EICR Testing and Certificates in Putney
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Putney — council housing, from the Ashburton Estate to the Dover House Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Putney, Roehampton, Wandsworth, Battersea, Tooting 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 Wandsworth
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since July 2025, running to June 2030
- Selective licensingDesignation 1 - 4 wards: Furzedown, South Balham, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since July 2025, running to June 2030
- Selective licensingDesignation 2 - 3 wards: East Putney, Northcote, West Putney — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since April 2026, running to March 2031
- 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 scorched-hot smell coming off a socket is the one clear warning electrics give you - switch the circuit off at the board and let an emergency electrician trace the fault before it scorches anything else. If a report's come back unsatisfactory with C1, C2 or FI codes, our eicr remedial work clears the coded defects and gets it closed out with the appropriate certification. Agent chasing a landlord electrical safety certificate before a tenancy starts? We book eicr testing in Putney around your tenants and issue the eicr certificate with every code explained in plain English. And lights that flicker, dim or eat bulbs week after week usually mean the cabling behind them is past it - targeted rewiring stops it for good. None of these sort themselves out; the sooner a qualified engineer looks, the smaller the job stays.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Putney
You've likely got a date driving this - a tenancy starting, a sale part-way through, or a five-year report about to run out. The way it works with us is plain enough: we inspect and test first, anything the report says needs attention comes back to you as a written quote, and you get the certification for whatever work gets carried out. Private landlords, letting and managing agents, housing associations and councils, portfolio landlords - and just as much homeowners, HMO landlords, people buying or selling, and small businesses along the high street. A single flat above a shop gets the same electrician and the same test schedule as a 200-home portfolio programme.
An electrical installation condition report is a hands-on inspection and test of the fixed wiring - board, earthing, bonding, every circuit - measured against BS 7671 and written up with each observation coded. Satisfactory means nothing has come back as a C1, C2 or FI. A C3 is advisory, and on its own it doesn't make the report unsatisfactory. Putney has plenty of large houses divided into flats, where one original supply was shared out and extended over the decades, so tracing what feeds what takes longer than the floor area suggests. We work around tenants for access, and the report lands with the C1, C2 and C3 codes explained rather than left as jargon. It's what an eicr electrician Putney gets asked for more than anything else. Book an EICR once your dates are firm.
EICR Remedial Works
Report comes back unsatisfactory and there's really only one question worth answering: what has to be put right, and what will it cost? We work from the schedule of observations - C1 means danger present, C2 potentially dangerous, FI further investigation required - price each item in writing, then re-test the affected circuits once the work's finished. In converted Putney flats the recurring finds are an overloaded circuit carrying twenty years of added sockets, buried junctions nobody can reach, and main bonding that never got upgraded when the supply was split. On completion you receive written confirmation of what was done plus the appropriate certification, an Electrical Installation Certificate or a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate depending on the job, with a fresh EICR quoted separately if one is needed. Sort the remedial work before the next tenancy starts.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Letting property means several compliance items falling due at different times, and that's exactly how one gets missed. One package pulls the EICR, PAT testing on anything you supply and the smoke and CO alarm checks together - booked in one go, certificated together, sent over as a single set of documents your agent can produce at check-in. Same-day EICR appointments are available if a check-in date has crept up on you. Landlord electrical safety packages work as well for one flat as for a whole block.
Related electrical work in Putney
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - for older boards that testing shows are no longer fit for their circuits.
- Rewiring and part rewires - where insulation has perished beyond repair, usually whole-house for owners, circuit by circuit for landlords.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - for burning smells, dead circuits and repeated tripping that can't wait for a booked appointment.
- PAT testing - for appliances you supply in a let flat, an HMO or a small business premises.
Leave a C2 sitting until the next tenancy and you pay for the same visit twice - plus whatever it's grown into by then.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Putney
Four calls come up again and again from this side of Wandsworth. If you're reading this because you need an electrical installation condition report in Putney - or because something's just gone wrong - here's how each one gets handled.
Burning Smells and Scorched Sockets
"There's a burning smell from a plug socket" - sometimes a fishy smell nobody can place, sometimes a faceplate gone brown. It's often a loose termination arcing under load, or an overloaded adaptor or extension lead; occasionally it's the appliance rather than the wiring. Treat it as a live fire risk: isolate the circuit now, 999 if anything's smoking, then have the source of the burning traced before that circuit goes back on.
Council EICR Demands and Deadlines
"The council's asking for an EICR and I haven't got one." Usually the report was never done or has expired - and a council request comes with a 7-day limit to produce it, with penalty exposure running per breach, not per visit. Unfinished remedials from an earlier report count against you too. That's enforcement territory, and the clock started when the letter arrived.
Old Wiring and Possible Rewires
"The surveyor says the house needs rewiring - does it?" Sometimes. Original rubber or lead-sheathed cable from the build era, earthless lighting circuits, or a patchwork of partial rewires that never touched the oldest runs - testing tells you which you've got. It's plannable work, unless the insulation is actively degrading, in which case affected circuits need isolating while the plan comes together. Start by finding out whether a rewire is genuinely needed rather than assuming the worst.
Fixed-Wire Testing for Business Premises
"Our insurer wants an electrical test certificate" is how most commercial jobs start - that, or a lease event with no records surviving from the last occupier. The Electricity at Work Regulations put a duty on you to maintain the installation, evidenced in practice by periodic testing on a 3-5 year cycle. With Putney's high street trading on tight margins, commercial fixed-wire testing is plannable against your renewal date - but any C1 or C2 found during testing becomes urgent work in an occupied premises. Booking ahead of the insurer's deadline keeps it a diary item instead of a crisis.
Comparing Electricians for Your Putney EICR?
Sensible - it's the sort of job worth choosing carefully. Ask any firm two things: will the report explain its findings in words you can act on, and will the remedial quote be itemised line by line? Ours does both. Send over your unsatisfactory eicr for a priced fix list - or book the test itself before a small fault has time to become a bigger one.
Electrical Safety Across Putney's Housing Stock
Putney's stock runs from century-old cottage estates up on the Heath side to riverside blocks and rented conversions nearer the bridge - and each type generates its own testing workload. Here's what that looks like on the ground.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Dover House Estate is century-old cottage housing, and its story splits two ways. The retained council homes now sit under the social-sector EICR duty - live law since November 2025, covering all existing social tenancies since May 2026 - which means first-cycle reports and remedial lists on wiring that's been altered many times over a hundred years. The ex-right-to-buy cottages, meanwhile, feed steady homebuyer-survey and rewire demand, with the extra wrinkle that conservation-area rules make external alterations sensitive - worth knowing before anyone runs cable outside a wall. Estates like Ashburton carry a different pressure: sheltered housing is high-scrutiny stock, with vulnerable residents and supplied appliances needing PAT under the same live duty, and infill development adds new-installation certification on top of the existing testing cycle. For any responsible person holding stock like this, the question isn't whether the paperwork is needed - it's whether the programme is ahead of the deadline or behind it.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Between the High Street and Putney Heath sit rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses, a large share long since split into rented flats. What inspection tends to surface in converted stock isn't dramatic - it's decades of non-compliant DIY alterations: wrong cable sizes, buried junctions, missing earths, and inadequate main bonding to gas and water. A landlord eicr in Putney conversions exists precisely to catch that accumulation before a tenant does. With the 5-yearly cycle applying to every private tenancy since April 2021, most of these flats are now into their second round of reports - and a second-cycle report is far cheaper when the first one's remedials were actually closed out.
Private Blocks and Managed Developments
Along the river, managing agents juggle flat-by-flat landlord reports against communal-area testing owed under the Electricity at Work Regulations - two obligations, one building. A staggered programme with shared access days beats piecemeal visits every time. The agents who plan the year's testing in January aren't the ones explaining a lapsed certificate in November.
Electrical Safety Services Across Putney and Nearby Areas
Booking an eicr in Putney gets you the same engineers who cover the rest of South West London - so if you hold property in more than one postcode, one programme can cover the lot. We're regularly over the bridge in Battersea and down through Balham too, which matters to agents running portfolios that don't respect neighbourhood boundaries.
Putney Heath
Up around the Heath in SW15 the stock shifts - inter-war and post-war blocks, cottage terraces and mansion flats rather than high-street conversions. The work that follows is board-led: older installations here often predate RCD protection entirely, so consumer unit upgrades come up as often as the reports that flag them. If your flat's board still has rewireable fuses, that's your starting point. An inspection booked this month tells you exactly where you stand; guessing tells you nothing.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Putney
How is the cost worked out?
On what's actually there: number of circuits, size and age of the property, and how accessible the installation is. A one-bed conversion flat is a different job from a five-bed house with three boards. You get a fixed written quote before anything's booked - no meter running, no surprises bolted on later. Pinning that number down takes one conversation, so there's little reason to keep guessing.
How long does the inspection take?
Depends on circuits and condition - plan for a few hours in a typical flat, longer in larger or much older properties. We agree the slot when you book so tenants aren't left waiting around. The longer a test is put off, the more findings tend to stack up, so earlier is genuinely easier.
What if the report comes back unsatisfactory?
You get the codes explained - C1 danger present, C2 potentially dangerous, C3 improvement recommended, FI further investigation - plus an itemised quote for the fixes. On rented property the 2020 Regulations require remedial work within 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies -, so having tester and fixer under one roof keeps you inside the deadline. Waiting to "shop around the codes" is how landlords blow that window.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes - genuinely. A single flat, one shop unit, a homeowner who just wants the wiring checked before an extension: all welcome. The one-off job gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme, and the same paperwork standard too. Small today is often the portfolio client of next year - we treat it that way.
What paperwork do I actually get?
For eicr testing in Putney rentals: the full Electrical Installation Condition Report, ready to hand to your agent, tenant or the council on request. Remedial work comes with its own certification, and new circuits or board changes get an Electrical Installation Certificate under Part P. Everything a landlord's electrical file needs, in other words - and a complete file is the difference between a five-minute licensing query and a very uncomfortable one.
Ready to Get Your EICR Booked?
You've seen how we work - the rest is a date in the diary. Tell us the property and when your 5 year electrical check falls due, and you'll have a written quote to compare and a booking that fits around tenants. The line's answered 24/7 and same-day appointments are available. Every week an overdue certificate drifts is exposure you don't need.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Putney — 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.