Is your home’s wiring safe?
Eight short questions about your fuse board, sockets and inspections. We’ll calculate a health score and — if you need work — give you a transparent cost estimate before you book.
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What the Health Check Does
Most homeowners have no idea what condition their electrical installation is in. Old fuse boards, deteriorated insulation, missing earth bonding, and outdated wiring can sit there for years looking fine — until they trip, spark, or fail an EICR for an insurance, sale or letting requirement.
Our 2-minute Electrical Health Check asks you a handful of plain-English questions about the age and behaviour of your installation — fuse board age, breaker tripping, lights flickering, smell of burning, EV charger plans — and gives you a colour-coded risk score plus the specific things a Safe Electric–registered electrician would look at on a full inspection. You walk away with either peace of mind or a clear, specific list of what to investigate.
This is not a substitute for a full Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR / Periodic Inspection) — that's the formal document required for insurance, sale, or letting under IS 10101. But it tells you whether you need one urgently, whether it'd be sensible inside the year, or whether you can put it off.
Who It's For
- Homeowners with older properties (pre-2000 builds especially) who've never had an inspection
- Buyers about to close on a property and wondering if they need a survey to flag the wiring
- Landlords needing periodic EICR before tenant change
- Anyone whose lights flicker, breakers trip, or who smells warm plastic near sockets
- Sellers wanting a clean Safe Electric cert as a closing-ready document
How It Works
1. Tell us about the installation
Fuse board age, when the property was last rewired (if known), recent symptoms — flickering lights, trips, scorching, hot sockets. Tick what applies.
2. Get your risk score
A red/amber/green score with a breakdown of which symptoms drove it. Each flagged item links to a brief explanation of what's likely causing it and how serious it is.
3. Decide what's next
If it's green, file the result and revisit in a year or two. If amber or red, book a Safe Electric–certified EICR — the formal inspection — and we'll come out, test every circuit, and issue the certificate.
Why Use the Health Check
- Plain-English questions — no electrical jargon
- Colour-coded result with specific items to investigate
- Tells you whether an EICR is urgent, sensible, or unnecessary right now
- Works for homeowners, landlords, buyers and sellers
- Built by a Safe Electric A6700 contractor against IS 10101
Electrical Inspection FAQs
How often should I get my electrics inspected?
For owner-occupied homes: every 10 years, or before sale. For rental properties: at least every 5 years and at change of tenancy. Older properties (pre-2000) should be inspected sooner — many have wiring that pre-dates IS 10101.
What is an EICR?
Electrical Installation Condition Report — the formal document confirming your installation is safe and compliant. Required by insurers in many cases, and by Residential Tenancies Board for rental compliance. Issued by a Safe Electric–registered electrician after a full test of every circuit.
How much does a full inspection cost?
A standard 3-bed semi EICR runs €280–€450 in 2026, including the certificate. Larger properties or older installations with more circuits cost more. We give a fixed price after the Health Check tells us roughly what to expect.
My lights flicker occasionally — is that a sign?
Maybe. Occasional flickering when a heavy appliance starts is usually fine. Random, unexplained flickering can indicate a loose connection somewhere in the circuit — that's worth investigating quickly. The Health Check distinguishes between the two.
Why does my breaker keep tripping?
Most likely an overloaded circuit (too many appliances on one ring), a faulty appliance, or a deteriorated cable. RCBOs trip more sensitively than MCBs — sometimes nuisance trips on RCBOs mean the protection is working as designed. Either way, repeated trips are worth a look.
Will the inspection damage anything?
No. Testing is non-destructive — we measure continuity, insulation resistance, earth fault loop, and RCD trip times using calibrated test equipment. The only invasive bit is removing the consumer unit cover to test individual circuits, which goes straight back on.