Emergency Callouts
You can count on us for any electrical emergency. We are extremely confident in our abilities and we solve 85% of all electrical emergency callouts on the spot.
Polegate runs on inter-war semis, post-war bungalows and newer estates, and each generation of wiring fails in its own way. We find the fault, test the circuit and tell you exactly where you stand.
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Most of Polegate went up between the wars and in the decades after, so the faults tend to be the ones that come with that stock: lighting circuits with no earth at the fitting, tired fuse boxes in bungalow hallways, sockets spurred off through years of extensions. We fault find, test and repair, day or night, and resolve 85% of emergency callouts on the first visit.
A good many Polegate semis and bungalows still run on a board that was modern in 1975: rewireable fuses or early MCBs, no RCD protection, and lighting circuits that never had a circuit protective conductor. Replacing the consumer unit only makes sense once the circuits behind it have been tested, so that is where we start.
Bungalows bring their own list. Cables buried under decades of loft insulation, downlights cut into old ceilings, off-peak circuits feeding storage heaters, and a submain running down a long garden to a garage or workshop.
On the newer estates the work is different again: nuisance tripping where a single RCD covers half the house, and driveway chargepoints that need the earthing arrangement and the main fuse checked before anything is added.
We will fault find and resolve the issue if it can be resolved on the spot. With 25 years experience in fault finding we believe there isn't an issue which we can't solve. Some issues may need a revisit due to the deterioration of the cabling, and where that happens we will always explain your options clearly before any further work begins.
You can count on us for any electrical emergency. We are extremely confident in our abilities and we solve 85% of all electrical emergency callouts on the spot.
All electrical installations deteriorate with age and use. They should be inspected and tested at regular intervals to check whether they are in a satisfactory condition for continued use — commonly known as periodic inspection and testing.
We are proud members of the NICEIC Part P scheme. Our electrical work is tested to BS7671 regulations and complies with the latest British Standards and Building Regulations.
Old fuse boxes and rewireable fuses can't protect you the way a modern consumer unit does. We supply, install and certify RCD-protected boards, with every circuit tested and labelled before we leave.
FAQ'S
All of our services are backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee and delivered by our qualified electricians.
Yes. We are available 24/7 across Bexhill-on-Sea, Hastings, Eastbourne and the rest of East Sussex, and our company-wide standard is a 1 hour response. Call 0333 360 8583 and tell us what has happened: no power at all, an RCD that will not stay in, a burning smell or a scorched socket outlet.
Not automatically. Age alone does not condemn an installation; the condition of the circuits does. Rewireable fuses with no RCD protection, and lighting circuits with no earth at the fittings, are both common in houses of that generation, and an EICR tested to BS 7671 shows what is genuinely unsatisfactory and what is simply old. Please leave the board closed and let us test it.
Older boards often sit a single 30mA RCD in front of most of the circuits, so one fault takes lights and sockets out together. In Polegate bungalows the usual causes are cables running under thick loft insulation, damp reaching an outside light or garage feed, or water getting into a shower or immersion heater. Splitting circuits onto RCBOs limits the next fault to one circuit, but finding the fault comes first.
Rented homes in England need an electrical installation condition report at least every five years, and before a new tenancy begins if the existing report has run out. You must give the tenant a copy within 28 days and the council one on request, and anything coded C1, C2 or FI has to be put right within 28 days. We test and report to BS 7671.
Yes. Properties on the rural edges of Polegate are frequently on a TT earthing arrangement, earthed by a rod rather than by the supplier, which makes RCD protection and the measured electrode resistance central to safety. Long submains out to garages, stables and workshops add voltage drop, buried joints that let damp in, and overhead runs that suffer in a gale. All of it can be tested and confirmed.
Polegate sits where the Downs drop towards the Levels, and the weather makes the most of the gap. Wind-driven rain finds outdoor sockets, garage supplies and porch lights, and on the low ground east of the town damp works its way into buried joints and outbuilding feeds.
In a bungalow or an inter-war semi one fault often takes more than one room with it, because circuits have been extended into kitchens, garages and loft rooms over the years. Losing the lights in a single-storey home at two in the morning is not something to leave until Monday.
Landlords letting Polegate semis and flats above the shops carry a legal duty to hold a current EICR, and a tenant reporting repeated tripping needs the fault found, not the switch reset. We are available 24/7 on 0333 360 8583.
…and if we can resolve and fix or (identify the issue if the circuit needs rewiring). The cost ends there.
We have structured our pricing in 4 easy categories, so the customer and ourselves understand the costs involved.
PRICING
CALLOUT PRICING
Basic call out 9.30am – 3pm which would not be within an hour would be £110
*When there will be any rewiring, we will specify works and extra costs before any extra work would commence.
Also rates are multiplied by 1.5 for any weekend works
We arrive with a smile and want to cause you as little inconvenience as possible, we want to make it a positive experience.
TESTIMONIALS
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We take great pride in our reputation. That's why we have a solid work ethic based on reliability and customer service friendliness. We never compromise on customer satisfaction.
POLEGATE ELECTRICS
Polegate grew around its railway junction, and the town is 20th century rather than old: streets of 1920s and 1930s semis, a large stock of post-war bungalows, and estates added from the 1960s onwards. There is little Georgian or Victorian building here, so the wiring problems are not the ones found in the county's older towns. They are the problems of a house rewired once, around 1970, and extended ever since.
That shows up as lighting circuits with no circuit protective conductor, so a metal fitting or a run of downlights cannot be earthed; older rubber-insulated cable surviving under floors and in roof voids where nobody has looked; and a fuse box that has had circuit after circuit added to it. Testing is what separates a board that merely looks dated from an installation that needs work.
Geography adds its own faults. The town sits at the foot of the Downs, open to weather coming through the gap, and close enough to the coast that salt-laden wind reaches outdoor sockets, garden lighting and external isolators in a gale. East of the town the ground falls towards the Pevensey Levels, where the water table is high and damp works into buried cable and outbuilding supplies.
Beyond the built-up edge, properties are fed by longer runs, often overhead, and earthed by a rod rather than the supplier's earth, which makes the measured electrode reading worth knowing.
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Tell us what's happening and when suits you. For a genuine emergency, call us instead — we answer 24/7 and aim to be with you inside the hour.
Emergency line — 24/70333 360 8583