EICR for Letting Agencies in Sevenoaks, Kent

CJA Electrical works with letting agencies across Sevenoaks and the wider Sevenoaks 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

The technical inspection follows BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 regardless of who’s booking it — visual check of consumer unit, accessories, and supply route followed by dead and live testing of every circuit. The report uses the same C1, C2, C3, FI observation codes the regulations specify. What letting agents typically value is what wraps around the inspection: coordinated tenant access, consistent reporting timelines, single-point invoicing, and a remedial-work quote attached to any unsatisfactory report so the landlord can decide quickly. We bake all of that into the framework.

When you need this in Sevenoaks

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 Sevenoaks District 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

Every EICR comes back as a single-PDF deliverable: the EICR form with inspector qualifications, property address, observation codes, and overall pass-or-fail; the schedule of inspection; and the schedule of test results per circuit. Standard format, agency-inbox delivery. For unsatisfactory reports, we attach a quote for the remedial work alongside the report — landlord can accept, decline, or seek a second quote without the agent having to chase. Re-test on completion is included once the work is booked back in.

Why book CJA Electrical for your Sevenoaks EICR

What agencies actually buy from a compliance partner is risk transfer plus time savings. The risk transfer comes from the report being legally robust and Sevenoaks District Council-acceptable. The time savings come from how the work wraps around the agency’s existing workflow — single contact, batch booking, predictable turnaround, no back-and-forth on tenant access. CJA Electrical is set up around exactly that.

How the inspection runs

The standard agency workflow: Property details across (address, circuit count, tenant or key access). Quote confirms timing and price for each property in the batch. Visits scheduled around tenant availability. Inspection on the day. Report PDF delivered within 48 hours per property. Remedial quote attached where needed. Where an agency wants to handle tenant comms directly we step back and coordinate via you. Where you’d rather we handle them, we’ll do that instead.

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 deal directly with tenants for access?

Yes — most agencies prefer this for routine inspections. Once you forward the tenant contact details, we confirm a slot directly with the tenant by phone or SMS, send a reminder the day before, and turn up at the agreed time. The agent stays in the loop on the booking and the report but doesn’t need to chase tenant access.

What format do you supply the certificate in?

Standard industry EICR PDF — the form itself with the observation codes, the schedule of inspection, and the schedule of test results per circuit. Single document, delivered to your agency compliance inbox by default. The format is universally accepted by Sevenoaks District Council, the Private Rented Sector Database, and standard property-management back-office systems.

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 Sevenoaks properties in a single day is meaningfully cheaper than four separate trips, and the framework pricing reflects that.

Can you cover Sevenoaks and the surrounding Sevenoaks towns?

Yes. Our service area covers Medway, Maidstone, Gravesham, Swale, and the rest of north and west Kent. Sevenoaks is reached from our Rochester base in around 55 minutes. We typically batch portfolio inspections across Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone 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.