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Landlord guides and EICR advice

Plain-English guides to EICRs, licensing and electrical safety for Milton Keynes landlords.

EICR codes explained: what C1, C2, C3 and FI mean for landlords

Every observation on an EICR gets a code. Here is what each one means, which ones fail the report and what you have to do...

A new home comes with an EIC rather than an EICR. It covers the let for five years, and many expansion-area buy-to-lets are now past...

Milton Keynes City Council runs mandatory HMO licensing. The application asks for an EICR and a PAT certificate, and both can be done in one...

The more of these are done, the faster the visit and the fewer items marked "limitation" on the report.

Fishermead, Netherfield, Coffee Hall and Beanhill were wired in one go. Unless the board has been replaced, it is now roughly 50 years old.

Any C1, C2 or FI makes the report unsatisfactory. Here is the order of the duties that follow, and what happens if one is missed.