Emergency electrical faults in Redland

The houses we see in Redland

Substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas and semis, solid brick with lime plaster, many extended up into lofts and back over side returns. Tenure splits three ways: long-term family owners, student HMOs and professional lets, and houses newly bought and being renovated floor by floor. Original circuit provision was modest, and extensions have stacked demand onto installations never designed for it.

Working in Redland: the practical bit

Redland electrics are defined by accretion: a 1970s rewire, a 1990s kitchen circuit, a 2010s loft conversion, each added by a different hand, each labelled optimistically. Surveys here spend their time establishing what actually exists before promising anything. HMO licensing adds a compliance layer, since Bristol's schemes expect current EICRs and adequate socket provision per letting room. Solid brick chases cleanly, lofts give good top-floor access, and cellars, where present, make ground-floor rewiring pleasantly straightforward.

We cover all of Redland, Cotham, St Andrews, Montpelier fringe, Westbury Park (east), Chandos Road area and the streets between.

What emergencies involves

An urgent electrical fault visit in Bristol costs £120–£180 excluding VAT for the callout and first hour, with most faults diagnosed inside it. Total loss of power, a burning smell from a socket or the board, a consumer unit that will not reset: these are the jobs we prioritise and slot first. One honest instruction before any of it: if something is burning, sparking or smoking, switch off at the main switch and call 999 if there is any fire risk; a website form is not an emergency service for a live fire.

This is for you if

• The whole house has lost power and the neighbours have not
• The consumer unit trips the moment you reset it
• A socket, switch or the fuse board smells hot or shows scorch marks
• Lights flickering across multiple rooms, not just one bulb
• Water has got into the electrics: a leak over a light fitting, a flooded socket
• A DIY job or a botched repair has left something you do not trust

What's included

• Priority booking: urgent faults go first in the diary, same or next working day
• Systematic fault-finding: circuit by circuit until the cause is found, not guessed
• A made-safe state before we leave, even when parts must be ordered
• A fixed written price for any repair beyond the first hour, before we continue
• Straight advice when the fault is your supplier's side of the meter (that call is free)
• Certification for any notifiable remedial work

The standard we work to

Fault-finding and repair to BS 7671; any remedial work that is notifiable under Part P is certified as such.

The full write-up, costs, timings and the questions people ask, is on our emergency electrical faults page. Prices and standards are the same in every part of Bristol we cover.