An Electrical Installation Condition Report for your Midsomer Norton house or flat, whether you are buying, selling, letting, or just want to know what state the wiring is in.
Priced on the number of circuits, with a fixed price in writing before we start.
There are three common reasons to book an EICR in Midsomer Norton. Buyers who have been told by a surveyor that the electrics "should be checked by a qualified electrician". Sellers who want an answer ready before the buyer asks. And landlords, who need one at least every five years by law. The test is the same for all three. What changes is how we explain the findings.
For a buyer, the useful question is what it will cost to put right. So alongside the report we price any C1 or C2 items, and if the board is old we give you the figure for a new one, so you can take it into negotiations.
For a seller, a satisfactory report, or one with only C3 recommendations, removes a common reason for a renegotiation late in the sale. If the report shows problems, you get the choice of fixing them first or disclosing them with a price attached.
Midsomer Norton is a former coal-mining town with pits at Old Mills, Norton Hill and Welton; Norton Hill and Old Mills both closed in 1966. Its housing reflects that: older stone and brick terraces near the centre and around Welton, miners’ cottages along the Fosse Way through Westfield, and large estates built on both sides of the Fosse Way in the 1970s.
The River Somer runs the length of the town centre, and a flood alleviation tunnel was built in the 1970s. If a property has ever had water in it, an EICR is the right first step before anything is switched back on or sold, because water damage to cables and accessories is not always visible.
On 1970s houses the wiring is usually PVC cable that may still test well, but the boards are often original, with rewireable fuses or a single RCD. That is a common source of C2 and C3 codes, and the fix is usually a new board rather than a rewire.
The inspection follows BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 and the report is the model form your solicitor, agent or lender will recognise.
The price depends on the size of the installation and how many circuits there are, for single-phase homes and three-phase installations alike. The written quote follows a survey or a phone and photo consultation, and the price is fixed before we start.
Sales move fast once a survey is back. We try to book within days, and the report follows the visit.
We cover the BA3 and BS39 villages around the town: Chilcompton, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Holcombe and Coleford, and Paulton, Farrington Gurney, High Littleton, Temple Cloud and Clutton. Farmhouses and older village houses often have separate supplies to barns or garages, which we include in the test.
For Radstock, see our Radstock EICR page.
Tell us whether you are buying, selling or letting and when you need the report. We will call back to agree a date.
Tell us the deadline and we will tell you how quickly we can get the report to you.
07889 334849