12-property landlord portfolio, Lenton — bulk 5-yearly EICR run.
All 12 tested in a fortnight. 9 Satisfactory first time, 3 with C2s closed inside 2 weeks. Council selective licensing renewal cleared.
Lenton, Nottingham
Industrial Electrical · Nottingham
EICR & Electrical Safety Certificates in Nottingham, issued in 24–48 hours, accepted everywhere.
Domestic and rental EICRs across Nottingham from £120 — landlord MEES and Section 21 compliant, report issued within 24–48 hours, with clear C1/C2/C3 categorisation and remedial work carried out by the same approved engineers, not subcontracted out.
From £120 · Report in 24–48 hours · MEES & Section 21 compliant · 6-year guarantee on remedials
From £120
1-bed flat
24–48 hrs
Report issued
MEES
Compliant
NICEIC
Approved Contractor
Section 21
Form 6A ready
Service overview
What "EICR / Electrical Safety Certificate" actually means in Nottingham.
An EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report) is the formal periodic inspection of a property's fixed electrical installation. For privately rented homes in England it has been mandatory since 2020 — every 5 years, or sooner if specified, with a Satisfactory result required to issue a Section 21 notice and to satisfy the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) electrical compliance regulations.
Most of our domestic EICRs are for landlords meeting the 5-yearly cycle, homeowners selling and acting on the buyer's homebuyer report, and owner-occupiers acting on insurer renewal requirements. Owner-occupiers are not legally required to hold one, but an EICR before a major project (rewire, kitchen, EV charger) is the cheapest piece of risk reduction available.
We test every circuit, log every observation against BS 7671 with photographs, and issue the report within 24–48 hours for most domestic properties. The remedial schedule (if any) comes with fixed prices so you can act on it without chasing more quotes.
The honest bit
Why EICRs fail and what the cheap providers leave out
Domestic EICRs fail for predictable reasons. Plastic consumer units coded C2 since 2018. Bathroom lighting circuits without RCD protection (C2). DIY additions — extra sockets spurred off ring finals, garden lighting installed in hose-permeable IP-low boxes, kitchen extensions wired into the existing ring without recalculation. And the universal one — no main bonding to gas and water in homes that haven't been touched since the 1970s.
What the £79 'EICR special' providers leave out is the cost of putting any of that right. They issue an Unsatisfactory report with a generic action list and disappear, leaving the landlord to chase three more quotes against a 28-day Section 21 deadline. We see this every month — landlords arriving at us in week 3 of 4 having lost the first 3 weeks to non-responsive cheap testers.
The right model is honest pricing on the EICR itself, every observation costed individually, and the same engineer doing both the test and the remedial work — so the certificate is upgraded to Satisfactory the same week, not the same month.
How we deliver it
Our eicr / electrical safety certificate process, step by step.
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1. Book & arrive
We confirm circuit count and access at booking. Engineer arrives within the agreed 2-hour window with full PPE and test kit.
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2. Visual inspection
Every accessory, every distribution board cover, supply head, bonding to gas/water/structural metal — photographed and logged.
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3. Dead testing
Power off. Continuity, insulation resistance, polarity on every circuit. Faults identified before energising.
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4. Live testing
Power on. Earth fault loop, RCD timing, supply characteristics. Tested and logged to BS 7671.
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5. Report & remedial schedule
PDF report issued within 24–48 hours of the test. Every C1/C2/C3 with fixed remedial price. Decide what to action — no pressure.
Why it matters
What you actually get.
Report in 24–48 hours
Most domestic EICRs are issued within 24–48 hours in PDF, accepted by every UK letting agent and council.
Costed remedials, no surprises
Every observation comes with a fixed remedial price. You decide what to fix and when — we don't disappear after issuing.
MEES & Section 21 ready
Format accepted by every council in the East Midlands. No re-formatting, no resubmission.
One engineer, start to finish
The engineer who tests is the engineer who returns to do the remedials. No subcontracting, no handover.
Live test results being recorded during a 5-yearly rental EICR for a Nottingham landlord under selective licensing.
Technical depth
Domestic vs rental EICRs, Section 21, and what code each observation gets
Domestic EICRs and rental EICRs follow the same testing methodology and report format — both are issued under BS 7671 with the same NICEIC template. The difference is the legal weight. A rental EICR must be Satisfactory before a Section 21 notice can be served (the 'no-fault' eviction route) and must be retained for the duration of the tenancy plus minimum 5 years. An owner-occupier EICR carries no legal requirement but still appears on insurance renewal and conveyancing requests.
Observation codes determine action. C1 (danger present) requires immediate isolation — the engineer locks off the affected circuit on the day. C2 (potentially dangerous) makes the report Unsatisfactory and must be corrected for the report to be reissued. C3 (improvement recommended) does not affect the result but is best practice to address. FI (further investigation) means the engineer needs more time and tools to diagnose — a partial Unsatisfactory pending the FI work.
MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards) electrical compliance under the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 requires private landlords to hold a Satisfactory EICR. Failing to do so can attract local authority fines up to £30,000 per property per breach — and it is now a routine local authority enforcement target, especially in Nottingham where selective licensing covers significant parts of the city.
Honest pricing
EICR / Electrical Safety Certificate costs in Nottingham — real ranges, not headlines.
Domestic and rental EICR pricing is fixed by property size. No call-out fee, no surprise charges. Real prices below.
| Scope | Typical price (incl. VAT) | Notes |
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| 1-bed flat or studio | £120 – £160 | Single distribution board, 4–6 circuits. |
| 2–3 bed home | £160 – £220 | Most common spec — 6–10 circuits, single board. |
| 4–5 bed home | £220 – £320 | 10–14 circuits, possibly with garden / outbuilding circuits. |
| 6+ bed HMO (BS 7671 + licence checks) | £280 – £450 | Includes selective-licensing-format reporting. |
What changes the price
- Number of circuits and distribution boards
- Whether it is a rental property under selective licensing (additional reporting fields)
- Whether previous EICR exists for comparison
- Access constraints (e.g. tenanted property requiring two visits)
- HMO vs single-let
Where we deliver this
Areas we cover for eicr / electrical safety certificate.
EICRs are our highest-volume domestic service — daily across Nottingham city, weekly portfolio runs in West Bridgford, Beeston, Lenton (HMOs), Arnold and Long Eaton.
The person responsible
Joshua Richardson & Benjamin Clurow
Co-Directors
NICEIC Approved Contractor, NICEIC Part-P Domestic Installer
Joshua Richardson and Benjamin Clurow co-founded JBRC Ltd and are the two named directors at Companies House (#17015285). They jointly run the business — both surveying, pricing and signing off domestic and rental EICR inspections across Nottingham, so every customer is dealing directly with a director from quote through to certification.
Recent jobs
Real eicr / electrical safety certificate work, recently signed off.
Pre-sale EICR, 4-bed detached, Edwalton.
Tested same day, Satisfactory. Buyer's solicitor accepted certificate without query. Sale closed 6 days later.
Edwalton, West Bridgford
Owner-occupier EICR before EV charger install, Wollaton.
C2 on consumer unit identified, upgraded same week, charger booked in fortnight later. Single trade throughout.
Wollaton, Nottingham
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