F & A Electrical are NICEIC-approved, Part P registered electricians working across Mill Hill, NW7 — Mill Hill Village and The Ridgeway, Mill Hill Broadway, Mill Hill East and Millbrook Park, The Hale and Hale Lane, Bunns Lane, Wise Lane, Daws Lane, Page Street, Milespit Hill, Hammers Lane, Holcombe Hill and Highwood Hill. We are based at Ten 87 Studios on Markfield Road in Tottenham N15, about 30 minutes across on a clear run — out along the North Circular and up the A1 or the A41 Watford Way. Henlys Corner is the bit that holds you up in the morning, so for an 8am start in NW7 we leave early rather than promise you a time we cannot keep. Work to BS 7671, £5m public liability, City & Guilds Level 3, Checkatrade rated 9.32 out of 10 from 242 reviews. Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453.
What we do in NW7
Mill Hill splits neatly into two kinds of job. On one side there is the old settlement along the ridge — large, often listed, often constrained — plus the interwar streets that filled in around the Broadway from the 1890s onwards and heavily in the 1920s and 30s. On the other there is Mill Hill East: Millbrook Park on the old Inglis Barracks site and Ridgeway Views on the former National Institute for Medical Research land, where the wiring is new and the question is capacity, not condition. We do both.
- EICRs and landlord certificates — domestic, HMO, blocks and commercial, with the C1s and C2s explained in plain English rather than just coded.
- Fuse board and consumer unit replacement — full RCBO boards, with earthing and main bonding brought up to standard at the same visit.
- Fault finding and emergency work — tripping RCDs, dead circuits, burning smells, water into a board.
- Rewires, full and partial — including houses where chasing walls is not an option.
- Earthing and bonding upgrades — main protective bonding to water and gas, supplementary bonding where it is still required.
- Additional circuits — showers, cookers, garden rooms, garages, outbuildings, sub-mains.
- EV charge points — off-street only, and we will tell you straight if your parking does not suit one.
- Lighting — pendants, wall lights, outside and security lighting, and downlights where the ceiling can take them.
- Commercial and landlord work — shop units, offices, workshops, emergency lighting and PAT testing.
Our prices in Mill Hill
These are labour and certification only, inclusive of VAT. Materials — boards, accessories, cable, fittings — are itemised separately on the quote at cost plus, so you can see what you are paying for. Our minimum charge is £108 inc VAT, which is one hour at the standard rate of £90 per hour plus VAT, and it comes off the job if you go ahead. Nothing is priced below that, including an attendance to look at something.
| Job | From (labour only, inc VAT) |
|---|---|
| Attendance / first hour (comes off the job) | £108 |
| Standard labour thereafter | £90 per hour + VAT |
| Out of hours, evenings and weekends | £60 + VAT per half hour |
| EICR, 1–2 bed flat | £140 |
| EICR, 3 bed house | £170 |
| EICR, 4 bed house | £200 |
| EICR, 5+ bed or a house in flats on one intake | £250 |
| HMO EICR, depending on rooms and circuits | £250–£500 |
| Commercial EICR | from £220 |
| Fuse board replacement, 6-way flat | £550 |
| Fuse board replacement, 10-way 3-bed house | £650 |
| Fuse board replacement, 12-way and above | £750 |
| Board and EICR on the same visit | £690 |
| Earthing and main bonding alongside a board change | £108 |
| Partial rewire | £1,600–£3,000 |
| Full rewire, 2 bed house | £2,800–£4,000 |
| Full rewire, 3 bed house | £3,500–£5,500 |
| Full rewire, 4 bed house | £4,500–£8,000 |
| Full rewire, 5 bed house | £6,500–£10,000 |
| Full rewire, large detached on the ridge | £9,500–£14,000 |
| EV charge point, standard install | from £450 |
| HMO, commercial or three-phase board | quoted on survey |
Larger houses on The Ridgeway, Milespit Hill and Highwood Hill are priced on circuit count, not bedroom count. A five-bedroom house with a garage, a garden room, gates and outside lighting on four undocumented sub-mains is a bigger job than a six-bedroom house that has none of that, and quoting it off the particulars would be guessing. Full pricing sits on our EICR cost guide for London and our fuse board replacement page.
What we keep finding in NW7 wiring
Six things come up again and again on Mill Hill installations.
- The main earthing clamp on a water pipe that no longer goes anywhere. Plenty of NW7 houses still have the main earth clamped to what was a metal incoming water main. Thames Water has since renewed a great many of those services in plastic at the boundary, so the clamp is tight, the label is in place, and the earth path is gone. It is the single most common C1 we write in this postcode, and it is a cheap fix once somebody actually tests it.
- Undersized or missing main bonding. 6mm where 10mm is wanted, and gas bonding missed entirely after the meter was moved out to an external box. We put it right alongside whatever else we are doing from £108 rather than make a separate visit of it.
- Aged-out boards behind perfectly sound rewires. The 1930s semis around the Broadway, Bunns Lane, Wise Lane, Daws Lane and Page Street were widely rewired in the 1980s and 90s. The cable is fine; the board is a split-load or rewirable relic with no RCD on half of it. That is a full RCBO board from £550, not a rewire, and anyone quoting you four thousand pounds for it has not looked.
- Buried twin-and-earth to outbuildings. On the bigger plots off Hammers Lane, Milespit Hill, Highwood Hill and Partingdale Lane we find garages, garden offices, electric gates, pumps and pool plant fed on buried flat twin-and-earth — no SWA, no mechanical protection, no RCD at the supply end, and no record of where it runs. That is a C1 or C2 depending on depth and protection, and it is the thing most likely to turn a straightforward EICR into a real quote.
- Loft conversions nobody notified. A loft room spurred off a first-floor lighting or socket circuit, no RCD, no certificate and nothing on Building Control’s record. Common right across NW7 and the first thing a buyer’s solicitor asks about.
- Houses cut into flats on one intake. Larger houses off Hale Lane, Lawrence Street, Bunns Lane and the Broadway end were divided into two or three flats decades ago, often with sub-mains in twin-and-earth clipped up the common stairwell, no fire-rated fixings and no per-flat means of isolation. It passes until someone fits an electric shower, then it does not. We also see the same cupboard problem on the A1 and A41 frontages: external meter boxes on Watford Way and up towards Apex Corner that have been weathered open for years, with corroded tails and clamps inside.
The conservation area, the Article 4 direction and the listed houses
This is the part of Mill Hill that catches people out, so it is worth being precise. The Mill Hill Conservation Area was designated in December 1968 and covers roughly 152 hectares of the ridge — development strung out along The Ridgeway with extensions down Highwood Hill, Hammers Lane and Milespit Hill, bounded by Burtonhole Lane to the south-east and Marsh Lane to the north. It is around 260 houses, a lot of them brick and weatherboard, some 17th-century timber-framed, mixed in with the big institutional buildings: Mill Hill School, Belmont, The Mount, St Joseph’s College, the churches. Barnet’s own appraisal counts 47 statutory listed buildings and 58 locally listed ones inside it, and the conservation area carries an Article 4 direction that removes permitted development rights for external alterations — windows, doors, roofing materials, boundaries.
What that means for electrical work, honestly:
- Inside an unlisted house in the conservation area, nobody controls your electrics. Rewiring, moving a board, adding circuits — that is Part P and BS 7671, which we notify through our own scheme. The conservation area does not come into it.
- Outside, it can. A meter box move, an external EV point, a frontage cable, a security light or a new external supply to a garden building is external work, and with an Article 4 direction in force it is worth a call to Barnet planning before we fix anything to the front of the building. It rarely stops the job. It usually changes the route and the fixings.
- If the house is listed, that is a different regime again. Listing covers the inside as well as the outside, so internal electrical work on one of the 47 can need listed building consent — and the permitted development right for a wall-mounted EV charge point does not apply within the curtilage of a listed building at all. There is no fee for a listed building consent application and the determination period is eight weeks, so doing it properly costs time rather than money. We have written the whole thing up on our listed building and conservation area rewire guide.
Our method on the constrained houses along the ridge is the same one we use on the Grade II listed flats at Princess Park Manor in N11 and the dock warehouse conversions in Wapping: plan the routes around original fabric, reuse existing containment, lift and relay floors rather than chase walls, leave the board where it is if the cupboard works, and surface-mount in a matching finish where there is genuinely no concealed route. What heritage changes is the route the cable takes, not the standard it has to meet. We will not drop downlights into original lath and plaster ceilings — it is irreversible, it is usually not consented, and pendants or wall lights give you the same light.
Mill Hill East, Millbrook Park and Ridgeway Views
The other half of NW7 is the opposite problem. Millbrook Park is the redevelopment of the former Inglis Barracks at Mill Hill East — Inglis was the Middlesex Regiment’s depot and the Northern line branch terminus at Mill Hill East opened in 1941 largely to serve it. Outline permission came in 2011 for a little over 2,100 homes, built out in phases with a primary school, the Millbrook Plaza units, a GP surgery and a district energy centre. Ridgeway Views is the other one, on the National Institute for Medical Research site off The Ridgeway that was demolished in 2018.
On both, the installation is new and tested. What people actually need is:
- Spare ways. New-build boards are routinely populated to within one or two ways of full, so an EV point, a garden circuit and an extra bathroom fan is a board question before it is a cable question.
- Access and isolation. In the apartment blocks the intake and sometimes the board sit in a communal riser. We arrange access and isolation with the managing agent before the day rather than turn up and find the cupboard locked.
- EV on allocated parking. Permission from the management company comes before the electrics. We have a separate guide to EV chargers for flats, because the answer is usually not a simple wall box.
- Heat networks. With a district energy centre supplying heating and hot water, there is no gas appliance in the flat, so the load profile and the bonding requirements are different from a house. Worth saying so on the certificate rather than leaving a surveyor guessing.
And the honest line on EV, same as everywhere else we work: there is no wall point for a car parked on the street, and we will not run a cable across a public footway. Cross-pavement charging is a council scheme, not something an electrician installs off their own back. EV charger installation in Barnet covers what we can and cannot do.
Landlords, HMOs and letting agents in NW7
Private rented homes in NW7 need an EICR at least every five years, with a copy to the tenant and to the council on request. HMOs we do annually as a matter of course, because licence conditions and the way the wiring gets used both justify it. Mill Hill has a steady supply of larger houses let room by room — around the school, and in the divided houses off Hale Lane and the Broadway — and those are the ones where the certificate and the licence conditions have to line up. Barnet operates licensing schemes that change; we would rather you checked the council’s current scheme for your street than took a figure off a website.
We can do an EICR, emergency lighting, the fire alarm test and PAT testing in one visit where it suits, which saves a second set of access arrangements. Worth knowing: an EICR does not cover emergency lighting, fire alarms or portable appliances — they are separate standards with separate certificates, and a landlord who thinks the EICR covered the lot usually finds out at the wrong moment. Our HMO EICR page and the emergency lighting certificate guide set out what each one actually is.
Shops, offices and the Mill Hill parades
Commercially, NW7 is the Mill Hill Broadway parade around the Thameslink station, Hale Lane up towards Edgware, the Bittacy Hill and Mill Hill Circus frontages, the newer Millbrook Plaza units, and the light industrial and workshop units off Bunns Lane and Flower Lane. We do commercial EICRs priced per circuit rather than per square foot, three-phase intakes, distribution boards, emergency lighting and PAT.
The recurring issue on the parades is the same one we see on every London high street: a flat above a shop where the stair lighting, and sometimes a landing socket, is fed off the shop’s circuits. The stair goes dark when the shop switches off at night, and any emergency lighting up there never gets a chance to charge. The landlord’s supply for the common parts has to be separate and permanently live. There is more on that in our guide to which EICRs a shop with flats above needs.
Nearby areas we cover
Mill Hill sits in the London Borough of Barnet, and we work right across it on the same pricing. Finchley N3, N12 and N2 · Whetstone and Totteridge N20 · High Barnet and Chipping Barnet EN5 · East Barnet and New Barnet EN4 · Friern Barnet and New Southgate N11. We also cover Hendon NW4 and Golders Green NW11 and Edgware and Burnt Oak HA8 on the same rates — ring and ask. Borough-wide pages: EICR Barnet, consumer unit replacement in Barnet and emergency electrician Barnet. The full list is on our London service areas page.
Mill Hill questions we get asked
Do I need permission for electrical work in the Mill Hill Conservation Area?
For internal work on an unlisted house, no. Rewiring, a new board, extra sockets and lighting are controlled by Part P and BS 7671, and we notify through our scheme — the council’s conservation designation does not cover the inside of an unlisted building. External work is different, because the conservation area carries an Article 4 direction that removes permitted development rights for external alterations. If we are moving a meter box, fixing an EV charger to the front elevation, running a cable along a frontage or fitting an external light, we check with Barnet planning first. Give us the full postcode and we will tell you where you stand before we quote.
My house on The Ridgeway is listed. Can you still rewire it?
Yes, and we do. There is no heritage exemption from Part P or BS 7671, so the installation has to meet the current standard either way. What changes is how we get there: existing routes reused, floors lifted and relaid rather than walls chased, accessories positioned discreetly, surface conduit in a matching finish where there is no concealed route. Internal alterations to a listed building can need listed building consent, which is a separate application from planning and takes about eight weeks with no fee. We will produce a method statement and route plan for the application from £240 if you need one.
How much is an EICR in Mill Hill?
From £140 for a one or two bedroom flat, £170 for a three bedroom house, £200 for four, and £250 for a bigger house or a house divided into flats on one intake. HMOs are £250–£500 depending on rooms and circuits. That is labour and certification, inclusive of VAT, and it is the real figure rather than a £59 teaser — a proper EICR on a Mill Hill house means dead testing every circuit, and you cannot do that in forty minutes.
Can you fit an EV charger at Millbrook Park or Ridgeway Views?
Often yes, but the order matters. First, permission from the management company for the parking space and the cable route. Second, a look at the board, because new-build boards are usually nearly full and a spare way is not guaranteed. Third, access and isolation at the communal intake if that is where the supply comes from, arranged with the agent. Once those three are settled the install itself is straightforward and starts from £450. If your space is in a basement or shared deck, tell us that on the phone — it changes the answer.
My RCD keeps tripping. Is that a rewire?
Almost never. On NW7 houses it is usually one of three things: a deteriorated circuit — often an old cooker or immersion circuit, or outside lighting with water in a joint; a board where everything hangs off one 30mA RCD so a small fault anywhere kills half the house; or a genuine insulation fault that needs tracing. Fault finding is charged at the hourly rate from the £108 minimum, and in most cases the cure is a repair plus a full RCBO board from £550, which also means the next fault only takes out the circuit it is on. Our guide to why a fuse board keeps tripping walks through it.
How quickly can you get to NW7?
Same day for faults and emergencies where we have a slot, and we will tell you honestly if we do not. We are about 30 minutes away from N15 on a clear run, longer in the morning peak through Henlys Corner, so if we say early afternoon we mean early afternoon. Out of hours is £60 + VAT per half hour on top of the materials.
Book an electrician in Mill Hill
Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453, or email info@faelectrical.co.uk. Tell us the full NW7 postcode and roughly what you are dealing with and we will give you a price on the phone for anything standard, or book an attendance at £108 which comes off the job if you go ahead. NICEIC approved, Part P registered, BS 7671 18th Edition, £5m public liability, City & Guilds Level 3, Checkatrade rated 9.32 out of 10 from 242 reviews. Certificates issued the same week, and we explain every code on them.
More reading: all our electrical guides · what a house rewire costs in London · what Part P certification actually is · what an EICR checks.