Service area · Home base
Electrician and groundworksin Burntwood
We are based on Springhill Road, so Burntwood is the area we reach fastest and know best, from the post-war estates off Chase Terrace to the newer closes around Chasetown.
Burntwood based · NAPIT registered · every job carries a 1-year guarantee
16 years
In the construction industry
NAPIT
Registered for electrical work
F-Gas
Certified for air conditioning
£5m
Public liability insurance
1 year
Guarantee on all trades
What we do in Burntwood
Our base is on Springhill Road in Burntwood, so this is the fastest area for us to reach and the one we know best.
Burntwood is our home patch
Our yard and office are at 88B Springhill Road, WS7 4UJ. That means Burntwood work does not involve travelling time across the county for us, and it means we can usually get to you sooner than a firm coming out from Birmingham or Stoke. If a socket is arcing or a drain has backed up, being twelve minutes away rather than an hour matters.
It also means we are not guessing about the town. We have worked in the Chase Terrace, Chasetown, Highfields and Boney Hay parts of Burntwood for years, on housing built anywhere between the 1930s and last year, and we know which streets throw up rubber-insulated cabling, which throw up shallow clay, and which have the kind of driveway that makes an EV charger run straightforward.
Property types we deal with here
Burntwood is mostly family housing: 1950s–1980s semis and detached houses on estate roads, older cottages and terraces around the former colliery villages, plus modern infill developments. Each brings its own electrical picture. The older stock often still has a rewireable fuse board or an early split-load board with no RCD on the lighting. The 1970s and 1980s stock frequently needs a board change and a handful of circuits reworking rather than a full rewire. The newest houses usually just need additions, outside sockets, garden lighting, a charge point, a garden room supply.
On the groundworks side, most Burntwood work is extension and garden-room foundations, driveway and patio sub-bases, drain runs to new bathrooms and kitchens, and soakaways. The town sits on the old South Staffordshire coalfield, so what is under a garden is not always what the plans say, we dig, look, and tell you before we pour anything.
What we get called for most in Burntwood
In order of how often the phone rings: fuse board upgrades, tripping circuits and intermittent faults, EICRs for landlords and house sales, EV charger installations, extra sockets and outside power, then groundworks for extensions and garden rooms. Air conditioning comes up in summer, usually for loft conversions and south-facing extensions that become unusable in July, and we take on building work when it sits alongside the groundworks or electrics we are already doing.
We work out from 88B Springhill Road, Burntwood, Staffordshire, WS7 4UJ. Whatever the trade, the same things apply: the company is NAPIT registered and F-Gas certified, Sam holds City & Guilds 2391 and the 18th Edition, every other operative holds a CSCS or ECS card, and the work carries a 1-year guarantee on all work. More about how we work.
Available in Burntwood
Services we carry out in Burntwood
Electrical work and groundworks are our primary trades; air conditioning and building work we take on occasionally.
Electrician in Burntwood
Faults found and fixed, sockets and lighting added, and everything tested and certificated by a NAPIT registered team.
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EICR & Testing in Burntwood
An EICR that tells you plainly what's satisfactory, what isn't, and what it will take to put right.
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Fuse Board Upgrades in Burntwood
An 18th Edition board with RCD protection on every circuit, so a fault trips one circuit instead of the whole house.
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House Rewiring in Burntwood
A full or partial rewire planned around you living there, with certification at the end that satisfies lenders and landlords.
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EV Chargers in Burntwood
A charger sited where you actually park, on a circuit sized for it, with the earthing done properly.
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Air Conditioning in Burntwood
F-Gas certified installation and servicing for rooms that overheat in summer and need warming in winter.
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Building Work in Burntwood
Brickwork, blockwork and structural alterations taken on when they sit alongside the groundworks or electrics we're already doing.
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Groundworks in Burntwood
Foundations, drainage, slabs and muck-away done to level, so the trades that follow you aren't fighting the ground.
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Drainage & Foundations in Burntwood
Drainage that runs and foundations that hold, dug and laid to the depths the job and the ground need.
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Why us here
Why customers in Burntwood use us
No invented statistics, just what we can stand behind.
Ten minutes away, not an hour
We work out of Springhill Road in Burntwood. For local jobs that means less travelling built into the day and a realistic chance of same-week attendance on smaller work.
16 years in this area
Sam has been working in the trade for 16 years, most of it within a few miles of Burntwood, under Stret Limited and before that as Stretton Electrical.
Qualified on paper, not just in words
NAPIT registered, F-Gas certified, City & Guilds 2391 and 18th Edition held, Gold ECS card, and every other operative CSCS or ECS carded.
Insured and guaranteed
£5m public liability, £10m employers' liability and £250,000 professional indemnity, with a 1-year guarantee on the work we carry out.
Local conditions
What comes up in Burntwood
Property age, ground conditions and drainage here shape what we find when we open a board or dig a trench.
Former coalfield ground
Burntwood grew out of Chase Terrace, Chasetown and the surrounding pit villages, and made ground, old foundations and buried spoil turn up regularly in gardens here. We dig trial holes before quoting deep work rather than pricing a foundation depth we cannot yet see.
Boards that were legal once
A large share of Burntwood's 1960s–1980s housing still has its original or first-replacement consumer unit. Nothing about it is dangerous on the day it is installed; the problem is 40 years of added circuits, no RCD protection on lighting, and a plastic enclosure that current regulations no longer accept in a house of this age.
Clay, run-off and soakaways
The clay content around parts of Burntwood means surface water sits rather than soaks. New patios and driveways that ignore this end up draining towards the house. We set levels and put in a soakaway or connection that takes the water somewhere it can actually go.
Extensions on tight plots
Estate plots in Burntwood are often narrow, with the only access to the rear garden down a single-width side path. That dictates the plant we can bring and how the muck leaves site, worth establishing before a start date is agreed, not on the first morning.
Our process
How a job in Burntwood runs
The same sequence every time, so you know what happens next and when.
01
You call or send details
Phone Sam on 07812 971397 or send the job through the form. Tell us the address, what the problem or plan is, and when you need it done.
02
We look at the job
For anything beyond a small repair we come and look. Guessing at a price from a description helps nobody, and a site visit catches the things a photo hides.
03
You get a price for your job
We work on day rates that vary with the operatives and plant a job needs, so you get a price for your actual job rather than a published figure that never fits.
04
Booked in and carried out
We agree a start date, turn up when we said, and keep you told if anything on site changes what we found.
05
Certified, tidied, guaranteed
Electrical work is tested and certificated, the site is cleared, and the work carries a 1-year guarantee. If something isn't right, you call us and we come back.
What customers say
Reviews from the electrical side of the business
Every review below was left for electrical work carried out as Stretton Electrical. We use them as proof of how we work, not as evidence of groundworks, aircon or building jobs.
“Done a full rewire and remodelling of my humble home and co-ordinated with other trades marvellously to pull it together.”
“I've used Stretton Electrical twice now and have been really pleased with the work. On both occasions the job was neat and the area left tidy.”
“Sam was great. He came as soon as possible and identified the issue immediately. He fixed it promptly and went above and beyond.”
Nearby
Areas near Burntwood we also cover
We work across Staffordshire and West Midlands from our base in Burntwood.
Straight answers
Burntwood: questions we get asked
Coverage, response times, cost and availability, answered as plainly as we can.
Do you cover Burntwood?
Yes, we are based here, at 88B Springhill Road, WS7 4UJ. Burntwood, Chasetown, Chase Terrace and Boney Hay are all home ground for us.
How quickly can you get to a job in Burntwood?
Faster than anywhere else we cover, because we are not travelling to get here. For urgent electrical faults we will tell you honestly on the phone whether we can come the same day or whether you need someone sooner.
What does electrical work cost in Burntwood?
We price on day rates that change with the operatives a job needs, so we do not publish figures that would not fit your job. Tell us what you need and you get a price for that job before anyone starts.
Are you available for emergencies?
Our hours are 8am–6pm Monday to Friday, with occasional weekend work. We are not a 24-hour call-out service, if something is dangerous outside those hours, isolate it at the board and call an emergency electrician or 105 for a supply fault.
Can you do both the electrics and the groundworks on my extension?
Yes, and in Burntwood that is a common job for us. One firm doing the dig, the drains and the electrics means fewer handovers and nobody blaming the last trade.
Do you do EICRs for Burntwood landlords?
Regularly. You get a report that states plainly what is satisfactory, what is coded C1, C2 or C3, and what it would take to put right, not a list of codes with no explanation.
Is the work certificated?
Electrical installation work is tested and certificated, and we are NAPIT registered for the notifiable work that requires it.
Do you charge to come and look at a job in Burntwood?
For local work that needs looking at before it can be priced, no. Call and we will arrange a time to come round.
Are you insured?
Yes: £5m public liability, £10m employers' liability and £250,000 professional indemnity. We can send the certificates over before we start if you need them for a managing agent or main contractor.
Were you called something else before?
Yes. The electrical side traded as Stretton Electrical, which is the name most of our older reviews were left under. Same person, same standards, wider range of work now.
Need an electrician or groundworker in Burntwood?
We are ten minutes up the road. Call Sam on 07812 971397 or send the job details and we will come and look.
Request an estimate
Tell us about the job
Send the details and we'll come back to you with a price for your specific job. If it's urgent, call instead, you'll get through to Sam or someone on the team.
- Phone
- 07812 971397
- info@stret.co.uk
- Hours
- 8am–6pm, Monday to Friday · occasional weekend work
- Covering
- Staffordshire and West Midlands, from our base in Burntwood