Electrical Installation Certificate (EIC) in Swansea
Electrical installation certificate for new work for Swansea property, with the paperwork treated as part of the job. Available throughout Swansea, including Llanelli.
Book the inspectionBefore booking anything for electrical installation certificate for new work, it is worth knowing which findings change the price and which do not.
The EIC records the design, construction, inspection and testing of the work and carries the installer's declaration against each. A written record matters as much as the work. Anything we find at a SA1–SA7 address is documented in a form you can hand to someone else. If it turns out not to apply here, you will be told that plainly.
Anything we recommend is tied to a specific finding rather than to a general principle. Around Swansea Council that is a familiar finding rather than an alarming one.
Age alone does not condemn an installation. Plenty of older Swansea wiring tests perfectly well; some newer work does not. It gets photographed if it will be hidden afterwards.
The point of a proper test is that the result is repeatable by anyone else with the same instrument. In practice that means checking a new consumer unit, rewire before anything is replaced.
People often expect the worst outcome. In practice, most Swansea visits of this kind end with a defined, limited piece of work. It is written into the report either way, so nothing is hidden.
We work locally every week, so this is routine rather than a special journey. The short version: get it measured, then decide. Everything else follows from the readings.
On SA1–SA7 addresses the trail usually leads back to a solicitor's enquiry during a sale asking for evidence.
Landlords and owner-occupiers in Swansea both see an extension, loft conversion or garage conversion completing.
Left alone, work carried out previously by someone who never issued rarely improves on its own.
A new consumer unit, rewire or added circuit, and the certificate records it either way.
First job on arrival: inspection and testing of the new work, with results.
Certificate issued with the installation, inspection and testing declarations, then a walk-through so you know what changed.
Every visit includes this: notification to building control through our registration where the work.
We design and installation to BS 7671 with the schedule and explain what the numbers mean for the property.
Written with Swansea housing and Swansea Council requirements in mind.
What the result can say
Why people in Swansea ask for it
- A new consumer unit, rewire or added circuit that must be certified. You will be shown it on the day.
- As a rule, a solicitor's enquiry during a sale asking for evidence of past electrical work.
- In this case — an extension, loft conversion or garage conversion completing.
How we get you the document
- 1Design and installation to BS 7671 with the schedule of circuits recorded as built. You will be shown it on the day.
- 2As a rule, inspection and testing of the new work, with results entered on the schedule of test results.
- 3In this case — certificate issued with the installation, inspection and testing declarations completed.
- 4Notification to building control through our registration where the work is notifiable. It is part of the quoted scope.
In plain terms: certification is issued on completion of the work — usually the same day, and never left outstanding after final payment.
Swansea context
Swansea's housing stock — coastal terraces in Mumbles and Sketty, older miners' housing in Morriston, and post-war semis around Gorseinon — shapes what these reports typically find here.
Swansea falls under Swansea Council in West Glamorgan, and building control notifications go there.
If you are just outside Swansea — Neath, Llanelli, Port Talbot — the same rates and response apply.
What the electrical installation certificate (eic) actually covers
It is the document that proves work was done to BS 7671 and, where notifiable, that it was registered with building control. Missing certificates surface years later during a sale, when a solicitor asks for evidence of the work and there is none.
The important part: part P of the Building Regulations covers domestic electrical work in Wales. Certain work is notifiable to building control, which a registered installer can self-certify rather than routing through a separate application.
Questions about the electrical installation certificate (eic)
Can you certify someone else's work?
Not with an EIC — that declaration belongs to whoever designed and installed it. What we can do is inspect and test it and issue an EICR describing its condition.
Can you give a price over the phone?
A realistic range, yes. A firm figure follows the testing, because an extension, loft conversion or garage conversion completing and a simpler cause look identical from the outside.
Do you offer scheduled repeat visits?
Yes. Where an installation needs periodic checks we diary it rather than leaving you to remember.
What if the property has had DIY work done?
It gets tested like anything else. A new consumer unit, rewire or added circuit is often the result of well-meant work that was never verified.
How quickly can you attend in Swansea?
Certification is issued on completion of the work — usually the same day, and never left outstanding after final payment. We reach Swansea via the A483 and Fabian Way, so SA1–SA7 calls slot into the same run as the rest of the round.
Talk it through first — Electrical Installation Certificate for new work in Swansea
Send a photo of the board and a note about the property, and you will get a realistic answer rather than a sales pitch. We cover Swansea and the SA1–SA7 postcodes, including Port Talbot, for electrical installation certificate for new work. Swansea Council notification is handled by us where the work requires it.
Electrical installation certificate for new work for Swansea property, with the paperwork treated as part of the job. Available throughout Swansea, including Llanelli.