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William Allfrey

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There are no rules about which electricians can carry out inspections or electrical work on properties, as long as they are qualified to do so. There isn't a legal requirement for EICRs of rental properties (yet) anyway. Individual wards of boroughs may have EICR requirements for housing benefit tenants and some letting agents insist on them but this isn't statutory. EICRs cost what the electrician charges, there isn't a £150 set price. Unlike gas safety checks, an EICR is quite involved; every circuit in the property has to be checked, along with the earthing, fuse board, switches and sockets etc. The larger the property the longer the time needed and, consequently, the greater the cost.

From: William Allfrey 30 June 2018 08:19 AM

I am a landlord, I'm also an electrician. My properties all have had EICRs (done by me) in the last 5 years and they have all had remedial work done, including new fuse boards and, in one case, a partial rewire. Being an electrician I'm in a position to fix the electrics as soon as I get the keys. I carry out EICRs every week. I probably do between 50 - 80 per year, they are, to a degree, my bread and butter. In all the time I have been doing them I have only ever come across one property that I didn't find faults in; this was a one bed flat in Islington with 3 circuits. EICRs aren't expensive, and if you have one done and have the necessary remedial work flagged up carried out, then you have your back covered for 5 years or for however long the EICR is for. Unfortunately there are landlords that would rather not spend the money and are happy for their tenants to live in a potentially dangerous property. They give the rest of us a bad name.

From: William Allfrey 29 June 2018 16:13 PM

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