NICEIC approved electricians working in Hackney every week — EICRs, rewires, consumer units, communal and landlord’s supplies, and planned compliance programmes for social landlords. Same-day callbacks and 24/7 emergencies.
T Phase Ltd is a NICEIC approved electrical contractor, based on Montpelier Vale in Blackheath and working in Hackney every week. We are not new to the borough: our engineers deliver planned electrical compliance programmes for social landlords across Hackney, and that work — hundreds of properties, logged by address and by date — is the reason we know what E5, E8 and E9 stock looks like before we arrive. EICRs, rewires, consumer unit upgrades, communal and landlord's supplies, lighting, EV chargers and emergency call-outs, all carried out by City & Guilds qualified engineers and fully certified.
Hackney is four stocks layered on top of each other, and unusually for London they are genuinely mixed street by street rather than separated into districts. There is Georgian and early Victorian around Clapton Square and the older parts of Homerton. There is dense Victorian terrace through London Fields, Lower Clapton and Chatsworth Road, most of it converted into flats. There is a very large amount of council and housing association stock — Hackney has one of the highest proportions of social housing of any London borough. And there is the industrial fabric out towards Hackney Wick, much of it converted to residential in the last twenty years. The report you get depends on which of the four you are in, and so does the price.
Much of our Hackney work is programme work across estate stock — Pembury, Frampton Park, Kingsmead, Nightingale, Trowbridge and the blocks around them. It is a different discipline from one-off domestic testing. Access is booked in advance and has to be kept to, no-access properties have to be reported and rebooked rather than quietly dropped, and the paperwork has to arrive in a form the client's compliance team can reconcile against their asset list — by UPRN and address, not as a folder of loose PDFs.
Technically the findings are consistent. Boards fitted during earlier landlord programmes that are serviceable but have no RCD protection on socket or cable-buried-in-wall circuits. Circuit schedules that no longer match what is actually installed, because kitchens and bathrooms have been replaced since. Tenant-installed additions — outdoor sockets, garden lighting, appliance spurs — that never appeared on any certificate. And on older blocks, lighting circuits with no circuit protective conductor, which rules out metal fittings until it is put right.
Through London Fields, Dalston, Lower Clapton and Homerton the dominant private stock is the Victorian terrace split into two or three flats. It produces the single most common unsatisfactory finding we record anywhere: one original supply and board serving circuits that now cross between separate tenancies, with a neutral borrowed from one flat's circuit to complete another's.
That is a C2 — potentially dangerous — so it fails the report outright, and it also means isolating one flat does not make the other safe to work on. Putting it right means separating the supplies properly rather than patching the board, so we price it as its own job and set that expectation before we attend. Alongside it we routinely find communal hall and stair lighting running off a tenant's meter rather than the landlord's supply, and a shared smoke alarm system fed from whichever flat was convenient at the time.
The converted industrial buildings around Hackney Wick and the Lea are their own category and the most frequently mispriced work in the borough. A former warehouse often has a three-phase intake, a landlord's supply serving a lift, communal lighting and shared workshops, and unit supplies taken off in ways that made sense to whoever did the conversion. Circuit counts are high, cable runs are long, and access to the intake is rarely simple.
None of that is a problem, but it is not a domestic EICR and it should not be quoted as one. We survey these before pricing, and we quote communal and landlord's supplies per board rather than per bedroom.
Rented homes in England need a satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report at least every five years, with a copy to the tenant and to the local authority on request. From 1 November 2026 that requirement extends to existing social tenancies as well — which is why social landlords across the borough are working through programmes now rather than in the autumn.
Hackney also operates property licensing for privately rented homes, and the schemes do not cover the whole borough in the same way — the council's register is the place to check your address. What is consistent is that an EICR is the document a licensing officer asks for first, and that an unsatisfactory report with no remedial programme behind it is a worse position than not having tested yet. We quote remedials as a separate fixed price, carry them out and re-issue the certificate, and you are free to use any qualified contractor for that work instead.
Hackney is north of the river from us, which people reasonably ask about. It has not been a barrier for years: our engineers run through the Blackwall Tunnel daily, and since the Silvertown Tunnel opened in April 2025 there are two crossings rather than one at that point. In practice E5, E8 and E9 are a routine morning's start for us, and we do enough work in the borough to justify treating it as standard coverage. There is no call-out charge, no mileage and no parking recharge in Hackney, and prices are the same as everywhere else we work.
An EICR runs from £190 + VAT for a one-bedroom flat to £300 + VAT for a five-bedroom house, certificate included. Communal areas and landlord's supplies are £165 per board. Converted warehouses and three-phase intakes are surveyed and quoted individually rather than from the domestic ladder. A consumer unit upgrade starts at £800 plus £50 per circuit. Full rewires run from £8,000 for a one-bedroom flat to £19,400 for a five-bedroom house, excluding plastering and decoration. Volume and programme work is priced against a schedule of rates — tell us the property count and the deadline and we will come back with figures and a programme rather than a headline price. The pricing page has estimators, and the EICR cost guide and rewire cost guide set out how the figures are built up.
From £190 + VAT for a one-bedroom flat, rising to £300 + VAT for a five-bedroom house, with the certificate included. Communal areas and landlord's supplies are priced at £165 per board. Converted warehouses and three-phase intakes are surveyed and quoted individually. There is no call-out charge, no mileage and no parking recharge in Hackney.
No. Hackney is standard coverage for us, not an outlying area — our engineers work in E5, E8 and E9 every week on planned compliance programmes. The Blackwall Tunnel and, since April 2025, the Silvertown Tunnel make it a routine start to the day. Prices are the same as everywhere else in our standard coverage.
Yes, and it is the largest part of what we do in the borough. Programme work means booked access with slots kept to, no-access properties reported and rebooked rather than dropped, and certificates returned by UPRN and address in a form your compliance team can reconcile against the asset list. Tell us the property count and the deadline and we will come back with a schedule and a rate.
It usually is. Where one original board serves circuits that cross between separate flats, the neutral is often borrowed from one circuit to complete another. That is a C2 — potentially dangerous — so it fails the report, and switching off one flat does not make the other safe to work on. The fix is to separate the supplies properly rather than to patch the board, so we price it as its own job.
Yes. Converted industrial buildings around Hackney Wick and the Lea typically have a three-phase intake, a landlord's supply serving lifts and communal lighting, and unit supplies taken off in unusual ways. That is not a domestic EICR and should not be quoted as one — we survey before pricing and quote communal and landlord's supplies per board.
Possibly. Hackney operates property licensing for privately rented homes and the schemes do not cover the whole borough in the same way, so the council's register is the place to check your address. What is consistent is that the EICR is the document a licensing officer asks for first.
At least every five years for rented homes in England, with a copy supplied to the tenant and to the local authority on request. This now applies to social landlords as well as private ones — existing social tenancies must hold a valid report by 1 November 2026.
A report is unsatisfactory if it contains any C1, C2 or FI code — one C2 fails the whole report. We explain what is needed, quote the remedial work as a separate fixed price, carry it out with our own engineers and re-issue the certificate. You are free to use any qualified contractor for the remedial work instead.
We offer 24/7 emergency call-out and same-day callbacks across E5, E8 and E9. Fast-track booking within 48 hours is £50, and evening, weekend or bank holiday attendance is charged at 1.5 times the standard rate.
Managing a portfolio or a compliance programme? The EICR service page covers how we schedule and report volume work, and the EICR cost guide sets out how the figures are built up. There is also a pricing page with estimators, our reviews, and every area we cover.
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