EICR in Eastleigh

Three reasons people book one

Almost everyone who contacts me about an inspection is in one of three situations, and what you actually want out of it differs in each.

Buying. A survey has mentioned the wiring and you want to know whether it is a negotiating point or a genuine problem. What you need is a clear answer and a rough cost of putting it right, ideally before you exchange.

Letting. You need the report itself, correctly dated and in a form your agent will accept.

Worried. Something has made you uneasy — a smell, a warm socket, a board that looks nothing like anyone else’s. Here the report matters less than somebody competent telling you whether you have a problem.

Say which one you are when you get in touch and the whole thing goes faster.

Booking one when I am just across town

I am based in Eastleigh, so local inspections are genuinely easy to arrange — no travel to price in, and if something needs a second short visit it is not a production. That is a practical point rather than a sales one: it mostly means I can be flexible about timing.

Reading the report you get

The front page gives you an overall satisfactory or unsatisfactory, and then a list of observations with a code beside each. The thing worth understanding is that unsatisfactory does not mean dangerous and does not mean rewire. It means at least one item needs attention, and that item might be a missing cover plate. I will go through the list with you rather than emailing a PDF and leaving you to decode it.

If it comes back with things on it

Most reports do. I price the remedial work separately so you can see what each item costs and decide what to do, rather than receiving one number for everything. If some of it can sensibly wait, I will say so.