Remedial work
Why the repair is not done during the inspection
An EICR is the inspection and the report. Remedial work is a later job, scoped from what the report found. A gap between those two steps is not an excuse, and it does not extend a legal deadline. It also does not mean every observation needs a second visit.
Reviewed 5 October 2026 by Michael (Technical Supervisor), George Opsenica (Director, Codeex Maintenance Ltd) and George Opsenica (Director, Codeex Maintenance Ltd). General guidance, not a reading of your own report and not legal advice.
What each reviewer checked
- Michael: Technical review of the exact sentences that a delay does not change the classification and that not every line needs its own return visit. This does not extend a deadline.
- George Opsenica: Source review of the exact sentences that a gap does not extend a legal deadline and that waiting for access does not add days. This is not legal advice and it does not restate regulation 3(4).
- George Opsenica: Owner presentation of this current page. This is not a technical classification and it is not legal advice.
Reasons the repair is often a second step
The visit is diagnostic
The inspection is there to test and record. It is not a promise to rebuild the installation the same day.
The scope may be incomplete
Further investigation can be required before anyone knows what to replace.
Materials
A part may not be on the van. That is a supply question, not a reason to invent a price.
Access and shutdown
A board may need people out of a flat, or a landlord's riser opened, before work can start.
Authorisation
The person who will pay has to agree the work. The inspection does not sign that agreement.
A second contractor
A different competent firm may do the repair. The regulation does not say that person must be the firm that wrote the report.
Different observations create different gaps
| Situation | Why the repair may be later | What does not change |
|---|---|---|
| The defect is already fully described | It can be quoted from that line | The inspection day is still not the repair |
| Further investigation is required | The scope is not known yet | The investigation is not a finished repair |
| A part is not to hand | Materials have to be obtained | There is no universal repair price |
| The circuit cannot be off | Shutdown and access have to be arranged | The classification on the report |
| The person paying has not agreed | Authorisation is still required | The observation |
| Another firm will do the work | The regulation does not say that person must be the firm that wrote the report. | Competence still matters |
| Several lines are on one report | They can be one attendance when access and materials allow | Each line is not automatically its own call-out |
| The site is occupied | Trading, tenants or a school day may limit isolation | A delay does not itself change the observation classification. |
What that gap does not change
A delay does not itself change the observation classification. C1 and C2 lines remain the lines on the report. FI remains investigation, not a finished repair. There is no universal repair price.
Where a specified tenancy has a period for remedial work, that period is described on the 28-day page. Waiting to arrange access does not add days to it. This page does not publish a company timetable, a night shift, or a turnaround.
Not every line needs a return visit. A quotation can cover several observations in one attendance when access and materials allow it. The report decides which lines need work. It does not decide that each line is a separate call-out.
The remedial service is remedial work for a failed EICR. A second firm is discussed on using a different company for the repair.
Related pages
Scope the work from the report
The gap between inspection and repair does not extend a legal deadline.
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