Privately rented homes

Landlord EICR in Chesterfield and north Derbyshire

An EICR for rented property is a legal requirement in England. Let a home and its electrical installation must be inspected at least every five years, and you have to be able to produce the report. We put you in touch with a qualified electrician who does it properly.

England only. The Welsh and Scottish positions differ.

Landlord

Where is the property?

The postcode tells us whether we cover you.

PostcodeSo we can check you are in our area

Property type (optional)

Where you are in the cycle (optional)If your current report still has months to run, we would rather tell you that than book you in early.

What you are getting

What EICR requirements cover in a rented property

An inspection of the fixed installation

Wiring, consumer unit, sockets, switches, fixed appliances. Everything permanently connected. Not the kettle and the lamps: no PAT duty applies to private landlords in England.

A schedule of test results

The numbers behind the verdict: readings, circuit by circuit. Check the schedule is attached before you accept any report.

Observations with classification codes

Anything found is coded. Only C1 and C2 make a report unsatisfactory. C3 and FI stopped doing so in 2026, and most published guidance has not caught up.

The limitations of the inspection, recorded

What could not be reached, and why. In older or occupied property there is almost always something. A Victorian terrace with no limitations listed is the report to question.

What you get

A report records circuits, codes and limitations

The verdict is the least useful part. What matters is the schedule of test results behind it, the coded observations, and an honest record of anything the inspection could not reach.

A ticked box and nothing else is a verdict with no working shown. Worth knowing before you accept one, whoever arranged it.

Electrical Installation Condition ReportBS 7671

Schedule of circuit details

1	Lighting, ground floor	6A Type B
2	Lighting, first floor	6A Type B
3	Sockets, ring final	32A Type B
4	Cooker	32A Type B
5	Immersion heater	16A Type B
6	Outbuilding supply	20A Type B

Observations and classification codes

C2No RCD protection to the outbuilding supply.
C3Consumer unit is not of a non-combustible construction.

One C2 present, so this report reads unsatisfactory. The C3 alone would not have made it so.

An illustration, not a real report. No address, reference or signature: those belong to a real inspection.

What the law says

Landlord duties carry fixed deadlines

England, privately rented homes. Every line is from the regulations themselves rather than from somebody's summary of them, and the sources are listed underneath.

Inspection interval	No more than 5 years, or shorter where the report specifies
Report to existing tenants	Within 28 days of the inspection
Report to a new tenant	Before they occupy
Report to a prospective tenant	Within 28 days of a written request
Report to the local housing authority	Within 7 days of a written request
Remedial or further investigative work	Within 28 days, or sooner if the report specifies
Written confirmation the work is done	To tenants and the authority within 28 days of completion
Maximum financial penalty	£40,000, raised from £30,000 in 2025

Sources

This describes the law in England. The Welsh and Scottish positions differ, Scotland's repairing standard also covers portable appliances, which the England duty on private landlords does not. It is general information, not legal advice. Last checked against the primary sources on 27 August 2026.

How it works

How to get an EICR for rented property

Four steps. The first sometimes ends with us telling you the current electrical landlord certificate still has months to run.

Tell us the property and the date
Address, rough circuit count, whether it is tenanted, and when the current report expires. That last answer sets your deadline.
We match it to a qualified electrician
Competent to inspect and test to BS 7671, and working in your area. Our standards page sets out the qualifications and registrations behind that.
Access is arranged with the tenant
Each circuit is isolated in turn, so the property loses power on and off. Agreeing access in advance is what decides whether the deadline is met.
You receive the report
With the schedule of results and any observations coded. An unsatisfactory result carries deadlines, set out on the unsatisfactory-result page.

An electrician holding a multimeter and touching a red test probe into a domestic consumer unit, with rows of circuit breakers and blue, brown and green-and-yellow conductors above

Areas covered

We cover eight towns across north Derbyshire

Chesterfield and the towns around it. The enforcing authority changes across this area: five councils cover the eight towns. Property across the patch means more than one of them.

Chesterfield Staveley Wingerworth Dronfield Clowne South Normanton Somercotes Matlock

Coverage check

Do we cover your postcode?

Type the first part, like S40 or DE45. No need for the whole thing.

Outside those eight? What an EICR costs and covers across Derbyshire.

By town

Who enforces it where you let

The duty is the same across England. The council enforcing it, and the stock you are likely to be letting, are not.

Landlord EICR in Chesterfield Landlord EICR in Staveley Landlord EICR in Dronfield Landlord EICR in Clowne

Standards

The standards every inspection is carried out to

An EICR is only as good as the person signing it. Every inspection here is carried out to these standards, and each one is checked against the issuing body's own register rather than taken on trust.

Qualified to inspect, not just to install

Inspecting an existing installation is a separate qualification from wiring a new one. A good installer is not automatically the right person to sign a report.

Registered with a competent person scheme

Checked on the scheme's own public register, not a badge on a website.

Public liability insurance, in date

We check the certificate and the expiry date, not just that one exists. A lapsed policy is the most common reason to turn someone away.

You get the test results

Not just a pass or fail. The report lists each circuit and the readings taken, which is the part worth checking.

Working to the current standard

BS 7671 as amended in 2026. That amendment changed which findings make a report unsatisfactory, and not everyone has caught up.

Reviews you can read

Not a star rating with no detail behind it. We publish no figure of our own, because we have none to publish yet.

Scheme registration and insurance details come with your quote, so you can check them against the public register yourself. How we choose electricians sets out every check, including what gets someone turned away.

Next step

Arrange a landlord EICR in Chesterfield

Send the address and your renewal date. If the current report has months left, we will say so instead of booking you in.

Arrange an inspection

Questions

Landlord EICR questions

How often do I need one?

At intervals of no more than five years for a privately rented home in England. If the report itself specifies a shorter interval, that shorter interval is the one that applies. It overrides the five years rather than sitting alongside it.

What happens if the report is unsatisfactory?

It means something was coded C1 or C2. You then have 28 days from the inspection to complete the remedial or further investigative work, or less where the report specifies a shorter period, and you must obtain written confirmation from a qualified person that it has been done.

What is the penalty for not having one?

A local housing authority can impose a financial penalty of up to £40,000, and more than one penalty where a failure continues. That ceiling was £30,000 until it was raised in 2025, so older guidance you may find still quotes the lower figure.

Does it cover appliances as well?

Not in England. The duty covers the fixed electrical installation. Portable appliance testing is a separate thing and is not required of a private landlord here, although Scotland's repairing standard does include it, which is where a lot of the confusion comes from.

Do you carry out the inspection yourselves?

A qualified electrician, competent to inspect and test to BS 7671. They sign the report, and their scheme registration and insurance details come with your quote.

My property is in Clowne, not Chesterfield. Does that change anything?

The duty is the same everywhere in England. What changes is who enforces it: Clowne is Bolsover District, Dronfield and Wingerworth are North East Derbyshire District, Somercotes is Amber Valley, Matlock is Derbyshire Dales. Worth knowing if you hold property across the area.

Get a quote

Arrange a landlord EICR

Address, roughly how many circuits, whether it is tenanted, and when the current report expires if you have one.

No cost, and no obligation to book anything
We come back with a date or a question, not a sales call
A fixed price for the work described, in writing

Would rather talk it through? Leave a number in the form and say so in the details, and we will ring you rather than emailing back.

Summary of the condition of the installation

Extent of the installation covered	Whole installation, all circuits
Agreed limitations	Concealed cable, floors not lifted
Overall assessment	Unsatisfactory
Recommended next inspection	Within 5 years

An unsatisfactory result starts a 28 day clock on a rented property. The report says what was found, so you can get it priced.

Example only. A real summary carries the property, the date and the signature.

Free quote

Other situations

The same inspection carries different duties

The inspection itself is the same job in every case. What changes is whether the law says you have to have one.