Service area
Electrician and groundworksin Lichfield
Minutes from our Burntwood base, and a city where the work splits neatly in two: older property that needs rewiring properly, and newer estates that need upgrading for how people actually live now.
Minutes from Lichfield · NAPIT registered · 1-year guarantee on every job
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 Lichfield
Minutes from our Burntwood base. A mix of older city-centre property needing rewires and modern estates needing upgrades and charge points.
Lichfield is a short run for us
We work out of Springhill Road in Burntwood, which puts Lichfield a few miles down the A5190. It is one of the areas we are in most weeks, so a Lichfield job does not carry half a day of travelling in its price and we can usually offer earlier dates than firms coming from further out.
Being close also means we can come and look before quoting, which matters more in Lichfield than in most places. In a city with Georgian and Victorian property, listed buildings and a conservation area at its centre, no two jobs behave the same way, and a price given over the phone from a description is a guess.
Property types we work on in Lichfield
The city centre and streets around the Cathedral Close hold period property, solid walls, lath and plaster, suspended timber floors, and often decades of layered electrical work in buildings where you cannot simply chase a wall wherever you like. Rewiring here is as much about planning cable routes and making good as it is about the electrics, and we would rather talk that through with you before a single floorboard comes up.
Around that sit the 1930s–1970s suburbs of Boley Park, Streethay, Curborough and Leomansley, mostly needing consumer unit upgrades, partial rewires and extra circuits, and then the newer developments off the A38, where the calls are for EV chargers, garden room supplies, outside power and air conditioning in rooms with big south-facing glazing.
What Lichfield customers call us about
Full and partial rewires in older property, fuse board upgrades, EICRs for house sales and rentals, EV charger installations on driveways, and extra sockets and lighting. On the groundworks side: foundations for extensions and garden rooms, drainage to new kitchens and bathrooms, driveway sub-bases and soakaways. Where a project needs the ground dug and the electrics run, we can do both, which removes a handover.
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 Lichfield
Services we carry out in Lichfield
Electrical work and groundworks are our primary trades; air conditioning and building work we take on occasionally.
Electrician in Lichfield
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 Lichfield
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 Lichfield
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 Lichfield
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 Lichfield
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 Lichfield
F-Gas certified installation and servicing for rooms that overheat in summer and need warming in winter.
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Building Work in Lichfield
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 Lichfield
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 Lichfield
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 Lichfield use us
No invented statistics, just what we can stand behind.
Local, not national
We are a Burntwood firm covering Lichfield as home territory. You deal with Sam directly, not a call centre that subcontracts the work on.
16 years, much of it on property like yours
Sixteen years in the trade across Staffordshire and the West Midlands, including plenty of older Lichfield housing stock where the work needs planning rather than rushing.
Qualifications on record
NAPIT registered, F-Gas certified, City & Guilds 2391 inspection and testing, 18th Edition, Gold ECS card, and a CSCS or ECS carded team.
Insured and guaranteed
£5m public liability, £10m employers' liability, £250,000 professional indemnity, and a 1-year guarantee on the work.
Local conditions
What comes up in Lichfield
Property age, ground conditions and drainage here shape what we find when we open a board or dig a trench.
Period property and hidden wiring history
In Lichfield's older housing it is common to find three generations of wiring in one building: original runs long since disconnected, 1960s rewiring in rubber or early PVC, and recent additions spurred off whatever was nearest. An EICR here often uncovers more than the owner expected, which is precisely why it is worth doing before you buy, let, or start knocking walls about.
Conservation area and listed constraints
Surface-mounted trunking and casually chased walls are not an option in much of central Lichfield. Cable routes have to follow floor voids, existing chases and joinery, which takes longer and needs agreeing up front. We would rather tell you that at the quoting stage than surprise you halfway through.
Driveways, frontages and charge points
Plenty of Lichfield houses park at the front with the meter at the back, or have no off-street parking at all. Where a charge point is viable we will site it for the cable run and the load, and where it is not we will say so rather than install something that will not work for you.
Ground and drainage on older plots
Older Lichfield gardens frequently hide brick-built drains, shared runs and previous outbuilding foundations. We dig trial holes and confirm what is there before quoting foundation depths or new connections, because a surprise found after the concrete is ordered costs everybody more.
Our process
How a job in Lichfield 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 Lichfield we also cover
We work across Staffordshire and West Midlands from our base in Burntwood.
Straight answers
Lichfield: questions we get asked
Coverage, response times, cost and availability, answered as plainly as we can.
Do you cover Lichfield?
Yes: Lichfield is one of our most regular working areas, a few miles from our base in Burntwood.
How quickly can you reach Lichfield?
It is a short drive from Springhill Road, so we can normally get out to look at a job quickly, and smaller electrical work can often be fitted in the same week depending on what is already booked.
What does a rewire cost in Lichfield?
It depends heavily on the property, a Victorian terrace with solid walls and suspended floors is a different job from a 1970s semi. We price on day rates that vary with the operatives needed, so we look at the house and give you a price for that house.
Can you work on a listed or conservation-area property?
Yes, and we will talk through cable routes and making good before starting. Where consent is needed for the works you are planning, that is your responsibility to obtain, but we will tell you what we can and cannot do without cutting into protected fabric.
Do you do emergency call-outs in Lichfield?
Our hours are 8am–6pm Monday to Friday with occasional weekend work. We are not a 24-hour service. If something is dangerous, isolate it at the board and call an emergency electrician, or 105 if the supply itself has failed.
Do you provide EICRs for Lichfield landlords and house sales?
Yes. You get a clear report, what is satisfactory, what is coded and why, and what remedial work would involve.
Can you install an EV charger at a Lichfield property?
Yes. We check the incoming supply and earthing arrangement, agree where the unit goes for how you actually park, and install on a dedicated circuit.
Do you take on groundworks in Lichfield as well as electrics?
Yes, foundations, drainage, slabs, muck-away and driveway sub-bases. Groundworks and electrical work are both primary trades for us.
Is the work guaranteed?
Every job carries a 1-year guarantee. If something we did is not right, call and we come back.
Why are your older reviews under a different name?
The electrical side of the business traded as Stretton Electrical before Stret Limited. Same person doing the work.
Need an electrician or groundworker in Lichfield?
Call Sam on 07812 971397, or send the details of the job and we will arrange to come and look at it.
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