F&A Electrical is an NICEIC-approved, Part P registered electrical contractor based in Tottenham N15, and Tufnell Park is one of the closest patches we work. We cover the villas and terraces off Tufnell Park Road, Carleton Road, Anson Road and Dalmeny Avenue, the Celia, Hugo, Corinne, Huddleston and Archibald Road grid, the Brecknock Road and Fortess Road ends, and the streets climbing Dartmouth Park Hill. From our base it is about 20 to 25 minutes outside rush hour, across on Seven Sisters Road and down through the Nag’s Head — the Holloway Road and Camden Road junctions are the pinch, and in the school run it can be forty. We will tell you honestly when we can be there rather than promise a number we cannot keep.
Call 07407 627542 (or 07500 721453). Every job is certified to BS 7671 by the electrician who did the work, and we are fully insured. Our prices are labour and certification only; materials are itemised separately so you can see what you are paying for.
What we do in Tufnell Park
The work here splits fairly neatly. On one side, the big Victorian villas and four-storey terraces — EICRs before a sale, fuse board replacements, rewires in houses that have not been touched since the 1980s, and fault-finding in houses cut into flats. On the other, the flats themselves: landlord EICRs, board changes in a hall cupboard, extra sockets and lighting in a lower-ground conversion, and the slow, unglamorous business of working out which circuit in a converted house actually feeds what.
- EICRs for landlords, letting agents, vendors and buyers — see our EICR cost guide or the Islington and Camden pages.
- Consumer unit and fuse board replacement — how it works and what it costs, plus Islington and Camden.
- Full and partial rewires — house rewire costs, flat rewire costs, how long it takes, and Islington or Camden.
- Earthing and main protective bonding — the single most common remedial we write up here. See main bonding costs and what “no main earth” means.
- Fault-finding and repairs, including the same-day sort — Islington, Camden.
- Sockets, lighting, kitchens and bathrooms, and kitchen refit electrics.
- EV charge points where the parking makes one possible — Islington, Camden, chargers for flats.
- Shops, cafés and small offices on the parades — commercial work, PAT testing, emergency lighting certificates.
Two boroughs, three postcodes, one junction
Tufnell Park is the most administratively confusing patch we work, and it is worth understanding before you ring anybody. The area spans two London boroughs — Islington and Camden — and three postcode districts: N19, N7 and NW5. They all meet within a few hundred yards of the station, and the borough boundary does not follow the postcode.
The streets in Islington’s Tufnell Park conservation area — Carleton Road, Anson Road, Dalmeny Avenue, Hugo Road, Celia Road, Corinne Road, Huddleston Road, Archibald Road, Southcote Road and St George’s Avenue — are Islington. Walk west over Dartmouth Park Hill and you are in Camden, where Camden’s own Dartmouth Park conservation area takes over. Brecknock Road and Fortess Road are where people guess wrong most often; the station itself sits right on that edge. And the housing north-east of Tufnell Park Road is popularly thought of as Upper Holloway rather than Tufnell Park at all, which is why two neighbours will give an estate agent two different area names.
For the certificate itself, none of this matters. We are registered with a competent person scheme, so Part P notification goes through us whichever side of the line you are on. What the borough decides is which Building Control holds the record of the work, which council’s licensing scheme applies if you let the property, and which planning department and which conservation area you need to ask about before anything goes on an outside wall. Read how Part P notification actually works if you are buying or selling.
So when you ring, give us the full postcode, not the street name. It takes a second and it saves a conversation later.
Tufnell Park prices — labour and certification only
Our minimum charge is £90 + VAT, which is £108 including VAT — one hour at the standard rate, and it comes off the job if we go on to do the work. Standard labour is £90 per hour + VAT. Out of hours is £60 + VAT per half hour. Everything below is labour and certification; materials are itemised separately.
Inspection and testing
| Job | From |
|---|---|
| EICR, studio or one-bed flat | £140 |
| EICR, two-bed flat or small house | £170 |
| EICR, three-bed house | £200 |
| EICR, four-bed or converted house with multiple boards | £250 |
| EICR, large or multi-board property | £300–£400 |
| HMO EICR | £250–£500 |
| Commercial EICR | from £220 |
| Fault-finding, first hour (minimum charge) | £108 inc VAT |
| Inspecting and reporting on somebody else’s unnotified work | £108 inc VAT |
| PAT testing | £108 minimum, then ~£5 per appliance |
Installation and remedial work
| Job | From |
|---|---|
| Consumer unit replacement, 6-way | £550 |
| Consumer unit replacement, 10-way | £650 |
| Consumer unit replacement, 12-way or larger | £750 |
| Board replacement and EICR on the same visit | £690 |
| Main earthing and protective bonding alongside a board change | £108 |
| Main protective bonding, both services, on its own | £180 |
| New single circuit, board to accessory, accessible route | £240–£420 |
| Flat rewire, one-bed / two-bed / three-bed | £2,200–£3,200 / £3,000–£4,500 / £4,200–£6,000 |
| House rewire, two-bed terrace upwards | £2,800–£4,000, rising with size |
| House rewire, four-storey villa or converted house | £6,500–£14,000 |
| Partial rewire | £1,600–£3,000 |
| EV charge point | from £450 |
| Method statement and conservation-area paperwork where needed | from £240 |
Part P notification is included. There is no admin fee for it, and we do not charge for a duplicate copy of a certificate for work we did. The only council fee anywhere in this is regularisation, if somebody else’s unnotified work has to be put right — that is paid to the council and we never mark it up. Check your own borough’s current charges scheme rather than taking a figure off a website, including ours.
What we actually find in Tufnell Park
Six things come up again and again here, and they follow the housing stock rather than the postcode.
- Main protective bonding missing, undersized, or bonded to something that is no longer there. In the converted villas the water main is often in a basement or a shared cupboard, and the gas meter has been moved to an external box at some point in the last thirty years — the bond stayed where the old meter was. It is the most common remedial we write up in this area and it is cheap to put right. See main bonding costs.
- Old lead-sheathed TN-S earths with no reliable main earth. Common in houses of this age across north London. It is not a reason to panic and it is not usually a rewire — it is a conversation with UK Power Networks. What “no main earth” means.
- Aged-out boards behind perfectly sound 1980s and 1990s rewires. This is the commonest misdiagnosis in N19 and N7. Someone is quoted for a full rewire when the cables are fine and the board is the problem. A board change from £550 plus bonding often gets a house from unsatisfactory to satisfactory without lifting a floor.
- Villas cut into three, four or five flats on one original intake. The Tufnell Park villas were built as single family houses and most have been divided. What you get is no proper per-flat isolation, borrowed neutrals between flats, and a landing light or basement socket fed off one flat’s board — so isolating one flat kills another’s fridge. We would far rather issue an honest FI, trace it properly and tell you what it costs to separate than hand you a tidy-looking certificate that is not true.
- Lighting circuits with no CPC. No earth at the ceiling rose. This is the single thing that tips a house from a partial rewire into a full one, because you cannot fit metal fittings or most modern downlights to a lighting circuit with no earth. We check it on the first visit so you are not surprised halfway through.
- Lower-ground and loft conversions, and garden rooms, that nobody notified. Long gardens off Carleton Road and the Celia/Hugo grid mean garden offices, and a lot of them are fed by flat twin-and-earth buried a few inches down with no mechanical protection and no RCD. Lower-ground kitchens and loft bedrooms added in the 2000s frequently have no paperwork at all. Read Part P notification and what paperwork you should have.
The conservation area, and the Article 4 direction
This matters more in Tufnell Park than in most places we work, so it gets its own section.
The Tufnell Park Estate was laid out as a residential estate in the 1860s and 1870s. Serious building began in 1845 under a scheme sponsored by Henry Tufnell and designed by John Shaw Jr; George Truefitt took the scheme up in 1865, became Surveyor to the estate and designed most of the local villas and many of the three- and four-storey terraces. St George’s Church on Tufnell Park Road dates from 1865. The result is Islington’s Tufnell Park conservation area (CA11): spacious detached and semi-detached villas alongside tall terraces, in brick, stone and render, with timber windows and natural slate or tile roofs, and a quality of detail that the council’s own design guidance singles out. There are both statutory and locally listed buildings inside it.
The part people are caught by: an Article 4 direction applies to the conservation area. That means some works which would normally be permitted development need planning permission here. We set out how to check a direction, and what it means for a charge point, in Article 4 directions and EV chargers. For electrical work it bears on anything visible from the street — a charge point on a front wall or in a front garden, a new external meter box, outdoor lighting or a cable run on a front elevation, an air source heat pump. Inside the house it changes nothing.
How we handle it: we tell you what the installation needs, we do not apply for your planning permission, and we will not quietly fix something to a front elevation and leave you with it. Where a route can be taken at the back or inside, we take it. Where it cannot, you need to ask the council about your specific address before we order anything — an Article 4 direction is drawn street by street, and so is the Camden equivalent on the Dartmouth Park side, so ask for your address rather than assuming what applies to a neighbour applies to you. If the building is listed as well, there is a three-way split to get through: listed building consent, planning permission and Building Regulations are separate things, and the first does not grant the second. See rewiring a listed building or a house in a conservation area.
On EV charging, the honest position: if your car is parked on the street there is no compliant way to fit a wall point for it, and we will not run a cable across a public footway. A cross-pavement channel is a council scheme, not something an electrician can install on request. Off-street parking, a garage or a hardstanding and it is straightforward. EV charger costs.
Landlords, HMOs and student lets
Tufnell Park has a lot of rented property — divided villas, flats above the shops, and whole houses let as shares. The statutory duty in England is the same on both sides of the boundary: an EICR at intervals of no more than five years, the report to existing tenants within 28 days, to a new tenant before they move in, to a prospective tenant within 28 days of a request, and to the local authority within 7 days of a request. Remedial work within 28 days, or sooner if the report specifies it — and a C1 is the definition of sooner.
The document landlords most often forget to ask for is the written confirmation from the electrician that the remedial work is done and the installation now meets the standard, which goes to the tenant and to the council. We issue that as standard. Licence conditions can require more frequent inspection than the statute does, so check the council’s current scheme for your street — Islington and Camden run their own and they change.
For houses in multiple occupation, see HMO EICRs. Where the flat tests clean but the communal riser, landlord’s sub-main or plant room is not the leaseholder’s responsibility, that needs its own certificate and its own scope — leasehold flats and communal areas explains who is responsible for what.
Shops, cafés and small premises
The parades here are Fortess Road, the Brecknock Road run, Junction Road towards Archway and the Tufnell Park Road shops. Most are a ground-floor unit with one or two flats above on a single original intake, which produces the problem we see constantly: the stair lighting and the hall sockets serving the flats are fed from the shop’s circuit, so when the shop shuts its board off the tenants upstairs lose their landing light. That is a real finding, not a technicality, and it is worth sorting before an EICR rather than after. See EICRs on a shop with flats above.
For cafés and small offices we do board changes, extra circuits for kitchen equipment, three-phase where the unit has it, emergency lighting certification and annual PAT. We work around trading hours — early mornings and Sundays if that is what it takes.
Nearby areas we cover
Tufnell Park sits in the middle of a cluster of pages we already have, so if your address is on the edge, one of these will be closer to it:
- Archway N19 — immediately north, same postcode district.
- Holloway N7 — south and east, down towards the Nag’s Head.
- Kentish Town NW5 — west down Fortess Road, Camden side.
- Highgate and Crouch End — up the hill to the north.
- Highbury, Canonbury, Angel and the whole of N1 — south through Islington.
- Finsbury Park — east, on our route in from Tottenham.
- Borough pages: Islington, Camden, and the north London index of every area we cover.
Everywhere we work is listed on our service areas page, and our written guides are indexed at electrical guides.
Tufnell Park FAQ
Am I in Islington or Camden?
Give us your full postcode and we will tell you. The short version: the conservation-area streets east of Dartmouth Park Hill — Carleton, Anson, Dalmeny, Hugo, Celia, Corinne, Huddleston, Archibald, St George’s Avenue — are Islington; west over Dartmouth Park Hill is Camden. Brecknock Road and Fortess Road are the streets people get wrong. It makes no difference to your certificate; it decides which council holds the record and which licensing scheme applies.
How quickly can you get here?
Twenty to twenty-five minutes from Tottenham outside rush hour, longer in the school run or if Holloway Road is backed up. We will give you a realistic window when you ring rather than a minute promise — anyone who guarantees you half an hour has not driven Camden Road at five o’clock.
Our villa is split into flats and nobody knows which board feeds the hall. Can you sort it?
Yes, and it is a good chunk of what we do here. It is hourly work — tracing, identifying, labelling and recording — and the single most useful thing anybody has done to the building in years. We will tell you what we find and what it would cost to give each flat its own proper isolation, and you can decide from there.
Do I need planning permission for a charge point or an outside light?
Possibly, because of the Article 4 direction over the conservation area. Anything on a front elevation or in a front garden needs checking with the council for your specific address first. Work at the back, or inside, is a Building Regulations question for us and nothing to do with planning.
Does a board change on its own make my EICR satisfactory?
Often, but not always, and we will not pretend otherwise before we have looked. A new board plus bonding fixes a great many unsatisfactory reports in houses with sound 1980s or 1990s cabling. It does not fix lighting circuits with no earth, or borrowed neutrals between flats. That is why the first visit is an inspection rather than a quote off a photograph.
Can you certify work another electrician did?
No, and nobody can. We can inspect and test what is there and report on it, we can put it right and certify our own work, and we can write the position up in a form a conveyancer can use. What no scheme-registered electrician can do is retrospectively notify somebody else’s work — a “retrospective Part P certificate” offered by a trader is worthless. More on the paperwork here.
Book an electrician in Tufnell Park
Ring 07407 627542 or 07500 721453, or email info@faelectrical.co.uk. Tell us the full postcode and what the property is — flat, house, converted villa, shop with flats above — and roughly what you need, and we will give you a straight price and a realistic day.
F&A Electrical is NICEIC-approved and Part P registered, certifies to BS 7671, and is fully insured. We are rated 9.32 out of 10 from 242 Checkatrade reviews. Minimum charge £90 + VAT (£108 inc VAT) for the first hour, which comes off the job if we carry on. Prices are labour and certification; materials itemised separately.