Can you work on the electrics at a static or park home?

On the fixed supply side, yes: the site pedestal or hook-up point, the isolator, the supply cable and the consumer unit inside the home. Park homes have their own section of BS 7671, and faults tend to sit at the connection points where salt and movement take their toll. If the fault turns out to be on the site owner's network, we tell you straight and put it in writing so you can take it to them.

My holiday let has a fault and guests arrive tomorrow. Can you fit around the changeover?

Changeover pressure is most of our holiday-let work in Bognor. Tell us the access arrangement when you call, keysafe, agent or neighbour, and we aim for the gap between guests. If a full fix is not possible in time, we make the let safe and give you an honest view on whether it should be occupied that night.

Can you come out tonight?

Yes. We run a 24 hour rota that covers evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Call and you get a real arrival window before anyone sets off, not a vague promise.

Why do my outside sockets and garden lights near the seafront keep failing?

Salt air, almost every time. Within a few hundred metres of the front, corrosion attacks terminals, seizes socket covers and lets damp track into fittings that would last decades inland. We replace them with coastal-grade IP-rated fittings and, where the circuit lacks it, add RCD protection so the next failure trips safely instead of sitting live.

Emergency Electrician Bognor Regis

Whole house has no power

Total loss puts the cause between the network's cut-out and your main switch. We take a reading at the head, then across the tails, then at the switch terminals. Whichever pair reads nothing is where the work begins, and if that is the sealed fuse the supplier attends.

Half the sockets have stopped working

Either one socket circuit has lost supply by itself, or the residual device covering that group has released and taken its neighbours with it. Opening the board answers that immediately. Establishing what caused the release is the longer part of the visit.

Outside sockets not working

Outdoor accessories fail at the seal. A perished gasket or a split lid lets water reach the terminals, and the resulting earth current often shows up indoors as well. Damaged buried cable is the other candidate, and that needs locating before anything is dug.

RCD keeps tripping when it rains

Weather-linked tripping means water has reached something outside: a lamp, a joint box, or the supply running to a shed. Wet insulation passes current to earth, so we test while everything is still damp. Readings taken after a dry spell frequently come back clean and prove nothing at all.

Lighting circuit keeps tripping

Lighting draws too little to overload, so a short is far more likely. A lamp failing at switch-on will do it, and so will a fixing screw driven into cable above a ceiling. Whether the breaker or the residual device released tells us which of the two to chase.

Power trips when the washing machine is on

Timing gives it away. A release several minutes into the cycle points at the heater breaking down as it warms. A release as the drum first turns points at the motor or the mains filter. The machine is tested away from the installation so the answer is not a guess.

Nothing gets handed back live with a known fault on it. We put the sound circuits back into service, then deal with the cause so the next wet spell passes without drama.