Cost for EICR reports

[Ken77]

Hi all,

I was just wondering what the going rates where for EICR reports in London, as not sure if my pricing is realistic.

What do people charge for

1 bed and 3 bed properties?

Is it best only to charge per circuit?

I am currently trying to win some work from local estate agents and don't want to scare them off being being greedy.

Thanks

 

[Welchyboy]

i think you will find alot of sparkies do the actual reports for silly money and then rely on the follow up remedial work to actually make a profit

there are sparks around my way charging around £60 per property so you know they are going to pull down the customers pants for the remedials!


as an example i do a 3 bed house EICR report for around £120-£140, this is for a pretty thorough report with a covering letter, quote for remedials and reg no.s next to any non-compliances i find, i still consider this cheap as you are looking at least 4 hours work plus and an hour or two for paperwork afterwards so you have to round it off as a day, but tell a customer its £100+ and you wont win many, especially off a estate agent!


I have never charged per circuit so cant comment on that really

 

[Ken77]

Ouch! That's me having to rethink my pricing strategy then. I was thinking closer to £180 for a 3 bed. Real shame that value of work not appreciated and estate agents go bargain basement. The last PIR I reviewed (undertaken by another Spark) was for a 1 bed flat, with 6 lights in whole place, two of the lights were class I and the electrician didn't notice that neither had CPC. Nor the fact that there was open continuity on the only ring main for the property, and had provided IR reading which were false (or somehow the cable had deteriorated within 3 months from time of his test and my review, changing from results of >200M ohms to 1.12 M ohms. Not very likely).
Out of the last 5 PIR/EICR reports I have seen 3 of them have had unforgivable mistakes on them. What ever happened to being competent?

 

[Marnik]

Charge per circuit for me.
Depending on the premises, Between £12 and £18 per circuit (normally 3 circuits per hour)

 

[Octopus]

Charge per circuit for me.
Depending on the premises, Between £12 and £18 per circuit (normally 3 circuits per hour)

There's more to a EICR than testing circuits.

Day rate for me for a 3 bed house.

 

[Marnik]

There's more to a EICR than testing circuits.

Day rate for me for a 3 bed house.

Been doing this for the last 10 years (mainly commercial and industrial) for some very big contracts nationwide,so i know what it involves !!!!

 

[Welchyboy]

funny you should say that as i rarely see a test sheet these days, even for an old property with an I/R reading of less than >200 in every box on every circuit

the world of domestic PIR's is a sad place for someone who actually cares!

 

[TaffyDuck]

£40 + £13 per circuit is what I charge so a house with 8 circuits is £144.

 

[Octopus]

£40 + £13 per circuit is what I charge so a house with 8 circuits is £144.

But where are you? Regions vary massively

 

[RISElectrical]

I charge £160 for anything upto and including a 3 bed house. Conservatory would be extra £40 as would extra bedrooms etc. I offer a discount of 25% for flats with 2 beds or less.

I dont win much granted but then again I do a proper job, including paperwork there isnt much time left in a day to do anything else. I also dont pull the customers pants down on the remedial works. In fact i state from the off that unless they specifically ask me to quote for it then i wont as it could be seen as a conflict of interest. They get a report, and a list of non conformities, unless specifically asked for I wont even tell them recommended ways to fix the faults. My price for a report is exactly that.

Saying that like I said I dont win much these days with the £30-50 a test brigade on the case, but then again I dont want to value my work at £60 for a test that takes 4 hours to do properly and then rely on the remedial work to make it pay, i dont think this is the way that EICR should be done. Needless to say estate agents dont want to know. 1 local estate agent wanted me to do them for £30 per property because he had 50 that needed testing...

 

[varilite]

Do you need to be registered with NICEIC to do EICR reports?

 

[tommy.dale]

You don't need to be registered with any scam to carry out eicr's although letting agents tend to go with nic as I often hear 'if your not nic, you can't be qualified!

 

[amlu]

quoted £100 last time, did not get the job, cowboys do it for 50 quid

 

[Octopus]

quoted £100 last time, did not get the job, cowboys do it for 50 quid

Where are you? Location matters.

 

[Dave 85]

Heres a slightly different take on things....Bearing in mind its not the estate agent who pays the bill I'd imagine a lot of business savvy electricians make a small fortune from estate agents EICR's if they offer said agent some kind of 'incentive' for putting the work their way and the actual price becomes somewhat irrelevant.