What affects EICR remedial work costs in London

A useful quotation starts from the observation, not from the word unsatisfactory. Someone has to see what the inspector recorded, decide whether more investigation is needed, and only then describe the work.

• Read the observation: the code, the circuit, and the limitation if there is one.
• Understand the defect that was actually found. Two notes that sound similar can need different work.
• Investigate first where the report asks for that, or where the extent of the fault is not yet known.
• Define the scope: which devices, cables, accessories or boards are in the work.
• Price the access, the materials and the labour for that scope.
• Carry out the agreed work, then test or verify what was affected.

Not every job uses every step. A missing blank can be obvious from the schedule. A borrowed neutral, or an FI item, may stop at investigation until the fault is located. The remedial work page is where that report can be sent.

These are kinds of work that turn up after an EICR. They are not a menu of automatic repairs, and none of them has a public price on this page.

• A blank, a label, or another small accessory.
• Repair or replacement of a damaged socket or switch.
• Repair of a circuit, including a poor connection or a damaged conductor.
• Containment, where cables are unsupported or exposed.
• Earthing or bonding conductors.
• RCD or RCBO work on the circuits the report names.
• Consumer-unit work, from a device or a cover through to a larger change of the assembly.
• Fault finding, where the observation asks for further investigation.
• Cable repairs that only become clear once access is opened.
• Several observations that sit on one circuit and can be dealt with together.

Five observations can be five small items in one cupboard, or five separate problems in different parts of the building. The count on the schedule is not the number of visits.

The other way around matters just as much. One observation can need a long search: a lost neutral, a cable that disappears into a floor, or a device whose compatibility is not obvious from the cover. The quotation should say which of those it is.

Where the observation is FI, the extent of the remedial work may not be knowable until that investigation has been done. Under the current A4:2026 EICR format, an FI observation is advisory and does not by itself make the overall assessment unsatisfactory.

An FI note is a reason to find out more. It is not a priced repair, and it is not a promise that the work will be small once the cover comes off.

The same repair costs more when the building will not give it up easily. Occupied rooms, furniture, floorboards, a loft, cables buried in plaster, and appliances that have to be moved all change the time on site. A return visit is its own item when the first attendance could not finish the work.

Ask whether decorating or making good is included. It is not assumed either way.

The quotation form asks for the property address, postcode, access contact and the codes you already know. The report is strongly requested, and you can still send the request without it. Photographs of the observations and the consumer unit help when you have them.

• The full EICR, including the observation pages, when you have it.
• The address, postcode and whether the property is occupied.
• Who can give access, and any restriction on isolating circuits.
• Photographs of the board or the defect, if they show something the schedule does not.

The agreed work is carried out, and the circuits or accessories that were worked on are tested or verified as that work requires. The paperwork depends on what was done. A minor repair and a new circuit do not produce the same certificate.

That paperwork is not automatically a new EICR. The original condition report remains the record of what was found. A certificate for the later work describes that work. If a landlord or a buyer has asked for a fresh condition report, that is a separate inspection.

The difference between those documents is set out in the EICR and certificate comparison.

One damaged accessory is often a defined replacement: the item, the circuit it is on, and a check that the replacement is sound. Consumer-unit, RCD or circuit-fault work is a different scope. It can involve the assembly, several circuits, isolation of the supply, and time to prove the protective devices afterwards.

Neither description is a price. It is the reason a round figure, given before the report has been read, is not a quotation for those defects.

Residential inspection figures, VAT and any central London travel fee belong on the EICR cost page. What changes a landlord's inspection quotation is on the landlord cost page. Commercial remedial work is quoted from that installation, not from the flat or house inspection card.

Open the EICR cost page for the inspection. Use this page when the question is the cost of putting the defects right.