Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR)

It is generally recommended that an EICR is carried out every ten years.
EICRs may be required for a variety of other purposes including buying, selling or at the renewal of a lease/contract and may have been requested by your solicitors. Home owners can have it carried out to ensure electrical safety within their property.

From April-2021, It’s a legal requirement for landlords to provide copy of EICR to their existing or new tenants. An EICR should be carried out every five years for privately rented properties or when there is a change of occupancy in a dwelling.

Typically, an EICR will take around 4-6 hours to complete, depending on the size of a property and the number of circuits requiring testing.

An EICR will provide a full summary of the condition of the electrics in your home and determine whether it complies with the current British Standard for electrical safety (BS 7671). It will record a number of observations in line with BS 7671 and make various recommendations where improvement may be necessary or beneficial to improving safety in your home. Once the EICR is completed we will provide you with a certificate outlining the overall condition of the electrical installation. Generally, an EICR will provide codings against the condition of the installation. The classification codes are as follows:

Code C1 – This code should indicates that danger exists, requiring immediate remedial action. The persons using the installation are at immediate risk.

Code C2 – This code indicates that, whilst an observed deficiency is not considered to be dangerous at the time of the inspection, it could become a real and immediate danger if a fault or other foreseeable event was to occur in the installation or connected equipment.

Code C3 – This code indicates that, whilst an observed deficiency is not considered to be a source of immediate or potential danger, improvement would contribute to a significant enhancement of the safety of the electrical installation. You are under no obligation to have any of the issues fixed, though it is recommended that corrective action to rectify any C1 and C2s is completed as soon as possible!