Outdoor electrics
Hassocks sits at the northern foot of the South Downs, and anything fitted outside takes the weather that comes off the ridge. Garden lighting, external sockets, supplies to sheds, garages and garden rooms, hot tub circuits and the cable runs feeding them all sit through rain, wind and long spells of damp. Outdoor faults of this kind usually begin the same way: water finding a route into an enclosure that was never sealed properly.
That water shows itself indoors. An RCD that trips on a wet night and then behaves all summer is usually an outside circuit rather than a fault inside the house. We test each circuit in turn, measure insulation resistance, isolate the section that is leaking to earth, then look at glands, terminals and joints. Corroded conductors, perished seals and cheap junction boxes buried in a border account for a great many call-outs.
Work outside needs materials chosen for the position they sit in. Armoured cable to an outbuilding, weatherproof enclosures of the correct rating, glands made off properly and RCD protection on the circuit are what give a repair a chance of lasting through the next wet winter. A good deal of outdoor work is putting right an earlier job that used indoor fittings in an outdoor position. Fittings meant for indoor use rarely last a winter outside.
What we do
24/7Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a fast response across the South East. We make the installation safe first, then explain the repair and the cost before any work starts.
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We specialise in finding and fixing electrical faults, tripping circuits and power loss. Faults are traced by systematic testing rather than guesswork, so the repair holds.
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Reliable installation and repair of internal and external lighting systems, from downlights and replacement fittings to garden, security and outside lighting.
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Full and partial electrical rewiring for houses and flats across the South East. Work can be staged room by room to limit disruption, and the property is left tested and certified.
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New fuse boards fitted, also known as fuse boxes, consumer units or consumer boards. A modern board adds RCD protection and makes future faults far easier to isolate.
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Supply, installation and testing of mains powered smoke and heat alarms, including interlinked systems for rented properties and new installations.
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Electrical Installation Condition Reports for rented and residential premises throughout the South East. We can arrange access with your tenants directly and return the report promptly.
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Our in-house team can design, install, commission and maintain Solar PV installations of all sizes, covering the whole job from roof survey through to inverter and battery set-up.
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Domestic and commercial car charger installations. We check the incoming supply can carry the load and position the unit to suit where you park.
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Property here ranges from older village houses to later family homes and newer development around them, so no two jobs in Hassocks start from the same place. One has a modern consumer unit with an RCBO on every circuit. The next still has rewireable fuses, no main protective bonding to the gas pipework and lighting on its original wiring. We look at what is installed before quoting anything.
We work for householders, for landlords who need an EICR before a tenancy starts, and for commercial and industrial premises such as shops, offices and workshops. Commercial work often has to run outside trading hours, and in a village where many people commute towards Brighton or London, domestic visits often have to be set early or late. The phone is answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year, bank holidays included.
Every job is quoted free and without obligation, and prices are explained before work begins. Emergency work carries a call-out fee then an hourly rate, both made clear when you call. Work is carried out to the current wiring regulations by a Part P registered and fully insured electrician, and certification is supplied. We are a family run firm based in Sussex, covering Hassocks and the villages around it as part of our wider work across the South East.
Our process
You can call us at any hour, every day of the year, including bank holidays. In an emergency we ask what has stopped working and whether anything is hot, sparking or smelling of burning, and tell you what to switch off until we arrive. Booked work, from a landlord certificate to solar panels or EV charging, starts on the same call.
A Part P registered and fully insured engineer attends and makes the installation safe before anything else. Where there is a risk, the affected circuit or your fuse board is isolated, and anything that cannot be put right straight away is left in a safe condition. Planned work follows the same rule: circuits are proved dead before they are worked on.
We work from readings rather than assumptions. Testing can include continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, earth fault loop impedance and RCD testing. The results show where a fault sits, what an installation can safely take, and whether a problem is inside your property or on the incoming supply, which belongs to the distribution network operator and is reported free on 105.
Before any repair or installation begins, we explain the options: what needs doing now, what can safely wait, and whether repair or replacement is the sensible choice. Quotes are free and carry no obligation, and nothing goes ahead until you agree the price, so there are no call-out surprises. If parts or a return visit are needed, we tell you then.
The same qualified engineers who took your call carry out the work, whether that is an overnight repair, a fuse board replacement, new lighting, smoke and heat alarms, a rewire, an inspection, solar panels or an EV charging point. It is done to the current wiring regulations, with cables and accessories fixed securely and neatly, and disruption kept to a minimum.
Before we leave, the work is tested and checked in operation, and the working area is left tidy. You are told plainly what was done and anything worth keeping an eye on. Certification is supplied where the work calls for it, so you hold a written record of what was carried out and the results of the testing.
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