EICR
EICR: five-year electrical safety, tracked like the gas check
An Electrical Installation Condition Report is due every five years on a private let in England. Five years is long enough to forget — so Moby keeps it on the property, blocks a tenancy while it is missing, and files the report the electrician issues from the job.
What an EICR is
An Electrical Installation Condition Report is a qualified electrician’s inspection of the fixed wiring — the consumer unit, the circuits, the sockets — the installation rather than the appliances plugged into it. Under the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 a landlord in England needs one at least every five years, must give a copy to existing tenants within 28 days of the inspection and to new tenants before they move in, must send it to the local authority within seven days if asked, and must complete any remedial work the report calls for within 28 days. Scotland and Wales have rules of their own.
A twelve-month clock gets remembered because it comes round every year. A five-year clock is the easiest one in the portfolio to lose.
Five years is exactly long enough to forget.
Same pack, same board
In Moby the EICR is a requirement in the UK compliance pack alongside the gas check and the EPC: a sixty-month cadence, an expiry set from the last report filed, a renewal alert before the date, and a place on the same status board as every other certificate the property carries.
An unsatisfactory report is a job. The remedial work it calls for is raised as a ticket on the same property, dispatched, evidenced and invoiced — and the record shows the report, the work it caused and the next due date together.
The report, the remedial job and the next due date, on one record.
A tenancy cannot go live without it
The EICR is a blocking requirement. With lease and tenancy management on, a tenancy on a property with no in-date report cannot be activated. The reminder comes first; the block is what happens if it is ignored.
The check happens on the day the keys change hands, not when somebody remembers.
Issued from the job
Electricians on Moby issue the report from the job: the EICR is one of the statutory certificate templates, filled in on the visit and filed against the property with its issue and expiry dates already set. The agency or landlord who booked the inspection sees it land.
Moby tracks, reminds, blocks and files. It is not the inspecting body: the electrician’s qualification and judgement are the electrician’s.
The electrician signs it. The property keeps it.
Who this is for
Lettings and property management teams whose five-year clocks were set by somebody who has since left. Landlords with a handful of properties and no wish to keep a spreadsheet for them. Electricians who want the report to come out of the job, filed where it will be looked for.
Bring the property whose last report you cannot find to the walkthrough.
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