EICR Testing and Certificates in Rotherhithe
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Rotherhithe — council housing and housing-association estates, from the Canada Estate to the Silwood Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Rotherhithe, Canada Water, Surrey Quays, Bermondsey, Elephant & Castle 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.
Scorch marks or a hot, fishy smell around a socket means something's already cooking behind the faceplate - that's a job for the emergency electrician, tonight if needs be, not next week. "EICR failed, what now?" is a question we answer daily around SE16, and the honest answer is that eicr remedial work is more often a priced list than a crisis. Agents chasing a landlord electrical certificate before a Canada Water tenancy completes need an eicr certificate booked, tested and issued - we handle the whole chain. Flickering lights and bulbs that keep blowing tend to mean connections or circuits past their best, which is where rewiring earns its keep. Whatever brought you here, eicr testing Rotherhithe properties actually pass starts with someone who'll tell you plainly what's wrong - and that conversation costs you nothing but a phone call.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Rotherhithe
A lot of the flats round here went up in the dock redevelopment years, which means installations that felt modern when they were signed off are now well into their fourth decade. That's the usual reason someone lands on this page. The job itself holds no surprises: testing comes first, the coding gets explained properly rather than left as jargon, and anything needing correction is costed in writing up front. Letting and managing agents, private and portfolio landlords, housing associations and council teams all engage us on that footing - as do homeowners, HMO landlords, people mid-transaction, and small businesses over towards Surrey Quays.
One flat is never treated as an inconvenience. The same engineer, the same test sequence and the same report standard apply whether you own one leasehold flat or run a 200-property programme, and that, in the end, is how an eicr electrician Rotherhithe owners trust earns the second call.
An electrical installation condition report covers the fixed wiring - board and protective devices, the circuits, earthing and bonding, switches and sockets - inspected and tested against BS 7671, then written up with each observation coded. C1 is danger present, C2 potentially dangerous, FI means further investigation is required before a judgement can be made, and C3 is advisory only. Purpose-built blocks of the dock-era generation are where the interesting results turn up: original boards still in service, alterations made during refurbishments, and additional protection that current standards would expect on some circuits. Missing RCD protection isn't an automatic fail, incidentally - it's coded C2 or C3 depending on the circuit, where it is and the risk it creates. Age alone decides nothing - testing does, and rented homes then run to the 5 year electrical check cycle set by the 2020 Regulations.
EICR Remedial Works
Get an unsatisfactory eicr and the sensible move is triage, not panic. Remedial work targets the C1, C2 and FI items - that's what drives the result - and we quote them line by line against the schedule so you can see exactly what's urgent and what's optional. In riverside blocks the recurring jobs are main bonding upgraded to size, buried or unprotected joints from past refits made good, and circuits separated where accumulated load has outgrown the original design. Once that's done we re-test and hand over written confirmation together with the right certification for the work - an Electrical Installation Certificate, or a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate for smaller corrections. Stairwell and corridor supplies belong to the landlord's own installation rather than the dwelling-specific rented-sector regime, and wider duties still require them inspected and maintained - so they're priced as a separate piece of work. Same-day appointments are available.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Landlords and agents generally need the same three things certificated for a tenancy: the EICR, appliance testing on whatever they've provided, and alarm checks covering smoke and CO. The landlord safety package runs them together on one visit with one set of records, which beats three bookings, three invoices and three dates to remember. Sensible when a report's nearing its five-year mark, or when a managed file has slipped off its cycle.
Related electrical work in Rotherhithe
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - board replacements driven by test results, not by how old the fuse box looks.
- Rewiring and part rewires - recabling entire flats, or single circuits, once cable insulation is beyond economic repair.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - emergency call-out day or night when supply fails, fittings overheat or protection keeps operating.
- PAT testing - furnished-let and workplace equipment inspected, tested and recorded against the property file.
An installation quietly ageing behind a cupboard door doesn't stay quiet forever - better you find it than a tenant does.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Rotherhithe
Electric Shocks from Taps, Switches and Appliances
A buzz from the washer or a jolt off the kitchen tap is protection failing, full stop. The usual suspects: earthing or bonding that's missing or undersized, an appliance bleeding current to its casing, or now and then a deteriorating supply neutral - a network problem. Don't test it twice. Isolate what you can and have the shock traced as an emergency, today.
Whole-Flat or Whole-House Power Loss
"Total power cut, but just my place." Once the network's ruled out, that's typically the main switch or RCD refusing to hold on an internal fault - or a failed cutout, meter or tails connection. With freezers thawing and no heating, hours matter, and an installation that won't stay live is telling you something. Complete power loss gets emergency treatment here.
Unsatisfactory EICRs and Coded Reports
C2 on your EICR and a letting agent asking for dates? Reports usually go unsatisfactory on missing RCD protection, tired bonding, ageing wiring - often several observations hanging off one old fuse board. Rented stock has 28 days to close the schedule out; any C1 is a today problem whatever the tenure. Send the unsatisfactory report over and it becomes an itemised price. An electrical installation condition report Rotherhithe landlords can act on beats one that sits in a drawer accruing risk.
Dead Sockets on One Circuit
Half the sockets down, upstairs dark, but everything else fine? That's normally a tripped MCB, a blown fuse, or a failed connection mid-circuit - sometimes a broken leg on a ring final leaving part of it dead or quietly overloaded. Same-day matters because failing connections are where arcing and heat damage begin. Get the partial power loss diagnosed before the fault picks its own moment.
In a rental market as tight as SE16's, the difference between a nuisance and a claim is usually just how quickly somebody competent looked at it.
Getting Quotes In for Electrical Work?
Take your time - but let one of those quotes be a proper one. Post us the coded schedule from an unsatisfactory eicr and it comes back itemised, each observation priced and explained, so you can compare like for like. Or if a fault's still live, book the electrician before it grows teeth. Either way, you'll be deciding from numbers, not guesses.
Electrical Safety Across Rotherhithe's Housing Stock
Rotherhithe packs three distinct generations of housing onto one peninsula, and each generates its own kind of electrical work.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Canada Estate - Regina Point and Columbia Point among its blocks - carries 1960s tower installations now in active major-works cycles. That's exactly the ageing landlord stock the council's testing programme and the social-sector electrical duty now cover, with lift supplies, landlord circuits and communal areas on recurring fixed-wire cycles of their own. For anyone responsible for a block like this, the dwelling EICRs are only half the picture; the communal side has its own calendar, and letting the two drift apart is how gaps open up in an inspection file.
Housing-Association Stock
The Silwood Estate, held by L&Q, shows the other pattern: association homes now two decades old and deep into their periodic EICR renewals. L&Q buys electrical compliance at programme scale under the live social-sector duty - and stock of that age is where boards fitted at build start attracting observations, not because anything failed dramatically but because standards moved on. HA leaseholders and tenants renting privately within these blocks sit inside the same wiring reality, whatever their tenure paperwork says.
Private Blocks and Managed Developments
Along the river and around Surrey Quays, the dominant stock is private dockside development from the 1980s and 90s - managed blocks whose installations are now 30-plus years old. Management companies here tend to discover the condition of their landlord supplies at the point a sale or refinance demands evidence. A landlord eicr Rotherhithe managing agents commission across a whole block, rather than flat by flat as leases force it, is nearly always the cheaper and tidier route - one mobilisation, one report format, one remedial list.
Three stock types, one common thread: the 5 year electrical check cycle rewards whoever plans it and punishes whoever discovers it. The responsible person who books this quarter chooses the timetable; the one who waits has it chosen for them.
Electrical Safety Services Across Rotherhithe and Nearby Areas
Our patch runs well beyond the old village core. Borough-wide work sits on the Southwark page, and neighbouring Bermondsey and Camberwell each have pages of their own - but day to day, eicr Rotherhithe bookings cluster in two pockets.
Canada Water (SE16)
New towers keep rising around the basin, and new-build doesn't mean nothing to do: rented flats here still need their landlord electrical safety paperwork from the first tenancy, and developer-fitted installations get their first real scrutiny at the five-year point. Early reports on young SE16 stock are quick, cheap and usually clean - which is precisely why smart agents get them dated and filed.
Surrey Quays (SE16)
Around the shopping centre and Greenland Dock, low-rise 1980s estates and mixed commercial units dominate. Shops and leisure premises carry fixed-wire testing duties under the Electricity at Work Regulations, while the surrounding flats are prime territory for an unsatisfactory eicr driven by original boards reaching end of life. Traders and landlords here often share the same buildings - and the same wiring vintage.
North or south of the peninsula, the pattern's identical: paperwork done calmly ahead of a deadline always costs less than paperwork done frantically behind one.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Rotherhithe
How is an EICR priced?
By the size and age of the installation - circuit count above all. A modern two-bed flat by Canada Water tests faster than a converted maisonette with two boards and forty years of alterations, so we ask a few questions up front and fix the price in writing before booking. No day rates, no on-the-day surprises. Once you've got the figure, the decision usually makes itself.
Will the test disrupt my tenants or my business?
Less than most expect. Circuits are dropped one by one for the dead tests rather than the whole supply going down for hours, and our engineers arrange access around tenants as a matter of routine. For shops and offices we can time eicr testing in Rotherhithe around trading hours. The longer version of disruption is the one where a fault forces the shutdown instead - that one doesn't book an appointment first.
What do I receive at the end?
The complete electrical installation condition report: outcome, the schedule of observations with each item's c1 c2 c3 codes, and the readings that sit behind them. Anything coded gets a plain-English explanation plus a written remedial price, so the same document that flags the problem also shows the route out of it. Councils, lenders and insurers all recognise it on sight - dated, not promised.
Is one flat too small a job for you?
No - and it never will be. A single-flat EICR, a lone shop unit, a homeowner wanting the electrics assessed ahead of a kitchen refit: each gets the identical process a 200-home portfolio programme gets. Portfolios are built one property at a time, and so is trust. If the job needs doing properly, it's the right size.
Whose name is on the hook if the certificate lapses - landlord or agent?
The landlord's, legally. The 2020 Regulations place the duty on the property owner even when an agent manages everything, and breaches carry civil penalties of up to £40,000 each under the cap in force since 1 November 2025. Diarise the expiry yourself rather than assuming someone else has. A renewal booked early is admin; one discovered late is a liability.
Let's Get Your Report Sorted
If you've read this far, you already know whether your property's paperwork is where it should be. The next move is simple: ask for a written quote for your electrical work - one flat off Surrey Quays or a whole block's landlord electrical safety cycle, it's the same clear process. The quote puts a number on it; after that, it's just a slot in the calendar.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Rotherhithe — 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.