Coastal conditions
Portslade runs from the water back up towards the Downs, and the weather off the sea tells on an installation. Salt air works into outside lights, garden sockets, meter boxes and the glands on anything mounted on a seaward wall. Corrosion at a terminal does not announce itself. It shows as an intermittent circuit, a light that flickers, or an RCD that trips on a wet and windy night.
The older terraced streets near the seafront and the later housing on the higher ground behind them tend to carry a long history of alterations: a rewire in one decade, a kitchen circuit added in another. Faults follow the joins. A loose neutral in a socket, a spur taken from the wrong side of a connection, a cable pinched behind a fixing. We test circuit by circuit and say what we have found before anything is changed.
An older board with one or two RCDs carrying everything makes a single fault look like a whole house failure, which is unsettling when the lights go at eleven at night. A board populated with RCBOs contains it to one circuit. Where yours is the older arrangement we will explain what changing it involves and what it would cost, and where the existing unit is sound we will tell you that instead.
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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Portslade is not only housing. There is commercial and light industrial property here as well, and that work is different again: bigger supplies, distribution boards, and testing and inspection that has to be booked around a working day rather than dropped on one. We cover domestic, commercial and industrial installations, and we will quote free of charge, with no obligation, before anything is agreed.
Charge points and solar are added to homes along this coast as they are anywhere else, and both change what the installation is being asked to do. We look at the main tails, the earthing arrangement and the headroom on the supply before quoting rather than after. Where a charge point or an inverter fitted by somebody else nuisance trips, the fault more often sits in the termination, the cable route or the way it was tied into the board.
The rest is steady work: extra sockets and new circuits, lighting upgrades, smoke and heat alarms, rewiring, fuse board replacement, and EICRs for landlords with property in the town. We are Part P registered and fully insured, we work to the current wiring regulations, and certification is supplied for what we carry out. The phone is answered twenty four hours a day, every day of the year, bank holidays included.
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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