Landlord EICRs in Bloxwich, Walsall. Electrical installation condition reports on rented homes and HMOs, with the report and any remedial work explained plainly.
Every rented home in England needs an electrical installation condition report at least every five years, and a copy has to go to the tenant and, on request, to the council. Bloxwich has a lot of older rented housing, and older wiring is exactly what an EICR is designed to find.
The inspection is a mix of looking and testing: the consumer unit, the earthing and bonding, the state of the wiring, the sockets and switches, and a set of tests that show whether circuits are safe under fault conditions. Anything found is coded. C1 means danger present, C2 means potentially dangerous, and both mean the report is unsatisfactory until the work is done. C3 is an improvement recommendation and does not fail the report.
Bloxwich rental stock runs from Victorian terraces off the High Street to ex-council semis on the estates, and the reports split along those lines: older Bloxwich houses throw up bonding and rewireable-fuse issues, the estate properties usually just need a board and a few sockets attending to.
What landlords need is not just the certificate but a clear list of what has to be put right, what is advisory, and what it involves. That is what you get, with the remedial work quoted separately so you can decide. Anything that smells of burning, sparks, or trips the moment it is switched on should be left off and looked at before it is used again.
Consumer unit, earthing and bonding, circuits, sockets, switches and lighting, with dead and live testing on each circuit.
C1 and C2 have to be fixed for a satisfactory report. C3 is advisory. You are told which is which rather than handed a list of jargon.
Quoted separately so you can compare, and often done on the same visit if it is small.
Communal circuits and each let covered, which is what a licensing inspection will ask for.
The easiest time to inspect and to put anything right before a new tenant moves in.
The full report sent electronically, ready to give the tenant and the council if asked.
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At least every five years, or sooner if the previous report says so. A copy goes to the tenant within 28 days and to a new tenant before they move in.
The C1 and C2 items have to be put right, normally within 28 days, and you must be able to show written confirmation that the work was done.
For parts of it, yes. It is usually a few hours in total, and we plan it around the tenant where we can.
No. An EICR covers the fixed wiring. PAT testing covers plug-in appliances, which is a separate job.
Not by law, but it is the only way to know the state of the wiring, especially in an older Bloxwich house.
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