Photographs from actual jobs across Sussex and Kent — fault finding, board replacements, heat damage and periodic inspection.
Most electrical galleries are photographs of brand new boards in empty houses. They are easy to take and they tell you nothing, because a new board looks the same whoever fitted it.
The pictures worth looking at are the ones showing what had gone wrong: the scorching around a loose connection, the fuseboard that had been overheating for months, the outside socket that filled with water. If you recognise something here, that is the point.
All photographs are of our own work. Captions say what was actually wrong, not what the picture looks like.
Lighting work during a call-out. Every electrician who attends has a minimum of eighteen years in the trade.
Uniformed, carrying identification, and able to explain what is wrong in plain terms before the work is priced.
An old board changed for a modern steel enclosure with RCBO protection on every circuit.
Every circuit inspected and tested individually, with observations coded by severity rather than lumped together.
Sound circuits returned to service the same night, with the faulty one isolated until it could be repaired properly in daylight.
Exterior sockets and their protection tested after water ingress — a call we take a great deal of every autumn.
Commercial distribution board replacement, tested and certified before being put back into service.
Combined overload and earth-leakage protection per circuit. A fault takes out that circuit alone instead of half the building.
Where insulation resistance has failed across a whole circuit rather than at a single point, patching one section only moves the problem.
A calibrated multifunction tester in use. Insulation resistance, continuity, loop impedance and RCD timing between them locate most domestic faults.
Exterior work, correctly protected and certified — the sort of circuit that causes trouble later when it is not.
Every circuit terminated, labelled and tested. The labelling matters more than it looks: it is what makes the next fault quick to isolate.
Consumer unit work at three in the morning. The same instruments and the same method as three in the afternoon.
Splitting the installation circuit by circuit until only the faulty section is left.
Readings recorded against required values and issued as a schedule of test results, so the work can be checked later.
If something in your own property looks like one of these photographs, it is worth a phone call tonight rather than next month.
