F & A Electrical is based in N15. Our unit is at Ten 87 Studios on Markfield Road, N15 4QA, between Markfield Park and the Tottenham Hale railway. That is not a marketing address — it is where the van is parked, which means N15 is the one postcode where we can usually get to you faster than we can get anywhere else. NICEIC registered, Part P registered, working to the current edition of BS 7671, 9.32/10 from 242 Checkatrade reviews. Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453.
This page covers the whole N15 postcode — South Tottenham, Seven Sisters, West Green, St Ann’s, Page Green, Tottenham Green and the Stamford Hill end. For the Tottenham High Road corridor, Bruce Castle, Bruce Grove and the conservation areas along the High Road, our electrician in Tottenham page goes into that ground in detail and this one defers to it. For the north end of the borough — Northumberland Park, White Hart Lane, Tottenham Hale and the High Road West regeneration — see electrician N17.
What we do across N15
- EICRs for landlords, agents, HMO licence renewals and conveyancing — from £140
- Fuse board and consumer unit replacement — from £550, usually the cheapest way to clear a run of C2 codes
- Earthing and bonding — the most common defect in this postcode by a wide margin, and the cheapest to put right
- Fault finding — tripping circuits, dead sockets, intermittent lights, burning smells
- Full and partial rewires on Victorian and Edwardian terraces
- Sockets, lighting, extractor fans, cooker and shower circuits
- EV charger installation — honestly assessed, see the note below if you park on the street
- HMO compliance in one visit — EICR, fire alarm, emergency lighting and PAT together
- Commercial — shops, takeaways, barbers, salons and studio units on West Green Road, Seven Sisters Road, the High Road and the Markfield Road and Vale Road estates
- Emergency callout — often within the hour in N15 because we are in it, same-day where we have a slot, and we tell you straight if we have not got one rather than booking you in and letting you wait
N15 prices
Labour and certification only, inclusive of VAT. Materials — boards, accessories, cable, fittings — are itemised separately on the quote. Our minimum charge is £108 inc VAT, which is one hour at the standard rate of £90 per hour plus VAT. Nothing on this list is priced below it.
| Inspection and testing | Price from |
|---|---|
| EICR, studio or one-bed flat | £140 |
| EICR, two-bed flat or small terrace | £170 |
| EICR, three-bed house | £200 |
| EICR, four-bed or converted house | £250 |
| EICR, larger or multi-board property | £300 – £400 |
| HMO EICR, by room and circuit count | £250 – £500 |
| Commercial EICR, priced per circuit | £220 |
| PAT testing, minimum charge then per appliance | £108 then ~£5 each |
| Fault finding and attendance (comes off the job) | £108 |
| Installation work | Price from |
|---|---|
| Consumer unit, 6-way, flat | £550 |
| Consumer unit, 10-way, three-bed house | £650 |
| Consumer unit, 12-way or more | £750 |
| Board and EICR on the same visit | £690 |
| Main earthing and bonding alongside other work | £108 |
| Main bonding to gas and water, both within reach | £180 |
| New main earthing conductor, cut-out to board | £180 |
| Flat rewire — one bed / two bed / three bed | £2,200 – £3,200 / £3,000 – £4,500 / £4,200 – £6,000 |
| House rewire — two bed / three bed / four bed | £2,800 – £4,000 / £3,500 – £5,500 / £4,500 – £8,000 |
| Partial rewire | £1,600 – £3,000 |
| EV charge point, standard install | £450 |
| Out of hours, per half hour | £60 + VAT |
Full detail on the inspection side is on EICR cost London 2026, boards on fuse board replacement, and the rewire bands on house rewire cost and flat rewire cost.
Which borough is N15 in?
N15 is Haringey. The reason it is worth saying is that the postcode runs right up against two other councils and people get caught out by it.
Across the top of the hill, N15 meets N16 Stamford Hill, which is Hackney — and on some streets near Amhurst Park and Seven Sisters Road the boundary runs between neighbours. Westwards, N15 meets N4 Finsbury Park, where the council could be Haringey, Hackney or Islington depending on which side of the road you are on. Eastwards it meets N17, which is still Haringey, and beyond that N18 Edmonton, which is Enfield.
None of that makes any difference to your certificate. We notify Part P work through our NICEIC registration, not through the council, so the paperwork is the same whichever side of the line you sit. What the borough decides is which council holds the Building Control record for past work, which planning department you ask about anything on the outside of the building, which conservation area designation applies, and which licensing scheme covers a rented property.
Give us the full postcode when you call and we will tell you which borough you are in before you need to look it up. See also electrician Stamford Hill, electrician N16 and electrician N4 for the pages either side.
One small local thing that catches people out on paperwork rather than wiring: Black Boy Lane was renamed La Rose Lane in January 2023, after the publisher and campaigner John La Rose. If your deeds, your old certificates and your meter readings disagree with your bills, that is why — it is the same street, and we will put the current name on the certificate and note the former one if your mortgage file needs it.
What we actually find in N15 houses
These are the recurring faults in this postcode, not invented jobs. If you recognise your own house in one of them, that is because the streets round here were built in runs of fifty at a time.
1. The main earth clamped to a water pipe that is no longer metal outside. This is the single most common serious finding in N15 and it is the one we look for first. Thames Water has replaced a great deal of old iron and lead service pipe across South Tottenham and West Green with blue plastic, working at the boundary. From inside the cupboard the earth clamp looks perfect — clamp, label, green-and-yellow going to the board. Tested, there is no means of earthing at all, which is a C1. The full explanation, including what UK Power Networks will and will not do about it, is on no main earth — what does it mean on an EICR.
2. Bonding that is undersized, missing or on the wrong pipe. 6 mm² on the gas from a 1980s board change where the table now wants 10 mm²; bonding that never followed the gas meter when it went out to an external box; clamps corroded solid in damp brick cupboards. It is a C2, it is cheap, and it is the first thing we clear — prices on main bonding cost in London.
3. Aged-out boards behind perfectly sound wiring. A lot of the terraces off Philip Lane, La Rose Lane, Lansdowne Road, Antill Road, Tiverton Road and Holcombe Road were rewired properly in the 1980s or 1990s. The cable is fine. The board is a rewirable or an early split-load with no RCD on half the circuits. That is a board change from £550, not a rewire — and anybody quoting you four thousand pounds for a rewire without testing the existing circuits is guessing.
4. Houses cut into flats on one intake. Everywhere off West Green Road, St Ann’s Road, Seven Sisters Road and Vartry Road. Big Victorian and Edwardian houses turned into two or three flats, usually decades ago, on one un-upgraded supply with twin-and-earth sub-mains running up the common stair and no proper means of isolation for each flat. The tenant in the top flat cannot turn off their own power without going into somebody else’s hallway. This is the job that needs looking at before anybody prices a board.
5. Undocumented loft conversions and rear extensions. Spurred off a first-floor lighting or socket circuit, no certificate, no Building Control record, and frequently a shower or a run of downlights added to a circuit that was never designed for it. These come up on every conveyancing EICR we do in this postcode, and they are what the buyer’s solicitor asks about.
6. Flats above shops with their lighting on the shop’s circuit. The parades on West Green Road, Seven Sisters Road, the High Road and Philip Lane. The stair and landing lighting for the flats is fed from the shop below, so when the shop changes hands or turns the power off, the flats above lose their stair light. It has to be separated onto the landlord’s supply, and the right time to do it is at fit-out, not when a tenant complains.
7. Water in the garden and outbuilding circuits. Long back gardens running down towards the railway and the reservoirs, with buried flat twin-and-earth to a shed, a garden office, a gate motor or a pump. Flat twin-and-earth is not a cable for burying. We price these on the circuit count and the route, never on bedrooms.
Seven Sisters, St Ann’s and Markfield — the local ground
Seven Sisters and Wards Corner. The building on the corner above the tube station is owned by Places for London, Transport for London’s property arm. Grainger’s redevelopment scheme was abandoned in 2021, the indoor market closed in 2020 and traders moved into a purpose-built temporary site next door in September 2025 while the main building is refurbished. For anybody holding a lease in or around that block, the practical point is the one we make on every shop EICR: a unit that has been through several tenants always has undocumented additions behind the counter, and the sensible budget covers remedials as well as the report.
St Ann’s. The old hospital site off St Ann’s Road is being redeveloped by Peabody with Hill — up to 995 homes, construction started in early 2023, running in phases to around 2030, with seven of the historic hospital buildings retained for workspace and community use. The hospital itself stays. What that means for us is two completely different kinds of job within a few hundred metres: brand-new flats where the installation is sound and the problem is capacity — no spare ways in the board, the board in a communal riser, an EV charge point needing the managing agent’s permission before it needs an electrician — and the Victorian streets around them where the problem is condition.
St Ann’s conservation area, and Page Green. If your house is in a conservation area and it is not listed, nobody controls the electrics inside it. Part P is notified through our scheme, and that is the end of it. What a conservation area can control is work on the outside, and where an Article 4 direction is in force it removes permitted development rights for external alterations — those are drawn street by street, there is no national list, so it gets checked with Haringey. If the house is listed, internal work can need listed building consent, which is separate from planning and separate from Part P; and the permitted development right for a wall-mounted EV charge point does not apply within the curtilage of a listed building at all. Listed building consent has no application fee and an eight-week determination. We go through all of it on rewiring a listed building or conservation area home.
Markfield. Our own end of N15. Markfield Park was the grounds of the Markfield Road sewage pumping station, and the Markfield Beam Engine — built in 1886 by Wood Brothers of Sowerby Bridge, Grade II listed since 1974 — is still in its engine house there. The works closed in 1964; the museum was formed in 1984 and reopened with the restored park in April 2010. The Markfield Road and Vale Road estates around it are light industrial and studio units, which is a different kind of electrical work again: three-phase supplies, informally split distribution boards, and commercial EICRs priced per circuit rather than by floor area.
If you park on the street, be careful what you are promised about EV charging. We will not fit a wall point for a car parked on the public highway, and we will not run a cable across a public footway. A cross-pavement channel is a council scheme that the council has to permit — it is not something an electrician installs on their own say-so. On a lot of N15’s terraced streets with no off-street parking, the honest answer is that a home charger is not available to you yet, and we would rather tell you that on the phone than after you have paid for a survey.
Landlords, agents and HMOs in N15
Private rented homes in England need a satisfactory EICR at least every five years, with a copy to the tenant and to the council on request, and remedial work done within 28 days of the report — or sooner where the report specifies, and a C1 is the definition of sooner. Licensing schemes are a separate matter and they vary by street and by property type, so check Haringey’s current scheme for your address rather than relying on what was true a couple of years ago.
N15 has a lot of HMO and multi-let stock, particularly the subdivided houses off West Green Road, Philip Lane and St Ann’s Road. For a licence renewal we will do the HMO EICR, the fire alarm certificate, the emergency lighting test and PAT testing on one visit so you get one set of paperwork on one date — see the HMO compliance bundle, landlord EICR regulations, EICR Haringey and fire alarm installation.
Agents: send us the report you already have. We will tell you which observations are real remedial work, which are a clamp and a label, and which are a C2 that somebody has coded generously. There is usually less to do than the quote attached to it suggests.
Buying or selling in N15
If a solicitor has flagged the electrics on an exchange, the thing they want is an EICR and, where the house has had work done, evidence that the work was notified. We hold same-day slots in the week and being in N15 means we can usually fit a local one in — same-day EICR London. What we will not do is write a satisfactory report on an installation that is not satisfactory to get a sale over the line, which occasionally disappoints people and has never once been the wrong call.
Nearby areas we cover
From Markfield Road we are within fifteen or twenty minutes of most of the patch, and we are honest about the bits that are not: Seven Sisters Road and the High Road at school run time, and the A10 through Stamford Hill, are the two that cost us time.
Tottenham · N17 · Stamford Hill · N16 · Stoke Newington · Finsbury Park · N4 · N22 Wood Green and Bounds Green · Haringey · Hackney · Walthamstow · Edmonton · and the full list on our London service areas hub.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly can you get to N15?
Faster than anywhere else we work, because the unit is on Markfield Road. For an emergency we are often there within the hour and same-day is normal if we have a slot. We will not promise you a fixed number of minutes — anyone who does has not thought about Seven Sisters Road at four in the afternoon — and if we have not got a slot we say so on the call so you can ring someone else instead of waiting.
My EICR came back unsatisfactory. What does it actually cost to clear?
In this postcode, more often than not it is earthing and bonding plus a board, which is £550 to £750 for the board and £108 to £180 for the earthing and bonding alongside it. It is the rewire quotes that need a second opinion: a sound 1980s or 1990s rewire behind a tired board does not need doing again, and the way to know is to test it rather than assume from the age of the house.
Do you work on the estates?
Yes — right-to-buy leasehold flats around Broadwater Farm, the Seven Sisters blocks and the South Tottenham estates are a regular job. The thing to know before you book is that the meter and the board are often in a communal cupboard behind a door you do not control, so access and isolation have to come through the freeholder or the managing agent. Tell us that up front and we will plan the visit round it instead of turning up and failing to get in.
Can you certify work somebody else did?
We can inspect it and report on it, and that is a genuinely useful thing to have. What we cannot do is issue an installation certificate for work we did not carry out and did not see installed — nobody can, honestly. If a previous trade left you without paperwork, an EICR is the route back to having something a solicitor or a council will accept.
Are you really based in N15, or is it a mailing address?
Really based here. Ten 87 Studios, Markfield Road, N15 4QA. It is a working unit, we keep stock there, and it is the reason this postcode gets our quickest response. We are not a national booking platform with a Tottenham landing page — when you call the number you get the electrician who will be doing the job.
Book an electrician in N15
Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453, or email info@faelectrical.co.uk. A photo of your consumer unit and the meter position, plus the property type and the full postcode, is usually enough for us to give you a price on the phone — and where it is not, we will tell you what we need to look at rather than quoting blind.
F & A Electrical, Ten 87 Studios, Markfield Road, London N15 4QA. NICEIC registered, Part P registered, City & Guilds Level 3, £5m public liability, working to the current edition of BS 7671. 9.32/10 from 242 Checkatrade reviews.
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