Cardiff: landlord electrical safety certificate
Landlord electrical safety certificate — planned around access rather than around us, which suits tenanted property. Available throughout Cardiff, including Caerphilly.
- 1. Dead testing with the supply isolated: continuity, insulation resistance and polarity across each circuit
- 2. Live testing: earth fault loop impedance and RCD operating times
- 3. In most Cardiff cases: visual inspection of the board, accessories, bonding and any accessible cabling
- 4. The relevant point here: report issued with each observation coded and photographed where relevant
Before booking landlord electrical safety certificate anywhere in Cardiff Council, it is worth knowing which parts of the job are fixed and which depend on your property.
The document landlords call a safety certificate is formally an Electrical Installation Condition Report. Timing is the other variable. Where a new tenancy starting and the agent asking applies, the visit runs longer, and we would rather book the right slot than rush the wrong one. In practice that means checking a new tenancy starting before anything is replaced.
Local housing here is largely Victorian and Edwardian terraces across Cathays and Roath, and that shapes both the likely findings and the realistic scope. It is written into the report either way, so nothing is hidden.
Most enquiries reaching us from Cardiff arrive after something has already been tried. Starting from measurements rather than the previous attempt saves time. Anyone testing properly will reach the same conclusion.
Nothing is charged for on the basis of a guess. Where a reading is borderline, it is reported as borderline. It rarely changes the price, but it does change the plan.
Every property we attend in and around Cardiff gets the same order of operations, and it starts with establishing dead testing with the supply isolated. We would say the same to a family member.
Photographs of anything hidden are included so you can see what we saw. Certification and paperwork are part of the job, not an optional extra at the end.
Weather and exposure play a part locally, and a new tenancy starting and the agent asking is the usual result.
The previous report reaching its five-year expiry — one of several possibilities, all of which get checked.
Confirming a local authority licensing condition on an HMO takes minutes; assuming it wastes a visit.
A tenant raising a safety concern about the wiring tends to appear alongside older accessories rather than alone.
Dead testing with the supply isolated. Nothing gets replaced on a hunch.
Access permitting, live testing: earth fault loop impedance and RCD operating happens in a single visit to your Cardiff address.
Visual inspection of the board, accessories, bonding and any, then the findings are written up before we leave Cardiff.
We report issued with each observation coded and photographed where; anything borderline is flagged rather than buried.
Written with Cardiff housing and Cardiff Council requirements in mind.
Why people in Cardiff ask for it
- A new tenancy starting and the agent asking for current paperwork.
- The previous report reaching its five-year expiry. It affects timing more than cost.
- In most Cardiff cases: a local authority licensing condition on an HMO.
What the electrical installation condition report (eicr) actually covers
The document landlords call a safety certificate is formally an Electrical Installation Condition Report. It records the condition of the fixed wiring — the consumer unit, circuits, sockets, switches and accessories — and states whether the installation is satisfactory for continued use.
While you wait: under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 framework, landlords in Wales must have the electrical installation inspected and tested at least every five years by a qualified person and provide a copy of the report to the contract-holder.
What the result can say
What happens on the day
- 1Dead testing with the supply isolated: continuity, insulation resistance and polarity across each circuit.
- 2Live testing: earth fault loop impedance and RCD operating times. It affects timing more than cost.
- 3In most Cardiff cases: visual inspection of the board, accessories, bonding and any accessible cabling.
- 4The relevant point here: report issued with each observation coded and photographed where relevant.
As with every job in CF10–CF24: a typical two or three bedroom property takes two to four hours on site, with the report issued the same or next working day.
Questions about the electrical installation condition report (eicr)
How long does a landlord certificate last?
Up to five years, unless the report itself specifies a shorter interval based on the condition of the installation.
What should I have ready before you arrive?
Access to the board and to the affected area, plus any previous certificates. That is enough to start at the Cardiff property.
Can you talk to my letting agent directly?
Yes, if you tell us who to contact. Access and reporting can both go through them.
What is not included?
Building work, decoration and anything outside the electrical scope. Those are flagged rather than absorbed.
How quickly can you attend in Cardiff?
A typical two or three bedroom property takes two to four hours on site, with the report issued the same or next working day. Cardiff sits close to M4 J32–J33, which is why we can usually add a CF10–CF24 job to the same day.
Cardiff context
Cardiff Council handles building control notification for Cardiff, and we register notifiable work there as part of the job.
A large share of the property we see in Cardiff is Victorian and Edwardian terraces across Cathays and Roath.
We also cover Penarth and Caerphilly on the same rounds as Cardiff.
Check availability for CF10–CF24 — Landlord electrical safety certificate in Cardiff
Let us know your preferred access times — tenanted property in Cardiff is arranged around the tenant, not around us. We cover Cardiff and the CF10–CF24 postcodes, including Penarth, for landlord electrical safety certificate. Cardiff Council notification is handled by us where the work requires it.
Landlord electrical safety certificate — planned around access rather than around us, which suits tenanted property. Available throughout Cardiff, including Caerphilly.