Electrical Installation Condition Reports in Newport — including the converted houses where one original supply now feeds several homes.
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.
Newport has a large stock of Victorian and Edwardian terraced housing around the centre, a good deal of it rented, alongside post-war estates further out. On its own that is unremarkable. What makes Newport reports more involved than average is how much of that older stock has been divided up.
A house converted into flats often still carries the shape of the original installation underneath the conversion — landlord supplies feeding common areas, meters added at different times, and circuits that cross between what are now separate homes. Establishing what belongs to which dwelling is half the job, and it is the part that gets skipped when a report is done cheaply and quickly.
That matters because the report has to say what it covers. An EICR on a flat that quietly ignores the supply arrangement it depends on is not telling the whole story, and it is the sort of gap that surfaces later during a sale or a licensing inspection.
Landlords with several properties around the city usually find it easier to bring the renewal dates together rather than chase them one at a time. There is nothing in the rules requiring that, and each report still runs from its own date, but a single planned round beats discovering an expired certificate the week a tenancy starts.
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.
Normally the installation serving your flat, from its own distribution board onwards. Anything upstream that is shared usually belongs to the freeholder or the management company, and the report should be clear about where the boundary was drawn.
Generally yes — the common area installation is its own installation and is usually the freeholder's responsibility rather than any one leaseholder's.
Yes. The duties come from Welsh law, so they apply the same across Newport, Cardiff and Caerphilly. Our page on what needs signing off in Wales sets out the detail.
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 Newport.
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