Strood Letting Agency EICR

For letting agencies covering Strood, the EICR question is rarely about a single property — it’s about keeping a portfolio compliant, certificates refreshed before they expire, and Medway Council requests answered in the seven-day window the regulations require. CJA Electrical works at portfolio scale: one point of contact, consistent format, batch booking around your void schedule.

What an EICR involves for Letting Agency

A landlord EICR done for an agency is the same standard test as one done for a private landlord — BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 inspection and circuit-level testing, with C1/C2/C3/FI observation codes against any findings. The point of running it through an agency framework is the operational consistency: same format, same turnaround, same delivery method, regardless of which property in the portfolio is being tested.

When you need this in Strood

The agency’s EICR triggers tend to fall into a few categories: - Five-yearly cycle on properties with current certificates approaching expiry - New tenancy starting — landlord needs a current report before tenant occupation - Property new to management — incoming compliance audit identifies missing certificate - Medway Council request — seven-day clock means same-week turnaround helps - Tenant complaint — flickering lights, repeated tripping, anything safety-flag worthy - Portfolio acquisition — bulk catch-up on properties added through a takeover All five-day turnaround targets, all single-point delivery to the agency.

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 Strood 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 Medway 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

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

We’ll agree framework pricing per property type at the start of the relationship. Routine bookings then run at framework rates without separate quoting per job. Outliers — larger properties, period stock with extensive rewires, anything atypical — are flagged at booking and quoted individually. Invoice per batch, agency-direct, standard terms.

FAQs

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

Can you cover Strood and the surrounding Medway towns?

Yes. Our service area covers Medway, Maidstone, Gravesham, Swale, and the rest of north and west Kent. Strood is reached from our Rochester base in around 8 minutes. We typically batch portfolio inspections across Rochester, Chatham, Higham 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.

Do you offer framework pricing for letting agencies in Strood?

Yes. We agree base prices per property type at the start of the relationship and apply them across the portfolio. Routine bookings run at framework rates with no per-job back-and-forth. Outliers — very large properties, multi-consumer-unit installs — are flagged and quoted individually. Single invoice per batch, agency-direct.

How quickly can you turn an EICR round during a void week in Strood?

Same-week is the default. Where a void-week inspection has to fit between move-out and move-in, we can usually inspect within a couple of working days of the booking and have the report PDF in your inbox within 48 hours of the visit. Remedial work, where needed, can sometimes happen on the same visit if the scope is small.