Emergency Electrician Camden — 24/7 same-day callout
F & A Electrical covers the whole London Borough of Camden for 24-hour electrical emergencies: NW1, NW3, NW5, NW6, NW8, N6, N19 and WC1. Camden Town, Kentish Town, Hampstead, Belsize Park, Swiss Cottage, Kilburn, West Hampstead, Gospel Oak, Primrose Hill, Somers Town, Chalk Farm, Highgate and Bloomsbury.
NICEIC approved, Part P registered, fully insured. From our base in north London we are typically into NW1, NW5 and N19 inside 30 to 45 minutes, and the Hampstead and Kilburn end of the borough shortly after.
Call 07407 627542 or 07500 721453 — answered 24 hours.
What counts as an electrical emergency
If any of the following apply, stop using the circuit and call us rather than waiting for a routine appointment:
- Burning smell, scorch marks or smoke from a socket, switch, light fitting or the consumer unit. A hot plastic smell with no visible source is the one most often ignored and the one most likely to be a loose connection heating up inside a back box.
- Sparking, buzzing or crackling from the fuse board, a socket or a switch.
- Total loss of power where neighbouring properties still have supply — that points at your installation or your cut-out fuse rather than a network fault.
- A breaker or RCD that will not reset, or that trips again within seconds. Repeatedly forcing it back on is how a fault becomes a fire.
- Water ingress onto electrics — a leak from the flat above running into a light fitting or consumer unit.
- Exposed or damaged cable, a socket hanging off the wall, or any shock felt from an appliance or tap.
If you have lost power to the whole street, that is a distribution fault and belongs to UK Power Networks on 105, not to us. We will tell you that on the phone rather than charge you to attend.
What we do when we arrive
The first job is always to make the installation safe, which sometimes means isolating a single circuit and leaving the rest of the property live rather than blacking out the whole flat. From there we fault-find properly — insulation resistance and continuity testing to locate the fault rather than guessing at it — and tell you what the repair costs before we carry it out.
Most emergency calls in Camden resolve in one visit. Where a part is needed that we do not carry, we make the installation safe, leave you with as much of the property working as is safe to run, and return with the part rather than leaving the job open-ended.
What it costs
There is no premium emergency call-out fee. Emergency attendance is charged at the same minimum as any other visit: £108 (£90 + VAT), which covers attendance, diagnosis and the first hour on site. All our prices are labour only; materials are itemised separately.
- Emergency attendance and diagnosis — from £108 (£90 + VAT)
- EICR — from £140, if the callout turns into a full inspection
- PAT testing — £5 per appliance, subject to the £108 minimum
- Repair work — quoted before we start, never after
We do not quote a price over the phone for a fault we have not seen, because an honest diagnosis is the thing you are actually paying for. What we will do is tell you the attendance cost before we set off, so there is no surprise on the invoice.
Camden property types and the faults that go with them
Camden’s housing runs from £5m Hampstead houses to some of the largest post-war estates in inner London, and the emergency workload reflects that:
- Period houses in Hampstead, Belsize Park and Primrose Hill — often multi-board installations built up over decades, where a fault on one board is hard to trace because nobody has a full record of what feeds what. Basement conversions and garden rooms are frequent culprits.
- Converted flats in Kentish Town, Gospel Oak and Kilburn — shared supplies, meters in communal cupboards, and lighting circuits borrowed between flats during conversion. Establishing which installation the fault actually sits in is half the job.
- Estate flats in Somers Town and Chalk Farm — where the fault is on the landlord’s side of the meter we will say so, document it, and hand it back to the council’s contractor rather than charging you for work that is not yours.
- Mansion blocks around Swiss Cottage and West Hampstead — ageing rising mains and communal risers, where an intermittent fault in one flat is often a symptom of something in the block.
After the emergency
An emergency callout is a symptom. If your board is a rewireable or plug-in-fuse type with no RCD protection, the fault we have just fixed is likely to have company. In that case a consumer unit replacement or a full EICR in Camden from £140 will find the rest of it in one visit rather than three more emergencies.
Landlords should note that since the Renters’ Rights Act took full effect on 1 May 2026, the maximum penalty for failing to hold a valid electrical safety certificate is £40,000 per offence, up from the old £30,000 cap, and C1 or C2 codes must be remedied within 28 days. If an emergency callout has revealed a wider problem, getting the EICR done immediately is cheaper than the alternative.
Frequently asked questions
Do you really answer at night? Yes — both numbers are answered 24 hours. If we are already on a job you will get a call back with a realistic time rather than an open-ended promise.
How fast can you get to Hampstead or Kilburn? Usually within the hour, and often faster outside peak traffic. We will give you a genuine estimate on the phone.
Can you make it safe if I cannot afford the full repair tonight? Yes. Making the installation safe and isolating the faulty circuit is always the first step and is covered by the attendance charge.
Are you NICEIC approved? Yes — NICEIC approved contractor and Part P registered. Any certificate we issue is registered accordingly.
Camden emergency line: 07407 627542 / 07500 721453.
See also: general electrician services in Camden · all London boroughs we cover · what an EICR costs in London in 2026