Harrow, HA1, HA2, HA3
EICR Certificates in Harrow
Periodic inspections for Harrow landlords, from shared houses off Station Road to 1930s semis in North Harrow, coded honestly and written up within 48 hours.
- Free, no-obligation quotes
- EICR report within 48 hours
- Price confirmed before we attend
- Certificates and repairs on one account
- 48 hoursReport issued after the test
- Price firstConfirmed before we attend
- HA1, HA2, HA3Harrow postcodes
In short
What should landlords in Harrow know about EICRs?
Every private let in Harrow needs its fixed wiring inspected and tested at least every five years, and a current report has to exist before a tenancy starts.
EliteShires Property Services carries out these inspections across HA1, HA2 and HA3 and sends the written report within 48 hours of the visit. You get a fixed price beforehand, worked out from the number of circuits once we know the size of the property, and most flats and houses take two to four hours on site. Locally, an ageing consumer unit is what most often makes a report unsatisfactory, and we code what we find rather than inflating it into a rewire.
The full guide is on our Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) page, and everything else we do locally is under landlord certificates and repairs in Harrow.
C1 and C2 items are quoted line by line, and you can book the electrical remedial work in Harrow with us or take it elsewhere.
Booking more than one certificate in Harrow? We can do the EICR, gas check and EPC in one visit.
Specific jobs: EICRs for shops & offices.
We attend in and around Harrow, including Harrow town centre, Wealdstone, North Harrow, South Harrow, West Harrow, Harrow on the Hill and Harrow Weald.
EICR Certificates in Harrow: what is different here
What do older Harrow terraces and 1930s semis usually show at inspection?
Most have been rewired since they were built, so the cable in the walls is usually PVC and often sound. The weak point is the board fitted with that rewire. Rewireable fuses and no RCD protection will, on their own, produce C2 observations and an unsatisfactory result, and missing main bonding to the incoming gas and water pipes is the other repeat finding. Where rubber-insulated or lead-sheathed cable from the original wiring survives, often in a loft or under a floor, that is a real reason to plan a rewire.
The interwar semis raise a different point: too few sockets, with extension leads doing the work. That is worth noting, but it does not fail an installation. Where a board change and bonding upgrade will do, that is what we quote.
What does a Harrow licence add to the inspection?
The test is the same, but a licence adds a reader. Each Harrow licence, selective or HMO, carries the statutory condition that the electrical installation is kept safe and in proper working order, with a declaration to the council whenever it asks. The council's HMO conditions, which have applied to mandatory and additional licences alike, go further: a periodic report on the whole installation, carried out within the last five years or the shorter interval the electrician set, with any urgent items put right within 28 days of the report.
Since 2026, selective licensing has brought single-household lets in Greenhill, Marlborough, Roxeth and both Wealdstone wards into this. Houses shared by three or four people from two or more households join them when Harrow's new additional scheme starts on 6 January 2027, so book the inspection before you apply.
How do access and parking affect an inspection near the station?
Two to four hours is long enough for parking to matter. Around both Harrow stations many streets fall in controlled zones, each with its own hours, so mention a driveway, a visitor permit or a free bay when you book. Circuits are switched off in turn during testing, so tenants working from home, or anyone relying on medical equipment, need warning.
In purpose-built blocks the meter or incoming supply sometimes sits in a locked communal cupboard, which means a key or the managing agent's help. Sorting that before the day avoids a wasted trip.
Can EICRs across a Harrow portfolio be put on one schedule?
Yes. Landlords who bought in different years often find their five-year dates spread across every season, which means a separate visit for each. We can bring the renewals together over one cycle, testing some properties a little early so neighbouring addresses fall due together, and where several are close, one day can cover more than one inspection.
We also note which addresses needed remedial work last time; the houses with the oldest boards are usually the ones to budget for. Knowing that a year ahead beats finding out inside a 28-day window. A shared house keeps whatever interval its last report set, even if that is shorter than five years.
What can Harrow Council do if an EICR is missing or late?
Fine you up to £40,000 for each breach. Regulation 11, as amended by SI 2025/1043, lets Harrow Council, as the local housing authority, impose a penalty up to that sum, and further penalties while a failure continues, once it is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that a duty was broken. In practice the clock runs from the test date. Each current tenant must have a copy within 28 days of it, and any remedial or further investigative work is due within 28 days too, sooner if the report says so.
Then the electrician's written confirmation that the work is done goes, with the report, to the tenants and to the council within 28 days of completion. If the council writes asking for the report, you have 7 days. A landlord who can show all reasonable steps were taken, such as dated attempts to get access, has a defence.
Do I need a new EICR every time a tenancy changes?
No, provided the last report is under five years old, called for no further work and has not passed its own next-inspection date. GOV.UK's guidance says a fresh test is then not needed before re-letting, though it recommends at least a visual check between tenancies. The regulations still require a test before the tenancy where no report is in date, the latest report in the incoming tenant's hands before they move in, and a copy for anyone hoping to rent within 28 days of a written request.
Hold each report until the next inspection is due or has happened, and pass it to the electrician who does that one. For a Harrow house let room by room, that means one report for the whole building, given to each new sharer, not a new test for every room.
Can a new-build Harrow flat use the developer's certificate instead?
For its first five years, usually yes. GOV.UK's guidance says a newly built or fully rewired home should have an Electrical Installation Certificate, that a landlord can give tenants, and the council if asked, a copy of it, and that no further inspection or report is needed until five years after it was issued. That matters in Harrow, where Valuation Office figures date 15% of homes to 2000 or later, rising to 51.8% in the area the House of Commons Library calls Greenhill South.
Check the certificate's date and that it covers the whole installation, then diary the fifth anniversary. A certificate for a single job, such as a new circuit or a board change, does not stand in for a report on the whole flat.
What do Rayners Lane and North Harrow houses show at inspection?
Usually the second or third generation of wiring. Valuation Office figures put 94.9% of homes in the area the House of Commons Library calls Rayners Lane South, and 79.4% in North Harrow, in the 1919 to 1939 period, and at the 2021 Census 49.0% of households in Rayners Lane ward lived in terraced houses, the highest share in the borough. The original 1930s wiring has normally been replaced, so what we find depends on when that happened.
Red and black cable is normal in an installation from before 2004 and is not a fault in itself. What does count against a report is a lighting circuit with no earth conductor serving metal fittings or switches, a board with no RCD protection, or an extension wired off a circuit that was never meant to carry it.
Read before you book
Booking an EICR in Harrow? Tell us the postcode and what you need on 0203 667 1333, on WhatsApp, or request a quote. The price is confirmed before we attend.
Official sources
- GOV.UK: electrical safety standards guidance, published 1 November 2025 (re-letting, new-build EICs, £40,000)
- legislation.gov.uk: ESS Regulations 2020, regulation 3 as amended (tests before a tenancy, copies, 28-day remedial work)
- legislation.gov.uk: regulation 11 as amended by SI 2025/1043 (council fines up to £40,000)
- legislation.gov.uk: Housing Act 2004, Schedule 4 (the electrical safety condition in every licence)
- Harrow Council: HMO conditions and amenity standards, May 2020 (periodic electrical report, alarms above shops)
- Harrow Council: HMO licensing page (the previous additional scheme ended 5 August 2026)
- Harrow Council: postcode checker for selective licence areas
- VOA: build period by neighbourhood (MSOA) for Harrow, table CTSOP4.1 at 31 March 2025
- House of Commons Library: MSOA names (Rayners Lane South, North Harrow, Greenhill South)
- Nomis (ONS): Census 2021 accommodation type by Harrow ward (TS044)
Last reviewed October 2026 by EliteShires Property Services.
Price and booking
Price and booking in Harrow
Certificates and defined jobs are a fixed price confirmed before we attend; repairs are charged by the hour, with the rate and an estimate confirmed before we attend.
What you end up with
A compliant Electrical Installation Condition Report, a plain explanation of what each code actually means for you, and a fixed price for any work, with no obligation to have us do it.
On our EICR page: what a visit includes, step by step.
Why people trust us in Harrow
- Inspection and testing by registered electricians, with every observation coded and explained
- A walk-in office on Kenton Lane, not a serviced address
- Anything immediately dangerous made safe on the day
- A time slot rather than a morning-or-afternoon window
- Work photographed before and after, and reported
- We tell you when you do not need something we sell
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Also in Harrow
Related services in Harrow
Also nearby: EICRs in Kenton, and in Pinner, Stanmore, Wembley and Northolt.
EICR Certificates in Harrow: your questions
Not answered here? Call 0203 667 1333 and ask.
My Harrow terrace has an old fuse board. Will it definitely fail?
Not definitely, but a fuse board without RCD protection usually produces C2 observations, and any C2 makes the report unsatisfactory. The usual fix is a new consumer unit, often with bonding upgrades, not a rewire. We price each of those items separately, so you can see which ones turn the report satisfactory.
Can you inspect a shared house while tenants are in?
Yes, and in HMOs that is the usual position. We need entry to every room, including locked bedrooms, and the power goes off for parts of the test. If you or your agent warn the tenants in advance, the visit runs to time. A room we cannot reach is recorded on the report as a limitation.
The last inspector gave me a long list of C3 codes. What should I do?
Read the codes, not the covering letter. A C3 is a recommendation for improvement: it neither makes the report unsatisfactory nor starts the 28-day clock. Send it over and we will say which items, if any, deserve attention. If none do, that is the answer you get.
Can you inspect a flat above a shop on Station Road or Wealdstone High Street?
Yes. The flat is tested from its own consumer unit, but the supply often comes in through the shop and the meter may be in the back room, so we need the shopkeeper's help with access and with any power-off. At the 2021 Census, 2.2% of Wealdstone South's households lived in a commercial building, typically over a parade, and 2.3% in North Harrow. If the flat is part of a licensed HMO, Harrow's standards expect a Grade A fire alarm with a control panel above commercial premises, so mention it when you book.
How do I check whether my Harrow address is in a selective licensing ward?
Use the council's postcode checker, because postcodes cut across the wards. HA1 takes in Greenhill and Marlborough, which are licensed, as well as Headstone, North Harrow and West Harrow, which are not. In HA2, Roxeth is in the scheme while Rayners Lane and Roxbourne are not, and in HA3 the two Wealdstone wards are in while Harrow Weald, Belmont and Kenton East are out. Harrow's sixth licensed ward, Edgware, sits in HA8.
Book an EICR in Harrow
Most quotes are settled on a two-minute call. Or send the form and we will call you back.
0203 667 1333 Or WhatsApp us on 07534 813123- We confirm the quote for your property
- We book a time slot that suits you or your tenant
- The installation is tested and the report issued
Visit the office
EliteShires Property Services
6 Station Parade, Kenton Lane
Harrow HA3 8SB
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Opening hours
Mon – Fri · 8:00 – 18:00
Saturday · 9:00 – 16:30
Sunday · Emergencies only