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Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Cardiff EPCs split fairly cleanly between apartment blocks in the Bay and city centre, dense Victorian terraces in Cathays, Roath and Grangetown, and modern estates in the north and east of the city.
EPCs from £39.99
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Cardiff property runs from studio flats in the Bay to five-bedroom Victorian villas in Pontcanna, so a single flat fee would be wrong for most people. The quote journey confirms your price in about a minute from the property details you give us — no obligation, and nothing to pay until you decide to book.
There are no booking fees, and no extra charge for us arranging access with a tenant, a letting agent or a concierge desk. If you are certifying several flats in the same Cardiff block or conversion, start one quote and tell us how many — we can usually assess them in a single visit, which brings the cost per certificate down. Commercial premises are priced separately because a non-domestic assessment is a different piece of work, so ask us to price it properly rather than assume the domestic rate.
Our assessors work across Cardiff every week, so getting someone to the property is rarely the constraint — access almost always is. Where the property is empty or you hold the keys, we can usually get in quickly. Where a tenant, a letting agent or a building concierge has to be co-ordinated, arranging that access is normally what sets the date.
We do not advertise same-day, 24-hour or next-working-day turnaround, because that promise depends on access we do not control. If you are working to a real deadline — an agent waiting to launch the listing, a completion date, or a tenancy starting next week — tell us when you book and we will say honestly whether we can meet it before you pay anything.
Start here and we will carry your details straight into the booking form, where you will see your price before anything is confirmed. It takes about a minute and there is no obligation.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 07446 911261 or send us a message.
We only use these details to arrange your EPC. Nothing is booked or charged at this step.
Bay and city-centre apartments usually rate well because of communal heating and good insulation, but access can be the bottleneck — we book concierge or agent access in advance. Cathays and Roath terraces converted into flats need each unit assessed separately, which catches out landlords expecting a single certificate for the building.
We also cover Penarth, Llanishen, Whitchurch, Radyr and the surrounding South Wales area, across CF3, CF5, CF10, CF11, CF14, CF15, CF23, CF24.
Cardiff Bay and city-centre apartments are the most straightforward stock in the city to assess and usually the best rated. Communal or district heating, modern glazing and a heated flat above, below and either side all push the rating up, and B or C is common. The certificate itself is rarely the problem — access is. Most blocks want a visit booked through the concierge or managing agent, and some restrict parking to permitted visitor bays, so we start that arrangement as soon as you instruct us rather than turning up and hoping.
The Victorian and Edwardian terraces of Cathays, Roath, Grangetown and Canton are a different job entirely. Solid brick walls with no cavity to fill, suspended timber floors, bay windows replaced in stages and original roof structures typically hold these in band D, sometimes E where the boiler is old. The improvements that move the rating most are loft insulation topped up to current depth, a modern condensing boiler with proper heating controls, and low-energy lighting throughout. Internal or external wall insulation moves it further but is a far bigger job, and in the conservation areas around Pontcanna and Roath Park the external option is often not realistic.
Houses in multiple occupation and converted terraces are where Cardiff landlords most often get caught out. Each self-contained dwelling needs its own EPC — one certificate for a converted building is not valid — so a three-flat conversion in Cathays needs three certificates. Where rooms are let individually in a genuine HMO with shared facilities, the assessment is done on the property as a whole. If you are unsure which applies to yours, tell us the layout when you book and we will confirm it before an assessor is sent, so you are not paying for the wrong assessment.
The northern and eastern suburbs — Llanishen, Thornhill, Pentwyn, Pontprennau, St Mellons and the newer developments around them — are mostly cavity-walled post-war and modern housing. Where the cavity has been filled and the loft insulation is at a sensible depth these regularly assess at a solid C, and newer estates frequently reach B without any work at all. The recurring weak point is a converted loft room, where the insulation in the sloped ceiling is often thinner than the rest of the roof.
Cardiff also has a large student rental market concentrated in Cathays, Roath and parts of Heath, and it works to a fixed calendar. Certificates for those properties are best sorted in spring, before the summer changeover, rather than in the fortnight before contract-holders move in when every landlord in the same streets is trying to book the same week.
Yes — we cover the whole city and the surrounding suburbs, across CF3, CF5, CF10, CF11, CF14, CF15, CF23 and CF24. These are the areas we work in most often:
If the property sits just outside the city boundary — Penarth, Dinas Powys, Barry, Caerphilly or the villages out towards Creigiau — we cover those on the same rounds. Put the postcode into the booking form and it will confirm straight away that an accredited assessor covers it.
An EPC must be commissioned before the property is marketed, and Cardiff agents will usually ask for it before photographs are taken. A certificate older than ten years no longer counts, even if nothing about the property has changed since.
A valid EPC has to be in place before a tenancy starts and must be given to the contract-holder. In Wales it sits alongside the other documents required for a Renting Homes occupation contract, so student lets in Cathays and Roath need it in place before the summer changeover, not after.
Rented property must currently reach band E or better, or hold a registered exemption. Cardiff's converted terraces are where this bites hardest — read our guide to EPC rules for landlords before you re-let.
It takes about a minute and there is no obligation.
A qualified local assessor, a lodged certificate, and no chasing.