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EICR Poole - Electrical Safety Reports

An EICR is your electrical safety check. Required for landlords. Smart for homeowners and holiday-let owners. We are based in Poole and test every corner of it - Parkstone, Branksome, Old Town, Hamworthy, Sandbanks. One number sets your price: the circuit count on your fuse board. From £160, with no VAT on top. The finished PDF report reaches you inside 24 hours.

Fixed EICR prices by circuit count

The whole price list fits in one small table. You know the cost before we ever knock on the door - and it is the same price whether you are in a Hamworthy terrace or a Sandbanks penthouse.

No VAT to add, no markup on parts, no "from £99" bait that doubles on the day. Not sure how many circuits you have? Count the single switches on your fuse board - one per circuit, leaving out the main switch and the RCDs - and build your exact price on the quote tool. Or send a photo of the board to our WhatsApp and we will count them for you.

Poole properties, Poole problems

We test Poole homes every week, and the same patterns come up street by street:

• Old Town and the Quay. Georgian and Victorian cottages with wiring that has been extended decade after decade. We regularly find old rubber or fabric-covered cable, no earth on the lighting, and boards with no modern shock protection. An EICR tells you exactly where yours stands
• Parkstone and Branksome semis. Solid 1930s-1960s houses, often on their second or third partial rewire. The usual finds are mixed cable generations, borrowed neutrals and DIY additions from previous owners
• Sandbanks, Lilliput and Canford Cliffs flats. Apartment living means shared supplies, management companies and access fobs - we handle the freeholder paperwork and can inspect several flats in one visit
• Hamworthy and Oakdale rentals. A big chunk of Poole's private rental stock. Landlord EICRs, HMO licence renewals and the remedial work, all from one local electrician

Who needs one in Poole

• Landlords - it is the law. Private landlords in England must have a valid EICR for each rented home, renewed at least every 5 years. The rules have covered all existing tenancies since 1 April 2021
• HMO licence holders - Poole's HMOs are licensed by BCP Council, and a valid EICR is a standard licence condition. We test, fix and provide the evidence the council wants
• Holiday-let owners - the harbour, the beaches and the Quay make Poole a holiday-let hotspot. The landlord 5-year law does not cover short lets, but your duty to keep guests safe does, and most insurers want a valid EICR. We recommend one every 5 years
• Letting agents - portfolio bookings across Poole and the BH postcodes, reports emailed within 24 hours, and one point of contact for the remedial work too
• Home buyers and sellers - Poole's older stock makes a pre-purchase EICR cheap insurance before money changes hands
• Homeowners - if your home is 10 years past its last check, or you have just picked up the keys

Flats and apartment blocks - who owns what

From Lilliput and the marina round to the Quay, a lot of Poole lives in blocks - and block wiring confuses everybody. The line is simpler than it looks:

• Inside your front door is yours. The consumer unit in the hallway cupboard, and every circuit it feeds, belongs to the flat. That is what your EICR covers, and what the landlord law cares about
• Beyond it is the block's. Communal hallway lighting, the door entry system, the lift and the mains risers sit with the freeholder or management company, under their own maintenance duties
• We sort the access dance. Fobs, concierge sign-in, a meter cupboard key held by the agent - give us the managing agent's name and we take it from there
• Several flats, one visit. Own more than one flat in the same block? Book them together. The building gets one visit, and the portfolio discount starts at three

Holiday lets: test on changeover day

Harbour cottages, quayside apartments, Sandbanks flats on weekly lets - Poole runs a serious holiday trade, and in season the electrics never get a quiet week. Two things matter here:

• The booking window is changeover day. We schedule holiday-let EICRs into the gap between check-out and check-in, so no guest ever meets a tester on the landing. A key safe code is all we need
• Your insurer cares, even where the law is quiet. The landlord 5-year rule was written for tenancies, not short stays. Your duty to keep guests safe never switches off though, and most policies expect a current report behind it. Every 5 years is the rhythm we advise

Problems found mid-season? Our remedial service works to the same changeover clock.

What we check

An EICR is a full inspection and instrument test against BS7671, the national wiring standard - not a quick look round:

• The consumer unit (fuse board) - type, condition, and whether it still meets today's safety standards
• Every circuit - lighting, sockets, cooker, shower and any dedicated circuits, tested from the board
• Earthing and bonding - the safe path to ground, including the bonding to gas and water pipes
• RCD protection - the trip devices that cut power in a fraction of a second, tested for real
• The cabling itself - age, damage, overheating, and the brittle old insulation Poole's older homes love to hide

What happens on the day

• Time. A one-bed flat is a couple of hours; a typical house about half a day. We give you a realistic slot when you book
• Power. Some tests need circuits dead, so the power goes off in stretches. We keep it short and warn you first
• Access. A clear path to the fuse board and reasonable access to sockets. Landlords and agents can just leave a key - flats need the fob sorted, which we arrange with the agent
• Tenants. We book around them, turn up when we say, and leave the place as we found it

Verdicts and codes, in plain English

Every report ends satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Any C1 (danger now) or C2 (potentially dangerous) makes it unsatisfactory; C3 items are recommendations, not failures, and nobody should pressure you into them to "pass". If your report does fail, we quote every coded item in writing - and our remedial work service can have the faults fixed and certified well inside the landlord 28-day window. If we do the remedial work, the re-test within 30 days is free.

A danger found is a danger dealt with

An EICR sometimes uncovers a C1: a fault that is dangerous right now, not eventually. When that happens in a Poole home, we do not hand you a report and a problem. Pete removes the risk before leaving - the circuit comes off, or the failed fitting is disconnected. That work is already inside your fixed price. Nobody sleeps under a known live danger while quotes go back and forth.

The C1 still goes on the report, together with what was done about it, because the rules say a removed danger must still be recorded. Any permanent repair is then quoted in writing, and you choose who does it.

Our name says rewires. Can you trust the report?

Fair challenge: a firm that sells rewiring is grading the very wiring it could profit from. So we took the profit out of the verdict. Your fee is settled by circuit count before we arrive, and a fail earns us nothing a pass would not. Every code lands in the report with its photograph attached, so you can check the evidence rather than take anyone's word.

And the truth about Poole's housing? The big job is the exception. The usual outcome is a clean pass, a modest repair, or a fuse board that has had its day. Where the wiring is sound, the report says so in writing and that is the end of the matter. If work is needed, our itemised quote is yours to hand to any electrician in the county. We win the job on the numbers or not at all.

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Related pages

• EICR Bournemouth - same fixed prices, Bournemouth side
• EICR remedial work - failed report? We fix it inside the 28-day window
• Landlord electrical services
• Consumer unit upgrades
• House rewires in Poole

Need it this weekend? A Saturday here costs the same as a Tuesday - handy for changeover days and anyone who cannot take time off. We answer the phone 7am to 7pm, every day.