Rewires, consumer unit upgrades, EICRs and small commercial work across Wildridings, Harmans Water, Crown Wood, Priestwood, Easthampstead and Great Hollands.
Bracknell is a designated new town, and most of its housing went up in a concentrated burst between the 1950s and the 1970s. Wildridings, Harmans Water, Priestwood, Easthampstead, Great Hollands, Birch Hill, Crown Wood and Bullbrook were built to plan, to a standard, and largely at the same time.
That is unusual, and it has a direct electrical consequence: a very large number of Bracknell homes are the same age, wired to the same era’s standards, and arriving at the same point in their life at the same time. Original new town wiring is now somewhere between fifty-five and seventy years old.
Alongside the housing there is a substantial commercial side to the town — office space, business parks and the retail core — which brings a different set of work again.
Full and partial rewires in the original estate housing, planned around you still living there — power back on each evening, floors protected, and a programme agreed before we start.
Replacing rewirable and early plastic boards with modern protection, including surge protection where it is worth having. Tested and certified on completion.
Lighting, distribution, test and inspection and fit-out work for offices and units, scheduled around trading and occupancy.
In housing of this age the cable itself is the first thing to assess. Rubber-insulated cable, used before PVC became standard, becomes brittle with age and can crack when it is disturbed — which is why an installation that has been left alone can appear to behave perfectly until somebody changes a light fitting. Early PVC is more durable but not immortal, and degrades with heat over decades.
The second is the board. A rewirable fuse box offers no RCD protection at all, and RCD protection is the part of a modern installation that is specifically there to protect a person rather than the cable. Upgrading the board is a much smaller job than a rewire and is often the single most worthwhile thing you can do.
The third is everything added since. Extensions, converted garages, loft rooms, outside supplies and kitchen refits all get added to circuits that were designed for a 1965 household with considerably fewer things plugged into it.
All of the town — Wildridings, Harmans Water, Priestwood, Easthampstead, Great Hollands, Birch Hill, Crown Wood, Bullbrook, Martins Heron and the surrounding areas, across RG12 and RG42.
Not necessarily, and age on its own does not condemn an installation. What matters is the condition of the cable, whether there is RCD protection, and what has been added over the years. An EICR establishes that properly instead of leaving you to worry about it.
It depends on the size of the property, whether it is occupied, and how much making-good is involved — so we give you a programme with the quotation rather than a number over the phone. What we will commit to is that you are not left without power overnight.
Yes — lighting, distribution, testing and inspection, and fit-out work for offices and smaller units, scheduled around occupancy.
Also covering Crowthorne, Yateley, Owlsmoor, Blackwater, Frimley, Wokingham, Binfield, Warfield, Bagshot and Windlesham. If you are near but not listed, ask — the answer is usually yes.