Where We Work, And Where We Work From
Lektrix Installations Ltd works from 820 Garratt Lane, on the stretch between Tooting Broadway and Earlsfield, and has been at that address since 1957. Companies House shows the company incorporated on 19 December 1957, number 00595683, still active and still registered there.
Garratt Lane is the A217, and that is the plain reason our coverage looks the way it does. North, the road runs up to Wandsworth High Street. South, it becomes Mitcham Road, then London Road through Mitcham, then Reigate Avenue past Rose Hill, and drops into Sutton. West lie Wimbledon, Kingston and Surbiton; south west down the A24 is Epsom; east is Lambeth, about ten minutes away at Streatham.
That takes in six local authorities: the London Boroughs of Wandsworth, Merton, Lambeth and Sutton, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, and Epsom and Ewell Borough Council in Surrey. Two fire and rescue services and six sets of landlord licensing rules come with them.
Postcode Districts We Cover
KT4 at Worcester Park straddles the Sutton and Kingston boundary, and SM7 at Banstead sits just over the Surrey line in Reigate and Banstead. Both are on the edge of the patch, so ask when you call.
The districts we are in most weeks, and what each one takes in:
- SW17. Tooting, Tooting Bec, Furzedown, Summerstown
- SW18. Wandsworth Town, Earlsfield, Southfields
- SW11, SW12 and SW15. Battersea, Balham, Putney, Roehampton
- SW19 and SW20. Wimbledon, Wimbledon Park, Merton Park, Raynes Park
- SW2, SW4, SW9 and SW16. Brixton, Clapham, Stockwell, Streatham
- SE11, SE24 and SE27. Kennington, Herne Hill, West Norwood
- SM1 to SM6. Sutton, Cheam, Carshalton, Wallington, Belmont
- KT1, KT2 and KT3. Kingston, Norbiton, Canbury, New Malden
- KT5 and KT6. Surbiton, Berrylands, Tolworth
- KT17, KT18 and KT19. Epsom, Ewell, Stoneleigh, West Ewell
Who Enforces Fire Safety Where
The London Fire Brigade is the enforcing authority for the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 across all 32 London boroughs, which covers seven of the eight areas below. Epsom is the exception: that is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, run by Surrey County Council, with a wholetime station on Church Street, KT17 4PW.
One boundary is worth knowing about. Long Ditton has Surbiton KT6 addresses but sits in Elmbridge, so Surrey Fire and Rescue Service covers it rather than the London Fire Brigade.
Travel Times From Our Tooting Base
Earlsfield is about a mile up Garratt Lane and Wandsworth Town about two. Wimbledon town centre is two and a half to three miles, and Sutton six and a half to seven, usually twenty to twenty five minutes off peak.
Kingston and Surbiton are seven to eight miles, and Epsom nine to ten, both twenty five to forty minutes depending on the A3 and the A24.
What We Are Certified To Do
We have been NICEIC registered since April 1962, and are certified by NICEIC under its Approved Contractor Scheme and its Domestic Installer Scheme, which is our Part P competent person scheme. NICEIC also covers our portable appliance testing and our Electrical Installation Condition Reports, often called landlord electrical safety certificates.
We are a BAFE Registered Organisation, ID 303447, holding BAFE SP203-1 for the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of fire detection and alarm systems, third party certificated by NICEIC. That registration covers fire alarm work only.
We also carry out fire risk assessments, which are certificated under a separate BAFE scheme that we do not hold. There is more below on what the law actually asks for.
What The Work Looks Like In Each Area
Each of the eight has its own page. Here is the short version of what we are called out for.
Wimbledon
The town went from under 2,700 people in 1851 to more than 40,000 by 1901, so most of the stock between the station and the Village is late Victorian villa and terrace. Rewires, consumer unit changes and landlord reports on converted flats make up most of the work.
Kingston Upon Thames
Canbury filled in piecemeal after the railway arrived in 1863, so it is a patchwork of Victorian terraces of slightly different dates. The local type is the semi detached cottage with the door at the side and the stairs in the middle of the plan, which usually turns a partial rewire into a full one.
Tooting
Our own doorstep, built out from the 1870s as terraced streets, with the London County Council's first cottage estate at Totterdown Fields, 1,244 houses over 38 acres, built between 1901 and 1911. Add the flats above the shops on Upper Tooting Road and Mitcham Road and the work runs from rewires to detection in mixed use buildings.
Wandsworth
Garratt Lane runs from our door straight up to Wandsworth High Street, so Earlsfield and Southfields are next door. Bylaw terraces, the tight mid Victorian Tonsleys by the station, the Southfields Grid of around 1,766 houses, maisonettes and shops finished by 1906, and Edwardian mansion blocks with communal intakes and rising mains.
Lambeth
Our neighbour to the east, overwhelmingly pre war with a large post war estate layer on top. Brixton grew from 10,175 people in 1841 to 62,837 by 1881, and the big houses that boom produced were split into flats a century ago. Streatham High Road adds Frederick Wheeler's shop houses of 1884 to 1891, flats above the shop.
Sutton
A straight run down the A217. The council's borough wide additional HMO licensing scheme came into force on 22 March 2026 for five years, catching houses shared by three or four people, so landlord testing and detection upgrades dominate. The Edwardian villas of Sutton South were converted into flats on a very large scale.
Epsom
The only part of the patch outside London, so the council is Epsom and Ewell Borough Council and the fire service is Surrey Fire and Rescue. The interwar boom dominates the housing: the borough grew from 18,804 people in 1921 to 27,089 in 1931, and Stoneleigh went up almost in one piece between 1933 and 1939.
Surbiton
A Victorian railway new town. The station opened in 1838, and after Coutts and Co foreclosed on Thomas Pooley's speculation they laid out the Oakhill and Raphael estates. Those villas on Brighton Road and St Mark's Hill are largely flats now, so communal landlord's supplies are the everyday job, while Berrylands is almost pure 1930s semi.
Landlord Licensing Is Not The Same In Every Borough
If you let property across more than one of these boroughs, the rules change as you cross the boundary. Mandatory HMO licensing applies everywhere; the additional and selective schemes that sit on top of it do not.
Where each council stood when this page was written:
- Wandsworth, which includes Tooting, mandatory, additional and selective licensing all running at once, the selective wards being Furzedown, South Balham, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway
- Lambeth, additional licensing borough wide since December 2021, plus selective licensing across 23 of the 25 wards
- Sutton, a borough wide additional scheme in force since 22 March 2026, running five years
- Merton, which includes Wimbledon, mandatory licensing only, though an Article 4 direction now covers small HMOs borough wide
- Kingston and Surbiton, mandatory licensing only since the borough's additional scheme ended on 28 February 2023
- Epsom and Ewell, mandatory licensing only, with an electrical report required as part of the application
The Wandsworth additional scheme runs borough wide from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030, with East Putney, Northcote and West Putney joining the selective designation from April 2026. In Lambeth, only Vauxhall and Waterloo and South Bank sit outside it.
Licensing rules change, so check the council's own page before relying on any of this. The five yearly electrical report duty on private tenancies, set out in the questions below, applies in every one of these boroughs regardless.
Who Is Allowed To Carry Out A Fire Risk Assessment
It is worth being straight about this, because much of what is written on the subject is wrong. In England there is no licence, no protected title and no register a fire risk assessor has to be on. Article 18(5) of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 sets an outcome test instead: sufficient training and experience or knowledge and other qualities to do the job properly.
What did change, on 1 October 2023, is the recording duty. The responsible person must now record the assessment in full, and the record has to name who carried it out. So before you book, we will tell you who is coming and what their training and experience is.
Certification schemes for assessors exist and are voluntary, not a legal requirement. Our BAFE registration is not one of them: it covers fire detection and alarm systems, and we would rather say so plainly.
What The Work Costs
We publish our rates. The pricing page sets out hourly, half day and day rates alongside fixed prices for the jobs we are asked for most, so you can work out roughly where you stand before you ring.
Fire risk assessments are the exception, because the price follows the building rather than the hours. We quote for those after a short conversation about the building and how it is used.
Questions About Our Coverage
How Far Do You Travel From Tooting?
Our base is 820 Garratt Lane in Tooting, SW17, and most of our work sits within about ten miles of it. That takes in Wandsworth and Lambeth on our doorstep, Wimbledon and Kingston to the west, Sutton down the A217, and Surbiton and Epsom at the outer edge.
Which Areas Can You Usually Reach At Short Notice?
The closest districts. Earlsfield is roughly a mile from us, Wandsworth Town and Southfields about two miles, and Wimbledon two and a half to three, so SW17, SW18 and SW19 are the easiest to fit in quickly. Sutton, Kingston, Surbiton and Epsom are normally booked in advance.
Do You Charge A Call Out Fee?
Our hourly, half day and day rates are published in full on the pricing page, along with fixed prices for the common jobs. Tell us the postcode and what the job is when you ring, and we will tell you what the visit will cost before anything is booked.
How Often Does A Rented Home Need An Electrical Report?
At least every five years. The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 require a satisfactory Electrical Installation Condition Report on a private tenancy, and that applies in every borough on this page. If you own and live in the property yourself, the regulations do not apply to you.
My Town Is Not On Your List. Can You Still Help?
Usually, if it sits against one of the eight. Mitcham, Morden, Colliers Wood, Balham, Putney, Worcester Park, Cheam, Ewell, Tolworth and New Malden are all inside or beside the areas we cover, even without a page of their own. Give us the postcode and we will give you a straight answer.
Which Fire And Rescue Service Covers My Building?
In Wimbledon, Kingston, Tooting, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Sutton and Surbiton it is the London Fire Brigade, the enforcing authority for the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 across all 32 London boroughs. In Epsom it is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, run by Surrey County Council.
Tell Us The Postcode
The quickest way to find out whether we cover you is to give us the postcode and say what the job is. Send us the details, or call 020 8672 6945 or 07727 683993, and we will tell you either way before anything is booked.
The Same Address Since 1957
The same family name has been over the door at 820 Garratt Lane since 1957, and the firm is now run by the third generation. That is why the list looks the way it does: it follows the roads we use, rather than a circle drawn on a map.