Do I need an HMO licence in Northampton?

If you let a house to three or more people from two or more households, you may need a mandatory or additional HMO licence from West Northamptonshire Council, depending on size and location. Check the council's HMO pages for the designated streets. We can provide the EICR and test records your application needs.

Can you do EICRs for several Northampton properties?

Yes. Agents and portfolio landlords often send a batch. We arrange tenant access and send each report as it's completed.

My terraced house has old wiring. Do I need a rewire?

Not necessarily. Old doesn't mean dangerous. An EICR tells you whether the cable and accessories are still sound, and many older installations only need targeted upgrades such as RCD protection and bonding.

Do you cover Towcester and the villages?

Yes, along with the villages between Northampton and Milton Keynes. Send us your postcode.

Electrician in Northampton

EICRs, HMO and landlord certificates, PAT testing, repairs and installations, from the Victorian terraces of Abington and St James to Grange Park and the industrial estates.

Electrician testing circuits in a Northampton property

We work across Northampton for landlords, homeowners and local businesses. Much of the town's housing is older and much of it is rented, so EICRs in Northampton and the repairs that follow make up a large share of our work here, along with PAT testing and everyday installations.

Northampton's housing stock

Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Abington, St James, Semilong, Kingsley, Far Cotton and around the Wellingborough Road were built long before modern wiring. Most have been rewired at least once, but often in stages, and we regularly find older cable, extensions spurred off kitchen circuits and missing bonding.
The eastern and southern districts built in the 1970s and 1980s expansion, including Lings, Thorplands, Ecton Brook, Blackthorn, East and West Hunsbury, have installations now forty to fifty years old. Original consumer units without RCDs are common.
Newer developments such as Grange Park, Upton and parts of Wootton have modern installations, where the work is mostly additions, lighting and landlord inspections.

HMO licensing in Northampton

Northampton has a lot of shared housing, helped by the University of Northampton's Waterside campus and the town's commuter links. West Northamptonshire Council's additional HMO licensing scheme, which began in February 2025 and runs to 2030, extends licensing to smaller shared houses with three or four occupiers from two or more households in the designated areas. Licence applications ask for a current EICR, and the council can request your report at any time.

For HMOs we can test the fixed installation, supplied appliances and the fire alarm and emergency lighting in a single visit. Since BS 7671 Amendment 2, new socket circuits in HMOs also need arc fault detection, which matters if your board is being replaced. See landlord certificates.

Northampton businesses

We test and maintain electrics for shops and food businesses in the town centre and for units on Brackmills, Moulton Park and the other industrial estates around the ring road: commercial EICRs, PAT testing and the repairs that come out of them, scheduled around your hours.

Areas near Northampton

We cover the NN postcodes around the town, including Duston, Kingsthorpe, Weston Favell, Wootton, Moulton, Grange Park, Hardingstone, Hunsbury, Upton and Spinney Hill, and south towards Towcester and the Milton Keynes border. Further out? Send your postcode and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.