Local demand for eicr — electrical safety checks follows the housing stock here, which is largely Victorian terraces around Maindee and Pill. A fair amount of this work is preparation: confirming welsh Government landlord rules require a 5-yearly EICR, planning the route, agreeing what happens if something unexpected appears behind the plaster. Around Newport City Council that is a familiar finding rather than an alarming one.
The regulations move; installations do not. Part of the job is explaining which differences actually matter and which are simply age. It gets photographed if it will be hidden afterwards. For Victorian terraces around Maindee and Pill in particular, eicr — electrical safety checks throws up a fairly predictable set of findings.



