Electrical work
Electricians in Nicosia, and what local companies charge
How electrical work is priced in Nicosia, what the 1970s-to-1990s apartment stock changes about it, and the certificate needed before the power goes on.
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Electrical work in Nicosia is priced two ways, and knowing which one applies before picking up the phone is most of the battle. A fault is a call-out charge plus an hourly rate, because nobody can quote for a problem they have not seen yet. Defined work — a consumer unit, a new circuit, a rewire — is a fixed price or a price per point, and it should be. A company that offers an hourly rate for a full rewire is transferring the risk of its own slow day onto the customer.
Local market summary
The Nicosia district's electrical work is dominated by one thing: the apartment stock built between the 1970s and the 1990s that fills Strovolos, Lakatamia, Latsia and Aglantzia. Those installations were designed for a household with no air conditioning, no induction hob, no electric water heater running in the afternoon and nothing charging in the car park. Almost every job in that stock is a version of the same job — bringing an installation designed for one century's load up to the demands of the next.
Around that sit three smaller streams. Whole rewires, usually triggered by a sale or by a renovation that has already opened the walls. New-build and extension work in the detached housing belt at Geri, Tseri, Dali and Kokkinotrimithia. And commercial work in the administrative core of the capital and the office concentration around Engomi, where the constraint is almost always that the building has to trade normally the next morning.
The district is compact. Because the towns sit within a short drive of the centre, Nicosia contractors rarely price travel as a separate item the way firms covering long coastal runs have to. That does not mean a small job in an outlying town gets the same response as one in Strovolos — it means the difference shows up as availability rather than as a line on the quote.
What it costs here
Fault work carries a call-out charge that covers attendance and a first period of diagnosis, with an hourly rate afterwards. Defined work is quoted as a fixed sum or per point — a point being one socket, switch, light or outlet, wired back to the board. Rewires and new builds are almost always quoted per point, which makes two quotes comparable only if both are counting the same points.
What moves the number on a Nicosia job:
- Whether the property is occupied. An empty flat can be chased, wired and handed over. A lived-in one means working room by room, protecting finishes and restoring power every evening, and it takes materially longer.
- Concealed or surface. Much of the older stock is reinforced concrete frame with blockwork infill. Chasing a concrete element is not an option, so cable routes go through ceilings, voids or surface trunking, and the route decides the labour.
- Making good. Plastering and painting after chasing is usually outside the electrician's price. Quotes that include it and quotes that do not are not comparable, and this is the single most common source of an unpleasant surprise.
- Testing and certification. Inspection, testing and the signed certificate may be quoted inside the job or as a separate item. It should be visible either way.
- Out of hours. Evening, weekend and emergency attendance is priced above the standard rate, and commercial work in the capital is frequently scheduled out of hours by necessity rather than by preference.
Local conditions that change the job
Nicosia is inland and has the widest temperature range on the island. That is a climate fact with a direct electrical consequence: the peak domestic load here is cooling through July and August and heating through January, and it is that combination — not appliances — that pushes an original installation to its limit. Adding air conditioning to a flat wired for that era's load is rarely a matter of one more socket. Each unit generally wants its own circuit and its own protective device, and the question of whether the existing supply and board can carry the total is the question that decides whether the job is a morning or a week.
Where the answer is that the supply cannot carry it, the capacity upgrade is a separate matter entirely. Increasing supply capacity, including moving from single-phase to three-phase, is an application to the Electricity Authority of Cyprus with its own timetable and its own costs, handled alongside — not inside — the internal wiring work. Any programme that assumes the two happen together is optimistic.
The same authority sits at the end of every significant job. A new or altered installation is not energised on the electrician's say-so: a signed installation certificate from a licensed electrical contractor is required before the supply is connected. That certificate is the practical checkpoint on competence in Cyprus, and it is also the document a purchaser's lawyer asks for later. Work carried out without one tends to become visible at the worst possible moment, which is during a sale.
Two further local conditions are worth naming. Charge points for electric vehicles are straightforward in the detached housing at Latsia, Tseri, Geri and Dali, where off-street parking means a short protected run from the board. In the central blocks with shared basement parking, the cable is the easy part and the metering arrangement and the management committee's decision are the hard part; that is a governance timetable, not an electrical one.
And in the southern half of the old town inside the Venetian walls, and parts of Kaimakli, preservation designation on a building can rule out chasing historic masonry altogether. Installations there are designed around surface conduit and discreet routing from the outset, which is a different specification and a different price from the same work in a 1990s block. Unlike coastal districts, Nicosia at least imposes no salt-corrosion requirement on external enclosures — though anything mounted on a flat roof here still has to survive summer surface temperatures and plain dust.
Companies covering the area
Kafkas
Aspres, Nicosia
Kafkas is an electrical supplier in Aspres, in the Nicosia district.
Kyriakos Louka & Yioi LTD (Office) is an electrical contractor in the Nicosia district. Recorded services include fault finding, consumer units, rewiring.
- Fault finding
- Consumer units
- Rewiring
- Certification
GNS Electrical
Kokkines, Nicosia
GNS Electrical is an electrical contractor in Kokkines, in the Nicosia district. Recorded services include fault finding, consumer units, rewiring.
- Fault finding
- Consumer units
- Rewiring
- Certification
PGS
Strovolos, Nicosia
PGS is an electrical contractor in Strovolos, in the Nicosia district. Recorded services include fault finding, consumer units, rewiring.
- Fault finding
- Consumer units
- Rewiring
- Certification
Z. Kyprianou Trading
Lykavitos, Nicosia
Z. Kyprianou Trading is an electrical contractor in Lykavitos, in the Nicosia district. Recorded services include fault finding, consumer units, rewiring.
- Fault finding
- Consumer units
- Rewiring
- Certification
Andrews Electrical Trading House Ltd
Acropolis, Nicosia
Andrews Electrical Trading House Ltd is an electrical supplier in Acropolis, in the Nicosia district.
Hebe
Kalograes, Nicosia
Hebe is an electrical supplier in Kalograes, in the Nicosia district.
Each listing records the registered company name, registration status, the districts covered and the services stated. This directory carries no reviews, no star ratings and no testimonials, and no company pays for its position. The electrical category page covers the trade across the island, the Nicosia area page covers every trade in this district, and the electrical page for Nicosia narrows to both.
Three checks are worth making before work starts. The company can be confirmed under the exact name on the quote at the Registrar of Companies. Public liability insurance can be confirmed as in force on the dates of the job rather than merely in existence. And where a design or a structural electrical scheme is involved, ETEK holds the register of qualified electrical engineers, which is a separate question from whether the contractor on site is licensed to certify the installation.
Common questions
How do electricians in Nicosia charge for a call-out?
A call-out fee covering attendance and initial diagnosis, then an hourly rate. Defined work found during that visit should be requoted as a fixed price rather than continuing on the clock.
Does a new installation need a certificate?
Yes. A signed installation certificate from a licensed electrical contractor is required before the Electricity Authority of Cyprus energises a new or altered supply. Whether the certificate is inside the quoted price or billed separately varies by company, so it is worth asking directly.
Does this directory show reviews or ratings for electricians?
No. There are no reviews, ratings or testimonials on this site. Listings carry registry-sourced company data with the date each field was last checked. Certification, insurance and a written scope are the things that can actually be verified before work starts.
What usually triggers a full rewire in a Nicosia apartment?
Three things, most often in combination: an original installation from the 1970s or 1980s with no residual current protection, the addition of air conditioning across several rooms, and a sale or renovation that has already opened the walls. Rewiring is far cheaper when the plaster is already off.
Is a three-phase upgrade part of the electrician's price?
Not usually. The internal work is the contractor's; the supply capacity change is an application to the Electricity Authority of Cyprus with its own charges and lead time. Both need to appear in the plan, and they need to appear as two separate items.
Sources
- Electricity Authority of Cyprus — supply connection and installation requirements — retrieved 2026-07-24
- Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK) — registered electrical engineers — retrieved 2026-07-24
- Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property — retrieved 2026-07-24
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