Emergency services
Six things we are set up to do properly, at any hour, anywhere in Sussex.
Electrical services across Sussex
Six services, grouped by the kind of problem they solve. Every one is available on the same emergency line, carried out to BS 7671, and finished with the certificate the job calls for. If you are not sure which you need, describe the symptom on the phone and we will point you at the right one.
If you own the property
Most homeowner calls start with a symptom rather than a service: the lights went out, the board keeps tripping, there is a smell of hot plastic. Describe what happened and we will tell you which of the six it is, and whether it needs tonight or Tuesday.
Beyond emergencies, the common work is a fuse board upgrade, an EICR before selling, and dedicated circuits for cars, kitchens and garden offices.
Start with fault finding
If you let the property
Rented homes in England need a satisfactory EICR at least every five years and before a new tenancy. We test, code the observations honestly, quote the remedial work separately, and reissue the report once it is satisfactory.
Access arranged with tenants directly if you prefer, agents copied in, and anniversaries tracked so nothing lapses between tenancies.
Landlord certificates
If it is a business premises
Shops, salons, offices and light industrial units get fixed wire testing priced per distribution board rather than per bedroom, scheduled around your opening hours where the supply has to be interrupted.
Emergency cover works the same way as domestic: one number, answered at any hour, with the same certificates at the end of it.
Fixed wire testing
Emergency electrical
Answered by a person at any hour, with vans carrying the parts that finish most faults on the first visit.
24 hour emergency call-outs
Total or partial loss of power, burning smells, buzzing boards, melted sockets, water reaching wiring and exposed live parts. We talk you through making the installation safe while a van is on the way, isolate and repair on arrival where parts allow, and leave a certificate recording what was found and measured. If a job can safely wait until morning at a lower rate, we tell you that instead of selling you a midnight visit.
- Answered 24/7, including bank holidays
- 60 minute target in the core patch
- Priced before a van moves
Fault finding and repairs
Tripping RCDs, dead sockets, flickering lights and the intermittent faults that never misbehave while somebody is watching. We work through continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, loop impedance and RCD timings until the cause is proved rather than guessed, then repair it and retest. The readings go on your certificate so the next electrician can see exactly what was measured.
- Diagnosis by measurement, not guesswork
- Most domestic faults traced in one visit
- No second call-out for the same fault
Consumer units and protection
The cheapest place in any property to buy genuine safety, and the first thing an inspector looks at.
Fuse board and RCD upgrades
Replacing rewireable fuses, split load boards and plastic enclosures with a metal consumer unit and individual RCBOs, so one faulty appliance no longer takes out half the house. We test the wiring behind the board before quoting, check and upgrade main bonding, fit surge protection where it is worthwhile, and label every way by testing rather than guesswork.
- RCBO protection on every circuit
- Earthing and bonding checked and upgraded
- Certificate plus Part P notification
Rewiring, sockets and circuits
New cable where the old has reached the end, and dedicated circuits for the loads a modern home actually runs.
Rewiring and part rewires
Full and partial rewires for properties with rubber, lead or failing early PVC cable, and for lighting circuits that never had an earth. A rewire installs a proper set of circuits: upstairs and downstairs sockets, a kitchen ring, dedicated cooker, shower and EV charger circuits, split lighting, a boiler supply and interlinked smoke alarms.
- Two to five days for most properties
- Power back on every evening
- Written scope agreed room by room
Testing and certification
Inspection and reports for homeowners, buyers, landlords and small commercial premises.
EICR and fixed wire testing
A full condition report on the fixed wiring: the consumer unit, earthing and bonding, a recorded sample of accessories, and the complete dead and live test sequence on every circuit. Every observation is coded C1, C2, C3 or FI and explained in plain English before we leave, with remedial work priced separately.
- Every circuit reading recorded
- Codes explained before we leave
- Remedials quoted separately
Landlord safety certificates
Rented homes in England need a satisfactory EICR at least every five years and before a new tenancy. We work to the statutory dates: report to you and the tenant, remedial work inside 28 days, written confirmation of completion, and the reissued satisfactory report for your compliance file.
- Access arranged with tenants
- Remedials inside the 28 day window
- Anniversaries tracked for you
Power off, tripping or burning
If the power is off, something smells hot or the board will not stay on, that is an emergency call-out. If the fault is annoying rather than urgent, book fault finding at the daytime rate and we will trace it properly.
Emergency call-outsFor a tenancy, a sale or a council
An EICR is the document landlords, buyers and local authorities ask for. Landlords have statutory dates to hit as well, so the landlord page covers the deadlines and the remedial process alongside the inspection itself.
About EICRsOld board, or old wiring
A fuse board upgrade is the quickest safety improvement in most homes and takes a day. A rewire is the bigger job, and it is decided by test readings rather than the age of the house. We test before quoting either.
Fuse board upgradesOne number for all of it
The same emergency line covers every service on this page. You are not passed between departments, and you are not asked to diagnose your own fault before anyone will speak to you.
Describe what happened. We will tell you whether it needs a van tonight, a booking on Tuesday, or nothing at all beyond switching something off and monitoring it.
Call 0333 360 8583
Honest about urgency
Out of hours rates exist because working at 2am costs more, not because every fault needs it. If yours can wait until morning, we say so and you pay the daytime rate.
See our pricesEvery service, side by side
24 hour emergency call-outs
One number, answered by a person, day or night. If the power is off or something is burning, this is the page you want.
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Fault finding and repairs
Intermittent faults are the ones that cost people money. We test until the cause is proved, then repair it once.
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Fuse board and RCD upgrades
A modern board protects each circuit on its own, so one faulty appliance no longer takes the whole house out.
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Rewiring and part rewires
Cable does not last forever. Rubber, lead and early PVC installations reach a point where testing alone will not save them.
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EICR and fixed wire testing
An EICR is a health check for the fixed wiring: what is safe, what needs attention, and what has to be fixed now.
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Landlord safety certificates
Rented homes in England need a satisfactory EICR every five years, and at the start of every new tenancy.
Read moreEvery service, across Sussex
One emergency line covers all of these towns. Each has a page of its own with local response targets and postcodes.
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