What an EICR actually checks
A condition report is a survey of what is there. It is not a promise to rewire the house, and it should not read like one.
We start at the origin: cut-out, meter, tails, earthing, bonding to gas and water. Then every circuit is identified, insulation-tested, and the RCDs are timed. Access matters — if the loft hatch is painted shut, that limitation goes in the report rather than a guessed ‘satisfactory’.
Codes are the bit agents argue about. C1 is danger present, we isolate. C2 is potentially dangerous, it needs a repair before we’d call the installation safe. C3 is an improvement, not a fail. FI means we could not see it and someone has to open it up. A report that is all C2s on a twenty-year-old house with a metal board is usually a sales document.
You should be able to read the observations without a codebook. We attach photos. Remedial prices, if you want them, sit on a separate page so the report itself stays an inspection.
