The journal

Guidance for landlords.

Short, practical notes on electrical safety duties, inspections and what a report actually means.

How often does a landlord electrical safety certificate need renewing?

Five years is the outside limit, not a target — and several ordinary events reset the clock long before it runs out.

Four short codes decide whether a report is satisfactory, and whether a 28-day clock has just started running.

The inspection covers the parts of the electrical system that are built into the building — and deliberately not the things you can...

They are routinely confused, quoted together and sold as a bundle — but they cover different equipment and sit under different duties.

The variables are mostly practical rather than mysterious: circuits, age, access and how much of the property has to be reached.

An unsatisfactory result is a deadline, not a disaster. Here is the order to do things in, and who has to be told.

Guidance on this site is general information, not legal advice.