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.
From the Regency terraces on the Marina to the converted flats around Warrior Square, we find and fix electrical faults in St Leonards-on-Sea homes and businesses, day or night.
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St Leonards-on-Sea is a town of big period houses cut into flats, and that shapes almost every fault we are called to: shared supplies, sub-mains running up stairwells and circuits that no longer respect the walls between homes. We test, trace and repair, then leave the installation safe and properly recorded. We are available 24/7 on 0333 360 8583.
Much of St Leonards was built by James and Decimus Burton in the 1820s and 30s, then extended with tall Victorian terraces around Warrior Square. Very few of those houses are still single dwellings. Most were divided into flats decades ago, and the wiring was divided with them.
That leaves a particular set of jobs: sorting out sub-mains and tails feeding four or five meters from one intake, tracing borrowed neutrals between flats, and untangling landlords' supplies for stair lighting, entry phones and communal smoke detection. Ring final circuits that once served a whole floor often end up split across two homes.
Add older rewireable fuse boards, missing main protective bonding where the pipework was cut about, and storage heater circuits on dual-rate meters, and testing is the only honest way to find out what you have.
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.
In most St Leonards conversions each flat has its own meter and its own consumer unit fed from a shared intake in the hall or cellar, so a fault in one flat usually stops at that flat. It may be your own RCD or main switch, or the sub-main feeding you. Please do not open the consumer unit or any accessory yourself. Call us on 0333 360 8583 and we will test to find where the fault sits.
Each flat is a separate installation and needs its own EICR, and the landlord's supply for the common parts — stair and hall lighting, entry phone, communal smoke detection — needs one of its own too. Rented homes need a report at least every five years. Inspection and any remedial work are carried out to BS 7671, with observations coded so you can see what must be put right and what is simply worth improving.
It is often a factor. Driven rain and salt-laden air along the Marina and West Marina work into glands, back boxes and terminals, and corrosion there lets moisture track to earth, which is exactly what an RCD is designed to catch. Testing, including insulation resistance on the circuit, shows whether the fitting, the cable or a joint is at fault. Exposed positions do far better with properly rated external enclosures and glanded connections.
Usually yes, with planning. Period houses here have generous floor voids, original conduit routes, cupboards and cellar space that let cables be run without chasing decorative plaster or cornice work. Where a neat surface run is the sensible answer, we will say so and agree it with you before starting. Work affecting a listed building's character can need listed building consent, so it is worth checking with the council before anything is fixed to an elevation.
All-electric flats are common in converted St Leonards houses, where there was never a gas supply to every floor. The off-peak circuits are usually the oldest and the hardest working: heavy fixed loads on cable that may date from the conversion, timeswitches and contactors that stick, and immersion circuits with tired thermostats. Worth reporting are a heater that never charges overnight, switchgear that feels warm, or any smell of hot plastic near the fuse box.
An emergency in a four-storey converted house is rarely confined to one flat. A fault on a shared sub-main can take out the stair lighting and the top-floor flat at the same time, and on Maze Hill or the Marina that means several households in the dark on a steep, unlit staircase.
Weather plays its part. Southwesterlies drive salt spray straight onto seafront elevations, and outdoor lights, meter boxes and garden socket outlets corrode from the inside long before the damage shows. A wet night is when the water finally gets in and the RCD starts tripping.
We answer 24/7 and aim to be with you inside the hour, wherever you are in East Sussex. Every callout includes a visual inspection and circuit testing, so you are told what actually failed.
…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.
ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA
Burton's original St Leonards — the Marina, Maze Hill, West Hill and the streets behind the old Assembly Rooms — is stuccoed Regency work with lath and plaster, deep skirtings and thick masonry. Warrior Square and the roads either side of it are mid-Victorian, taller again, and almost all divided into flats.
Wiring in these buildings tends to come in layers. There may be original conduit runs abandoned in the walls, a 1960s or 70s conversion rewire, and later additions made flat by flat. Rewireable fuse boards, rubber or lead-sheathed cable in loft and cellar voids, and consumer units with no RCD protection all still turn up. An EICR sets out what is sound, what needs attention and what should be replaced.
Then there is the sea. The Marina and the West Marina frontage take the weather head on, and salt gets into every outdoor accessory: bulkhead lights on balconies, meter cupboards, garden sockets and the enclosures on rear elevations. Corrosion at terminals shows up as intermittent faults long before anything looks wrong.
Inland the picture changes. Silverhill, Bohemia and Hollington bring post-war and later housing with its own issues, while the low ground towards Bulverhythe and the Combe Haven valley adds damp and flood risk to basements and ground-floor flats.
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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