EICR in Clapham, tested circuit by circuit and certified the same day.
Electrical safety reports for Clapham's flats, shared houses and family homes, booked around tenants and sent to you as soon as the inspection is finished.
Covering SW4 and the SW11 side. Monday to Saturday 9am to 8pm, Sunday 9am to 3pm.
Clapham's rental market and its electrics
Clapham has one of the busiest rental markets in south London. Around the Common, the High Street and the stations, Victorian and Edwardian houses have been converted into flats or let room by room to sharers, and tenancies turn over often.
Converted flats
A converted house in SW4 usually has a meter cupboard in the communal hall serving each flat, and cables running up the stairwell to each consumer unit.
Rooms let to sharers
Shared houses often have more sockets in use than the circuits were planned for, and heaters, kettles and laptops all on extension leads.
Family houses around the Common
Larger houses off the Common and towards Abbeville Village and Clapham Old Town are more often let to families or occupied by owners. Here the typical findings are older boards without RCD protection and lighting circuits with no earth.
Inside an EICR
The electrician switches off and tests each circuit, measuring the values the wiring regulations require, and checks the RCDs trip quickly enough to protect people.
What the law asks of Clapham landlords
The 2020 regulations for private renting in England require the electrical installation to be checked at least every five years. A copy of the report goes to the tenant within 28 days, and to any new tenant before they move in.
If the property is a licensed HMO, the licence conditions will also expect the electrical installation to be safe and the report to be available on request.
Fitting around a busy tenancy
Most Clapham tenants work during the day, so we offer early evening and Saturday appointments as well as weekday ones.
Remedial work and confirmation
Where the report is unsatisfactory you receive a written, fixed quote for the items required, separate from anything only recommended.
What Clapham landlords most often ask us to fix
Three remedial jobs account for most of the work that follows a Clapham report.
Adding RCD protection
Older boards in converted flats often have no residual current protection. A new consumer unit with RCD protection on every circuit is usually the cleanest fix.
Smoke and heat alarms
Strictly separate from the EICR, but often raised at the same time, especially in shared houses where the licence expects mains-powered interlinked alarms. See our fire alarm page.
Damaged accessories in shared rooms
Cracked sockets, loose switches and scorched plugs are common where several people share a kitchen. These are quick to replace and often all a report needs.
Keeping several Clapham properties in order
If you let more than one flat in SW4, it helps to have the reports on one schedule.
Around SW4
We cover Clapham Common, Clapham North, Clapham Old Town and the surrounding streets, as well as Battersea, Balham and Stockwell. For gas appliances, see gas safety certificates in Clapham.
EICR in Clapham: your questions.
At least every five years for a privately rented home, or sooner if the previous report recommended a shorter interval.
Book an EICR in Clapham
A fixed written quote, agreed before any work starts. We reply in our opening hours, Monday to Saturday 9am to 8pm and Sunday 9am to 3pm.
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Areas we cover.
We take EICR inspections across all 32 London boroughs. Most of our work is in west London, in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chiswick and White City, and in south west London, in Putney, Wandsworth and Wimbledon. We also work in south east London, in Greenwich, Blackheath and Lewisham.
If your property is outside these areas, call us anyway. We travel across London and will tell you honestly if a job is too far to price properly.