EICR for Letting Agencies in Chatham, Kent

CJA Electrical works with letting agencies across Chatham and the wider Medway area on landlord EICR compliance. The 2020 PRS regulations sit on the landlord legally, but the operational burden lands squarely on the agent — managing tenant access, chasing certificates before void weeks close, fielding council requests, and keeping the portfolio’s compliance data clean. We’re set up around shifting that workload off the agent.

What an EICR involves for Letting Agency

For the agency, an EICR booked through us is operationally identical whether it’s one property or twenty. We work to BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 — the current UK wiring regulations — testing every circuit and inspecting every accessible accessory. Findings are coded C1, C2, C3, or FI per the standard. What changes for portfolio work is the workflow around the testing. We confirm receipt of every booking, send appointment reminders to tenants directly if the agency prefers, and deliver every certificate to a single agency inbox in the standard EICR PDF format your back-office systems already accept.

When you need this in Chatham

Agency-side EICR demand peaks around three things: the routine five-yearly cycle (which the agent often coordinates without much landlord involvement), the void week between tenancies, and Medway Council compliance audits when they happen. We’ll cope with all three on the same framework — same booking process, same delivery method, same format — and accommodate the fast-turnaround end of the work whenever the diary allows.

What the report contains

Output format: standard industry EICR PDF, three-part document (form + inspection schedule + test results), delivered to the agency’s compliance inbox by default. Unsatisfactory reports come with the remedial quote already attached, so the agent has one document to forward to the landlord rather than chasing a quote separately. Medway Council pushback on report format is rare — the standard form is universally accepted.

Why book CJA Electrical for your Chatham EICR

Agencies pick CJA for the operational fit, not the technical work — the technical work is the same as anyone else’s BS 7671 inspection. What differs: Single point of contact for portfolio bookings, consistent same-week turnaround for Chatham properties, certificate delivery in the format your back-office systems already handle, framework pricing that scales to portfolio size, and remedial work quoted alongside any unsatisfactory report so the landlord can decide quickly. Fully insured (£1m PL), City & Guilds 2391 qualified inspector, ten years on Medway domestic property.

How the inspection runs

Framework booking flow: 1. Agency emails or messages with property list (one or many) 2. Quote and appointment options come back the same working day 3. Tenant access confirmed via the agency or directly with tenants 4. Inspection visits — power off briefly on each circuit during testing 5. Reports delivered as PDF to the agency’s compliance inbox within 48 hours 6. Unsatisfactory reports include a remedial-work quote attached 7. On agreement, remedials are booked in and re-test issues a fresh certificate

What affects the price

Framework pricing for letting agencies is structured around the variables that genuinely affect the work: property size, circuit count, consumer unit type, and accessibility. We agree base prices per property type once, then apply them across the portfolio with no per-job back-and-forth. No deposit on framework work, single agency invoice covering each batch, payment on completion. Get in touch with a representative property list and we’ll come back with the framework numbers.

FAQs

Can you handle remedial works as well as the inspection?

Yes. Where the EICR comes back unsatisfactory, we attach a remedial quote alongside the report so the landlord has one document to consider. On acceptance, we book the works in, complete them, re-test the affected circuits, and issue a fresh satisfactory report. The whole inspection-to-clean-certificate cycle typically fits inside a fortnight.

Do you charge per property or per portfolio visit?

Per property. Each property’s testing is documented separately and gets its own certificate, even when several are visited on the same day. We do batch the bookings to keep travel costs down — visiting four Chatham properties in a single day is meaningfully cheaper than four separate trips, and the framework pricing reflects that.

Can you cover Chatham and the surrounding Medway towns?

Yes. Our service area covers Medway, Maidstone, Gravesham, Swale, and the rest of north and west Kent. Chatham is reached from our Rochester base in around 5 minutes. We typically batch portfolio inspections across Rochester, Gillingham, Strood on the same booking sweep where the diary allows.

Do you carry the right insurance for agency framework work?

Yes — £1m public and product liability, plus £100k professional indemnity. Certificate of insurance available on request for inclusion in your supplier files. The cover applies across all routine domestic EICR work, including remedial work commissioned through the framework.

What happens if a tenant blocks access on the agreed day?

We work the booking around the tenant’s schedule wherever possible and confirm the day before to minimise no-shows. If access does fall through on the day, we don’t charge an abortive call-out for the first instance, and the booking gets rescheduled. Persistent access issues across a portfolio are something we’d flag back to you for involvement.

Can you flag certificates approaching expiry across our portfolio?

We can supply a renewal-due-date list with each certificate so your back-office systems can put the renewal date into the property record. We don’t operate a separate reminder service — that part sits more naturally inside your property management software — but we’ll work to whatever renewal cadence the agency wants.