Electrician Paris 17

Our workshop is on rue Viala in the 15th. The 17th is a little further — we go up through the 8th or the 16th to reach it — but it's an arrondissement we know well, and above all one unlike any other, because it contains two. For our general method, start with our electrical troubleshooting page.

Two worlds in a single arrondissement

The 17th has two faces, and that's what makes it interesting for an electrician. To the south, around the Parc Monceau and the Ternes, it's smart Paris: large bourgeois apartments, high ceilings, Haussmann buildings that continue from the 8th. To the north, towards the Batignolles, the Épinettes and the Place de Clichy, the mood is more village-like, more working-class — and right next door, the brand-new Clichy-Batignolles district, with its Paris courthouse and its buildings that rose from the ground in the 2010s.

In practice, we can troubleshoot a porcelain fuse board that hasn't moved since the post-war years in the morning, and an all-electric installation controlled from a smartphone in the afternoon. Those are two different trades, and that's the whole appeal of working the 17th.

The new builds of Clichy-Batignolles: modern doesn't mean fault-free

The Clichy-Batignolles district is the showcase of recent Parisian construction: low-energy buildings, RE2020 or RT2012 labels, heat-pump heating, dual-flow ventilation, connected panels and sometimes all the home automation that goes with it (shutters, lighting, heating controlled remotely).

You might think new builds never break down. They do. On these modern installations, the trouble doesn't come from old age but from complexity: a home-automation module that drops out, a badly set load-shedder that cuts the water heater at the wrong moment, a heat pump that trips the breaker on start-up, a surge protector that did its job one time too many. Diagnosing that isn't about chasing an old bare wire — it's about understanding how the system was designed. We're comfortable with these recent installations, where many old-school troubleshooters throw up their hands at a communicating panel.

The old stock of the Épinettes and Monceau: the other half of the job

At the other end, the Épinettes and some older pockets keep their original working-class building stock, sometimes never updated. Fuse boards, no residual-current device, a phantom or non-existent earth: there, the work is about making the installation safe without tearing everything out, and being honest about what's urgent and what can wait.

The Plaine Monceau and the Ternes pose the opposite problem of smart areas: very large apartments where a single line serves too many rooms, breakers oversized to compensate, a power subscription too tight to stop the meter tripping the moment you combine appliances. Along the Pereire boulevards, you shift from one to the other within a few street numbers. In every case, the first reflex is the same: open the panel and the meter to understand how the installation actually works before touching anything.

What we do in the 17th, from small fault to big job

Day to day, we handle all the routine troubleshooting: a dead socket, a switch that won't respond, a general cut-out that comes back at night, an emergency on a Sunday evening. We also repair the specific items that fail — electric heating, intercom, water heater — and bring the electrical installations that need it up to code.

On the project side, our services run from adding circuits or sockets to fully reworking a panel, up to the electrical renovation of a whole apartment. The supply of materials is included in the quote, with branded fittings (Schneider, Legrand, Hager). Whether you're a private customer, a business or a shop in the Ternes, we adapt the work to your building — old or new, the rigour is the same. Our team knows both faces of the arrondissement, from the town of Clichy to the edges of the Parc Monceau, and that knowledge of the building stock saves time on the diagnosis: one call is enough for us to assess your needs and plan our services.

Our pricing in the 17th

For a call-out, the travel charge is €90 before VAT, plus usually €30 before VAT for the first half-hour of labour. No markup depending on the neighbourhood: we apply the same grid in Monceau and in the Épinettes. Every request goes through a quote breaking down call-out, labour and supplies line by line, sent within a week of the visit. Our ten-year liability insurance covers all the work we do.

Where else we work around the 17th

Our company covers the whole western half of Paris from the 15th. If you live in a neighbouring arrondissement, we also work as your electrician in the 16th arrondissement, across the bois, as your electrician in the 8th which continues the Plaine Monceau, as well as in the 15th where our workshop sits and the 7th arrondissement. We also work in Boulogne-Billancourt, to the west.

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 and the trust our clients place in us.

For troubleshooting in the 17th, 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.