Landlord Electrical Safety Package in London
Landlord Electrical Certificate London — EICR, PAT and Alarms, Priced Upfront
Licence application due, tenancy starting, or the council asking for a report you haven't got? We carry out the London landlord electrical safety package — inspection, appliance testing and alarm checks — across East London, North London and South East London, with pricing agreed before anyone starts work.
- Same-day appointments available
- Bookings taken 24/7
- Clear pricing agreed before work starts
- EICR, PAT and alarms in one visit
Serving London, East London, North London, South East London, South West London and surrounding areas.
Landlord Electrical Safety Package — at a glance
- Areas covered
- London, East London, North London, South East London
- Common work
- Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, Electrical Installation Condition Report, Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 (as amended 2022), 5-Yearly Inspection Cycle
- Same-day appointments
- Same-day appointments are available for all our services
- Quote before work
- Yes — a clear written quote after inspection
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.
The tenancy starts a week on Monday and the agent won't market the flat without a current landlord electrical safety certificate - and that's the London landlord electrical safety package in a sentence: the wiring tested, the appliances checked, the alarms proved, all certificated together for the tenancy file. If it's a shared house or a selective licence application, the same visit hands the licensing officer exactly what the conditions ask for, tied to your property rather than lifted off a template. And if the council has already written demanding evidence, or floated a penalty, an eicr certificate booked this week is the difference between answering them and negotiating with them. Most landlords reading this are already inside somebody else's deadline - move before it lands and you're paying for a test, wait until after and you're paying for a rescue.
Quick answer
A landlord electrical safety visit covers three duties in a single visit: the fixed wiring inspected and reported on, any appliances you supply tested, and the smoke and CO alarms checked. Where a report comes back unsatisfactory, it's usually an ageing board or a missing alarm rather than anything exotic. Book it before your tenancy date, not after a council letter.
Landlord Electrical Safety Package London: What You're Really Buying
Landlord Electrical Safety Package in London lands on your to-do list the same way every time - an agent's email, a licence form, or a tenancy date that won't move. The phrase people type is landlord electrical safety package London; the question underneath it is usually whether the property will be signed off, and how quickly you can prove it to somebody else.
That proof is the bit worth paying attention to. An Electrical Installation Condition Report isn't a certificate you frame - it's an assessment of condition, with a coded observation against everything found and an overall verdict of satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Where landlords come unstuck is the middle ground: a document full of codes nobody explained, remedial work priced vaguely, and no clear line between what has to be put right and what's simply a recommendation.
We work it the other way round. The wiring, the appliances and the alarms all get covered on one attendance, and you end up with a Landlord Compliance Pack - the report, the appliance records, the alarm records and confirmation of anything we've corrected - sitting in one file. So when a tenant, an agent or a council officer asks, you send one thing, rather than trawling three years of email for a PDF you're not certain is current.
Booking the visit is cheap. Explaining to a council why you never got round to it is not.
Book an electrician before a small fault becomes a big one
020 7123 9361What a Landlord Electrical Package in London Actually Covers
Landlord Electrical Safety Package work in London splits into two jobs: the one done properly, and the one done to get something on file. The difference surfaces years later, when a board that was quietly flagged as needing attention finally lets go on a Sunday night and your tenant is sitting in the dark.
The spine of all this is the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020. Those rules say the fixed installation in a privately rented home has to be inspected and tested by a qualified and competent person at least every five years, the report handed to your tenant and to the council if they ask for it, and anything the inspection flags put right within 28 days - or sooner where the report specifies -. The package pulls that inspection together with the rest of the landlord duties into one scheduled visit - the wiring tests, the portable appliance testing service for whatever you supply with the let, and the alarm checks - written up as a single document pack rather than three unrelated jobs.
Alarms are where people slip. A smoke alarm fitted to every floor of a rented home is the baseline duty and it gets proved while we're on site; the specification we fit is the Grade D1 mains-powered, interlinked type with battery back-up, so one sounding sets them all off. A Carbon Monoxide Alarm is a separate duty - required in any room with a fixed combustion appliance, and no smoke alarm covers you for that.
The jobs themselves vary more than you'd expect. A single ex-council flat coming into the cycle for the first time. A letting agent renewing forty tenancies at once, which is where bundling the visits saves the most diary time. A void week between tenants, honestly the easiest fortnight of the year to do it in.
What comes back is a price in writing for anything needing correction, a report where each code is spelled out in English, and a file that answers your tenant, the agent or a licensing officer without a second phone call. Leave it until the deadline's on top of you and you're buying speed instead of judgement.
How the London Landlord Electrical Safety Package Visit Runs
Booking comes first. You tell us the property type, roughly how many circuits, whether it's tenanted or empty, and what appliances go with the let - that's what genuinely drives the time on site and the figure we quote. Bookings are taken 24/7, and same-day appointments are available if a date has crept up on you.
On the day, the fixed installation gets the full sequence: visual inspection against BS 7671, dead tests, live tests, functional checks on the protective devices. The engineer works circuit by circuit and records real results on a schedule of test results - that schedule is the evidence sitting behind the verdict, and any report that turns up without one deserves a second look.
Then the alarms. The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 (as amended 2022) set the duty here: a working alarm on every storey, one in any room holding fixed combustion appliances, and faulty units repaired or replaced once a tenant reports them. We test what's fitted, note what's absent, and tell you the difference between a unit that's dead and a unit that's simply past its date stamp. There's also a working alarm check at the start of a tenancy, which is the one landlords most often forget to evidence.
Appliances supplied with the property are inspected and logged - identification, results, next-test recommendation - so you hold a register rather than a memory.
Afterwards you get every coded observation explained: C1 means danger present, C2 potentially dangerous, C3 improvement recommended, FI further investigation needed. Anything needing work gets quoted in writing, itemised line by line, so you can hold it against somebody else's number.
Then the copies, and this is where a good job still gets marked down. The tenant and local authority copy rules are tight: your existing tenant gets a copy within 28 days of the inspection, a new tenant before they move in, and the council within seven days of asking. We hand you the file in a form you can forward straight on.
Miss those copy deadlines and a satisfactory report won't save you.
The London Landlord Electrical Compliance Service Calls We Take
Three situations account for most of the work. None are unusual, and every one of them gets more expensive the longer it sits.
The council is asking for an EICR
This one has a clock attached. Where a council requests the report it has to be produced within seven days, so if none exists - or the one you hold has expired - you're already exposed. It can also follow an unsatisfactory report where the remedial work was never done or never evidenced, in which case the council may serve a remedial notice, or arrange the urgent work itself and recover the cost from you. Plenty of landlords assume a booking in the diary counts; it doesn't, until there's a document with a date on it. Handling council enforcement EICR work early is what keeps this a testing fee rather than a civil penalty under the 2020 Regulations.
A tenancy, renewal or licence needs a certificate
Usually the 5-yearly inspection cycle has come round, or a new tenancy is starting and the current report runs out part-way through the term. Letting agent electrical compliance has tightened, too - agents across Central London and West London increasingly won't market a property without a satisfactory report already on file, so hesitating costs you void weeks on top of the compliance risk. Where a landlord needs an EICR for a fixed date, work backwards from that date: inspection, then any remedial work, then the paperwork.
Shared houses and licence applications
Licence conditions want a current satisfactory report held and produced on request. Shared houses also carry loads and layouts the original installation was never designed around, and BS 7671 Amendment 2 pulls arc fault protection into HMO socket circuits at the next board change. Confirm the HMO licence electrical requirements before you submit the application, not halfway through it.
All three are a phone call today and a problem you're defending next quarter. The order you do them in matters more than the effort.
Send us your unsatisfactory EICR for a remedial quote
020 7123 9361Landlord Electrical Safety Near Me: The London Stock We Test
Search that phrase and you'll get a hundred results. What actually matters is whether the firm can tell you what your building is likely to throw up before anyone turns up - every landlord electrical safety package in London we price starts with the stock.
Victorian and Edwardian conversions across North London are the classic. Part-updated wiring, a modern-looking board on the hallway wall, older cabling and unearthed lighting circuits still sitting behind the fittings. That combination is a routine driver of C2 observations on a first inspection, which is why a flat that looks freshly done can still come back unsatisfactory.
Ex-council and post-war blocks in South East London run a different pattern: original consumer units with no RCD protection, untouched for decades, only surfacing when a landlord duty first pulls that flat into the five-year cycle. In 1960s to 80s purpose-built flats it's accumulated alterations - a spur here, a shower circuit there, added across tenancies by whoever was cheapest at the time.
Alarms follow the stock as well. In a converted terrace with rooms over three floors, an Interlinked Smoke Alarm on each storey is a very different job to a single-level flat, and the cable route is what moves the price - not the units. Where a property is already down for a full house rewire or a partial rewire, the alarm circuit is cheaper run as part of that rewiring than chased through finished walls.
Newer stock isn't automatically clean, either. Post-2000 flats tend to be fine on age and catch you on tenant alterations instead.
The stock tells you roughly what the report will say. It won't tell you what needs fixing - that takes someone in the property ahead of your deadline, not scrambling after it.
Comparing Quotes for Your Landlord EICR?
Fair enough - it's the sensible way to do it. Book the inspection and you'll get the report explained code by code, plus a written price for any remedial work once we've seen what's actually there. That's the landlord EICR and PAT package in one appointment, with nothing decided on your doorstep. Compare it properly, then take the date that fits your tenancy.
Landlord Electrical Compliance London: Straight Answers
What happens if a landlord doesn't get an EICR done?
Your council can issue a civil penalty of up to £40,000 per breach of the 2020 Regulations - the cap was raised from £30,000 by SI 2025/1043 on 1 November 2025. That penalty attaches to the private rented electrical safety duty specifically, not to housing offences in general. There's a second trap once testing is done: an unsatisfactory result starts the 28-day remedial deadline, and the work has to be completed and evidenced inside it.
What's included in a London landlord electrical safety package?
Three duties, one attendance: the installation tested and written up, the appliances that came with the property put through portable appliance testing, and the alarms proved working. Booked apart, that's three call-out charges and three sets of paperwork landing on three different days.
How often do I need an EICR as a landlord?
Every five years as a minimum on a private tenancy, and sooner if the report itself asks for a shorter interval. Watch the changeover point: a report due to expire during a new fixed term needs replacing before the tenant moves in. Guessing the expiry date is how landlords end up chasing an engineer the same week a tenancy starts.
Are the electrical safety requirements different for an HMO?
The five-yearly duty is the same as on any private tenancy - but licensing officers look harder at your history, and Amendment 2 of BS 7671 brings arc fault detection onto socket circuits in shared housing once the board is replaced. If a licence renewal is coming, the report wants to be current on the day you apply, not the day you remembered it.
I'm a council tenant - do I have the same electrical safety rights as a private tenant?
Broadly yes, on a phased timetable. The Social Housing (Electrical Safety) Standards 2025 came into force on 1 November 2025, applying to new social tenancies from 1 December 2025 and reach earlier social tenancies from 1 May 2026, with transitional provisions allowing the first inspection before 1 November 2026. Before your own tenancy is in scope, you can still ask your landlord when the installation was last tested.
Whatever the tenure, the shape is the same: a booked inspection, a report you understand, a price you can check - where the rest of our London electrical safety services pick up. Council deadlines don't slide for a busy month.