Rented homes around Wedmore are spread out: Georgian houses near The Borough, Victorian villas, farm cottages and converted barns towards Theale, Blackford and Mudgley. Landlords here often own more than one, and keeping track of five-year inspections, alarm dates and tenant copies across several properties is the real work. We carry out the electrical side and help you keep the dates straight.
The electrical rules run on a five-year cycle per property, and each cycle starts from the date of that property's last inspection. Own three or four lets bought at different times and you end up with reports due in different years, alarms of different ages and tenants who moved in on different dates. That is how deadlines get missed.
For landlords with five or more properties we plan the work as a schedule rather than a string of one-off bookings. That means:
Some landlords bring every property onto the same cycle by inspecting the older ones early. That means paying for an inspection sooner than strictly needed, but it leaves one renewal year to remember instead of four.
Every property in a portfolio carries its own duties, and they do not merge just because you own several. Per let:
The electrical duties come from the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector and Social Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020; the alarm duties from the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015, amended with effect from 1 October 2022. Neither specifies mains or battery alarms. Our recommendation for every let is mains-powered, interlinked alarms with sealed back-up batteries.
Each property is priced on its own merits: the size of the installation and the number of circuits, including any barn or outbuilding board, and the alarms the layout needs. An HMO alarm design is quoted once we have seen the building. You get a fixed written quote before any work starts, and each property's remedials, if any, are quoted separately so you can approve them let by let.
Wedmore sits on a ridge in the Somerset Levels, between the Axe and the Brue, and its rented stock reflects that: Georgian houses around The Borough, Victorian villas on the approaches, and farmhouses and converted barns towards Theale, Blackford, Mudgley and the Westhay side. Each brings something different to an inspection:
Where an inspection shows a board without RCD protection, we fit a metal RCBO board with a Type A RCBO on every circuit; see our Wedmore consumer unit page. Where circuits have deteriorated beyond repair, the Wedmore rewires page explains partial and full rewires.
For every property, keep these together in one place:
When the council or an agent asks for evidence, that file answers the question quickly. Our Wedmore EICR page covers the inspection itself in more detail, and the general landlord compliance page has the wider picture.
Two recent jobs on the Glastonbury side of the Levels, anonymised.
Leave your details and a line about the job. We will ring you back to talk it through and arrange a survey or a written price.
Yes, by inspecting the ones not yet due early. The law sets a maximum interval of five years, not a minimum, so an early inspection is fine, and it resets the clock for that property. Landlords with several lets often find one renewal year easier to manage than a different date for each house.
Five or more properties booked together for the landlord pack: EICR, smoke and heat alarms, a CO alarm where needed and certification. The properties do not all have to be in Wedmore; they can be spread across the villages and towns we cover. Larger houses, or those with extra circuits, are priced on their circuit count.
The alarm layout in an HMO is designed for the building as a whole, and we quote the HMO alarm design once we have seen the building. If the property is licensed, send us the licence conditions with your enquiry so the design can be matched to them.
Only if they were all fitted at the same time. Mains alarms have a 10-year service life, and the date is printed on each one. We record every alarm's position and manufacture date, so you can see which properties are due and replace them in a planned batch rather than when one starts to fail.
You are responsible for the installation that serves the let. If the cottage is fed from a farm board, the circuits and protective devices serving the cottage are part of what we inspect, and the report will say exactly what was covered. Tell us about the arrangement when you book so we can allow time to trace it.
Priced by the job, not by the hour. A written, fixed price after a survey, NAPIT certification on every notifiable job.
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