UK Landlord Forum / Life

Can people please advise roughly what they are paying for the upcoming Landlord electrical certification EICR. We are in Nottingham and the prices seem to be around £150 plus VAT but some places have quoted £300 and one place has quoted £90 including VAT. So with such large discrepancies what are other areas of the country charging ?

Nobody can assist you as you have not given any details of your property or the electrical installation.

Any prices that you are given will be meaningless for comparison purposes.

Some immediate thoughts:

- Type and size of property / number of rooms?

- Number of circuits in the consumer unit (the more there are, the longer it takes to test)?

- Age of property (may be an indicator of the likely condition of the wiring)?

And location.

Yes sorry, it's a 3 bed townhouse built around 1990 in Nottingham, circuit board / breakers looks like a standard one fitted to any house.

I was quoted as low as £90 for a modern 3 bed house but I learned the people concerned were not correctly registered and tried to fail my property as soon as they walked through the door. I immediately rejected them and refused to pay their bill......Got the usual cheap landlord diatribe but they did not attempt to pursue the bill after I asked for sight of the regulations that prompted them to fail my property. After a little more research I used a NICEIC electrician for £160 Inc VAT and they did a good job without any unnecessary additions. It's worth confirming with whoever you select if they comply to the Electrical Safety First Best Practice Guide 4 which provides useful guidelines for electricians conducting an EICR and their customers   

We paid approx £400 before Xmas.  He had to replace the fuseboard but I still think he well overcharged us. it's only a small house. 

Genuine question... do you know why he had to replace the fuseboard? My understanding is, always has been, that the inspection is not retrospective... for example, if you had a plastic-covered consumer unit then that doesn't mean it needs replacing with a metal-covered one (just because it's a metal one that's specified in the latest regulations). So maybe you were overcharged from numerous angles... but I don't accuse him of that, not knowing what really happened - nor whether you mean "consumer unit" by "fuseboard" - unitI just ask you...

...that said, if you were given the opportunity to upgrade to meet the latest regulations and you agreed... that'd be different again (as in your choice vs. his).