tripping, sometimes minutes apart? Commonly it's an appliance leaking current to earth, moisture in an outdoor run or light fitting, or accumulated background leakage across circuits sharing one RCD. It wants same-day attention - sooner if it refuses to reset or anything smells warm. Proper fault-finding beats unplugging things at random for a fortnight: here's how a tripping RCD gets diagnosed.
Rewireable Fuse Boards Past Their Time
Still got a board running real fuse wire? Boards like that were installed before RCD protection existed, and decades of heat and improvised fuse wire can degrade carriers and terminals - with wiring behind often of similar vintage. Plannable work, but move it up the list if the property's let, on the market, or blowing fuses. Start by having the old board looked over. In a rental-dense grid like SW1V, the electrical installation condition report Pimlico agents ask for will flag it anyway - cheaper to be the landlord who found it first.
Choosing an Electrician for a Pimlico EICR?
Compare properly - then ask for the thing that settles it: a firm price in writing and, if your report's already failed, a line-by-line cost for the remedial schedule. Send over the unsatisfactory eicr and we'll quote from the codes as they stand. A fault that's small today rarely stays that way for free.
Electrical Safety Across Pimlico's Housing Stock
Three landlords between them account for an extraordinary share of SW1V's homes - the council, Peabody and Dolphin Square's institutional owner - and each generates a distinct testing workload.
Council and ALMO Housing
Churchill Gardens Estate is one of central London's largest council estates: 32 blocks carrying 1940s-60s wiring generations, where the social-sector duties have required 5-yearly EICRs on every tenancy since 1 May 2026, alongside communal and landlord-supply periodic inspection to BS 7671. Lillington Gardens adds a twist - its listed status means consumer-unit upgrades, containment routes and any rewiring have to be sensitively specified to satisfy both the mandatory EICR cycle and listed-building consent. That's survey-led electrical work, not standard replacement, and it rewards early planning: a remedial designed around the listing takes longer to approve than to install.
Housing-Association Stock
Peabody Avenue on the Pimlico Estate pairs Victorian staircase-access blocks with modern infill under one housing association - and the inspection findings differ sharply between 19th-century fabric and post-2010 installations, even on the same street. Peabody itself, as a major registered provider, now sits under the mandatory social-sector electrical duties across its Westminster stock: 5-yearly EICRs on all existing tenancies from 1 May 2026, with first inspections due by 1 November 2026. That first-cycle deadline is the crunch - programmes booked late compete for the same engineers as everyone else's.
Private Blocks and Managed Developments
Dolphin Square is the borough's single biggest private-landlord testing account: all 1,234 privately rented flats fall inside the 5-yearly cycle under the 2020 Regulations, while a rolling block-by-block refurbishment keeps producing new electrical installation certificates, landlord-supply testing and phased re-inspection. With AXA IM Alts running one compliance function across the whole square, it's the model smaller portfolio owners could copy: one diary, one evidence trail, no orphaned certificates. For an individual landlord eicr Pimlico agents can file against a renewal does the same job at flat scale - and an unsatisfactory eicr handled inside its 28-day remedial window never escalates into a licensing or penalty conversation. Across all this stock, the pattern's consistent: the owners who test on their own schedule spend less than the ones who test on the council's.
Electrical Safety Services Across Pimlico and Nearby Areas
Everything south of Victoria down to the river is home ground - the SW1V grid, the estates, the mansion blocks along the Embankment side. Booking an eicr Pimlico way usually means we're already testing nearby that week, and the same engineers head to Marylebone and Paddington when your properties are scattered across the borough. For portfolios spread wider still, we cover the whole of Central London under one renewal diary - one supplier, one schedule, no certificate quietly expiring in a forgotten file. Distance is never the reason a report goes overdue; the diary is. Fix the diary and the rest follows.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Pimlico
What will an EICR cost me?
It depends on circuit count, installation age and access - a compact modern flat sits at the low end, a many-circuited maisonette with decades of alterations higher. What you'll never get from us is a vague estimate: the price is fixed and in writing before anyone arrives. Getting that number takes minutes, and it makes comparing electricians honest.
How much time should I allow for the visit?
Between two and four hours in a typical flat, more for houses or commercial units. Testing runs circuit by circuit, so the whole supply isn't down for the duration, and tenanted visits get arranged around whoever's in. Slots go quickest at month-end when tenancies change over - book eicr testing in Pimlico ahead of your deadline rather than on it.
What paperwork comes out of it?
A full electrical installation condition report against BS 7671: circuit schedules, test results, and any C1, C2, C3 or FI codes, each spelled out in language you don't need a regs book to follow. Unsatisfactory? You also get a written remedial price, so the 28-day fix window for rentals starts with a plan already in hand. That report is the exact document councils, agents and insurers accept - no follow-up letters required.
Do you handle small, one-off jobs?
Yes, without hesitation. A single-flat EICR, one café, a homeowner who just wants the wiring checked before a loft conversion - all of it. The one-flat customer gets the same rigour as a 200-home portfolio programme; the certificate doesn't know how big your holding is. Waiting until a small job becomes urgent is the only way to make it expensive.
My agent manages everything - is the EICR still my problem?
Legally, yes. The 2020 Regulations place the duty on the landlord, and the penalty - up to £40,000 per breach since 1 November 2025 - follows the ownership, not the management contract. We're happy to take instruction from your agent and copy you both on the landlord electrical safety certificate. If neither of you knows the current report's expiry date, today's the day to find out.
Get Your Pimlico EICR on the Calendar
Nothing left to weigh up? Then request a written quote for your electrical work and choose whichever date suits the tenancy, the sale - or simply the shape of your week. The phone line's answered 24/7, and a 5 year electrical check booked today is one deadline you'll never have to think about again.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Pimlico — 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.