F & A Electrical cover the whole of the N22 postcode — Wood Green, Bounds Green, Bowes Park, Noel Park and the Alexandra Palace side of the hill — for domestic, landlord, HMO, emergency and commercial electrical work. We are based about 15 minutes south at Ten 87 Studios on Markfield Road in Tottenham N15. 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. Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453.
This is the postcode-wide page. If you are specifically in Wood Green or on the Noel Park estate, our Wood Green electrician page goes into that end in more detail. What follows covers N22 as a whole, and goes deepest on the part people search for least and we visit most: Bounds Green and Bowes Park.
What N22 covers — and which council you are actually in
N22 runs from the High Road and the Noel Park grid in the south, up over the hill towards Alexandra Palace, and out north-west through Bounds Green to Bowes Park and the New River. Most of it is the London Borough of Haringey. The Bowes Park end is the exception: the Enfield–Haringey boundary runs straight through Bowes Park, and the area shares its streets between N22, N11 and N13. On some roads up there the council changes partway along.
That matters less than people think, and more than people expect. It makes no difference at all to your certificate — Part P notification goes through our registration scheme, not through the council — but it decides four things:
- Which council’s licensing scheme applies if you let the property, and which one you send the EICR to if they ask for it.
- Which Building Control body has the record of a loft conversion or an extension, which is what a buyer’s solicitor will chase.
- Which planning department you ask about external work — a meter box move, a frontage cable, an EV point, an outside light.
- Which conservation area designation, if any, your street sits in.
Give us the full postcode on the phone and we will tell you which borough you are in before we quote anything. Rather that than guess and have you chasing the wrong planning department.
What we do across N22
- EICRs and landlord certificates — flats, houses, HMOs, blocks and commercial units, with every code explained rather than just written down.
- Fuse board and consumer unit replacement — full RCBO boards, with earthing and main bonding brought up to standard on the same visit.
- Fault finding and emergency work — tripping RCDs, dead sockets, dead lighting circuits, burning smells, water into a board.
- Rewires, full and partial — including the divided houses where only part of the installation is actually old.
- Earthing and main bonding upgrades — the single most common reason an N22 EICR fails.
- Extra circuits — electric showers, cookers, garden rooms, outbuildings, sub-mains to flats.
- EV charge points — off-street parking only, and we will say so honestly if yours does not suit one.
- Lighting — pendants, wall lights, outside and security lighting, downlights where the ceiling can take them.
- Commercial — shop units, offices and workshops on the High Road, Bounds Green Road, Brownlow Road and Myddleton Road, plus emergency lighting and PAT testing.
N22 prices
These are labour and certification only, inclusive of VAT. Materials — boards, accessories, cable, fittings — are itemised separately on the quote, so you can see what is labour and what is parts. Our minimum charge is £108 inc VAT, 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 it, including an attendance just to look.
| 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, by 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, 1–2 bed flat | £2,200–£3,200 |
| Full rewire, 3 bed flat or maisonette | £3,000–£4,500 |
| 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 |
| EV charge point, standard install | from £450 |
| HMO, commercial or three-phase board | quoted on survey |
The full breakdown is on our EICR cost guide for London, our fuse board replacement page and our house rewire cost guide.
What we keep finding in N22 wiring
- The main earth clamped to a water pipe that has been renewed in plastic. The clamp is tight, the label is there, and the earth goes nowhere, because the incoming service was replaced in plastic at the boundary years after the clamp went on. It is the most common C1 we write across the whole postcode and it is a cheap fix once somebody actually tests it rather than looking at it.
- Undersized or missing main bonding. 6mm where 10mm is wanted, and gas bonding missed completely after the meter was moved out to an external box. We put both right alongside other work from £108.
- Aged-out boards behind sound rewires. Plenty of N22 houses were rewired in the 1980s or 90s and the cable is fine. What is not fine is a split-load board with one 30mA RCD covering half the house, or a rewirable board with no RCD at all. That is a full RCBO board from £550, not a rewire — and the bonus is that the next fault only takes out the circuit it is on.
- Divided houses on one intake. Bigger houses off Bounds Green Road, Brownlow Road, Truro Road and Westbury Avenue were cut into two or three flats decades ago. One un-upgraded intake, sub-mains in twin-and-earth clipped up the common stairwell with no fire-rated fixings, and no means of isolation for each flat. It holds up until somebody fits an electric shower.
- Loft conversions nobody notified. A loft room spurred off a first-floor circuit, no RCD, no certificate, nothing on Building Control’s record. Common on the terraces right across N22 and the first thing a buyer’s solicitor asks about.
- Outside lighting and garden circuits with water in them. Old junction boxes in flower beds, lights fed on flat twin-and-earth clipped to a fence, and in the Bowes Park gardens that run down towards the New River the damp never really leaves the ground. That is usually the RCD you cannot keep in.
Bounds Green and Bowes Park
This is the end of N22 that gets the least attention and generates a steady stream of work. Bowes Park developed in the 1880s, named after the old Bowes manor, and it is mostly solid late-Victorian terraces on a tight grid — Whittington Road, Palmerston Road, Clarence Road and the streets either side of Myddleton Road, which is the local parade and is named after Sir Hugh Myddelton, who built the New River. The New River itself runs through Bowes Park and passes under Myddleton Road. Bowes Park station sits on the Moorgate line via Finsbury Park, and Bounds Green has its own Piccadilly line station a few minutes south-east.
What that mix produces on the tools:
- Late-Victorian terraces, solid brick, lath and plaster. No cavity, so external routes are surface or chased, and ceilings do not love downlights. We will say when a pendant or wall light is the sensible answer instead of cutting six holes in original plaster.
- Interwar semis towards Bounds Green Road and the Bounds Green station end. Later stock, generally easier, and overwhelmingly the aged-out-board-behind-a-good-rewire job rather than a rewire.
- Flats above the Myddleton Road shops. The stair lighting, and sometimes a landing socket, is fed off the shop’s circuits — so 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. More on that in our guide to which EICRs a shop with flats above needs.
- The borough boundary. Covered above, and it bites hardest here. Before we fix anything to a frontage in Bowes Park we establish whether we are asking Haringey or Enfield.
- Railway-side properties. Along the embankment and the Piccadilly line cutting there are garages, workshops and lock-ups on long undocumented sub-mains, usually buried flat twin-and-earth with no mechanical protection and no RCD at the supply end. Those get priced on circuit count after a look, never over the phone.
The Alexandra Palace side
Up the hill, the N22 stock changes again: larger villas off Alexandra Park Road and the streets below the park, a good many of them divided into three or four flats long ago, with the intake never upgraded and the sub-mains running up the common stair. Plus newer blocks around the Clarendon Road and Chocolate Factory end where the installation is sound and the real question is whether there is a spare way in the board and who holds the key to the riser. Our Wood Green page goes into that side, Noel Park and the conservation area in full.
Landlords and HMOs in N22
Every privately rented home in N22 needs an EICR at least every five years, with a copy to the tenant and to the council on request. We do HMOs annually as a matter of course, because the licence conditions and the way shared wiring actually gets used both justify it. Licensing schemes change and differ either side of the Bowes Park boundary, so check the council’s current scheme for your street rather than taking a figure off a website — and tell us which borough you are in, because that is who you will be sending it to.
One thing worth saying plainly: an EICR does not cover emergency lighting, fire alarms or portable appliances. They are separate standards with separate certificates and separate intervals. A landlord who assumes the EICR covered the lot usually finds out at the worst possible moment. See our HMO EICR page, the emergency lighting certificate guide and the landlord EICR rules. Borough-wide: EICR Haringey.
Solicitor flagged the EICR on an exchange? We keep same-day slots free most weekdays — see same-day EICR London.
Shops, units and small commercial
Commercially, N22 is the Wood Green High Road and The Mall frontages, Bounds Green Road, Brownlow Road, Myddleton Road in Bowes Park, and the studio and workshop units around Clarendon Road and the railway. We price commercial EICRs per circuit rather than per square foot, and we do three-phase intakes, distribution boards, emergency lighting and PAT testing. Commercial EICR costs are set out separately.
EV charging in N22
Where there is off-street parking — a drive, a hardstanding, an allocated bay you have permission to use — a charge point starts from £450 for a standard install. Where there is not, we will tell you so. 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. In the blocks on the Alexandra Palace side and around Clarendon Road the first question is the board and the riser, not the charger: see EV chargers for flats and EV charger installation in Haringey.
N22 questions we get asked
Am I in Haringey or Enfield?
Most of N22 is Haringey. At the Bowes Park end the boundary runs through the area, and the same neighbourhood is split across N22, N11 and N13, so it genuinely varies street by street. It makes no difference to your certificate, which we notify through our scheme either way. It does decide licensing, Building Control records, planning for external work and conservation-area designation. Tell us the full postcode and we will tell you which one you are.
How much is an EICR in N22?
From £140 for a one or two bedroom flat, £170 for a three bedroom house, £200 for four, and £250 for a larger house or a house divided into flats on one intake. HMOs are £250–£500 depending on rooms and circuits. Labour and certification, inclusive of VAT. That is the real number, not a teaser — a proper EICR means dead testing every circuit, and nobody does that in forty minutes for £59.
My RCD keeps tripping. Do I need a rewire?
Very rarely. It is usually one of three things: a deteriorated circuit, most often outside lighting or an old immersion or cooker circuit; 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. We charge fault finding at the hourly rate from the £108 minimum, and the usual cure is a repair plus a full RCBO board from £550. Our guide to why a fuse board keeps tripping walks through it.
Do I need permission for electrical work in N22?
Inside an unlisted house, no — internal electrical work is controlled by Part P and BS 7671, which we notify ourselves. External work is different, and parts of N22 sit in conservation areas where permitted development rights may be restricted. A meter box move, an EV point on a frontage, an external supply to a garden building or a new outside light is worth a quick check with the right council first. It rarely stops the job; it usually changes the route and the fixings. Our listed building and conservation area guide explains where the line falls.
How quickly can you get to N22?
Same day for faults and emergencies where we have a slot, and we will tell you straight if we do not rather than book you in and miss it. We are about 15 minutes south in N15. Out of hours is £60 + VAT per half hour on top of materials.
Book an electrician in N22
Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453, or email info@faelectrical.co.uk. Give us the full N22 postcode and roughly what you are dealing with and we will price anything standard over the phone, or book an attendance at £108 which comes off the job if you go ahead. NICEIC approved, Part P registered, BS 7671 18th Edition, fully insured. Certificates issued the same week, with every code explained.
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