Electrical Installation Condition Reports in Lisvane — larger properties, more circuits, and usually more going on outside the house.
An Electrical Installation Condition Report is a periodic inspection of an installation that already exists. It is not a certificate for new work — that is a different document — and it does not make anything safe on its own. What it does is tell you, circuit by circuit, the condition of the wiring in the property and what if anything needs attention.
Findings are coded. C1 means danger present, C2 means potentially dangerous, and FI means further investigation is required. Any of those three make the report unsatisfactory. C3 is an improvement recommendation — it does not make a report unsatisfactory, and a perfectly sound installation can carry several.
If you are letting a property in Wales, an EICR is the report you need on a recurring cycle. The rules on what needs inspecting, certifying and notifying are genuinely different here from England, and most advice online is written for England — we set out the Welsh position in what electrical work needs signing off in Wales.
Lisvane is mostly larger detached housing, and the installations reflect it. Where a terrace might have eight or ten circuits, a house here can easily have double that, sometimes split across more than one consumer unit — a main board plus a second one in a garage, an outbuilding or a converted annexe.
More circuits means a longer inspection, and anyone quoting a fixed half day for a property like this without asking how many circuits there are has not thought about it. Testing is done circuit by circuit; the number is the number.
The other thing larger plots bring is outdoor load. Garden lighting, supplies to outbuildings and workshops, pond and irrigation pumps, hot tubs and increasingly EV charge points are all part of the installation and all get inspected. Several of those are notifiable work in Wales, so where they were installed properly there will be paperwork — and where there is none, the report is the first honest look at what was actually done.
Some properties at this end of the market have a larger supply than a standard domestic one, occasionally three-phase, particularly where there is a substantial outbuilding, a pool or a workshop. That changes both the inspection and who is competent to carry it out, so it is worth saying so when you book rather than on the doorstep.
An inspection is not someone glancing at the fuse box. It is a physical inspection of the installation followed by a set of electrical tests, and the tests are the part that takes the time, because they are done circuit by circuit rather than all at once.
We need access to the consumer unit, to the meter and cut-out where the supply comes in, and to every room — including the loft if circuits run through it. The power goes off for parts of the day, usually in stages rather than all at once, so if anyone is working from home or there is a freezer that matters, tell us at the start and we will plan around it.
What you get at the end is the report itself plus the schedule of circuit details and test results that sits behind it. Those results are the evidence; a report without them is not worth much. If anything coded C1 is found we will make it safe before we leave, because leaving a known danger in place is not an option regardless of what you decide to do about the rest.
If remedial work is needed you are under no obligation to have us do it. We would rather quote for it and be compared than have the inspection double as a sales visit.
Not in itself — it is normal in larger properties, particularly where an outbuilding or extension has its own distribution board. Both get inspected, and the report should make clear how they relate to each other.
Yes. A home charge point is part of the installation and is inspected with everything else. It should also have had its own certification when it was installed, which is worth digging out if you still have it.
Because it takes longer. Every circuit is inspected and tested individually, so a property with twenty-odd circuits and outbuildings is simply more work than a two-bedroom flat. We would rather explain that up front than quote a number that has to change on the day.
If the report turns up work that needs doing, we can quote for it — but an EICR and the remedial work are separate decisions and you are under no obligation to have us do both. Related services: consumer unit upgrades, rewiring, EV charge point installation and emergency call-outs. You can also see everything we cover in Lisvane.
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