F & A Electrical covers the whole of the N17 postcode — Tottenham Hale, White Hart Lane, Northumberland Park, Bruce Grove, the High Road north of Bruce Grove, Lordship Lane, Park Lane, Broadwater Farm, Scotland Green and the Lea Valley edge out to Ferry Lane and the marshes. We are based at Ten 87 Studios, Markfield Road, Tottenham N15 — about ten minutes from most of N17, and we are not quoting you a travel-padded price from somewhere else. NICEIC Approved Contractor, Part P registered, BS 7671 18th Edition, £5m public liability, 9.32/10 from 242 Checkatrade reviews. Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453.
This is the postcode page. If you want the wider Tottenham picture — the High Road Historic Corridor, Bruce Castle, the conservation areas and the divided Victorian houses off Lordship Lane and St Ann’s Road — that is on our Tottenham electrician page, which covers N15 and N17 together. This page is about what is specific to N17: the estates, the regeneration, the industrial edge along the Lea, and the fact that a street away to the north you are in a different borough.
What we do across N17
- EICRs — landlord, HMO, homeowner and solicitor-led sale reports, from £140, with the remedials priced on the same report.
- Fuse board and consumer unit replacement — RCBO boards from £550, with the earthing and bonding corrected in the same visit.
- Fault finding — tripping RCDs, dead circuits, burning smells, water in an outside circuit.
- Main earthing and main protective bonding, including TT conversions where the network cannot give an earth.
- Rewires, partial rewires and single circuits — showers, cookers, loft rooms, garden offices, garages.
- EV charge points where there is off-street parking or an allocated bay you have permission to use.
- Landlord and HMO compliance — EICR, fire alarm, emergency lighting and PAT, planned as one visit where the building allows.
- Commercial — shops and takeaways on the High Road and Bruce Grove, the Northumberland Park and Brantwood Road industrial units, workshops and studios off Willoughby Lane and Markfield Road.
- Same-day conveyancing EICRs — the most common urgent job we get, and we keep slots back for them.
Prices in N17
These are labour and certification prices, inc VAT. Boards, devices, cable, accessories and fittings are itemised separately at cost, so you can see what is labour and what is materials. Our minimum charge is £108 inc VAT — one hour at the standard rate — and standard labour after that is £90 per hour + VAT. Nothing is priced below the minimum charge, and there is no call-out premium for N17.
| Job (labour and certification only) | Price |
|---|---|
| Minimum charge, any visit — includes the first hour | £108 |
| Attend, trace a fault, make safe | from £108 — comes off the job if you go ahead |
| EICR, 1–2 bed flat | from £140 |
| EICR, 3 bed house | from £170 |
| EICR, 4 bed house | from £200 |
| EICR, 5 bed or large house | from £250 |
| EICR, large property 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 | from £180 |
| Earthing and bonding put right alongside other work | from £108 |
| Full TT conversion — electrode, 100 mA S-type main switch, all-RCBO board, bonding | from £850 |
| Flat rewire — 1 bed / 2 bed / 3 bed | £2,200–£3,200 / £3,000–£4,500 / £4,200–£6,000 |
| House rewire — 2 bed / 3 bed / 4 bed | £2,800–£4,000 / £3,500–£5,500 / £4,500–£8,000 |
| Partial rewire | £1,600–£3,000 |
| EV charge point, off-street parking | from £450 |
| PAT testing | around £5 per appliance, £108 minimum visit |
| Emergency lighting, annual test and certificate | from £180 up to 10 luminaires |
| Out of hours | £60 + VAT per half hour on top |
Rewires are priced on circuit count, not bedroom count. Fuller breakdowns are on our EICR cost guide, fuse board replacement page and house rewire cost guide.
What we find in N17 wiring
The main earth on a water pipe the water company has renewed. This is the top serious finding across the whole patch and N17 is where we see it most, because so much of the housing here dates from before plastic water services and so many of those services have since been swapped at the boundary. The earthing clamp is still on the incoming pipe, looking perfectly respectable, and the earth goes nowhere. If a report has told you there is no main earth, read what that actually means — the short version is that a new fuse board on its own does not fix it.
Undersized or missing main bonding. 6 mm² where 10 mm² is wanted, gas bonding missed entirely after a meter went out to an external box, or a clamp sitting too far from the meter. Cheap to put right while we are there; a C2 on its own if nobody does.
Communal intake rooms on the estates. Around Northumberland Park, White Hart Lane and Broadwater Farm there is a great deal of ex-council stock, much of it now right-to-buy leasehold. The pattern is familiar: the meter and sometimes the board sit in a communal cupboard or riser outside the flat, so means of isolation is behind a door you do not control, and the landlord’s and leaseholder’s responsibilities meet somewhere in the middle of the job. We arrange access and isolation with the freeholder or managing agent before the visit rather than discovering it on the morning. Where a damp brick cupboard has been corroding the tails and the earthing clamp for twenty years, that goes on the report with a photograph.
Houses cut into flats on one original intake. The bigger houses off Lordship Lane, Park Lane and the High Road were divided decades ago. One supply, flat twin-and-earth sub-mains clipped up the common stair with no fire-rated fixings, no per-flat isolation, no records. It holds until someone fits an electric shower.
Aged-out boards behind sound old rewires. A lot of the Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Bruce Grove, Scotland Green and the West Green side were rewired once in the 1970s or 80s. The cable usually tests fine. What is failing the report is the board — rewirable fuses, or one 30 mA RCD covering half the circuits and nothing on the lighting. That is an RCBO board from £550, not a rewire, and we will say so rather than quote for the bigger job.
Loft conversions with no paperwork. Very common, and almost always spurred off a first-floor circuit with no RCD and no Building Control record. Findable, fixable, and worth sorting before a sale rather than during one.
Water in the long back gardens and the marsh-edge circuits. Towards Ferry Lane, the Lee Navigation and Tottenham Marshes the ground never really dries out. Buried flat twin-and-earth to sheds, lighting and pumps, unglanded joints, no RCD at the supply end — we price those on circuit count after a look rather than over the phone.
Regeneration N17 — the opposite job
Large parts of N17 are new or being rebuilt, and the work there is nothing like the terraces. Tottenham Hale and Hale Village are blocks and apartments from the last fifteen-odd years. At High Road West, Haringey is redeveloping the Love Lane estate with Lendlease — the first phase includes 61 new council homes at 100 Whitehall Street and the former Whitehall and Tenterden Centre site, expected to complete in 2028, alongside the purchase of more than 500 homes in a development on the High Road to the north of the estate. The Tottenham Hotspur stadium and the units around it have reshaped that whole stretch of the High Road.
In all of that stock the installation is generally sound and certificated. The constraints are different:
- No spare ways. The board was specified for the flat as built and there is nothing left for an EV point, a second shower circuit or a garden supply. Sometimes that means a board change in a brand-new flat, which surprises people.
- The board is in a communal riser. Access and isolation go through the managing agent, booked in advance, often with a lift or loading restriction attached.
- EV charging on allocated parking needs permission before it needs electrics. Get the management company’s agreement to the position first; the cable route and the load calculation are the easy part.
- Heat networks and all-electric flats. Where there is no gas service in the flat there is no gas to bond, and the load profile is different from a house. That belongs on the certificate rather than left for the next inspector to work out.
Which borough am I in? N17 and the Enfield boundary
N17 is wholly in Haringey — but the postcode stops, and the borough with it, along the northern edge towards N18 Edmonton, which is Enfield. On some streets up there the boundary is the obvious thing and on others it is not, and people genuinely do not know which council they are dealing with.
It makes no difference at all to the certificate. Part P notification goes through our own registered competent person scheme, not the council, and the standard is BS 7671 wherever the property sits. What it decides is which licensing scheme applies to a rented property, which Building Control holds the record of past work, which planning department to ask about anything on the outside of the building, and which conservation area designation covers the street. Give us the full postcode when you ring and we will tell you which side of the line you are on before anything else. For the Enfield side, see our Edmonton electrician page.
Landlords and HMOs in N17
Under the Private Rented Sector regulations every private rented home needs a satisfactory EICR every five years, with a copy to the tenant within 28 days of the inspection; licensed HMOs are inspected a good deal more often than that in practice, and remedial work flagged as C1 or C2 has to be done within 28 days — or sooner if the report says so. A C1 is the definition of sooner.
N17 has one of the highest concentrations of rented and shared housing in the borough, so this is most of what we do here. Licensing schemes change, and they are drawn by area rather than by postcode: check the council’s current scheme for your street rather than relying on what was true a couple of years ago. What we can tell you is what an inspector will ask for and what it costs to get there — see landlord EICR regulations, HMO EICRs and HMO electrical compliance.
The other recurring N17 landlord job is the flats above the shops on the High Road, Bruce Grove and the White Hart Lane parades. One intake cupboard behind the shop, stair lighting for the flats fed off the shop’s circuits, so the stairs go dark when the shop switches off at night and any emergency lighting never charges. The landlord’s supply for the common parts has to be separate and permanently live. Emergency lighting is its own regime and not part of the EICR — see our emergency lighting certificate page.
Commercial and industrial work in N17
N17 is not only housing. The Northumberland Park and Brantwood Road estates, the units along Willoughby Lane and the studio and workshop buildings off Markfield Road and Vale Road — where our own base is — are light industrial, trade counter and maker space, much of it on three-phase supplies with distribution boards that have been extended by whoever was there at the time. Commercial EICRs here are quoted per circuit after a survey, not by floor area, because the circuit count is the work. We also do PAT testing, which an EICR does not cover, and the retail and food units on the High Road almost always need remedials budgeted alongside the report — a takeaway that has been through several tenants has undocumented additions behind the counter every time.
One honest operational note: on a Spurs matchday the High Road north of Bruce Grove is best avoided, and the roads around the stadium close. If your slot clashes we will tell you up front and move it rather than leave you waiting in.
Nearby areas we cover
By area: Tottenham · Wood Green · Edmonton · Stamford Hill · Crouch End · Stroud Green · Walthamstow · Clapton. By postcode: N15 · N22 · N16 · N4. Borough-wide: EICR Haringey · electrician Haringey · consumer unit replacement in Haringey · emergency electrician in Haringey. The full list is on our London service areas page, and the North London hub covers the rest of the patch.
N17 electrician — common questions
How quickly can you get to N17?
We are on Markfield Road in N15, which is about ten minutes from most of N17, so for genuine emergencies it is often within the hour. We hold same-day slots most weekdays for non-urgent work — if we have one we will give it to you, and if we do not we will say so rather than book you in and move you later. Out of hours runs at £60 plus VAT per half hour on top.
Can you do a same-day EICR for a sale?
Usually, if you ring early. You get the report and a separate priced quote for anything coded C1, C2 or FI, so your solicitor has a figure to work with rather than an open question. See same-day EICR London.
My flat is on an estate and the board is in a cupboard on the landing. Can you still work on it?
Yes, but we need access to it arranged before we come. If it is a leasehold ex-council flat the cupboard is usually the freeholder’s, so the managing agent books the access and the isolation. Tell us when you ring that the board is outside the flat and we will sort that out as part of the job — it is the single most common reason a visit to an estate flat has to be rebooked.
Do I need a full rewire on a Tottenham terrace?
Often not. Most of this stock was rewired once in the 1970s or 80s and what has aged out is the board, not the cable. We test first — insulation resistance, continuity, polarity, earth fault loop impedance — and tell you which it is. If the cable is sound you want an RCBO board from £550 with the earthing and bonding corrected alongside it. Where we find rubber or lead-sheathed cable, round-pin accessories or cloth flex at the ceiling roses, that is a rewire and we will say so plainly.
Can I have an EV charger if I park on the street?
Not a wall-mounted point. A charge point needs your own off-street parking, a garage, a hardstanding or an allocated bay you have permission to use. We will not run a cable across a public footway or fit a point that only works with a trailing lead over the pavement. Cross-pavement channels exist but they are a council scheme, not something an electrician installs on their own initiative — ask Haringey whether one operates on your street.
Who notifies Building Control?
We do, through our registered competent person scheme, for the notifiable work we carry out. You get the certificate and the notification follows automatically. More on what Part P certification actually is.
Book an electrician in N17
Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453, or email info@faelectrical.co.uk. Tell us the full postcode, what the property is and what has happened, and we will tell you what it will take and what it will cost before we come out.
F & A Electrical, Ten 87 Studios, Markfield Road, Tottenham N15. NICEIC Approved Contractor · Part P registered · BS 7671 18th Edition · City & Guilds Level 3 · £5m public liability · 9.32/10 from 242 Checkatrade reviews. More background reading in our electrical guides.