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I'm with Nef on this. If you're having the board replaced and the electrician comes round to quote. He'll know pretty quickly if you've got 60's aluminium wiring or damaged looking accessories or insufficient earthing from the gas/water entry point. If they find out later that you've got a shared neutral in the hallway then that will need to be rectified.
Some of the things an EICR shows up are the kinds of problems that only workplaces or tenants would live with anyway, broken switches or sockets, dangerous wiring etc.
The earthing and shared neutral I've mentioned come up for quite a few board changes. The earthing is easy to spot for the visiting electrician, the shared neutral can be painful but most jobbing sparks will have a method to find it.
The other thing that might come up is nuisance tripping, if you;re changing to RCBO's and you should be, it's more common in commercial settings though, due to the number of leaky power supplies in computers.
Maybe post a pic of your consumer unit. I have seen some really old dodgy ones so you might have something like that.