Behind the walls
Much of the housing along this stretch of the coast is older terraced and semi detached property, with later twentieth century housing set back behind it. That mix decides what an electrician finds. A house of that age has usually been rewired more than once, each generation of work left partly in place, so the circuits behind the plaster rarely match the board now sitting on the wall.
The town runs back from the harbour frontage towards the Downs, and the housing in between was built and altered in waves. That shows the moment a cover comes off. What turns up is a rewireable fuse board added to over the years, a circuit pulled out onto a small separate unit, and main bonding sized for a different era. Sometimes the consumer unit is newer than the wiring feeding it, which is the more awkward way round.
Behind an old socket or switch in Southwick you can meet rubber insulated cable that has gone hard, a lighting circuit with no earth run to it, a borrowed neutral shared between two circuits, or a joint that someone buried in a wall. None of that is unusual in housing of this age. It does mean looking properly at what is there before anyone puts a figure on the work.
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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The calls are a mix. Owner occupiers who have lost the sockets on one ring, landlords who need a certificate before a tenancy starts, and the commercial and light industrial premises along the harbour frontage, where three phase supplies, distribution boards and emergency lighting come into it. Different buildings, same three questions: what is the supply, what is the earthing, and what has been changed since the last certificate.
An emergency call is diagnosis first. Isolate what is faulty, get the rest of the property live again where it is safe to do that, then explain what caused it and what the options are. Quotes are free and carry no obligation. Emergency work carries a call-out fee and then an hourly rate, and both are explained before any work is agreed.
Salt air off the water is hard on anything fitted outside, so external sockets, garden lighting, security lights and meter cupboards on this part of the coast get a closer look than they would inland. CK Electrical is family run and based in Sussex, Part P registered and fully insured, and work is tested and certificated to the current wiring regulations. 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.
Where we work
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CK Emergency Electricians 247
Unit 1, Example Business Park
Example Road
Brighton, BN1 1AA
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Office: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm
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