Electricians in Edgware

Do Edgware's interwar semis need rewiring?

Far less often than owners are told. Interwar houses fill whole streets here: in Edgware West, which covers most of Harrow's Edgware ward, the Valuation Office records 70.5% of homes as built from 1919 to 1939. They usually reach us with a consumer unit old enough to attract coded observations, sometimes with earthing and bonding below current practice. Both can normally be put right without lifting floors in every room.

A board change, bonding upgrades and perhaps an extra circuit for a kitchen that has grown over the decades achieve the safety outcome with far less disruption. Some houses do have cabling at the end of its working life, and we say so plainly, but never without test results to back it. Ask the same of anyone else quoting.

Will you do the remedials from another firm's Edgware EICR?

Yes, and landlords ask us often. Send it over and we price each coded item, marking which ones made the report unsatisfactory and which were C3 recommendations with no legal effect. The work has to be done within 28 days, or by any earlier date the inspector wrote in, so we confirm the scope quickly and order parts in time.

Then the tenants and the council for the area each need written confirmation that it is done, within 28 days of completion and whether or not anyone requested it. In Edgware the council is Barnet for the town centre and station side, Harrow for the Canons ward and Harrow's own Edgware ward, and Brent for the streets near Queensbury.

What about a fault in a newer flat near Edgware station?

Newer apartments usually have RCD protection throughout, so the typical call is a circuit that keeps tripping rather than anything age-related. The cause is often one appliance leaking to earth, sometimes water in a balcony light, occasionally a damaged cable. Fault finding is hourly work: the rate and a rough total are agreed before the visit, and we ring you before going further.

It helps to know where the supply comes in and whether the meter is in a communal cupboard, which the concierge can usually tell you. If the fault proves to be in the building's supply rather than the flat's, the managing agent gets our findings in writing.

Can you add circuits to a large detached house in Edgware?

Yes. Detached houses often need more than an ordinary home: power to a garage or garden building, lighting along a long drive, or extra kitchen and utility circuits after an extension. Each one is a defined job with its own fixed price, and long cable runs to outbuildings are planned before any digging. New circuits get an Electrical Installation Certificate, minor alterations a Minor Works Certificate, and notifiable work is reported to Building Control, so the paperwork is ready when a buyer's conveyancer asks.

Is an Edgware house suitable for an EV charger?

Usually, provided there is a drive or another off-street space to charge on. Car ownership here is well above the London average: at the 2021 Census, 81.6% of households in Edgwarebury and 77.8% in Barnet's Edgware ward had a car or van, against 57.9% across London. Before quoting we check the incoming supply. Some houses share one service cable with their neighbours, a looped connection, which can limit the capacity left for a charger. Government research published in 2026 found these are most common in houses built between the 1950s and the early 1990s, so they are more likely east of the town centre towards Edgwarebury and around Canons Park, where about a third and over a quarter of homes date from 1945 to 1992, than in the interwar streets.

Separating a looped supply is work for the network operator, UK Power Networks in London, and the same research says customers do not pay for standard unlooping. The charger gets its own circuit and an Electrical Installation Certificate, and the network operator is told about it.