EICR Testing and Certificates in Wandsworth
EICR testing, remedial works and landlord certificates for landlords, letting agents, housing providers and homeowners across Wandsworth — council housing, regeneration schemes and housing-association estates, from Wandsworth Borough Council to Battersea Reach.
- Codes explained
- Price before attendance
- Qualified inspectors
- Full report and schedules
Serving Wandsworth, Earlsfield, Southfields, Putney, Roehampton 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.
Scorch marks round a socket, smoke off the fuse box, that sharp electrical burning smell - kill the circuit and let our emergency electrician find the fault while it's still a small one. "EICR failed, what now?" - we hear that most days, and the answer is straightforward: our eicr remedial work clears the C1, C2 or FI, re-tests, and turns an unsatisfactory report into a satisfactory one. Agents and landlords chasing a tenancy or licence deadline come to us for the eicr certificate itself - eicr testing Wandsworth relies on, from riverside blocks to Earlsfield terraces, booked to fit tenants' lives. Flickering lights and bulbs that keep blowing? That's often worn circuits talking, and targeted rewiring shuts them up permanently. None of these problems fixes itself - but all of them fix quickly once someone qualified is standing in front of the board.
EICR Testing and Electrical Services in Wandsworth
If you're weighing up who to use, the useful question is what you're actually holding when the van drives off. With us it's a tested installation, a report with every code explained, and - where something needs doing - a written quote you can compare before you commit to anything. That suits landlords with one property and landlords with forty, managing agents and letting agents, council and housing-association teams - and it suits owner-occupiers, HMO landlords, anyone mid-sale and small business premises just the same. One flat, one shop unit or a managed portfolio: the job runs the same way regardless of how many doors are on your list.
The engineer tests the fixed installation against BS 7671 - board, earthing and bonding, then dead and live tests circuit by circuit - coding every observation on the report. Wandsworth runs the full spread - riverside apartments at one end, older terraces around Earlsfield and Southfields at the other - and the paperwork differs accordingly. A newly built or fully rewired flat has an Electrical Installation Certificate, and that ordinarily satisfies the documentation duty for five years from issue, so a recent conversion doesn't need testing on day one. Older stock is a different conversation entirely - it's where an eicr electrician Wandsworth landlords bring in finds most of the coded observations. Rented homes run the five year electrical check cycle; owner-occupiers have no legal duty but usually want one before selling. Arrange the eicr Wandsworth agents ask for.
EICR Remedial Works
An unsatisfactory outcome comes from a C1, C2 or FI observation - danger present, potentially dangerous, or further investigation required. C3s are recommendations and you can weigh those up in your own time. We quote the coded items separately rather than as one lump, which lets you see where the money actually goes, then carry out the work and re-test what we've touched. Portfolio landlords tend to want several properties sequenced so remedials, access and tenant notice all line up in one week rather than five. On completion you get written confirmation of the work plus the appropriate certification - Electrical Installation Certificate or Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate as the job requires. Get remedials priced as soon as the report lands.
Landlord Electrical Safety Packages
Split your compliance across three contractors and you'll spend more time chasing certificates than the work ever took. One package covers the EICR, PAT testing on appliances you supply and the smoke and CO alarm checks, arranged on one visit per property where the layout allows, then returned as a single certificated set. For agents holding stock on both sides of the river it also means one point of contact when a tenant queries something. We track renewal dates so a report doesn't lapse the week a tenancy renews. The landlord package is worth setting up before your next round of check-ins.
Related electrical work in Wandsworth
- Consumer unit and fuse box upgrades - board replacements for landlords and homeowners whose protection no longer suits the circuits present.
- Rewiring and part rewires - for older properties where testing finds cabling too far gone to repair circuit by circuit.
- 24/7 emergency electricians - for faults that can't be diarised: total loss of power, burning smells, exposed live parts.
- PAT testing - appliance checks for furnished tenancies, serviced flats and office or retail equipment.
Booked in this month it's a scheduled job; left until a tenant complains, it's a scramble with a void week attached.
Electrical Problems We Fix in Wandsworth
Shocks and Tingles from Taps or Appliances
"Got a shock from the tap" - even a faint tingle from a washing machine or switch means protection has failed somewhere. It's usually missing or inadequate earthing and bonding letting metalwork go live, a faulty appliance leaking to its casing, or occasionally a deteriorating supply neutral - a network fault. Never wait-and-see. Isolate what you can and treat any shock or tingle from metalwork as an emergency, tonight, not tomorrow.
Council EICR Demands and Penalty Notices
"Council asking for EICR" arrives with a 7-day clock attached. Usually there's no current report, it's expired, or remedials from an unsatisfactory one were never evidenced inside 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies - - and the council can serve a remedial notice or do the work and recover its costs, with penalty exposure running per breach. Answering council EICR enforcement starts the day the letter lands, because the deadline already has.
Partial Power Loss - Dead Sockets, Working Lights
"Half the sockets not working" or no power upstairs while everything downstairs hums along. Often a tripped MCB, a failed connection mid-circuit, or a broken leg on a ring final leaving part of it dead and the rest overloaded. Failed connections are where arcing and heat damage begin, so this is a same-day job. Tracing dead sockets and circuits properly beats guessing which socket to unscrew.
Old Fuse Boxes Without RCD Protection
"Fuse box with fuse wire - is it safe?" Honestly: it's the visible tip of an installation that predates RCD requirements, and years of wrong-gauge fuse wire can leave carriers and terminals heat-damaged. Plannable - but move it up the list if the property's rented, being sold, or fuses keep blowing. An electrical installation condition report Wandsworth buyers and landlords can rely on will show whether that old board is the only problem or just the first one.
Each of these gets found eventually - by you, by a tenant, or by an inspector. Cheapest of the three is you, this week.
Weighing Up Who Should Test Your Wiring?
Take your time - but take a number with you. Send the property details, or the unsatisfactory eicr another firm left you with, and we'll come back with a written price for exactly what's needed and nothing that isn't. Bookings are taken 24/7. Faults found on a report don't pause while you decide; the 28-day clock doesn't either.
Electrical Safety Across Wandsworth's Housing Stock
Few places in London put council estates, housing-association homes, listed brewery conversions and glass riverside towers within the same mile - and every one of those building types keeps an electrician's diary full in a different way.
Council and ALMO Housing
Wandsworth Borough Council is a landlord of roughly 32,700 homes, and the social-sector electrical duty that came into force on 1 November 2025 - 5-yearly EICRs, PAT on supplied appliances, 28-day remedials, penalties up to £40,000, covering and reach earlier social tenancies from 1 May 2026, with transitional provisions allowing the first inspection before 1 November 2026 - locks a stock that size into one of the largest recurring domestic testing programmes in London, on top of communal fixed-wire testing across its blocks. Estates like the Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield show what that means on the ground: 1930s walk-ups where wiring generations have been replaced piecemeal over the decades, now on a mandatory inspection rhythm that will surface every historical shortcut.
Housing-Association Stock
Southern Housing, MTVH, Notting Hill Genesis, PA Housing and Anchor all hold tenancies locally, and since 1 May 2026 every existing tenancy of theirs sits under the same live electrical duty. That's a cluster of professional landlords needing programmed EICRs, appliance testing and communal fixed-wire work delivered on schedule and evidenced properly - exactly the sort of repeat programme we're built for.
Regeneration and New-Build Developments
Ram Quarter is the interesting one: new-build blocks entering their first EICR cycles right beside converted listed brewery buildings, where cable routes and upgrades have to respect heritage fabric - plus ground-floor retail on commercial fixed-wire testing. First-cycle inspections on new stock matter more than people expect; they set the baseline every future report gets compared against.
Private Blocks and Managed Developments
Battersea Reach, by Wandsworth Town in SW18, holds over a thousand managed apartments with a substantial rental population - per-flat EICRs needing coordinated scheduling alongside communal testing under professional block management. Riverside Quarter runs the same pattern, with gyms and concierge areas on the landlord side carrying their own periodic inspection cycles. Block managers who consolidate this into one programme - rather than fifty individual bookings - save money and chase nobody. It's why so much landlord eicr Wandsworth work comes to us through managing agents.
Stock this varied doesn't allow a one-size compliance plan. But it all shares one truth: inspection dates that are diarised get met, and ones that aren't get discovered - usually by a council letter.
Electrical Safety Services Across Wandsworth and Nearby Areas
Our patch doesn't end at the one-way system. Engineers covering eicr Wandsworth bookings work the whole SW18 map daily, and because we operate across South West London, jobs here slot neatly alongside visits to Battersea next door or Balham up the hill.
Earlsfield (SW18)
Long runs of Victorian terraces around Garratt Lane, many carved into flats and let to a young renting crowd. High tenancy turnover means the landlord electrical safety certificate cycle never sleeps here - and older conversions have a way of failing on things nobody knew were behind the plasterboard. Testing at renewal, not mid-tenancy, keeps it painless.
Southfields (SW18)
The famous grid of Edwardian terraces - tidy, owner-occupied, and often still carrying wiring several owners old. Sales and remortgages are the trigger: a periodic inspection before listing means the survey holds no surprises, and any upgrade gets done at your price rather than negotiated off the sale.
West Hill
Between the town centre and Putney Heath, West Hill mixes substantial villas split into flats with purpose-built blocks along the A3. Leasehold flats here often need both a per-flat report and evidence the communal areas are on a testing cycle. Getting both aligned before a lease extension or sale saves weeks of solicitor emails.
Three different area profiles, one constant: the electrical paperwork always surfaces eventually - at a sale, a licence check or a claim. Having it ready beats explaining why it isn't.
Questions About EICRs and Electrical Work in Wandsworth
What does an EICR cost around here?
Circuits and age set the price, not the postcode. A purpose-built flat with a modern board sits at the quick end; a Victorian house that's been extended three times sits at the other. You'll have a firm figure before anything's booked - no meter running on the day. And with eicr testing in Wandsworth as competitive as it is, do compare - just make sure each quote covers the full installation rather than a sample too thin to prove anything. A cheap inspection that misses things is the dearest kind.
How long will the electrician be in the property?
Roughly two hours for most flats, longer for larger houses. Power comes off circuit by circuit rather than all at once, and we need the board plus a spread of sockets and fittings accessible - tenants can stay put throughout. Pick a quiet morning now and it's done before the deadline picks the date for you.
Can't I just look the wiring over myself?
A visual once-over catches almost none of what matters. Insulation breakdown, earth continuity, disconnection times - those only show up under instrument testing, and for rented homes the 2020 Regulations require a qualified and competent person to carry it out and sign the result. What DIY inspection mostly buys is false confidence. If something's made you wonder about the wiring, that's already the cue to test it.
Is one flat too small to book?
Not remotely. A single-flat EICR runs the identical process a 200-home programme would - same instruments, same standard, same paperwork. Bedsits, single shop units, a private homeowner wanting peace of mind before a loft conversion: all regular diary entries. The only job we'd call too small is the one that never gets booked.
Who sorts access with the tenants?
We can, if you'd rather - agree the slot directly with the tenant, work around their day, and make sure the electrical safety certificate Wandsworth agents need ends up in the right inbox afterwards. Same-day appointments are available for all our services when a tenancy or licence date is breathing down your neck. Access is only ever awkward once; an expired certificate is awkward every day it stays expired.
Ready for Your Wandsworth EICR?
The questions above are the ones we answer on the phone every day - ask the rest directly. Send the address and property details, you'll get a firm price in writing, and the visit ends with the eicr certificate Wandsworth tenancies run on, every code explained rather than left cryptic. The line's answered 24/7, year round. Certificates expire on a schedule; good diaries fill up the same way.
Related electrical work
Other work we take on in Wandsworth — 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.