The housing stock
Henfield is a West Sussex village rather than a town, and the property reflects that: period cottages and older brick houses near the centre, post war and later estates around the edges, bungalows, and larger houses standing on their own along the lanes. Each of those carries its own wiring history, so the first job on arrival is working out what is sitting behind the plaster.
In the oldest of that stock we still find rewireable fuse boards with fuse wire and no RCD protection, rubber insulated cable gone brittle at the terminals, and lighting circuits with no earth at the switch drops. Solid walls and low ceilings make the routing slower than it looks. Red and black cores behind a face plate say the same thing: the circuit has been in place a long while and needs testing before anything is added to it.
The later houses bring different work. Circuits that are sound in themselves sit under a board that predates RCBOs, so one fault takes out more of the house than it should. A socket swapped for a modern flat plate often hides an old joint, a borrowed neutral or a chocolate block wrapped in tape. Where a house sits out on a lane, the earthing arrangement is worth confirming rather than assumed before extra load goes on.
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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Calls come from homeowners who have lost power to half the house, landlords who need an EICR before a tenancy starts, and businesses in the village that cannot trade with a dead board. Some of that is a single fault to trace and repair. Some of it turns into a rewire staged room by room and planned around the household, so the place stays lived in while the work goes on.
Property around Henfield often runs to more than the house itself. Garages, workshops, outbuildings and garden rooms need a submain sized for the run, correct protection and their own earthing arrangement rather than an extension lead trailing through a window. Outside lighting and EV charging points raise the same question, so we check what the tails and the fuse board can carry before anything is agreed.
Where a house has been extended, converted or worked on by several hands over the years, testing tells you more than looking does. An inspection picks up the circuit left live behind a cupboard, bonding that was never taken to the gas, or the spur added off a ring that was already loaded. The phone is answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and quotes are free and carry no obligation.
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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