EICR certificates Cost Calculator

How this calculator works

Every figure in this calculator is the one published in the cost table on our eicr certificates guide. Pick the option that matches your job and the calculator returns that published range, adjusted for your region - it does not model anything the guide does not already say.

That is deliberate. A calculator whose rates drift from the page it sits under is worse than no calculator, because two numbers on the same site disagree.

What it cannot know: access, the condition of what is already there, and anything structural. Those are what separate three real quotes from each other.

What an EICR checks, and what the codes mean

An Electrical Installation Condition Report is an inspection and test of your fixed wiring – the consumer unit, the circuits, and the sockets, switches and accessories wired into them. It doesn’t cover plug-in appliances, and it isn’t a repair job. The electrician records the condition of the installation, notes anything that falls short of the current safety standard, and gives the whole thing a verdict: satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

Landlords are the main reason these reports get booked. In England, privately rented homes must have a satisfactory report, renewed at least every five years and available for a new tenancy if the current one has lapsed. The detail sits in the government’s electrical safety standards guidance for landlords. If you own your home there’s no legal deadline, but an inspection every ten years, or before you buy a house with wiring of unknown age, is sensible.

The codes are where people get lost. A C1 means danger is present and needs sorting straight away. A C2 is potentially dangerous and has to be put right for the report to pass. A C3 is an improvement recommendation only – it doesn’t fail the report. “FI” means further investigation is needed, and that counts as unsatisfactory until it’s resolved. So a report with nothing worse than C3 items is a pass; a single C2 is not.

The report is the inspection, and nothing more. If it turns up faults, fixing them is quoted separately – the price of the EICR doesn’t include the remedial work. It’s worth asking your electrician for indicative remedial pricing when you book, so an unsatisfactory result doesn’t land as a surprise on top of the inspection fee.

What drives the cost is mostly time, and time tracks the size of the job. A one-bed flat has a handful of circuits; a larger house or an HMO has more circuits, sometimes more than one consumer unit, and more accessories to test, so it takes longer. That’s why the published range climbs from a small flat up to an HMO rather than being one flat fee. Older or heavily altered installations can also slow the inspection down.

Before you book, check the electrician is registered with a competent-person scheme such as NICEIC or NAPIT, and confirm what the quote covers – the inspection, and whether any remedial pricing or re-test after remedial work is included.