EICR Testing and Certificates in Shoreditch
EICRs, landlord certificates and letting compliance for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Shoreditch — regeneration schemes, council housing and housing-association estates, from the Colville Estate to the Arden Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Shoreditch, Old Street, Hoxton, Dalston, Hackney Wick 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 Hackney
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since May 2026, running to April 2031
- Selective licensing17 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since May 2026, running to April 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.
When there's a burning smell from a plug socket - or the fuse box smells hot and you're standing there wondering if it's serious - it is: turn the circuit off and let an emergency electrician find the arcing before it spreads. "EICR failed, what now?" is probably the most common message we get from Shoreditch agents; eicr remedial work clears the C1s and C2s and gets the report closed out with the appropriate certification. If you're a landlord who needs an eicr certificate for a new tenancy or renewal - and between Hoxton's blocks and Old Street's flats-above-shops, thousands of tenancies here turn over yearly - that's booked in one call. Flickering lights and bulbs that keep blowing in an older building often trace back to wiring that's due for rewiring rather than another workaround. Every one of these has a fixed, documented ending - the only variable is how long you carry the risk first.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Shoreditch
Shoreditch runs on mixed use - a bar or a studio at street level, flats above, an office floor somewhere in between, frequently all off one intake with different duties attached to each part. Whichever bit you're responsible for, we work the same way: inspect first, written quote before anything starts, certification handed over at the end with the codes explained. Letting and managing agents, portfolio landlords, private landlords, councils and housing associations all put work our way, and so do private owners, HMO landlords, anyone buying or selling, and small business owners around Old Street and Hoxton. A single shop unit is worked through as thoroughly as a 200-flat portfolio programme. That's the point of an EICR electrician Shoreditch landlords and business owners share.
An EICR proves the fixed wiring is safe to carry on using - dead tests, live tests, earthing and bonding verified, the lot measured against BS 7671 and written up either satisfactory or with a coded schedule attached. Two things matter in a mixed-use building. First, the five-yearly cycle is the private-rented rule; commercial premises vary, and higher-risk settings are inspected more often than that. Second, the landlord's supply to common parts sits outside the dwelling-specific rented-sector regulations entirely - it still has to be maintained and inspected, just not under the provision people quote at you. We report per installation, so each duty-holder ends up with the document that's actually theirs. Insurers and licensing officers ask at the worst possible moment; far better to hold a current report than to start one then.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
On the residential side the compliance list bundles neatly. Our landlord safety package covers the EICR, appliance testing on furnished items and checks on the smoke and CO alarms, run as a single visit and certificated together for the tenancy. In Shoreditch that usually means flats over commercial premises, where fitting an electrician in around trading downstairs takes planning - one appointment instead of three is the difference between a clean check-in and a fortnight of chasing. And where the existing report is satisfactory and under the five-year mark, it carries to the new tenant; you pass on the one you hold instead of buying a second. Same-day appointments can be booked when a check-in date shifts.
EICR Remedial Works
An unsatisfactory outcome comes from C1, C2 or FI observations - danger, potential danger, or an item the inspector couldn't resolve on the day without investigating further. A C3 is an improvement recommendation and doesn't fail the report. Remedial repairs are priced item by item off the schedule, ours or somebody else's, so safety-critical work reads separately from the improvements. In the older buildings behind Old Street the usual culprits are decades of alterations by successive tenants: cables taken through walls with no protection, circuits nobody can identify, bonding never brought up to date after the services were renewed. Completion is written confirmation plus the appropriate certification for the work carried out - an Electrical Installation Certificate, or a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate - and a further inspection is quoted on its own. C1 items don't wait politely.
Related electrical work in Shoreditch
- Consumer unit upgrades - new boards for flats and units where protection no longer matches the circuits it feeds.
- Part and full rewiring - for condemned circuits in older mixed-use buildings, staged around trading hours downstairs.
- Emergency electricians - a 24/7 call-out when a bar, shop or flat loses power unexpectedly.
- PAT testing - for supplied equipment in furnished flats, offices, bars and shops nearby.
The report you don't have is the one somebody asks for on the worst possible morning.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Shoreditch
Four situations bring most Shoreditch readers to this page. Each one ends with an electrical installation condition report Shoreditch councils, insurers and agents will accept - or with a fault properly found and fixed.
Council EICR Demands and Improvement Notices
"The council's asking for my EICR and I haven't got one." Usually the report never existed, expired, or its remedial work was never evidenced within the 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies -. A council request must be answered within 7 days, penalties run per breach, and the council can even commission urgent works itself and bill you. Respond to a council EICR demand the day it arrives - the deadline is the shortest in the whole regime.
Whole-Property Power Loss
No electricity anywhere, and the neighbours are fine? First rule out the network; after that it's often a main switch or RCD refusing to hold on an internal fault, or a failed cutout, meter or tails connection. A property that can't keep its main switch on has a live fault - and fridges, heating and vulnerable occupants can't wait it out. Treat complete power loss as an emergency once the supplier's ruled out.
Unsatisfactory Reports and C2 Codes
"C2 on my EICR - how bad is that?" Potentially dangerous, is the honest answer. Failed reports usually hang on missing RCD protection, inadequate bonding, ageing wiring or decades of undocumented DIY. Rented homes get 28 days to sort remedials; a C1 means danger present, today, whatever the tenure. Get the unsatisfactory report priced line by line before the window shrinks further.
Dead Sockets on One Circuit
Half the sockets down, lights fine - classic single-circuit failure. Could be a tripped MCB, but a failed connection mid-circuit or a broken ring final leg is common in flats that have been altered over the years, and failing joints are where heat damage starts. Same-day is the right speed for partial power loss: a dead circuit is annoying, but the connection that killed it may still be cooking.
Shopping Around for an EICR Electrician?
Fair enough - the cheapest quote and the right quote aren't always the same document. Forward your failed report and you'll get remedial pricing broken down code by code, in writing, so you can judge for yourself. Or book an electrician for that niggling fault before it graduates into a bigger one. A landlord electrical safety deadline doesn't pause while you decide.
Electrical Safety Across Shoreditch's Housing Stock
Shoreditch compresses fifty years of London housing policy into a square mile, and every layer of it is on somebody's inspection calendar.
Council and ALMO Housing
The Arden Estate is representative of the area's ageing 1970s council stock - blocks whose communal installations have been in continuous service for half a century and need periodic BS 7671 inspection to stay defensible. Day-to-day, the North & South Arden TMO acts as the local commissioning contact for that fixed-wire testing, which is a common arrangement here: the person booking the test isn't always the freeholder. Estates of this vintage typically generate steady board-replacement and remedial programmes as each inspection round reports, so the sensible move is treating the findings as a rolling budget line rather than a surprise.
Housing-Association Stock
Along the Kingsland Road corridor, the Haggerston West & Kingsland estates regeneration has left L&Q holding a dense cluster of modern blocks - and with them the recurring landlord and communal EICR duties across the affordable homes. Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association carries similar obligations across scattered stock, much of it converted flats, where each conversion's quirks surface at inspection. For associations, any landlord eicr Shoreditch stock requires is now reinforced by the Social Housing (Electrical Safety) Standards 2025, which and reach earlier social tenancies from 1 May 2026, with transitional provisions allowing the first inspection before 1 November 2026 - a date worth planning back from, not toward.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
The Colville Estate shows both ends at once: new towers rising in phases while retained council blocks under Hackney Council keep their existing cycles - so communal fixed-wire testing and landlord EICRs recur across old and new stock simultaneously as phases hand over. The Britannia / Shoreditch Park development stacks it higher: residential to 25 storeys sharing a site with a leisure centre and school, every block entering its inspection cycle from the date of the Electrical Installation Certificate and the non-domestic buildings carrying their own EAWR fixed-wire duties. First-cycle EICRs on schemes like these are landing now.
Stock this varied doesn't fail all at once - it comes due in waves. The responsible persons who map their wave early are the ones who never meet the enforcement side of the regulations.
Electrical Safety Services Across Shoreditch and Nearby Areas
An eicr Shoreditch booking rarely stands alone - most of our clients hold property in the surrounding pockets too, and we cover all of Hackney from the same diary. Nearby Dalston and Hackney Wick each have their own dedicated page.
Hoxton (N1)
Post-war estates, market-street flats and newer infill make N1 a landlord-heavy patch where the five-year cycle drives most bookings. Communal areas in the older blocks add a second layer of testing that leaseholders often don't realise anyone's responsible for - until a sale or a fire-risk assessment asks for the paperwork. Better to find that gap on your own schedule.
Old Street (EC1V)
Around the roundabout it's offices, studios and flats stacked over commercial units in EC1V. The driver here is the Electricity at Work Regulations: insurers and landlords expect fixed-wire testing evidence at renewal and lease events, typically on a 3-5 year cycle. Fit-out churn complicates records - every new tenant's alterations need capturing before the next test, or the report grows longer each round.
Haggerston
Between the canal and Kingsland Road, Haggerston's E8 mix runs from modern association blocks to older terraces broken into flats. Tenancy turnover keeps landlord certificates in constant rotation, and change of occupancy is the natural moment to test. A certificate arranged before the new tenant signs is one less thing the renewal can trip over.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Shoreditch
How is the cost of an EICR worked out?
By the installation, not the address. Circuit count, number of boards, whether there's a commercial unit under the flat - that's what sets the time on site. Flats over shops, which Shoreditch has by the hundred, sometimes have supplies that intertwine in ways that take unpicking. The price is confirmed in writing before anyone attends, so comparing quotes is straightforward. What's rarely worth comparing is a suspiciously cheap test that skips half the circuits.
Will you need the power off, and for how long?
Yes, in stages - each circuit comes off in turn during dead testing, usually half a morning to half a day for a flat. For a trading business we can time eicr testing in Shoreditch around service hours so the card machine and fridges aren't down when it matters. Planned downtime is a scheduling problem; unplanned downtime is a plumbing-in-the-dark problem.
Do you handle single flats and one-off jobs?
Yes, without hesitation. One flat, one café, one homeowner who wants certainty before a loft conversion - a single-flat eicr gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme. Same engineers, same test rig, same report format. Small jobs are how most long clients started with us.
What paperwork comes out of the visit?
A full electrical installation condition report with each item coded - C1 danger present, C2 potentially dangerous, C3 improvement recommended, FI further investigation - plus a written explanation of what each finding means for you and a priced quote for anything needing work. It's the document a council officer, mortgage lender or insurer will actually accept. If your current "certificate" is one paragraph long, that's a red flag worth acting on.
Whose job is it to book the test - landlord, agent or tenant?
The legal duty under the 2020 Regulations sits with the landlord, though agents handle the diary for most Shoreditch rentals in practice. Tenants can't be expected to arrange it - but they can report you if it's missing. Either the landlord or agent can instruct us today; the renewal date won't wait for the two of you to decide whose spreadsheet it lives on.
Ready When You Are
That's the whole picture - what gets tested, what the codes mean, what it costs to fix. The next step is simply a written quote for your electrical work: one call or message, a fixed price, and a date. Once the 5 year electrical check is done and documented, it's five years before you think about it again. That trade's hard to beat.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Shoreditch — 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.