Electrician in Greenhithe, Dartford and north Kent
EICRs for landlords, sellers and homeowners, EV chargers, consumer units and smoke alarms. J D Kent Electrical is David's firm, based in Greenhithe and working across Dartford, Gravesham, Bexley and the Kent side of south east London.
Registered with NICEIC under the Domestic Installer Scheme since September 2020 Check it on the NICEIC register
Andersen charger on engineering brick, fitted by David.
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EICR inspections
An EICR, or Electrical Installation Condition Report, is a written inspection of the fixed wiring in a property: the consumer unit, every circuit, the sockets, switches and fittings, and the earthing and bonding. Who asks for one decides what it is for.
Landlords
In England the wiring must be inspected at least every five years and before a new tenancy, with a copy to the tenant within 28 days. Councils can fine up to £40,000.
Landlord electrical certificate
Source: legislation.gov.uk, SI 2020/312; legislation.gov.uk, SI 2025/1043
Buying or selling
No law requires one for a sale. The seller’s TA6 form asks about electrical work and certificates, though, and a buyer who plans to let will want a current report.
Source: Law Society, TA6 6th edition
Homeowners
There is no legal duty. Electrical Safety First recommends an inspection at least every 10 years in a home you own, or sooner if something trips, buzzes or scorches.
Source: Electrical Safety First
At the board, on the day
An inspection starts at the consumer unit, because everything else hangs off it. With the power isolated one circuit at a time, the inspector checks that each protective device suits the cable it protects, that the main earthing conductor and the bonding to the gas and water pipes are present and sound, and that there is RCD protection where the current regulations expect it. Then comes the testing: continuity of the protective conductors on every circuit, insulation resistance between the conductors, polarity, earth fault loop impedance, and the trip time of each RCD, measured with a test instrument rather than the button on the front. A sample of sockets, switches and fittings is opened and looked at behind the faceplate. Anything the inspector cannot reach, a socket behind a fitted wardrobe or a loft with no boards, is written down as a limitation rather than guessed at. The readings go into a schedule of test results, circuit by circuit, and every defect gets a code. That is why an EICR takes a few hours in an ordinary house, and why the report runs to several pages rather than a single tick.
The four codes
- C1 Danger present
- Danger is present and there is a risk of injury. The report is unsatisfactory and the work has to be done.
- C2 Potentially dangerous
- Potentially dangerous. The report is unsatisfactory and the work has to be done.
- FI Further investigation
- Further investigation is needed without delay. The report is unsatisfactory until it is done.
- C3 Improvement recommended
- Improvement recommended. It does not fail the report, and landlords do not have to act on it.
Source: GOV.UK, Electrical safety standards in the private and social rented sectors
Fuse board, before and after
An EICR on a house in Tonbridge found an old board with no RCD and no surge protection. David replaced it.
The new board has an RCBO on each circuit, so a fault on one circuit trips that circuit alone instead of plunging the whole house into darkness, and a surge protection device, the SPD, which sends a voltage spike from the network to earth before it reaches the electronics in the house. A new consumer unit is notifiable work under Part P of the Building Regulations. As a NICEIC Domestic Installer, J D Kent Electrical can notify Building Control of notifiable work such as a new consumer unit or a new circuit.
Source: GOV.UK, Approved Document P
Old style Fuseboard whick we carried out a EICR on ( No RCD or SPD to Fuseboard )
Replaced with RCBO / SPD Filuseboard
More chargers, more walls
Red brick, render, a painted pillar by a front door, a brick pier between a fence and a gate, engineering brick with the supply dropped in conduit from above. The charger is the part everyone sees; the job is the cable route, the fixing and the supply behind it.
Red brick, tethered cable
Brick, cable clipped along the wall
Red brick, beside the meter box
Brick pier between fence and gate
Render, in a side passage
Painted pillar by a front door
The part nobody photographs The dedicated board behind a charger: its own small enclosure and its own protection for the charger circuit.
Every home charger sold in Great Britain has to be a smart charger, and a charger on a new circuit is notifiable work.
Source: GOV.UK, Electric vehicle smart charge points; legislation.gov.uk, Building Regulations 2010 reg 12
One supply, six circuits
The mark in David's logo is a single-line diagram: one supply feeding three final circuits. Drawn out, it is the map of this site.
Other work
Not everything is a certificate. His own list:
- EICR (Electrical Installation Condition Report)
- EV Charger installations
- Fuse boards
- Lighting
- Earthing
- Power
- Full/partial rewires
- Appliance installs
- PAT Testing
- Kitchen/bathroom upgrades
- Smoke/heat alarms
- Intelligent lighting
- Lutron lighting
Areas covered
- Greenhithe and SwanscombeDA9, DA100.7 to 0.9 miles
- Greenhithe DA9DA90.7 miles
- DartfordDA1, DA22.8 to 3.5 miles
- Dartford DA1DA13.5 miles
- GravesendDA11, DA122.8 to 4.5 miles
- Gravesend DA12DA124.5 miles
- BexleyheathDA6, DA76.3 to 6.5 miles
- Bexleyheath DA7DA76.3 miles
- Welling DA16DA168 miles
- SwanleyBR86.3 miles
Distances are straight lines from Greenhithe to the centre of each postcode district. The areas David lists on his own site: Dartford, Gravesham, Bexley, Medway, Bromley, Lewisham, Greenwich.
Registered with NICEIC since September 2020
About J D Kent Electrical
J D Kent Electrical works from 29 Park Cliff Road in Greenhithe, DA9 9FY, a short drive from the Dartford Crossing, and the area pages on this site are the towns nearest to it: Greenhithe and Swanscombe, Dartford, Gravesend, Bexleyheath and Swanley. David has 20 years in the trade. The firm has been registered with NICEIC under the Domestic Installer Scheme since September 2020, which is the scheme that lets it carry out electrical work in your home and notify certain completed jobs to Building Control itself, so a new consumer unit or a new circuit comes with its compliance certificate instead of a separate application to the council. Every job is done to BS 7671, the national standard for wiring in the UK. Much of this site is written for landlords, and David describes that side of his work plainly: We offer EICR's (Electrical Installation Condition Reports) for tenanted properties at very competitive rates.
For everything else his own summary holds: friendly, honest, and reliable service at competitive prices
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Registered with NICEIC under the Domestic Installer Scheme since September 2020 Check it on the NICEIC register