Serving the Royal Docks, Silvertown, Custom House and Canning Town — NICEIC approved electricians for EICRs, communal and landlord’s supplies, blocks, EV charging, rewires and 24/7 emergencies.
T Phase Ltd is a NICEIC approved electrical contractor based on Montpelier Vale in Blackheath, and E16 is one of the closest areas we cover. We work across the Royal Docks — Royal Victoria and Royal Albert, Britannia Village, Royal Wharf and Barrier Point — and through Silvertown, North Woolwich, Custom House and Canning Town. 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.
People assume north of the river means a surcharge. In E16 the opposite is true. The Silvertown Tunnel opened on 7 April 2025 between the Greenwich Peninsula and west Silvertown, alongside the existing Blackwall Tunnel, and it put the Royal Docks a shorter run from our base than several of the areas we have covered for years. Off-peak the crossing is £1.50 for a car or small van and it is free overnight; zero-emission vehicles are exempt. There is no call-out charge, no mileage and no parking recharge in E16, and prices are the same as everywhere else in our standard coverage.
E16 is a genuinely unusual postcode because the stock is bimodal. Roughly speaking, half of it went up in the last fifteen years and half of it is post-war, with very little in between. That is the opposite of most of South-East London, and it changes what an inspection finds. New blocks fail on paperwork, labelling and communal arrangements far more often than on cable condition. Older Newham stock fails on the things you would expect — no RCD protection, low circuit counts, additions that never made it onto a certificate. Very little of E16 produces the classic Victorian-conversion report at all.
The apartment stock across the Royal Docks is modern, generally well built, and much more complicated to inspect properly than its age suggests. A typical block carries a landlord's supply serving lifts, corridor and external lighting, car park lighting and ventilation, booster pumps, smoke vents and door entry, alongside individual flat supplies on a metered riser. That landlord's installation is a separate report from any flat inside it, and it is the one most often missed until a managing agent is asked for it.
Inside the flats, the findings are rarely about cable. They are about accuracy: circuit schedules that do not match what is installed because the layout changed late in the build, RCBOs labelled by a developer's drawing rather than by what the circuit actually feeds, and missing or never-issued original certification, which turns a five-yearly inspection into a first inspection with nothing to verify against. Where a block is served by a heat network, the intake and plant room arrangements need looking at as their own installation rather than being folded into a residential quote.
The older half of E16 is post-war Newham stock — the estates around Canning Town and Custom House, the terraces at North Woolwich and Silvertown, and the low-rise blocks that survived the redevelopment either side of them. Much of it has been rewired at least once by a landlord, so cable condition is often reasonable. What we record instead is a board fitted during an earlier programme with no RCD protection on socket or buried-cable circuits, a circuit schedule that stopped matching reality when the kitchen was replaced, and additions made by tenants — an outdoor socket, garden lighting, an appliance spur — that never appeared on any certificate. On the oldest blocks we still find lighting circuits with no circuit protective conductor, which rules out metal fittings and metal switch plates until it is put right.
More of E16 is block than house, so more of the work here is communal than in most areas we cover. We price communal and landlord's supplies at £165 per board rather than trying to fit them onto a domestic ladder, and we will tell you how many boards a building actually has before we start — which on a large Royal Docks block is frequently more than the managing agent's records show. Riser cupboards, car park distribution boards and standalone supplies for pumps, gates and CCTV all count, and all of them belong on the report.
Charge point installation in E16 is rarely a straightforward domestic job, because most of the parking is communal. The questions that decide feasibility are whose supply the point would sit on, whether the incoming capacity supports it once diversity is applied, how it would be metered and billed, and whether load management is needed to avoid uprating the supply. We survey that properly before quoting, because a figure given without those answers is a figure that changes. Tell us the parking arrangement when you enquire and we will tell you what is actually possible.
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.
Newham matters more than most boroughs here. It has operated licensing of privately rented homes on a far broader footing than the London norm for over a decade, so a landlord who assumes their property is outside a scheme is more likely to be wrong in Newham than almost anywhere else. The council's register is the place to check the scheme current at your address. The EICR is the document an officer asks for first, and an unsatisfactory report with no remedial programme behind it is a worse position than not having tested yet.
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. Blocks, plant rooms 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, and full rewires run from £8,000 to £19,400 depending on size, excluding plastering and decoration. Portfolio 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. 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. Blocks, plant rooms and three-phase intakes are surveyed and quoted individually. There is no call-out charge, no mileage and no parking recharge in E16.
No. Since the Silvertown Tunnel opened in April 2025 alongside the Blackwall Tunnel, E16 is a shorter run from our Blackheath base than several areas we have covered for years. Off-peak the crossing is £1.50 for a car or small van and free overnight. E16 is standard coverage and prices are the same as everywhere else.
New blocks rarely fail on cable condition. They fail on accuracy and on paperwork — circuit schedules that do not match what is installed because the layout changed late in the build, RCBOs labelled from a developer's drawing rather than by what the circuit feeds, and original certification that was never issued, which turns a five-yearly inspection into a first inspection with nothing to verify against.
Yes. The landlord's installation — lifts, corridor and external lighting, car park lighting and ventilation, booster pumps, smoke vents, door entry — is a separate installation from any flat inside the building and needs its own report. On a large Royal Docks block there are frequently more landlord's boards than the managing agent's records show, and all of them belong on it.
Often, but it needs surveying first. The questions that decide it are whose supply the point sits on, whether the incoming capacity supports it once diversity is applied, how it is metered and billed, and whether load management is needed to avoid uprating the supply. Tell us the parking arrangement when you enquire and we will tell you what is actually possible before quoting.
Quite possibly. Newham has licensed privately rented homes on a much broader footing than the London norm for over a decade, so a landlord who assumes their property falls outside a scheme is more likely to be wrong here than almost anywhere else. Check the council's register for the scheme current at your address — the EICR is the document an 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.
Yes. Properties booked together in the same building or area can be scheduled on the same day or run of days, and the certificates come back as one set rather than arriving piecemeal. For programme work we report by address and unit reference so the results reconcile against your asset list. Tell us the volume and the deadline and we will come back with a schedule.
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.
Managing a block or a portfolio? The EICR service page covers how communal and landlord’s supplies are inspected and reported, 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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