Houses and bungalows
Polegate is a commuter town rather than an old market centre, and much of its housing is twentieth century: bungalows, post war estates and later infill. That shapes the work we are called to. On a single storey home the wiring runs through the loft, cables end up buried under insulation laid over them long afterwards, and circuits meant for a far lighter load now feed a kitchen full of appliances.
Homes of that age are rarely still wired as they were built. A garage becomes a room, a conservatory goes on the back, a charge point appears on the drive, and a shed or garden office ends up fed by a cable that was only ever meant to run a light. Additions like those are where faults often begin, so we test the circuit feeding them and check earthing and bonding before anything is disturbed.
Where the fuse board has never been changed, you may still find rewireable fuses, no RCD protection and bonding that met the rules of the day rather than the current ones. In houses of this sort the board often sits in a hall cupboard or a garage, out of sight for years. We test before quoting, say what is worn out and what is old but sound, and stage the work if a full rewire is not wanted yet.
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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An emergency call starts with questions. We will ask what tripped, what was running at the time and whether the neighbours lost power too, because a fault inside your installation is a different job from a supply failure the network operator has to put right. Storms coming in off the coast bring a run of the second sort, and when that is what you have, we will say so and tell you who needs to put it right.
Around Polegate the work runs across domestic, commercial and industrial premises. Householders ring about a dead ring final or lighting that has gone across a whole floor, letting agents book landlord safety certificates, known as EICRs, and alarm work together so a tenancy can change over cleanly, and commercial callers want the fault isolated with the rest of the premises kept running where that is safe. A written note of what still needs doing goes with it.
CK Electrical is family run and locally based, covering Sussex and the South East. Quotes are free, and the price is explained before work begins. Emergency work carries a call out fee and then an hourly rate, both set out beforehand. The firm is Part P registered and fully insured, work meets the current wiring regulations, certification is supplied for notifiable work, and the phone is answered twenty four 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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