EICRs and electrical compliance for rental properties — with tenant liaison, digital certificates, and remedials done in the same visit wherever possible.
If you let property in England, electrical compliance isn’t optional and the deadlines don’t move. Surrey Hills Electrical looks after single-property landlords, portfolio investors and letting agents across Surrey, doing the testing properly, chasing the access so you don’t have to, and keeping the certificates arriving before anyone has to remember.
Councils can fine up to £30,000 per breach, and an expired certificate also weakens your position on deposits and possession. Full official guidance is on GOV.UK; the short version is: test on time, fix what’s found, keep the paper.
A full BS 7671 condition report by a City & Guilds 2391-qualified inspector, a same-week digital certificate, plain-English notes for you (and solicitor-friendly formality for the file), plus smoke and CO alarm checks while we’re there, because those regulations are yours to carry too.
Around a third of rental EICRs come back unsatisfactory, usually ageing boards, missing RCD protection or amateur alterations left by history. We quote remedials itemised per observation, can often complete minor items during the inspection itself, and reissue your satisfactory certification inside the 28-day window the law gives you.
Agents juggle hundreds of certificates. We take blocks of instructions, deal with tenants directly for access, report back in your preferred format, and never leave you explaining a missed deadline to a landlord. If your current contractor is the reason you chase paperwork, let’s talk.
While we’re on site we can install or replace smoke and heat alarms (required on every storey), CO alarms, and handle the electrical side of fire-safety upgrades, one visit, one invoice, one folder of compliance.
Fines up to £30,000 per property, enforcement notices, and difficulty with insurance and possession proceedings. It is the least worth-skipping paperwork in property.
Usually within 2–3 working days, void periods are money, and we treat them that way.
If you’d like, yes. We arrange access, give proper notice windows, and confirm appointments so you’re not the middleman.
HMO licences typically mandate five-yearly testing as a condition and may impose stricter requirements; we test to your licence conditions, not just the minimum.
Yes, and more valuably, a renewal calendar we manage so every property stays continuously covered.
Digitally, normally within 48 hours of a satisfactory result. Same-day when you’re up against a completion or move-in.
