NAPIT Registered Electriciansin Burntwood & Surrounding Areas

What the service covers

We carry out the full range of domestic and light commercial electrical work: full and partial rewires, consumer unit replacements, EICR inspection and testing, fault finding, additional sockets, lighting, cooker and shower circuits, outside supplies, garden and garage feeds, and EV charge point installation. Every job that requires it is tested and certified on completion, and notifiable work is registered through NAPIT rather than left for you to arrange with Building Control.

Sam Stretton served a full electrical apprenticeship from the age of 16 and has 16 years in the trade, including years spent running his father's company across electrical, groundworks and construction work. He holds City & Guilds 2391 inspection and testing, the 18th Edition wiring regulations, and a Gold ECS card, the highest tier of electrotechnical certification card. Every other operative on site holds a current CSCS or ECS card.

Who it is for

Homeowners with wiring that has not been touched in decades and no certificate to show for it. Landlords who need a satisfactory EICR to let legally. Buyers who want to know what they are taking on before they exchange. Renovators who need the electrics sequenced around plasterers, joiners and groundworkers. And people who simply have something that has stopped working and want it diagnosed properly instead of replaced on a guess.

When it is needed

There are the obvious triggers: a breaker that keeps tripping, a burning smell at a socket, lights flickering across more than one room, or no power at all. There are the scheduled ones: a five-yearly landlord EICR, a change of tenancy, a pre-purchase check, or a board change before a kitchen goes in. And there are the ones people put off, a rewireable fuse box with no RCD protection, or a rented property with an out-of-date report.

If a circuit is tripping repeatedly, stop resetting it and call. A breaker that keeps operating is doing its job; the fault behind it is still there.

Why professional help matters

Most electrical work in a home is notifiable under Part P, which means it has to be certified by a registered competent person or signed off by Building Control. Work done without that paperwork shows up later, at sale, at remortgage, on a landlord inspection, or on an insurance claim. Being NAPIT registered means our notifiable work is registered through the scheme as part of the job.

There is also the part that only testing reveals. A socket can look perfect and still sit on a circuit with a damaged earth. 2391 is the qualification for inspection and testing specifically: interpreting what the instruments say rather than reading a pass or fail off a screen.

Work that is tested, certified and signed off

Every job is inspected and tested before it is handed back to you, and you receive the certification for it. Being NAPIT registered means the notifiable work is registered with the scheme rather than left for you to chase up with Building Control.

Tidy work in occupied homes

Most of our electrical work happens in houses people are still living in. Customers consistently mention that the work is neat and the area left clean, including one who had been told by other electricians that her wall would have to be damaged, and it wasn't.

Methods, materials and what we install

Domestic circuits are wired in twin and earth, sized to the load and the installation method, with SWA used for outbuildings, garden supplies and anything run externally or buried. Consumer units are steel-enclosed with individual RCBO protection per circuit, so a fault on one circuit does not take out the rest of the house, and surge protection is fitted where it is appropriate to the installation.

Cables buried in walls go in the permitted safe zones or in earthed capping where they do not, so that future drilling has a defined risk. Accessories are fixed to sound boxes rather than bowed plasterboard. Circuits are labelled at the board in language that means something to the person living there, not just to the next electrician.

Variations of the work

A full rewire replaces every circuit and the board, and is usually done around a renovation or in an unoccupied property. A partial rewire replaces the circuits that need it, often the lighting or the ring final circuits, while leaving sound ones in place. A consumer unit upgrade changes the board and tests every circuit behind it. Remedial work follows an EICR and addresses the coded items in order of urgency.

Then there is additive work: an extra socket to retire an extension lead, outside lighting, a supply to a garage or workshop, a cooker or shower circuit for a new appliance, or a home EV charge point on its own protected circuit.

Situations this applies to

Houses built or last rewired before the 1980s, where rubber or fabric-sheathed cable may still be in place. Properties with rewireable fuses or a plastic board and no RCD. Kitchens and bathrooms being replaced, where the existing circuits rarely suit the new layout. Extensions and loft conversions needing new circuits designed in. Rental properties needing a satisfactory report. And any property where someone has previously worked on the wiring and left no certificate.

Domestic and light commercial differences

Domestic work is mostly about living with the disruption: staged power-downs, agreed routes, making good. Light commercial adds access windows outside trading hours, inspection intervals shorter than the domestic norm, emergency lighting and distribution that has to be labelled for whoever maintains it next. The testing discipline is identical; the scheduling and the documentation are what change.

Electrical work and groundworks are our two primary trades, which is why ducting, external supplies and charge point feeds can be planned into a dig while the trench is still open instead of being dug up again later.