What costs can follow an unsatisfactory EICR?

These are categories that can appear. An observation that needs no work does not create a repair invoice, and a limitation is not a priced job.

• Further investigation

  Only where the report says something could not be confirmed. The repair cannot be specified until that investigation says what was found.

• Remedial work

  Only for the observations that need work. The quotation depends on those observations, the access, and the materials. There is no universal repair price.

• Materials

  Replacement equipment sits inside the remedial quotation. This page has no separate menu of parts.

• Access and making good

  Time on site when a cupboard, a riser, or a tenant's appointment has to be arranged. Making good is a cost only when the repair disturbs finishes and that work is part of what was agreed.

• Verification after the work

  Inspection and testing of the repaired circuit, where the contractor has to confirm that circuit. It is not a second copy of the original inspection fee.

• A return attendance

  A further visit only when someone agrees it, for example to finish a circuit that could not be isolated. A failed report does not include that visit by itself.

An observation code is not a price. Two notes with the same letter can be different jobs, and a recommendation is not automatically the same invoice as work the report requires.

Where the observation is FI, the extent of the remedial work may not be knowable until that investigation has been done. Asking for one combined figure before that investigation is asking for a guess.

A figure needs the observations. The word unsatisfactory is not a scope of work.

1. 1. The observation pages

   The items, the limitations, and the address. Without them the categories above stay a list.

2. 2. What the report could not confirm

   Further investigation stays its own category until someone has found the extent.

3. 3. Access

   Who can isolate, and whether a cupboard, a riser, or an occupied room is still closed.

4. 4. Whether a return is already agreed

   A second attendance is a category only when it has been asked for. It is not assumed.

Verification of the repaired circuit is one of the categories above. A fresh condition report is a new inspection. It does not appear automatically because the first report was unsatisfactory.

The paperwork for the repair describes that repair. If a landlord or a buyer has asked for a new EICR, that booking is the inspection fee again, not a hidden line on the repair.

This page is the list of categories that can follow an unsatisfactory report. What changes the amount of a remedial quotation is a different question. A financial penalty for a housing breach is a different question again, and it is not a line on an electrician's quotation.

Inspection prices are on the EICR cost page. What affects a remedial quotation is on the remedial cost guide. The report itself can be discussed on the remedial work page.