The kind of work we do
Twelve jobs, explained.
Consumer units and rewires, first and second fix, sockets and TV points, kitchen and garden lighting, outdoor and security lighting, and the commercial and industrial side. Each one is described in plain terms rather than left as a caption-free photograph.
Photography on this page illustrates the type of work described. Photographs of our own recent jobs go here — they are worth more than any stock library, and there are twenty years' worth to choose from.
A modern consumer unit with the ways set out and labelled, earthing and main bonding brought up to date at the same time as the board itself.
Accessories being made off at second fix — the point at which a rushed job and a careful one start to look different from one another.
Back boxes set into the plaster with the tails left long, ready for the plasterer to work up to and for accessories to go on afterwards.
A supply brought out through a wall during first fix — the stage of a rewire where circuit routes, capacity and future spare ways all get decided.
First-fix cabling gathered at an outlet position before the wall is closed up, on an extension where socket and switch positions were agreed on site.
Kitchen unit and ceiling lighting on separate switch lines, so the working light and the evening light are not the same thing.
Pendants centred over an island with downlights on their own way — the sort of scheme that wants planning before the ceiling goes on.
An open-plan kitchen with a cooker circuit, island power and pendant lighting all landing in the same room — each on its own way at the board.
Low-level garden lighting washing a planted border, zoned so the terrace can be used in October without lighting the whole plot.
Exterior post lighting along an approach — fittings rated for where they are going, fed in armoured cable and switched from indoors.
High-bay lighting in a unit, the kind of replacement that is usually done out of hours so the floor below can keep working.
Distribution and control gear being worked on during a maintenance visit — the ongoing half of commercial work rather than the installation half.
Got something similar in mind?
Planning is where the money is saved: the fitting you have picked, the ceiling you have got, the age of the board it is all going back to and the point in the build you are at all change the job. Send a photograph of the room, the board or the thing that has stopped working, and you will be told plainly what is involved. Quotations are free and carry no obligation.