Electrician in Hendon

Electricians in Hendon: what is different here

Converted houses: whose circuit is it?

When a Victorian or Edwardian house off Brent Street is divided into flats, the electrics are divided too, and not always neatly. We regularly find a landlord's supply for hallway lights and alarms, separate meters for each flat in a cupboard under the stairs, and old cables that cross from one flat into another.

Before we test or change anything, we confirm which consumer unit feeds which rooms and which supply serves the common parts. That matters for safety, and also for the EICR: each flat let needs its own report, and the landlord's supply to the shared parts should be inspected too.

EICRs for Barnet HMOs and future selective licences

Landlords in England must have the fixed wiring inspected at intervals of no more than five years, put right anything the report requires inside 28 days, or a shorter deadline if one is given, and then confirm the work in writing to tenants and to the council. Barnet adds a licence for any shared home with three or more occupiers forming two or more households, and under the Housing Act 2004 every HMO licence also obliges the holder to keep the appliances they provide safe and to declare their safety when the council asks.

Hendon and West Hendon are also among the ten wards in Barnet's proposed selective licensing scheme, as the NRLA reported it, so check with Barnet before your next tenancy. We quote remedials code by code and send the completion paperwork with the certificate.

Interwar semis around Hendon Central

Building around Hendon Central took off after the 1923 roundabout and the opening of Watford Way in 1927. Those semis have usually been rewired once and extended since, so inspectors here keep finding the same three things: an older board where some circuits lack RCD cover, no main bonding clamp on the incoming gas or water pipe, and a rear kitchen added later on its own cable runs.

All of that can usually be fixed without a full rewire. We test first, then quote, and tell you which items affect the satisfactory outcome.

Period houses on The Burroughs and Church End

Houses in the two Hendon conservation areas need more care with how the work looks. Barnet's appraisal for The Burroughs records Georgian terraces to the south and Victorian terraces to the north, some listed, and values original details such as sash windows. External lights, new cable runs on the front wall and meter boxes are the kind of change that can need consent there.

We route cables internally where we can and talk to you about consent before anything goes on the outside of the building.

Fire alarms in shared Hendon houses

Alarm systems are one of the first things a council officer looks at in a shared house. The legal floor for a rented home is one working smoke alarm per lived-in floor, plus CO detection beside fixed fuel-burning appliances, gas cookers excepted. Licensed HMOs often need more, such as mains-powered, interlinked detection, depending on the building and the fire risk assessment. Send us the licence conditions and we will fit and certify a system to match, and record its test for your file.

Official sources

• The five-yearly inspection and 28-day remedial duty for private lets (ESS Regs 2020, reg 3)
• Conditions every HMO licence must include, such as appliance safety declarations (Housing Act 2004, Sch 4)
• Barnet's proposed ten-ward selective scheme as reported by the NRLA, September 2026
• When the semis around Hendon Central were built: Victoria County History of Middlesex

Last reviewed October 2026 by EliteShires Property Services.