Electrician in Hove Emergency Call-Outs & EICR Testing Specialist

Hove's housing stock is mixed, and the wiring's even more mixed. The Regency and Victorian places round Brunswick Square, Palmeira Square and Adelaide Crescent still have bits of older wiring kicking about. Cloth-insulated cable, wooden-backed fuseboards, lighting circuits with no earth. Up in Aldrington, Hangleton and West Blatchington you're mostly looking at 1930s semis. Rubber-sheathed runs, junction boxes shoved up in floor voids, and a fair bit of DIY done by previous owners. After working on these houses for a while you get a feel for what's behind the wall before you start cutting.

Portslade is basically three towns in one. The old village up on the hill is mostly Victorian — terraces and cottages with the kind of old wiring you'd expect from the 1800s. Drop down to Portslade-by-Sea round the harbour and it's late Victorian and Edwardian stock, built up when the docks were going in, so you're looking at slightly later runs but still plenty of legacy work to keep an eye on. Then there's the Mile Oak estate up on the northern edge, which is mostly post-war fifties and sixties housing — early PVC twin-and-earth, smaller consumer units, the lot. Three different electrical eras inside one postcode, and you can't approach them the same way.

Lancing is mostly low-rise. Bungalows, semis, a few newer estates. Plenty of the older properties have had extensions thrown on at some point, and the wiring's often been patched in rather than extended properly. A proper EICR picks up a borrowed neutral or a missing earth in that kind of setup before it turns into a real problem. Hassocks is a different job again. Bigger detached houses, larger gardens, summer houses, outbuildings, EV chargers wanting their own circuit, garden lighting that needs thinking through. Every town round here has its own quirks, but the work goes in to the same NAPIT standard whichever postcode you're in.

I keep the patch tight on purpose. Hove, Portslade, Southwick, Shoreham, Lancing and Hassocks are all a sensible drive from base, so I can get to emergencies quickly and you're not paying for me to sit in traffic. Ring in the morning from BN3, BN41, BN42, BN43, BN15 or BN6 and there's a good chance I can be with you the same day. It's also why I don't take work in central Brighton — the parking and the one-way system eat half the day, and I'd rather do a proper job for the people I cover than spread myself too thin.