New genuinely-local borough pages — Hackney & Islington
Detailed, neighbourhood-specific pages with real street-by-street knowledge — pricing, council/HMO rules, listed-building constraints, FAQ tailored to each patch:
Hackney
- Stoke Newington N16 — Cazenove, Brooke Road, Peabody blocks, Newington Green
- Dalston E8 — Kingsland Road, Ridley Road Market, Sandringham Road, Dalston Square
- Hackney Central E8 — Mare Street, Narroway, London Fields edge, Pembury/Frampton Park
- Clapton E5 — Lower Clapton Road, Chatsworth Road Market, Upper Clapton, Springfield Park
Islington
- Highbury N5 — Aberdeen Park, Highbury Stadium Square, Highbury Crescent listed terraces
- Holloway N7 — Hillmarton, Tufnell Park, Andover/Bemerton estates, Holloway Road
- Angel & Islington N1 — Upper Street, Camden Passage, Duncan Terrace, City Road basin
- Canonbury N1 — Canonbury Square, listed Georgian heritage, Compton Avenue
Electrician Services Across London — By Area
F & A Electrical is an NICEIC accredited electrical contractor based in Tottenham (N15), covering domestic and commercial work across Hackney, Islington, Camden, Tower Hamlets, Southwark and surrounding Inner London boroughs. Find your service and your area below.
Phone: 07407 627542 · Email: info@faelectrical.co.uk · WhatsApp: click to message
24/7 Emergency Electrician
Same-day callouts for fuse board faults, dead sockets, burning smells, tripping circuits. Typically on site within 30-60 minutes. £90 + VAT first hour weekdays, £120 + VAT first hour evenings/weekends.
- Emergency Electrician Hackney — E5, E8, E9, N1, N16
- Emergency Electrician Islington — N1, N5, N7, N19, EC1
- Emergency Electrician Camden — NW1, NW3, NW5, NW8, WC1
- Emergency Electrician Tower Hamlets — E1, E2, E3, E14
EICR / Landlord Safety Certificate (from £140 + VAT)
NICEIC certified Electrical Installation Condition Reports for landlords and homeowners. Required by law every 5 years for rented properties. Same-week appointments, full PDF report emailed same day.
- EICR Hackney — Clapton, Dalston, Stoke Newington, Hackney Wick
- EICR Islington — Angel, Highbury, Holloway, Archway
- EICR Camden — Camden Town, Hampstead, Kentish Town, St John’s Wood
- EICR Tower Hamlets — Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Bow, Canary Wharf
- EICR Southwark — Bermondsey, Borough, Peckham, Rotherhithe
Fuse Board / Consumer Unit Replacement (from £550)
Modern RCBO consumer units to BS 7671 18th Edition. Half a day on site, fully certified, fixed price.
House Rewire — Full & Partial (from £3,500)
Full or partial property rewires with NICEIC certification, fixed-price contracts, minimal mess. Period property experience.
- House Rewire Hackney — Victorian terrace and mansion block specialist
- House Rewire Southwark — SE1, SE5, SE15, SE16, SE17
EV Charger Installation (from £700)
OZEV-eligible 7kW home EV chargers. We fit Ohme, Easee, Hypervolt, Andersen, Pod Point and most other UK-approved units. Half a day on site, NICEIC certified, DNO notification handled.
Helpful Guides
Detailed guides written by our NICEIC accredited electricians:
Why a £150 fuse board replacement quote should worry you
- How much does an EICR cost in London in 2026?
- How much does a house rewire cost in London?
- Home EV charger installation London — 2026 guide
- 5 signs your fuse board needs replacing
- Why does my fuse board keep tripping?
- Smoke alarm regulations for London landlords
- Buying a property in London — electrical checklist
- What is Part P certification?
- Smart home electrical wiring — London buyer’s guide
- Cost of adding sockets in London 2026
- Heat pump electrical considerations London
Don’t see your area listed?
We cover all of Inner London and most of Greater London. If you’re in Westminster, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Brent, Ealing, Haringey, Newham, Greenwich, Lewisham, Waltham Forest, or surrounding boroughs — ring us. Same fast response, same fair pricing.
Phone: 07407 627542
WhatsApp: click to message
Email: info@faelectrical.co.uk
Fuse Board Replacement
- Fuse Board Replacement Camden
- Fuse Board Replacement Islington
- Fuse Board Replacement Hackney
- Fuse Board Replacement Tower Hamlets
- Fuse Board Replacement Southwark
House Rewiring
- House Rewire Hackney
- House Rewire Southwark
- House Rewire Camden
- House Rewire Islington
- House Rewire Tower Hamlets
EV Charger Installation
- EV Charger Installation Camden
- EV Charger Installation Tower Hamlets
- EV Charger Installation Islington
- EV Charger Installation Southwark
- EV Charger Installation Hackney
Helpful Guides & Blog Posts
- How Much Does an EICR Cost in London?
- 5 Signs Your Fuse Board Needs Replacing
- Home EV Charger Installation London Guide
- How Much Does a House Rewire Cost in London?
- Why Does My Fuse Board Keep Tripping?
- Smoke Alarm Regulations for London Landlords
- Buying Property in London: Electrical Checklist
- What Is Part P Certification?
- Smart Home Wiring Guide London
- Cost of Adding Sockets in London
- Heat Pump Electrical Considerations
- Fire Alarm Installation London
- How Much Does an Electrician Cost in London?
- Garden Lighting Installation London
- PAT Testing London
- Bathroom Electrical Regulations UK
Genuinely local borough pages
Detailed borough-specific guides with real street names, property types and local council nuances:
- Electrician Stoke Newington N16
- Electrician Dalston E8
- Electrician Highbury N5
- Electrician Holloway N7
- Electrician Bermondsey SE1
- Electrician Whitechapel E1
- Electrician Hampstead NW3
Latest Guides
- Landlord Electrical Compliance Checklist 2026 — every rule London landlords must meet, in one page
- Commercial Electrician London
- Kitchen Electrical Requirements & Rewiring in London
- LED Lighting Upgrades in London
- Electrical Safety for Tenants: Rights & Landlord Responsibilities
- How to Choose an Electrician in London
- EICR Cost London 2026 — landlord prices by property size
- Landlord EICR London — 2020 Regulations compliance guide
- Same-Day EICR London — conveyancing & solicitor emergency service
Electrician in Tottenham (N15)
Electrician in Wood Green (N22)
Electrician in Walthamstow (E17)
Electrician in Finsbury Park (N4)
EICR Pricing & Landlord Guides
Need a price? Check our EICR cost London 2026 table for fixed-fee prices by property size. Landlord? See the 2020 Electrical Safety Standards guide. Conveyancing emergency? Same-day EICR London.
Looking for a local electrician rather than a postcode search? See our Electrician in Tottenham page — we’re based in N15.
Landlord guides: AFDDs in HMOs (15 Oct 2026 deadline).
Do you need an EICR to sell your house in London?
Borough head-term pages
Whole-borough guides covering every postcode, property type and price we work to:
- Electrician in Tower Hamlets — E1, E1W, E2, E3, E14: Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, Bow, Mile End, Poplar, Wapping, Canary Wharf
- Electrician in Southwark — SE1, SE5, SE15, SE16, SE17, SE21, SE22, SE24: Borough, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Peckham, Camberwell, Dulwich
- Electrician in Camden · Islington · Hackney · Westminster
How long does an EICR take? — typical timings by property type, how long the power is off, and when the certificate is issued.
Hackney neighbourhoods: electrician in Stamford Hill N16 · electrician in Homerton E9.
More Hackney neighbourhoods: electrician in Hackney Wick (E9/E3) · electrician in London Fields (E8).
Related: Do I need an EICR for an Airbnb or short-term let in London? — when the 2020 Regulations apply and when insurers, councils and the Fire Safety Order expect one anyway.
More Hackney wards: electrician in Haggerston · electrician in Hoxton.
Leasehold flat? Our leasehold flat and communal-area EICR guide explains where your flat’s certificate ends, who pays for the block’s EICR, and what to do when the landlord’s supply fails your report.
Tower Hamlets by ward: Whitechapel · Bethnal Green · Bow · Poplar & Isle of Dogs — same £140 labour-only EICR price across E1, E2, E3 and E14.
Got a C2 on your report? Our guide to the 15 most common C2 faults explains why each one is coded C2 and what it costs to fix, labour-only from £108.
Also covering N19: electrician in Archway — Upper Holloway, Whitehall Park and the Whittington-area HMOs.
Also covering NW5: electrician in Kentish Town — Tufnell Park, Gospel Oak and Dartmouth Park.
New guides and areas (September 2026)
Landlord questions: do I need a new EICR for a new tenant? · does a new-build need an EICR? · EICR vs PAT testing. New area pages: Camden Town NW1 · Stroud Green N4 · Stepney & Mile End E1/E3.
New: rewire timelines and more North & East London wards
How long a job takes: how long does a house rewire take in London. New local pages: electrician in Limehouse & Wapping and electrician in Crouch End & Hornsey.
New in Haringey and Camden: electrician in Muswell Hill N10 and electrician in Highgate N6 — Edwardian, Georgian and listed houses, board changes, EV chargers and landlord EICRs on both sides of the borough line.
New guide: does an EICR cover the garage, shed or garden office?
Waltham Forest wards: Leyton E10 · Leytonstone E11 · Chingford & Highams Park E4 — alongside Walthamstow. Pricing question: how many circuits does an EICR cover, and what does each one cost?
Enfield area pages: Edmonton N9/N18 · Palmers Green N13 · Southgate N14 · Ponders End, Enfield Highway & Enfield Lock EN3. Commercial: commercial EICR cost London 2026 — per-circuit pricing for shops, offices and restaurants.
New area pages (September 2026): Newham — Stratford E15/E20, Forest Gate E7, East Ham E6, Plaistow E13, Canning Town E16, Beckton, Manor Park E12; Enfield — Winchmore Hill N21, Enfield Town EN1/EN2. New guides: what an EICR actually checks, what a limitation on an EICR means, what to do if a tenant refuses access for the EICR, what a landlord’s board and split supply cost, which EICRs a shop with flats above needs, EICRs for railway arches and industrial units, EICRs for nurseries and childminders, who is responsible for the main fuse, cut-out and meter tails, what it costs to move a fuse box.
Looking for an answer rather than an area? Every question we get asked — EICR codes, landlord rules and fines, fuse boards, faults, EV chargers — is answered with London prices on our electrical guides page.
New: Barnet — Finchley N3, N12 & N2
Electrician in Finchley — Finchley Central and Church End N3, North Finchley and Tally Ho N12, Woodside Park, West Finchley and East Finchley N2: 1930s semis behind original-era boards, mansion-block flats on Ballards Lane, loft-conversion circuits and the Ballards Lane and High Road shop parades. Also in Barnet: EICR Barnet · fuse board replacement Barnet · consumer unit replacement Barnet · emergency electrician Barnet · EV charger installation Barnet.
Electrician in Whetstone & Totteridge — N20, covering the High Road and Oakleigh Road North and South, Russell Lane, Totteridge Lane and the Village, Totteridge Green and Oakleigh Park: 1930s Whetstone semis behind aged-out boards, flat conversions by Totteridge & Whetstone station, and the large Totteridge houses with undocumented sub-mains to garages, annexes and garden buildings.
Electrician in East Barnet & New Barnet — EN4 and EN5, covering East Barnet Road and the village, Cat Hill and Church Hill Road, Oak Hill Park and Brookside, Station Road and Lyonsdown, Victoria Road and Osidge Lane: converted Victorian villas with no paperwork, interwar semis behind aged-out boards, ex-council leasehold flats, the Station Road office-to-flat conversions and the newer Cat Hill and Victoria Quarter blocks.
Electrician in High Barnet & Chipping Barnet — EN5, covering the High Street and The Spires, Wood Street and Bells Hill, Hadley Green and Monken Hadley, Arkley along the Barnet Road, and Underhill and the Dollis Valley streets: Victorian terraces on 1980s rewires behind aged-out boards, listed and conservation-area houses that cannot be chased, undocumented sub-mains to Arkley outbuildings, and ex-council leasehold flats with the board in a communal riser.
Electrician in Friern Barnet & New Southgate — N11, covering the Friern Barnet Road crossroads, Colney Hatch Lane and Woodhouse Road, Friern Barnet Lane and Friary Park, Station Road and Betstyle Circus, Brunswick Park Road and Oakleigh Road North, Bowes Road and Arnos Grove, and the Bounds Green Road end: Edwardian and 1930s houses behind aged-out boards, main earthing clamped to renewed plastic water services, undocumented loft conversions, and the Grade II listed Princess Park Manor flats where cable routes have to be planned around original fabric. N11 is split across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey — we tell you which council you are in before anything else.
Electrician in Mill Hill — NW7, covering Mill Hill Village and The Ridgeway, Mill Hill Broadway and Bunns Lane, Mill Hill East and Millbrook Park, The Hale and Hale Lane, Wise Lane and Daws Lane, Page Street, Milespit Hill, Hammers Lane and Highwood Hill: 1930s semis on sound old rewires behind aged-out boards, buried twin-and-earth sub-mains to garages and garden buildings on the big ridge plots, undocumented loft conversions, and the new Millbrook Park and Ridgeway Views flats where the question is spare ways and managing-agent access rather than condition. The Mill Hill Conservation Area carries an Article 4 direction, so external work gets checked with Barnet before anything is fixed to a frontage.
Electrician in Hendon & Golders Green — NW4 and NW11, covering Brent Street and Queens Road, Hendon Central and Station Road, Church End and Greyhound Hill, The Burroughs and Middlesex University, Hendon Way and Shirehall Lane, Golders Green Road and Finchley Road, Temple Fortune, Hampstead Garden Suburb and the Childs Hill edge: 1920s and 1930s semis on sound old rewires behind aged-out boards, main earthing clamped to renewed plastic water services, big houses cut into flats on one original intake, and the newer Brent Cross Town and Hendon Central blocks where the question is spare ways and managing-agent access. Hampstead Garden Suburb carries both an Article 4 direction and the Trust’s own scheme of management, so a meter box, an outside light or an EV point on a frontage is agreed before it is fitted, not after.
Electrician in Edgware & Burnt Oak — HA8, covering Station Road and the High Street, the Edgware Road and Whitchurch Lane, Hale Lane and Deansbrook Road, Edgwarebury Lane and Stonegrove, Spur Road, Camrose Avenue and Barnfield Road, Watling Avenue, Burnt Oak Broadway and Orange Hill Road: 1930s semis on sound old rewires behind aged-out boards, Watling Estate houses with the board still in the 1927 meter recess, main earthing clamped to renewed plastic water services, divided houses on one intake along Stonegrove and the Edgware Road, and the newer Stonegrove and town-centre flats where the question is spare ways and managing-agent access. HA8 is split between Barnet, Harrow and Brent along the Edgware Road — the Roman Watling Street — so we establish which council you are in before anything else, and the Watling Estate Conservation Area decides what can go on a frontage.
Electrician in Colindale & Grahame Park — NW9, covering Colindale Avenue and Colindeep Lane, Grahame Park Way and Lanacre Avenue, Aerodrome Road and Heritage Avenue, Annesley Avenue and Rushgrove Avenue, the Edgware Road and the retail park, and West Hendon down towards the Welsh Harp: 1930s semis with no main protective bonding and lighting circuits run without a CPC, TN-S supplies where the earth is an aged lead sheath, ex-council flats on original 1970s wiring mid-regeneration, and the Beaufort Park, Colindale Gardens and Hendon Waterside blocks where the real questions are EICR scope, heat-network all-electric loads and whether the landlord’s sub-main has the capacity for a car charger. NW9 straddles the Barnet–Brent boundary along the Edgware Road, so we establish which building control holds your records before any notifiable work starts.
Electrician in Tufnell Park — N19, N7 and NW5, covering Tufnell Park Road and Carleton Road, Anson Road and Dalmeny Avenue, the Celia, Hugo, Corinne, Huddleston and Archibald Road grid, St George’s Avenue and Southcote Road, Brecknock Road and Fortess Road, and the streets climbing Dartmouth Park Hill: Truefitt’s 1860s villas and four-storey terraces cut into three, four and five flats on one original intake, with borrowed neutrals and no per-flat isolation, main protective bonding left behind when the gas meter moved outside, aged lead-sheath TN-S earths, lighting circuits with no CPC, and lower-ground and loft conversions nobody notified. Tufnell Park straddles the Islington–Camden boundary and three postcode districts meet by the station, so we establish which council holds your building control record first — and Islington’s Tufnell Park conservation area carries an Article 4 direction, which decides what can go on a frontage.
Electrician in Blackhorse Lane & Higham Hill — E17, covering Blackhorse Lane and Blackhorse Road, Forest Road and Sutherland Road, Billet Road, Higham Hill Road and Sutton Road, Millfield Avenue and Priory Court, McEntee Avenue, Lawrence Avenue and Sinnott Road, and the Coppermill Lane and Ferry Lane edge of the Wetlands: five decades of wiring on adjacent streets — 1870s terraces with the main earth clamped to a water pipe since replaced in plastic, 1920s council houses on TN-S supplies with the earth in an aged lead sheath, Priory Court and the 1960s–70s blocks where the landlord’s riser and the flat are separate questions, and the new Blackhorse Lane and Sutherland Road blocks where the real issues are all-electric load, no spare ways and the managing agent’s sub-main. The old Upper Lea Valley workshop units take three-phase and commercial EICR work.
Electrician in Childs Hill & Cricklewood — NW2, covering Granville Road and the old brickfield streets, Cricklewood Lane and the parade, Finchley Road and Hendon Way, Dunstan Road and Platts Lane, Crewys, Llanvanor and Nant Roads, Basing Hill and the streets round Childs Hill Park: late-Victorian terraces with 1960s and 1970s rewires now aged out above lath-and-plaster ceilings, lighting circuits with no CPC, main protective bonding left clamped to a water main since replaced in plastic, the four Childs Hill tower blocks and the Granville Road and Finchley Road flats where the landlord’s supply and the flat are separate questions, and converted laundry and workshop buildings with three-phase still on the wall. NW2 is where Barnet, Brent and Camden meet, so we establish which building control holds your records before any notifiable work starts.
Find us by postcode
Haringey: N15 Tottenham · N17 Tottenham Hale · N22 Wood Green · N4 Finsbury Park · N6 Highgate
Hackney: N16 Stoke Newington · E8 Dalston & Hackney Central
Islington: N1 Angel & Canonbury · N5 Highbury · N7 Holloway · EC1 Clerkenwell & Farringdon
Camden: NW1 Camden Town & Regent’s Park · NW3 Hampstead & Belsize Park
Barnet: NW2 Childs Hill & Cricklewood · NW4 Hendon & NW11 Golders Green · NW7 Mill Hill · N11 Friern Barnet
Tower Hamlets: E1 Whitechapel & Wapping · E2 Bethnal Green · E3 Bow & Mile End · E14 Poplar & Canary Wharf
Consumer unit replacement by borough
Haringey · Hackney · Islington · Camden · Enfield · Waltham Forest · Newham · Tower Hamlets · Barnet — all from £550 labour-only, RCBO boards to BS 7671. Replacing a Wylex board with fuse wire? That page covers what changes and why. Charging an electric car at home? See home EV charger installation London 2026.
