Coastal wiring
Sea air carries a long way inland, and Rustington sits close enough to the shore that outside electrical work has a harder life here than it does further north in Sussex. Salt settles on external fittings, works into screw threads and gland entries, and corrodes metal enclosures and fixings long before anyone thinks to look at them. An outdoor socket or garden light can be past its useful life while it still looks serviceable.
Damp is the other half of it. Water works past perished seals into outside sockets, garden lights, junction boxes and the backs of external lamps, and the first sign is often an RCD that trips and will not reset. We isolate circuits one at a time and test rather than guess, so the work goes into the fitting or the length of cable at fault instead of into replacing parts on a hunch.
Outdoor work here is worth specifying properly rather than patching. That means enclosures with a sensible ingress rating, the correct glands, armoured cable where a run crosses a garden, stainless or plated fixings, and earthing and bonding checked as part of the job. The same applies to charging points, garden rooms, sheds and lighting on exposed elevations, all of which stand in the weather coming off the sea.
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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In Rustington the work tends to come from householders, from landlords letting property along the coast, and from the shops and small businesses in the village. Single storey and low rise homes are a familiar sight on this flat stretch of the West Sussex plain, which often means long cable runs out to garages and garden buildings, older wiring in roof spaces, and consumer units sited where the weather can reach them.
The phone is answered at any hour, on any day of the year, bank holidays included. The first job on site is making the installation safe, then tracing the fault: a failed shower, a nail driven through a cable, a soaked outside circuit, or a fuse board at the end of its working life. You are told what is wrong, and the cost is explained, before any repair begins.
A good deal of the work here is planned rather than urgent: fuse board replacements, rewires taken room by room so a household can stay in place, sockets and circuits added for garages and garden rooms, smoke and heat alarms, EV charging points, and inspection and testing for landlords who need a current certificate. CK Electrical is Part P registered and fully insured, quotes are free, and certification is supplied for work that requires it.
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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CK Emergency Electricians 247
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