Electrician in North London

“North London” covers a lot of ground and a lot of very different wiring. A 1900 terrace off Lordship Lane in Tottenham, a mansion-block flat in Camden, a 1930s semi in Mill Hill and a new flat on a heat network at Tottenham Hale have almost nothing in common electrically. So rather than describe them all at once, this page tells you what we do, what things cost, what we actually find — and then points you at the page for your own postcode, which goes into proper local detail.

Find your area

Every one of these is a real page about that area, not a list of keywords:

Haringey: Tottenham · N15 South Tottenham and Seven Sisters · N17 Tottenham Hale and Bruce Grove · N22 Wood Green and Bounds Green · N4 Finsbury Park · N6 Highgate
Barnet: Finchley · Mill Hill NW7 · Hendon and Golders Green · Edgware and Burnt Oak HA8 · Whetstone and Totteridge N20 · High Barnet EN5 · East Barnet EN4 · Friern Barnet N11
Islington: N1 Angel and Canonbury · N5 Highbury · N7 Holloway · Holloway · Archway
Camden: NW1 Camden Town · NW3 Hampstead · Hampstead
Enfield: Enfield Town · Edmonton · Palmers Green · Winchmore Hill
Hackney and Waltham Forest: N16 Stoke Newington · E8 Dalston and Hackney Central · Walthamstow · Leyton

The complete list, including the east London boroughs, is on our London service areas page. If your postcode straddles a boundary — N11, N22 and HA8 all do — give us the full postcode and we will tell you which council you are dealing with before anything else happens.

Our electrical services in North London

What our work costs

These are labour and certification, inclusive of VAT. Materials — board, accessories, fittings, cable — are itemised separately so you can see what you are paying for. Standard labour is £90 per hour plus VAT and the minimum charge is £108 inc VAT; nothing we do is priced below it. Out of hours is £60 plus VAT per half hour on top.

Job	Labour + certification
Attend, trace the fault, make safe (first hour)	from £108 — comes off the job if you go ahead
EICR, 1–2 bed flat	from £140
EICR, 3 bed house or maisonette	from £170
EICR, 4 bed house	from £200
EICR, 5 bed or large semi	from £250
EICR, large detached or more than one board	£300–£400
HMO EICR	£250–£500 by room count and number of boards
Commercial EICR	from £220, quoted per circuit on survey
Consumer unit, 6-way, flat or small house	from £550
Consumer unit, 10-way, typical 3-bed	from £650
Consumer unit, 12-way or more, larger house	from £750
Board and EICR in the same visit	from £690
New 16 mm² main earthing conductor	from £180
Main bonding to gas and water, both within reach	from £180
Full TT conversion	from £850
Partial rewire	£1,600–£3,000
Rewire, 1–2 bed flat	£2,200–£3,200
Rewire, 2–3 bed terrace or semi	£3,500–£5,500
Rewire, 4 bed house	£4,500–£8,000
EV charge point, off-street parking	from £450
PAT testing	around £5 per appliance, £108 minimum visit

Our full price list covers the smaller jobs. EICR cost in London, fuse board replacement and house rewire cost explain what moves a price up or down, and rewiring a flat is priced differently again.

What we actually find in North London houses

1. A main earth clamped to a water pipe that is no longer metal. The water companies have renewed a great many services in blue plastic at the boundary and the clamp in the cupboard stayed where it was, which leaves the installation with no means of earthing at all. It is the most serious thing we find, in every borough, and what “no main earth” means explains it properly. A new board on a dead earth is a new board with the same problem.
2. Main bonding missing, undersized, or left behind when the meter moved outside. 6 mm² where 10 mm² is wanted on a PME supply, or a gas bond still clamped to where the meter used to be. Main bonding cost in London sets out the sizes, the clamp positions and the prices.
3. Aged-out boards behind sound wiring. Across the interwar semis of Barnet and Enfield and the Victorian terraces of Haringey and Hackney, the fixed wiring was often renewed in the 1970s or 1980s and still tests well. What has aged out is the board. That is a consumer unit from £550, not a rewire — and anyone quoting a rewire before testing the circuits has not looked.
4. Big houses cut into flats on one original intake. Off Lordship Lane, St Ann’s Road, Mare Street, Graham Road, Green Lanes and a hundred other roads: twin-and-earth sub-mains up the common stair and no way for an upstairs tenant to isolate without getting into somebody else’s hallway.
5. Loft conversions and extensions with no paperwork. Spurred off a first-floor circuit, no certificate and no Building Control record — which matters when you sell, and matters more where the postcode crosses a borough boundary and nobody is sure which council to ask.
6. Flats above shops with the stair lighting on the shop’s supply. Standard along every North London parade, and it means the common parts go dark when the shop shuts off. EICRs for a shop with flats above covers how we test those honestly.
7. New flats where the problem is capacity, not condition. At Tottenham Hale, Millbrook Park, Colindale and Brent Cross Town the installation is usually sound; what bites is no spare ways on the board, a meter in a communal riser you do not control, and EV charging being a permission question before an electrical one. On an all-electric heat-network flat there is no gas service to bond — correct, but it has to be written down on the certificate rather than left as a blank box.

Landlords and HMOs in North London

A rented home in England needs a satisfactory EICR at least every five years and at the start of a new tenancy. Any C1, C2 or FI makes the report unsatisfactory, and the remedial work is due within 28 days or sooner if the report specifies — a C1 is the definition of sooner. We hand over the report, a priced list of remedials, and a plain statement of what has to happen now rather than at the next inspection.

Licensing is each council’s own scheme and they differ, so check the current scheme for your street before you assume. HMO EICRs, smoke and heat alarm rules for landlords, PAT testing and emergency lighting cover the rest of the compliance set, and we will put several of them into one visit where the building allows it.

Why North London customers use us

We are local to it. The van is parked in Tottenham N15, not in a different county, and most of our work comes from within half an hour of it. That matters less for marketing than it does for the second visit — the one where a part is needed, or a tenant is in, or something has to be finished off.

We are an NICEIC Approved Contractor, Part P registered, working to the current edition of BS 7671, City & Guilds Level 3 qualified, with £5 million public liability insurance. Every job is tested and certified, and the certificate reaches you rather than sitting in a van. Our about page has the detail on qualifications and accreditations.

Questions we get asked

Do I need a rewire or just a new fuse board?

Usually a board, if the fixed wiring is sound. We test it first — insulation resistance, continuity, earth fault loop impedance — and the results decide it, not the age of the house. A rewire quoted without that testing is a guess.

How soon can you come out?

Often the same day within our core patch if we have a slot, and we will tell you straight away if we do not. We would rather give you a window we can keep than a number that sounds impressive on a website.

My EICR came back unsatisfactory. What now?

Get the coded items and the reasons, not just the verdict. We are happy to look at someone else’s report and tell you which items genuinely need doing in 28 days and which are C3 observations — and we will say so if we think something has been over-coded.

Do you cover the whole of London?

Our core patch is North and North-East London, where we can get to a job properly and come back if we need to. We also work the central EC and W1 postcodes. If you are further out, ring and ask rather than assume — we would rather tell you honestly than take a booking we cannot do well.

Also on this site

We also cover east London and the central London postcodes. Every question we get asked is answered with London prices on our electrical guides page, the area list is on London service areas, and the full list of what we do is on services.