one electrician, no subcontractors · BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 · Part P self-certified Marple · Romiley · High Lane

Marlow Electrical, Marple
A domestic consumer unit with its cover removed: a 100-amp main switch, an RCD, and ten circuit breakers standing on a DIN rail with their toggles up, the copper busbar behind them, brown line and blue neutral conductors running to their terminals, the green-and-yellow earth conductors gathered at the earth bar, a handwritten label strip beneath, and a tester's red and black leads clipped to the way being tested. 100A RCD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 lights up sockets kitchen sockets cooker garage shower EV spare main switch rcd meter tails, in earth bar ten ways, labelled under test The same consumer unit, reduced: the 100-amp main switch, the RCD and two of the ways, with brown line, blue neutral and green-and-yellow earth conductors, circuit cables leaving the top of the enclosure, and a tester's clips on way 4 reading 0.31 ohms. sockets kitchen 3 4 Zs 0.31 Ω

The board tells
you everything.

So will I. One electrician covering Marple, Romiley and the Stockport side of the hill — with every rate on this page, the EICR codes explained before anyone hands you one, and the register link so you can check me before I come.

On test —  Circuit testing: earth-fault loop impedance, insulation resistance and RCD disconnection times are recorded for every way and given to you on the certificate.

Callout
£65
EICR, 3-bed
£170
Usually here within
2 working days
Emergency, out of hours
£110
Telephone
0161 496 0472

The board

Marlow Electrical is for:

Three kinds of call, and one document that answers most of them. Below the three is the circuit schedule off the board in the drawing — what a finished consumer unit says on the inside of its door.

The same ten ways as the board at the top of the page, drawn as a DIN strip: the copper busbar, ten circuit breakers standing on the rail with their toggles up, and the handwritten label strip across their middles. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 lightsupsocketskitchenbedscookergarageshowerEVspare

The same ten ways as the board at the top of the page. Pick one — the drawing, this strip and the schedule all follow it. The strip runs on past the edge of the screen, as the board does.

Circuit schedule · 10-way, RCBO per way, Type 2 SPD main switch 100 A · TN-C-S · Ze 0.28 Ω · demo board
WayCircuit Protective deviceCableNotes
1Lighting, downstairson test6 A Type B RCBO1.5 mm² T&ERef. method C, clipped direct. Loop-in at the ceiling roses.
2Lighting, upstairson test6 A Type B RCBO1.5 mm² T&ELoft run, 100 mm above the insulation on the joists.
3Sockets, downstairson test32 A Type B RCBO2.5 mm² T&ERing final. Continuity r1, rn, r2 recorded end to end.
4Kitchen ringon test32 A Type B RCBO2.5 mm² T&ERing final. Zs 0.31 Ω measured at the furthest socket, against a limit of 1.37 Ω.
5Sockets, upstairson test32 A Type B RCBO2.5 mm² T&ERing final. One spur, back bedroom, off a 13 A FCU.
6Cookeron test32 A Type B RCBO6 mm² T&ERadial to a 45 A cooker switch. Diversity applied to the load.
7Garageon test20 A Type B RCBO2.5 mm² SWASub-main to a two-way board in the garage. IR >299 MΩ.
8Shower, 9.5 kWon test40 A Type B RCBO10 mm² T&ERadial to a 45 A pull-cord isolator outside the zones.
9EV charge point, 7 kWon test32 A Type B RCBO · RCD Type A + 6 mA DC6 mm² T&EOwn way. RCD 17.2 ms at 1×I∆n. PEN fault device in the charger. DNO notified.
10Spareblanked—Left for whatever comes next, so the next job does not need a new board.

Every board I fit leaves with this schedule filled in, on the door, in pen. The next person to open it — me or anyone else — knows what every way feeds without switching things off to find out.

The schedule

What things cost, before you ring

Set out the way a circuit schedule is set out, because that is the document this trade already writes. Prices include the certificate and the parts named, nothing here is a “from” unless it says so, and the lead times are drawn to scale — one tick a working day, to the outside date.

Attending

R1 Callout and first hour diagnosis, and the small fix if it is a small fix — most trips, dead circuits and faulty accessories end here 2 days£65
R2 Each hour after that billed in half hours, and I tell you before the clock passes each one no lead time£45
R3 Out of hours, evenings and weekends 6pm–8am, Saturdays after 1pm, Sundays. Same rate whether it takes ten minutes or an hour same day£110

Testing and certifying

T1 EICR — flat or 2-bed every circuit tested and recorded, report and schedules the next working day 3 days£140
T2 EICR — 3-bed house the common one. Add £25 a consumer unit if the property has two 3 days£170
T3 EICR — 4-bed and up, or an HMO priced on the circuit count once I know it, not on the bedroom count 3 daysfrom £210
T4 Minor works certificate for a single addition or alteration — a new socket, a light, a spur no lead time£35

Work

W1 Consumer unit replacement metal enclosure, RCBO per way, surge protection, full test and certificate, Building Control notified 1–2 weeksfrom £620
W2 Extra double socket spurred from an existing circuit, chased and made good, certificate included 1 week£95
W3 Outside socket or garden supply RCD-protected, IP66 rated, on its own way where the board allows it 1 weekfrom £180
W4 EV charge point, 7 kW own way, load assessment, DNO notified. Price is the install — the unit is whatever you choose 2 weeksfrom £450
W5 Rewire, per room lighting and power, back to the board, plaster made good but not decorated 2–3 weeksfrom £540

Tell me what you’re planningParking, congestion and waste are in the price. If a job turns out to be smaller than quoted you pay the smaller number, and if it turns out to be bigger I stop and tell you before I carry on — which is the whole of my pricing policy and about as long as one needs to be.

The report

The page of the EICR you keep

Numbered observations down the left, a code in a box on the right, and one word at the bottom that decides whether you owe anybody anything. Here is that page both ways round, on the same house.

Four codes. Two of them mean you have to do something. Two of them do not.

An EICR is an inspection, not a repair. It records the condition of an installation on the day it was looked at, and it ends in one word — satisfactory or unsatisfactory. That word is decided entirely by the right-hand column.

If you are a landlord in England, the report is required every five years and within 28 days of a new tenancy, and a copy goes to the tenant. If it comes back unsatisfactory you have 28 days, or less if the report says so, to get the work done and prove it.

the four codes, as the form prints them

C1
Danger present. Someone could be hurt now.

Exposed live parts, usually. This gets made safe before I leave the property, whatever the report says afterwards — and if I find one I will tell you standing in the room, not in an email the next day.

C2
Potentially dangerous. Fix it.

Nothing is going to bite you today, but the protection you are relying on is not there — no earthing to a circuit, say. C2 is the code that makes a report unsatisfactory, and it is the one that costs money.

C3
Improvement recommended. You do not have to do anything.

The installation is safe and complies with the standard it was built to; something newer would be better. A C3 does not make a report unsatisfactory and does not need remedial work. If anyone quotes you to “clear the C3s”, that is a sale, not a requirement.

FI
Further investigation required.

Something could not be reached or tested on the day and might be a problem. FI also makes a report unsatisfactory — so I tell you before I start where I expect to be unable to get to, rather than handing you a report full of them.

Electrical installation condition report

Observations and recommendations for action

report
example only
installation
three-bed house
inspected and tested by
D. Marlow
Observations recorded on the report
ItemLocation ObservationCode
1Consumer unit No circuit chart or schedule at the origin C3
2Landing No RCD protection to the upstairs socket circuit C3
3Bathroom No supplementary bonding; every circuit at the origin is RCD protected C3
1Kitchen Damaged socket outlet, live parts accessible C1
2Consumer unit No main protective bonding to the gas service C2
3Landing No RCD protection to the upstairs socket circuit C3
4Loft Junction box not accessible for inspection FI

Comments on the installation Three observations, and all three are C3. Every one of them is an improvement rather than a defect. Nothing on this report needs doing and nothing on it needs paying for.

Comments on the installation Items 1 and 2 have to be put right and item 4 needs somebody to get at it. Item 3 is the same C3 that stands in the satisfactory report — it is not what changed the word at the bottom, and it is not part of the remedial work.

Overall assessment of the installation for continued use — delete as appropriate

satisfactoryunsatisfactory

Next inspection recommended within five years, or at change of occupancy, whichever comes first.

Remedial work required within 28 days of this report, or sooner where an item says so, with written confirmation to the tenant once it is done.

If you have a report from someone else and you cannot make sense of it, send me a photograph of the observations page. I will tell you what it says for nothing, including when it says you have been quoted for work you do not need. Send me the observations page

One van

Who turns up

The same person who answers the phone, quotes the job and signs the certificate. There is no office and there is nobody to be passed to.

If I have to open a wall, I will show you what is behind it before I close it up.

I’m Dean. Nineteen years in, eleven of them on my own after a decade with a contractor doing housing stock across Stockport — which is where you learn what forty years of other people’s alterations look like behind a socket.

I work to BS 7671:2018+A4:2026, the current wiring regulations, and I hold the City & Guilds 2382 for the regulations themselves and the 2391 for inspection and testing. The 2391 is the one that matters for an EICR and it is the one people forget to ask about.

Notifiable work is self-certified and registered with Building Control, which means your certificate arrives without you applying for anything. You should get it within five working days; if you have not, ring me, because it means something has gone wrong at my end.

Declaration

Every certificate ends with this block. Here is mine, filled in, so you can read it before you meet it.

Dean Marlow, trading as Marlow Electricalinspected, tested and certified by
C&G 2382the wiring regulations
C&G 2391inspection and testing
NVQ Level 3 electrotechnical, plus AM2trade qualification
£2m public liabilityinsurance, schedule on request
signature
the last working daydate

Ring if it’s urgent. Write if it isn’t.

Is anything off, warm, smelling, or tripping right now?

Ring

0161 496 0472

If it rings out I am under a floor. Leave it ringing, then leave a message — I return them at lunch and at six, every day, including the days I am not working.

  • Turn the circuit off at the board if you can find it.
  • Don’t reset a breaker that keeps tripping.
  • If it’s smoke, it’s 999 first.

Marple, Marple Bridge, Romiley, Compstall, High Lane and Hawk Green — all SK6.

Marlow ElectricalJob cardSK6

SK6 is covered; further out, ask.