EICR Testing and Certificates in Tooting
EICRs, landlord certificates and letting compliance for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Tooting — regeneration schemes, including Springfield Village.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Tooting, Balham, Wandsworth, Battersea, Putney 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.
A burning smell from a plug socket - that hot-plastic, almost fishy whiff - means switch the circuit off at the board and have our emergency electrician trace it before it becomes a fire. An EICR that's come back unsatisfactory with C1, C2 or FI codes isn't a disaster: our eicr remedial work puts the faults right and gets the report closed out with the appropriate certification. If you're a landlord or agent with a tenancy or licence deadline, we sort the eicr certificate - we handle eicr testing Tooting landlords book around tenants' hours, from High Street flats to Furzedown terraces. And lights that flicker or eat bulbs every few weeks usually point at tired circuits - rewiring the worst of them ends it for good. Every one of these gets cheaper the earlier it's looked at, and dearer the longer it waits.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Tooting
Compare three prices for the same test and you'll get three different-sounding jobs, so here's ours in full: an engineer inspects and tests the installation, you receive the report with the codes translated, and anything needing attention comes back as a written quote before a spanner moves. We work for private and portfolio landlords, the agents managing on their behalf, housing associations and council teams, and equally for homeowners, HMO landlords, buyers and sellers part-way through a sale, and the shops, salons and cafés running as small businesses. A single room in a shared house matters as much here as a landlord arriving with fifty flats.
Testing means the fixed wiring, not the kettle - consumer unit, earthing, bonding and every circuit measured against BS 7671, each finding coded. Tooting's terraces have been split into flats and shared houses for decades, and subdivided property is where non-compliant DIY alterations surface: wrong cable sizes, joints hidden in walls, an earth that stops halfway. Those get found by testing, not by looking, and untangling them is most of what an eicr electrician Tooting does all week. You'll have the electrical installation condition report back with each observation explained, and what's compulsory marked off from what's merely recommended. One thing worth clearing up: a valid satisfactory report under five years old carries over to a new tenant, so a change of tenancy doesn't automatically demand fresh testing. Book an eicr certificate Tooting landlords can file with confidence.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Letting round here rarely means one property with one date. The package brings the EICR, PAT testing on appliances you provide, and the smoke and CO alarm checks into a single booking and a single set of certificates - much easier to hand over when an agent asks for everything at once. Multi-let houses benefit most, since the appliance list and alarm count grow with every room. We'll flag renewal dates as they come round, so nothing quietly expires between tenancies. Same-day appointments can be booked where a check-in date has been sprung on you. Take the landlord package if you're running more than one tenancy at a time.
EICR Remedial Works
Unsatisfactory comes from a C1, C2 or FI - not from a C3, which is advisory. We price the coded items individually so you can see what's driving the cost, carry out the work, and re-test the circuits involved. Completion is evidenced by written confirmation plus the right certificate for what was done. Clear the remedial work while the report's still fresh and the access is already arranged.
Related electrical work in Tooting
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - new boards and protection for properties where the existing one can't take another circuit.
- Rewiring and part rewires - full or partial rewires for houses whose original cabling has reached the end of its life.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - dead sockets, tripping that won't reset, smells of burning: attended as an emergency, not a booking.
- PAT testing - appliance testing for HMOs, furnished flats and the shops and cafés along the high street.
A fault you know about is cheap this month and awkward in six - that's the whole argument for moving on it now.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Tooting
Burning Smells and Scorched Sockets
"Burning smell from plug socket" - or a socket gone brown around the pins. Usually it's a loose termination arcing under load, an overloaded adaptor, or a failing appliance plug rather than the fixed wiring. Treat it as live fire risk: isolate the circuit now, 999 if anything's smoking. Then get that burning smell properly traced the same day.
Council EICR Enforcement
Council asking for your EICR? You've got 7 days to produce it - and if none exists, or remedials from an unsatisfactory report were never evidenced within 28 days, the council can serve a remedial notice or do the work itself and bill you. Penalties run per breach. Council enforcement over an EICR is a deadline job, so start today, not Friday.
Landlord EICRs for Tenancies and Licences
"Electrical safety certificate for renting" - Tooting's flat shares and HMOs generate this one weekly. Usually the 5-year cycle has come round, a tenancy's starting, or a licence application needs a current satisfactory report. It's plannable, but date-bound: work back from the tenancy start and leave room for the 28-day remedial window. Sorting a landlord EICR early keeps the let on schedule.
Old Wiring and Rewires
"Surveyor says rewire needed" - common when buying one of the area's older terraces. Often it's original rubber-sheathed cable still in service, lighting circuits with no earth, or a patchwork of partial rewires that dodged the oldest runs. Plannable, unless testing finds live degradation - then affected circuits need isolating while the job's arranged. An electrical installation condition report Tooting surveyors will accept tells you whether a rewire is really needed before you commit money.
Every one of these has a cheap week and an expensive month - the difference is which one you act in.
Comparing Electricians for Your EICR?
Sensible - this is a job worth choosing well. Here's our offer: send over your unsatisfactory eicr, or just the property details, and you'll get a written remedial quote with every code priced line by line. No pressure, no padding. The line's answered 24/7, so book whenever suits - a small fault quoted this week beats a bigger one repaired next month.
Electrical Safety Across Tooting's Housing Stock
Tooting isn't one kind of building. It's dense terraced streets carved into flats, a busy commercial spine, and - on the Springfield side - one of south London's bigger regeneration stories. Each slice generates its own electrical work, and its own deadlines. The institutional layer alone is serious: St George's Hospital runs around 1,300 beds serving 1.3 million people across south-west London, a very large fixed installation carrying testing duties under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, while academy estates like Graveney School on Welham Road in Furzedown - rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2023 - sit on their own periodic fixed-wire testing cycles.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Springfield Village is the one to watch. The first phase around Springfield University Hospital delivered two new inpatient facilities, Trinity and Shaftesbury - brand-new fixed installations now entering periodic inspection alongside the trust's retained estate. The remaining phases are pipeline: every handover starts a first-cycle certification clock, and the supported-living council homes come straight under the live social-sector electrical duty on occupation in 2026. New-build doesn't mean no compliance - it means the compliance calendar starts on day one, and responsible persons who diarise it now avoid scrambling later.
Period Conversions and Older Wiring
Away from the new stock, the bread and butter is Victorian and Edwardian terraces - many split into two or three flats decades ago, and heavily rented. Conversions like these tend to hide non-compliant DIY alterations: junction boxes buried during a 1980s split, borrowed neutrals, circuits extended one socket at a time. None of it visible until an inspection lifts the lid. With the area's rental character, most of our landlord eicr Tooting bookings come from exactly these streets - agents putting whole portfolios of converted flats through the 5-year cycle and clearing the coded items in one organised pass rather than flat by flat in a panic.
Whatever slice of this stock you're responsible for, the pattern's the same: the buildings keep ageing whether or not the paperwork keeps up. A booked inspection date costs nothing but a diary entry - an expired report can cost a licence, a tenancy or a fine.
Electrical Safety Services Across Tooting and Nearby Areas
SW17 doesn't stop at the tube station. We run eicr Tooting jobs right across the postcode and into the streets either side - and because our engineers cover the whole of South West London, a booking here often pairs up with one in Balham or Battersea the same day.
Tooting Bec
Mansion blocks and red-brick conversions cluster around the common and the Bec's SW17 streets, with long-leasehold flats changing hands regularly. Buyers here often commission an electrical installation condition report before exchange - far cheaper to negotiate a rewire off the price than to discover one after completion.
Furzedown
A quieter, more residential pocket towards the SW16 border - family terraces, a strong owner-occupier core, and a steady scatter of rented houses. Owner-occupiers have no legal EICR duty, but wiring from the 1930s doesn't know that. A periodic check every ten years keeps a sale, a loft conversion or an insurance renewal from stalling.
Summerstown
The strip along the Wandle between Tooting and Earlsfield mixes older cottages with workshops, units and trade premises. That's Electricity at Work Regulations territory: businesses need fixed-wire testing evidence, and an unsatisfactory eicr on a workshop can hold up insurance. Booking the test before the insurer asks keeps the premium conversation short.
Wherever you are on this map, the diary works the same way - the areas above are minutes apart for us, and a date booked today is compliance you're not chasing in a hurry later.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Tooting
What decides the cost of an EICR?
Mostly the size of the installation - number of circuits and bedrooms, how many boards, and how easy it is to get at everything. A one-bed conversion flat is a much shorter test than a five-bed HMO with two consumer units. We quote in writing before booking, so you're comparing a fixed figure, not an estimate that grows on the day. Get the quote first; then the decision's easy.
How long does the inspection take?
Typically two to four hours for a flat or house, longer for larger or commercial premises. Power goes off circuit by circuit while each one's tested, so tenants should expect brief interruptions. We book eicr testing in Tooting around tenants' schedules where we can - one arranged visit beats three failed access attempts and a licensing deadline missed.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes - genuinely. A single-flat EICR, one shop unit, a homeowner who just wants the wiring checked: a single-flat eicr gets the same attention as a 200-home portfolio programme. Same test sequence, same report format, same engineer quality. Small jobs booked promptly stay small; ignored ones have a habit of growing.
What do I actually get at the end?
A full electrical installation condition report: satisfactory or unsatisfactory, with every observation coded C1, C2, C3 or FI and explained in plain English - plus a written price for any remedial work, so you know exactly what putting it right costs. No jargon left untranslated. It's the document your council, agent or buyer will ask for, so it's worth having before they do.
What happens if my report comes back unsatisfactory?
For a rented property, the 2020 Regulations give you 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies - to complete the remedial work and evidence it. We price the coded items, do the repairs, re-test, and confirm the installation now meets the standard. The window is tighter than it sounds once parts and access are factored in - starting the week the report lands is what keeps landlords out of penalty territory.
Ready to Book Your Tooting EICR?
You've seen how the job works and what the report gives you - the next move is a written quote for your property, whether that's one flat by the Broadway or a portfolio spread across SW17. Tell us the address and the deadline and we'll price the 5 year electrical check clearly, in writing. Certificates don't get less urgent with age; diaries just get fuller.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Tooting — 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.