How to compare EICR companies in London

Compare each provider using the same questions: who will attend, what competence they can demonstrate, what the price includes and what records you receive. Check reviews and registration claims at their original sources.

Use the questions below when considering any firm, including London EICR Certificates.

• Who attends

  Ask who will inspect, and how you can confirm they are competent to do periodic inspection and testing.

• What is quoted

  Ask whether the figure is the inspection and the report, or whether repairs have been folded in.

• What is in scope

  Ask which boards, flats or communal supplies are included, and what happens if a cupboard is locked.

• What you receive

  Ask for the condition report itself, not a promise of a pass.

• What happens next

  Ask how further investigation is separated from a straightforward repair.

• What you keep

  Ask for the report, the limitations, and any later certificate for work that was actually done.

For a specified tenancy in England, the statutory question is whether the person is competent to do the inspection and test. Regulation 3(8) does not name a scheme. Membership of a scheme can be one way a customer checks a firm. It is not, by itself, the legal test, and a logo on a website is not the inspection.

The testing page is where you arrange an inspection with this company. This article does not replace that service, and it does not review competitors.

Ask for the legal name that will appear on the report, a postal address, and the name of the person who will attend. A trading name on a website is not the same thing as the person who signs the condition report.

Ask whether that firm holds public liability insurance for inspection work, and ask to see the evidence if your building or your insurer wants it. Check that the policy covers the proposed work and meets any requirements of your building or insurer. Regulation 3(8) does not name a scheme. Membership of a scheme can still be one way you check a firm. A logo, on its own, is not the inspection.

Ask how you will receive the condition report, how limitations are written, and who you contact if a page is missing. A message that says the installation passed is not the report.

• A guaranteed result

  The inspection can be satisfactory, or it can record observations. Paying for the visit does not buy a particular outcome.

• Repairs hidden in the figure

  Ask whether the quotation is the inspection and the report, or whether unknown repairs have been folded in. Those are different jobs.

• No discussion of extent

  Ask which boards and areas are included, and what is written if a cupboard is locked. A promise that every concealed cable was seen is not a description of a real visit.

• Remedial work treated as compulsory

  The observations can be priced by a competent contractor. That contractor does not have to be the firm that wrote the report. Agree the repair scope and quotation with your chosen contractor.

Two quotations are comparable when they are for the same property and the same scope. A price that includes repairs, or that guesses a commercial premises from a flat band, is a different job. Current residential inspection figures live on the EICR cost page. They are not repeated here.

Remedial work is a second instruction. You can ask a different firm to price the observations. That choice is explained on the page about using a different company for the remedial work. It is not a ranking.

Book the inspection on the EICR testing page. Read what a quotation is buying on what an inspection quote covers. Who may carry out an EICR is covered on competence and schemes.