Same-day EPC from £69

Nothing in the process requires a waiting period. A registered domestic energy assessor visits, records the property, runs the RdSAP assessment and lodges the certificate — all of which can happen inside a few hours. The two conditions are availability and access: an assessor free and near enough to reach the property today, and somebody able to let them into every room, the loft hatch and the boiler cupboard. Get both of those and the certificate exists on the national register before the end of the day, verifiable by your solicitor, agent or portal straight away.

You ring with the address and the deadline; we look at where our assessors are working and confirm a visit window rather than an all-day wait. The survey is carried out to exactly the same standard as a booking made three weeks in advance — twenty-five minutes for a one-bedroom flat, up to an hour for a larger house, with photographs taken as evidence for the register. The assessment is then modelled, quality-checked and lodged ahead of the routine queue, and the PDF plus register reference is emailed to you, and to your agent or solicitor if you want it sent on.

We are London-based, so north and west London — Brent, Harrow, Ealing, Barnet, Camden, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham — has the best same-day availability, followed closely by central and inner London where the work is tightly packed. Outer south and east London boroughs are usually next-day, and towns in Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Berkshire are normally planned a day ahead because of travel time. You are told which of those applies to you at the point of enquiry, not afterwards.

The survey price does not change because the booking is urgent; only a priority fee is added. A one to three bedroom flat is £69, a house or bungalow up to four bedrooms is £89, and a five to seven bedroom house is £119, with £7 for each extension and £10 for a loft conversion. Same-day adds £25, next-day adds £15, a weekend visit adds £20, and a standard booking a few days out adds nothing. Travel is charged by zone from £0 to £28, and the congestion charge applies inside the central London zone. The real cost of urgency is not a huge premium — it is losing the cheapest options: booked a couple of days ahead, a one-bedroom flat close to our Wembley base can start from £35.

Nearly every same-day enquiry comes from one of a handful of situations, and all of them are fixable today. An exchange or completion days away where the solicitor has found no valid certificate. A tenancy already agreed with a move-in date this week. A listing that a portal will not publish without a certificate or a commissioned reference. A certificate that quietly expired after its ten years and surfaced in a search. A lender asking for evidence before releasing funds. Tell us which one it is when you call — it determines whether you need the survey today or simply the certificate by Friday, and those are different jobs.

Almost always access or distance, not the assessment. A tenanted flat where the tenant cannot be reached in time is the most common blocker, because a tenant is entitled to notice of a visit. Distance is the next: a property at the outer edge of our coverage costs an assessor half a day in travel, so a same-day slot rarely exists. Then the diary itself — urgent work is unplanned by definition, and once the day's slots are taken they are taken. Anyone promising same-day for any postcode at any hour is not being straight with you.

A fast survey and a sloppy survey are not the same thing, and the difference shows up at the worst moment. Guessed floor areas, a communal boiler entered as an individual one, an extension not recorded — these produce ratings that get queried by a buyer's surveyor or land a flat in a band that legally cannot be let. Our assessors measure rather than estimate, photograph the evidence the register requires, and check the model before lodging it. If doing that properly means tomorrow morning rather than this afternoon, we will say so.

Deadlines rarely appear at a convenient hour. Requests submitted through the quote form at night are logged the moment you send them and answered first thing, so the day starts with your job already prioritised. Weekend surveys are available with a £20 surcharge subject to availability, which is often the practical answer for a tenanted property nobody can access midweek. If you are reading this late and the deadline is tomorrow, send the form now with the deadline noted.

Where we cannot reach you today, the next working day is nearly always available, and the certificate normally lands the same day as that visit — so you are looking at roughly twenty-four hours from phone call to lodged certificate, at £15 rather than £25 for the priority. That is a better outcome than chasing a provider who will promise this afternoon and not turn up. If your deadline is more than a day away, book next-day and keep the difference.