Sockets, lighting and rewiring

Yes. Electrical installation work in a home has to comply with the wiring regulations, and certain work, including new circuits and anything in a bathroom, is notifiable under Part P of the building regulations. That means it must be tested and certificated, and the certificate is worth keeping because it is asked for when you sell. Work is carried out and certificated properly as part of the job.

A full rewire is disruptive because it means lifting floors and chasing walls throughout, but it can be phased room by room or floor by floor so you keep power in the parts of the house you are using. It is far less disruptive when it happens alongside other work, because the floors and walls are already open.

Old fuse boards with rewireable fuses, and boards without RCD protection, do not meet the current standard and are the usual candidates for replacement. Nuisance tripping, scorch marks, or a board with no space to add a circuit are the practical signs. We will tell you honestly whether yours needs replacing now or whether it is fine and just old, rather than treating every survey as a sales opportunity.

Yes, and it is worth doing at the point walls or floors are already open. Extra sockets, USB outlets, sockets for a home office, outside sockets and garden lighting are all straightforward when there is access, and a much bigger job when everything is finished and decorated.

Yes. Downlights, under-unit lighting, dimming and switching arranged so a room can be lit for different uses. The details worth getting right are fire-rated fittings where they go through a ceiling, the correct transformer and dimmer pairing so nothing flickers, and setting out the positions to the room rather than in a straight line down the middle.

Yes, that is the point of the way we work. Building, plumbing and electrics under one contract means the first fix happens at the right moment in the programme and nobody is waiting a fortnight for an electrician to be free before the plastering can start.