Older and period wiring
Hove runs west from Brighton along the same stretch of coast, and much of its housing is older: Victorian and Edwardian terraces, larger houses, and a good many of those buildings now divided into flats. The wiring inside them is rarely all of one age. We regularly open a fuse board and find work from more than one generation sitting together, some of it sound, some of it long past replacement.
The faults that bring us out follow from that mixture. Rubber insulated cable goes brittle with age and can shed its insulation as soon as it is disturbed. Older lighting circuits were often run without a protective conductor, leaving no earth at the switch or the ceiling rose. Junction boxes sit hidden under floorboards and are sometimes nailed through, and cable buried in plaster may have no mechanical protection at all.
A building that has been altered many times asks for patience rather than speed. We trace circuits properly before anything is cut, lift boards where we have to and put them back, and keep chasing to a minimum in rooms with original cornice and plasterwork. Where a circuit cannot be made safe as it stands, we say so, explain what replacing it would involve and leave the decision with you.
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.
Learn moreFlats, rewires and repairs
The questions change once a house has been divided into flats. Which consumer unit feeds which flat, whether the tails and the main earthing are adequate for everything added over the years, and who is responsible for the wiring in the common parts are all worth settling early. We are family run and we work for homeowners, tenants and landlords, explaining what we find in plain terms before anything is agreed.
The work itself covers the ordinary run of things: fault finding on a circuit that keeps tripping, a fuse board replaced with RCBOs so a fault on one circuit need not take the rest out with it, extra sockets and dedicated circuits, smoke and heat alarms, landlord safety certificates, rewiring and lighting brought up to date. We also install solar panels and EV charging points, which in older buildings means checking the supply first.
Being on the coast adds its own jobs to the list. External lights, garden supplies and anything fixed to a wall facing the sea contend with salt laden air and driving rain, and glands and enclosures corrode where the equipment is not rated for that exposure. We are Part P registered and fully insured, quotes are free with the cost explained beforehand, and the phone is answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
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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