Landlord EICRs across Oxfordshire,certified and emailed the same day.
Statutory Electrical Installation Condition Reports for private landlords and letting agents — booked within 48 hours, inspected by an NICEIC-approved electrician, full PDF certificate in your inbox the same evening. Honest C1/C2 remedial quotes, no fail-the-job upsells.
26 years inspecting Oxfordshire rentals · NICEIC reporting format · Same-day certificate · Honest remedial pricing.
Your statutory 5-year certificate, done properly.
Since 1 April 2021 every privately rented home in England must hold a valid Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR), renewed at least every 5 years or at change of tenancy. Failure to comply carries a £30,000 civil penalty per property — and your insurance is void from the day it expires.
- What it is
- An EICR is a formal inspection and test of the fixed electrical installation in a property — consumer unit, circuits, accessories and bonding — graded against BS 7671. The certificate is either ‘Satisfactory’ (valid 5 years) or ‘Unsatisfactory’ (remedial work required within 28 days).
- Who it's for
- Private landlords, portfolio investors, HMO operators, holiday-let owners, letting agents and managing agents across Oxford, Kidlington, Witney, Banbury and Bicester who need a compliant certificate at change of tenancy, lease renewal, or before a council licensing inspection.
- When it's needed
- Before every new tenancy, at the 5-year renewal of an existing certificate, after any major electrical work, ahead of HMO or selective-licensing inspections, and immediately when a tenant reports any electrical fault that suggests fixed-wiring damage.
- Why professional
- An EICR is a legal requirement under the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020. It must be carried out by a ‘qualified and competent person’ — in practice, a registered NICEIC, NAPIT or ELECSA installer. A certificate from anyone else is not legally valid.
An expired EICR is a £30,000 problem.
Landlord clients ring us most often after a council letter, a tenant complaint or a remortgage solicitor query. By that point the fine, the deposit dispute and the insurance void have already begun.
- Civil penalty of up to £30,000 per property issued by the local authority — Oxford City Council actively enforces.
- Buildings & landlord insurance voided from the certificate expiry date — any fire or accident claim refused.
- Tenant deposit dispute lost at the deposit scheme adjudication if you can’t evidence the certificate.
- HMO & selective licence application refused or revoked — lost rental income while you remediate.
- Sale or remortgage held up by the buyer’s solicitor until a current EICR is produced.
- Booking ‘EICRs’ from an unregistered handyman — the certificate is not legally valid and the inspection often isn’t done to BS 7671.
- Accepting a £49 EICR offer that hides £900 of invented C2 remedials — a known scam pattern across the South East.
- Letting the certificate lapse between tenancies because the property was vacant ‘only for a couple of months’.
- Filing the certificate but never reading the C2 schedule — then handing the property over with non-compliant remedials outstanding.
- Assuming an EPC covers it. It doesn’t. EPC and EICR are completely separate documents.
From booking to certificate in five steps.
We book in 24–48 hours, inspect in 2–3 hours, and email the PDF the same evening. Remedials (if any) are quoted in writing so you choose the route, not the inspector.
- 01
Online or phone booking
Tell us the address, bedroom count and access arrangements. We confirm a 2-hour slot inside 48 hours.
- 02
Visual inspection
Consumer unit, accessory condition, earthing & bonding, fire safety of cable runs — visually checked and photographed for the report.
- 03
Full dead & live testing
Continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, earth-fault loop impedance, RCD trip times — recorded on every circuit.
- 04
Coding & certificate
Any defects coded C1, C2, C3 or FI per the IET Electrical Safety Code. Certificate generated on Easycert and emailed as a signed PDF.
- 05
Remedial quote (if needed)
C1 or C2 defects? You receive a separate fixed-price remedial quote — you decide whether we do the work, no obligation.
Why landlords stay with us for the long-term.
Six concrete reasons portfolio landlords and letting agents across Oxfordshire have us on speed-dial.
Speed
Booked in 48 hours, inspected in 2–3 hours, certificate by 8pm the same day. No waiting on a postal copy.
Safety judgement
26 years of inspection experience — we know the difference between a genuine C2 and a cosmetic C3, so your remedial bill is honest.
Longevity of certificate
A clean satisfactory EICR is valid 5 years — one £140 visit covers you to the next election cycle.
Cost predictability
Flat fees by bedroom count, no extras for digital certificates, no charge for the remedial quote.
Reliability for agents
Letting agents get a single contact, batch booking discounts, and certificates emailed direct to their compliance inbox.
Peace of mind
Insurance-ready PDF, council-ready audit trail, tenant-ready safety notice — all signed by an NICEIC installer.
What an EICR actually involves.
An EICR is a structured inspection-and-test against the model report format published by Electrical Safety First and adopted by NICEIC. Here’s what we check, code and certify on every visit.
What we inspect & test
- Consumer unit — type, RCD/RCBO protection, surge protection
- Earthing & main protective bonding (gas, water, structural steel)
- Every final circuit — continuity, insulation resistance, polarity
- Earth-fault loop impedance (Zs) at the furthest point of each circuit
- RCD trip times — both at ½ x and 5 x rated current
- Visible cable condition, accessory damage, junction-box accessibility
- Bathroom zoning, kitchen RCD coverage, outdoor accessory IP rating
How defects are coded
C1 — danger present, immediate action required (we make safe on the day). C2 — potentially dangerous, urgent remedial within 28 days. C3 — improvement recommended, not a fail. FI — further investigation required. Only C1 and C2 produce an Unsatisfactory result. We code conservatively but honestly — no inflated C2s.
Variations of the EICR service
- Standard single-let EICR (1–3 bed)
- HMO EICR with fire-alarm inter-link check
- Holiday-let & short-let EICR
- Pre-purchase / pre-sale EICR for buyers and sellers
- Commercial unit periodic EICR (1–5 year cycles)
- Bulk portfolio EICR scheduling for letting agents
Local situations we see most often
Older Oxford terraced rentals with original 1980s consumer units and no RCD coverage; Kidlington and Bicester ex-LA stock with TT earthing and no main bonding; Witney and Banbury HMOs missing inter-linked smoke detection. We see them weekly — and we know the fix.
Straight answers, before the visit.
Can't see your question? Ring Daniel on 07528 364996 — five-minute call, no obligation.
Often booked alongside
Full house rewires planned around your family — modern wiring, cleaner finish, fewer disruptions.
Modern RCD/RCBO consumer units fitted to 18th-edition standards — safer protection in under a day.
Fast local response across Oxfordshire when power, sockets or circuits fail — usually on site the same working day.
Scheduled testing, fault finding and remedial work that keeps your home or business running safely.
Landlord EICRs across Oxfordshire
Same crew, same standard — covering Kidlington and the surrounding towns from a single Oxfordshire base.
Landlord EICR — surveyed, quoted and fitted by the same Oxfordshire crew.
Free written estimate. No deposit. No call centre. Call before midday and we’ll be on site the same working day across Oxford, Witney, Banbury, Bicester and the wider Oxfordshire area.