EICR Testing and Certificates in Streatham
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Streatham — council housing and housing-association estates, from Cressingham Gardens to the St Martin's Estate.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Streatham, West Norwood, Streatham Hill, Tulse Hill, Clapham 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 Lambeth
- Additional HMO licensingborough-wide — smaller HMOs outside the mandatory scheme — since December 2021, running to December 2026
- Selective licensing4 wards: Knights Hill, Streatham Common & Vale, Streatham Hill East, Streatham St Leonards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since September 2024, running to September 2029
- Selective licensing19 designated wards — most privately rented homes occupied by a single household — since September 2025, running to August 2030
- 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 whiff of burning at a socket, scorch marks by a switch, smoke from the fuse box - that's a drop-everything fault, and an emergency electrician will run the fault to ground before it becomes a fire. Just had the dreaded unsatisfactory result and no clue what C2 actually costs? Eicr remedial work turns that list of codes into completed fixes and a clean reissue. Along Streatham High Road and the avenues behind it, letting is a way of life - so when an agent says a landlord electrical certificate is needed for the tenancy or licence, an eicr certificate from us keeps the paperwork moving without drama. And those lights that flicker and swallow bulbs? Frequently a sign the circuits behind them are due rewiring. Proper eicr testing Streatham properties deserve: honest findings, codes explained, a written price - and no surprises after.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Streatham
There's usually a trigger. A letting agent wants the certificate before marketing, a buyer's surveyor has flagged the consumer unit, or a landlord has realised the last report is about to run out. However you got here, the sequence is the same: we inspect and test the installation, we put the cost of any corrective work in writing before starting it, and you're left with the report, the codes explained and certification for whatever we carried out. Letting and managing agents, portfolio landlords, private landlords, housing associations and councils all work with us on that basis - and equally homeowners, HMO landlords, sellers preparing a property and small businesses along the high road.
Scale is irrelevant to us. One shop unit or one flat is booked, tested and documented exactly like a 200-home programme. Same-day appointments are available, the phone line is answered 24/7, and an EICR electrician Streatham homeowners trust with a survey should be happy to explain all of that before taking a booking.
The test is the product. Circuits are isolated and measured - insulation resistance, continuity, earth loop, RCD operation - and each observation is coded against BS 7671. C1 means danger is present now; C2 potentially dangerous; FI further investigation required; C3 an improvement recommended and nothing more. Only the first three make the outcome unsatisfactory. Streatham Hill and Streatham Vale are full of interwar semis and 1930s blocks where the original circuits were never designed for how households now live, so the overloaded circuit is a regular finding - accumulated sockets and adaptors on cable rated for a much quieter era, showing up as nuisance tripping and warm accessories. Rented homes need the 5 year electrical check under the 2020 Regulations; owner-occupied homes have no legal requirement, though sellers often want the reassurance. Book EICR testing before the survey stage, not during it.
EICR Remedial Works
An unsatisfactory eicr is a work list, and it needs pricing properly. We break out every C1, C2 and FI item so you can see what has to happen and what it will cost, rather than being handed a single number. On the interwar stock round here that often means redistributing an overloaded circuit, sorting bonding, correcting amateur additions, or replacing individual runs where insulation has degraded - sometimes all four on one property. Then we re-test the affected circuits. Completion is evidenced by written confirmation of what was corrected plus the appropriate certification, an Electrical Installation Certificate or Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate depending on the work. Another firm's report isn't ours to amend; if you want a fresh inspection afterwards, that's a separately quoted job. Book the remedial work while it's still a list and not an incident.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
One arrangement covering the EICR, appliance testing on anything you supply and the smoke and CO alarm checks a tenancy needs - scheduled together, certificated together, filed together. For landlords with a handful of properties across the area it means one visit per property and one date in the diary instead of three. Set up the landlord electrical safety certificate Streatham lettings need ahead of the next tenancy start.
Related electrical work in Streatham
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - modern boards with proper protection, where circuits have long outgrown the original one.
- Rewiring and part rewires - part rewires for the worst circuits, or the whole property where cable has degraded.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - immediate attendance for live faults, burning smells and circuits that refuse to stay on.
- PAT testing - for furnished rentals and small businesses whose supplied appliances need their own test record.
A circuit that's been quietly overloaded for years doesn't fix itself - it just picks its own moment.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Streatham
Council EICR Demands and Penalty Notices
The council's asked for your EICR? You've got 7 days to produce it - and if none exists, has expired, or remedials were never evidenced within their 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies -, the penalties stack per breach, with the council able to arrange urgent works itself and bill you. Treat a council demand for an EICR like the emergency-with-a-deadline it is; the clock started when the letter arrived.
Whole-House Power Failures
Main fuse blown, or the whole place dead while next door's fine? Sometimes it's the network or a blown DNO cutout - always rule that out first. But a main switch or RCD that trips and won't hold usually means a live internal fault, and fridges, freezers and heating bleed value by the hour. Once the supplier's cleared, a total power cut in one property needs an emergency electrician, not patience.
Failed EICRs and the 28-Day Window
C2 on my EICR - now what? Unsatisfactory reports typically stack up around missing RCD protection, inadequate bonding, ageing wiring or an old board with no earth-leakage protection anchoring half the observations. Rented homes get a legal 28-day window for the remedials; any C1 is urgent today whoever holds the deeds. Get the unsatisfactory report priced while the window's still generous.
Fixed-Wire Testing When the Insurer Asks
Insurance wants an electrical test certificate for the shop or office, and the previous occupier left no records? Most workplaces demonstrate their Electricity at Work Regulations duty with testing on a 3-5 year rhythm - and Streatham's long commercial strip means plenty of businesses hit this at renewal. An electrical installation condition report Streatham businesses can fit around trading hours is plannable; the C1s and C2s it might find in an occupied unit are not. Book the fixed-wire test against the renewal date, not after it.
Lining Up EICR Quotes? Sensible
An electrical installation condition report is worth shopping around for - so make ours one of the quotes. Send the failed report over and you'll get remedial pricing itemised code by code, in writing, with nothing padded. Not been tested yet? Book the electrician while the fault's still small; the price only travels one direction from here.
Electrical Safety Across Streatham's Housing Stock
Streatham's compliance work splits along clear lines: retained council estates, association blocks in a licensing ward, and one of south London's longest runs of period rental stock. Anyone carrying a landlord eicr Streatham duty is dealing with at least one of these.
Council and ALMO Housing
Cressingham Gardens is the borough's clearest case of stock in extended limbo - a retained 1960s-70s estate whose original-era electrical installations carry on under the council's inspection and interim-upgrade cycle for as long as the blocks remain in service. Limbo cuts a particular way for compliance: full modernisation waits, but periodic testing can't, so interim upgrades and remedial lists become the working pattern. Installations designed sixty years ago meet inspection standards written last decade, and the gap lands on the schedule of every visit.
Housing-Association Stock
On the St Martin's Estate, post-war blocks answer to three housing association landlords rather than the council - three separate duty-holders buying flat EICRs and communal fixed-installation testing across one estate. It sits in the St Martins ward, which is selectively licensed as of July 2026, so private lets there carry a second layer of scrutiny: licence conditions mean the current satisfactory report must be held and producible, not merely intended. Three landlords, one estate, one licensing regime - coordination is the actual product here, and the compliance file is where it shows.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
The signature Streatham stock is Victorian and Edwardian houses flat-converted decades ago, plus the mansion blocks along the hill. Wiring in these buildings commonly predates RCD protection entirely, and conversions accumulate the undocumented alterations that turn a routine 5 year electrical check into a remedial schedule. With rental demand this strong, an unsatisfactory eicr rarely costs just the repair - it costs the void weeks while remedials and re-tests catch up.
Beyond housing, the same testing logic runs through Streatham's institutional premises. Dunraven School's all-through academy operates across two sites on Leigham Court Road - large multi-building premises on EAWR 1989 periodic inspection, typically 5-yearly fixed-wire cycles - while Uplands Care Home near Streatham Common, rated Good by the CQC in all areas, sits in the sleeping-risk category that generally runs shorter testing intervals than ordinary commercial stock.
All of this stock is somewhere in a test cycle right now - and whoever can name their next inspection date never finds out what enforcement costs.
Electrical Safety Services Across Streatham and Nearby Areas
From the Hill to the Vale, an eicr Streatham booking takes in the whole stretch - plus West Norwood and Tulse Hill next door. Each pocket has its own housing character, and its own reasons to test.
Streatham Hill (SW2)
Mansion flats and larger converted houses across SW2 hold some of the area's oldest flat wiring, much of it serving long-term rentals. Leaseholders and landlords here mostly need flat-level EICRs - and clarity on where block wiring becomes their responsibility. An inspection answers both before a sale or tenancy forces the question.
Streatham Common
Around the Common, Edwardian family houses mix with flats and a run of care and institutional premises along the main roads. Homeowner demand leads here: pre-purchase inspections and board upgrades in houses that have had one family - and one fuse box - for forty years. Test before the renovation, not after the plasterer.
Tulse Hill (SW2)
Tulse Hill's estate blocks and inter-war terraces on the SW2 side carry heavy rental turnover, which keeps tenancy certificates in constant rotation. HMO conversions add licensing conditions on top. A landlord here with an expired report is one tenant complaint from an enforcement letter - renewal first is the cheaper order.
Streatham Vale
The Vale's 1930s semis and terraces are classic candidates for consumer unit upgrades: original boards, extended kitchens, loft conversions - loads the first installer never planned for. Owner-occupiers testing before a rewire decision get the honest picture early, while the choice is still theirs to schedule.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Streatham
What affects what I'll pay for an EICR?
Mostly the size of the installation: circuit count, number of boards, and how accessible everything is. Age matters too - older installations take longer to test carefully. Every quote for eicr testing in Streatham is a set figure in writing, agreed before booking, so the day itself holds no surprises. What genuinely inflates cost is time: wiring problems compound quietly, and late discovery is the expensive kind.
How long will the electrician be in the property?
A typical flat is done inside half a day; bigger houses, HMOs and commercial units take longer. Circuits go off one at a time under test rather than the whole supply all day, and tenants or staff get notice of timings. There's always a convenient week to do this - it's just rarely the week a deadline lands.
Can't I just fix the obvious stuff myself first?
Tidying trailing extension leads, yes. Anything on the fixed wiring, no - undocumented DIY work is one of the most common reasons reports come back unsatisfactory, because it gets coded even when it "works". Let the inspection find what's actually there, then decide with a priced list in front of you. Paying for the test once beats paying for re-tests twice.
Is one flat too small a job for you?
Never. A single-flat eicr gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme - same engineer standard, same report depth, same written quote. One shop, one bedsit, one family home: all normal bookings. Small jobs handled promptly have a habit of staying small.
What exactly do I receive afterwards?
The full report: every circuit's test results, observations coded C1, C2, C3 or FI, and a no-jargon rundown of what each means. Unsatisfactory outcome? A written remedial quote follows, and once work's complete we re-test and reissue. It's the document your agent, council, insurer or buyer's solicitor will request - under the 2020 Regulations every private tenancy has needed one since April 2021. If you can't lay hands on yours today, that's the gap worth closing before someone official asks first.
Time to Get the Streatham EICR Done
Questions answered, process clear - all that's left is the booking. Send over the address and you'll have a written quote back - for the test itself, or for putting right whatever your last landlord electrical safety report flagged. Calls are answered 24/7 and same-day appointments are available. Five minutes today and the next renewal date finds you ready instead of scrambling.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Streatham — 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.