Electrician in the 16th arrondissement of Paris

Our base is on rue Viala in the 15th, just across the Seine: to reach the 16th, we cross a bridge and we're there. But proximity isn't the most interesting thing about this arrondissement. The 16th is, above all, fine building stock — and working with electricity in fine buildings takes a particular touch. For our general method, start with our electrical troubleshooting page.

The real challenge of the 16th: not damaging the decor

In most arrondissements, when you're chasing a wire, you cut a channel, pull the cable, fill it back in. In the 16th, it's not that simple. Here we work in apartments where the floor is a herringbone parquet, where the ceilings have mouldings and roses, where the walls are sometimes panelled. You don't drill into a panelled wall the way you would a plasterboard partition.

So a good part of our work is finding the least destructive route: going through a removable skirting board rather than the wall, taking advantage of a bathroom false ceiling, spotting an old conduit already in place. We think twice before drilling once. It's slower, but it's the only way to leave a Haussmann apartment in the state we found it — mouldings included.

One line for six rooms: the problem with large apartments

The 16th means very large bourgeois apartments, and their wiring almost always has the same flaw: it was designed for the way people lived fifty years ago. Back then, a room meant a ceiling light and two sockets. Today, the same living room has to power air conditioning, a home cinema, lighting everywhere, while the kitchen next door runs on induction.

As a result, we regularly find a single line serving six rooms, breakers oversized to compensate, and a power subscription too tight to stop the meter tripping the moment you run the oven and the kettle together. In those cases, the diagnosis isn't just about fixing today's fault: you have to redistribute the circuits properly, restore consistent wire cross-sections, and often review the subscribed power. It's the kind of job where a team that knows the Parisian building stock makes all the difference.

Beyond these big jobs, we also handle all the everyday troubleshooting in the area: fault-finding, a dead socket or switch, a general cut-out that comes back at night, an emergency on a Sunday evening. Private customers, businesses and shops in the 16th alike, our clients call us as much for these small breakdowns as for whole installations to rework — our services run from a simple diagnosis to making a dated electrical system safe, and one call is enough for us to come and look.

Auteuil, Art Nouveau and listed buildings

Auteuil, to the south towards Boulogne, has kept its village feel with its little streets — and a few buildings designed by Hector Guimard, the man behind the Paris metro entrances. The Castel Béranger, the Hôtel Mezzara: these Art Nouveau façades are listed, and in a protected building, you don't do just anything. Depending on what you touch, some work requires the approval of the co-ownership, or even of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France when you're near a monument like the Palais de Chaillot or the Galliera museum.

We're used to this framework. We know what's allowed, what has to be requested, and what's better left alone. Better an electrician who knows these constraints than a rushed handyman who drills first and thinks afterwards.

Demanding co-ownerships, well-kept common areas

The fine buildings of the 16th often have fussy building managers, and that's rather good news. When we work on the common areas — stairwell lighting, intercom, main panel, rising main — we know the work will be looked at closely. That suits us: we deliver before/after photos, a detailed quote, and an installation we stand by.

For residents' committees wanting to redo the wiring of a stairwell or secure a technical room, we price the work case by case, with the same transparency as for a private customer. Trust doesn't replace verification: we'd rather you check our work and share your remarks than receive no feedback at all. And why deprive yourself of paying us a compliment?

Our pricing in the 16th, no "posh district" markup

For a call-out, the travel charge is €90 before VAT, plus usually €30 before VAT for the first half-hour of labour. It's the same grid everywhere: living on avenue Foch won't cost you a cent more than anywhere else, and we'd rather say so plainly.

For a larger project — bringing an installation up to code, redistributing the circuits of a large apartment, or a full electrical renovation — we visit and send a detailed quote within a week, line by line. Our ten-year liability insurance covers all the work we do.

Where else we work around the 16th

Our company covers the whole western half of Paris from the 15th. In the heart of the 16th, we also work as the electrician for Auteuil and Passy. We also cover all electrical troubleshooting in the 15th arrondissement where our base sits, work as your electrician in the 7th and, across town, all electrical work in the 8th arrondissement, as well as our electrician services in the 17th arrondissement and, just the other side of the ring road, our work as your electrician in Boulogne-Billancourt.

To find reliable Parisian artisans and electricians, what really matters in the end isn't the area but the seriousness of the work and the quality of what's delivered. You'll find plenty of professionals online, some seasoned, some much less so; the best move is to get quotes from a few of them and compare what's included in the price. A quick look at our pricing page gives you a sense of the ballpark, and our Google reviews will tell you the rest about our service quality.

For troubleshooting in the 16th, code compliance, a repair or a longer-term renovation project, contact us by phone or through our form. We usually reply within 48 working hours with a slot and a price estimate.