Electrician in Rugeley & Hednesford

Ashware Electrical Ltd is based in Cannock, which puts Rugeley and Hednesford on our doorstep. Both are part of our core working area for domestic and commercial electrical work, and a local call-out does not carry a travel premium. We have been trading since 2015, are NAPIT registered, and all work is certified to BS 7671.

Post-war and ex-local-authority housing

Much of the housing across Rugeley and Hednesford went up between the 1930s and the 1970s, a lot of it built for people working the Cannock Chase coalfield. Property of that age and type has a fairly predictable set of electrical issues.

• Original consumer units long past replacement, often with rewireable fuses or early MCBs and no RCD protection
• Undersized or perished meter tails
• Missing or incomplete main protective bonding to gas and water
• Rubber-insulated cable still in circuit, which becomes brittle and unsafe with age
• Immersion heater and electric shower circuits added later without adequate protection
• Kitchen and bathroom alterations wired before current zoning rules

An Electrical Installation Condition Report establishes which of these you actually have, and what needs doing about it. It is not a sales exercise: a lot of installations of this age are perfectly serviceable with a consumer unit change and some bonding. Domestic EICRs from £220 + VAT.

Landlords

If you let property in Rugeley or Hednesford you are legally required to have an EICR carried out at least every five years and at the start of any new tenancy, to give a copy to your tenants, and to complete any C1, C2 or FI remedial work within 28 days.

Solar and battery storage

A good proportion of the housing here is post-war semi-detached and terraced with simple, unshaded, south or west facing roofs, which is close to ideal for solar. We quote after a survey rather than off a postcode, because the roof and what you want the system to do determine the cost.

What we do in Rugeley and Hednesford

• Full and partial rewires
• Consumer unit replacement
• EICRs for homeowners and landlords
• Fault finding
• Additional sockets, lighting and outdoor power
• EV charger installation
• Solar PV and battery storage
• Commercial EICRs, remedial works and emergency lighting

Domestic electrical services · Commercial electrical services · Solar and battery storage · EV charging

Consumer unit changes, showers and small repairs

A large part of what we do day to day is not big projects. Consumer unit replacements are probably our single most common job, and we carry out a steady stream of them across Cannock and the surrounding towns. Replacing an old fuse board with a modern unit with RCD or RCBO protection is usually the single biggest improvement you can make to an older installation.

We also cover reactive work and small repairs, including:

• Electric shower installation and replacement
• Shower pull cord switch repairs and replacement
• Consumer unit and fuse board replacement
• Sockets, switches and light fittings that have failed
• Tripping circuits and intermittent faults
• Extractor fans, outdoor lights and garden power

Pull cord switches and electric showers are two of the most common things to fail in a domestic property, and both are jobs where people are often told they need far more work than they actually do. If it is a switch, we will replace the switch.

Areas covered

WS12 and WS15, covering Rugeley, Hednesford, Brereton, Etching Hill, Slitting Mill, Heath Hayes, Hazel Slade, Pye Green and Wimblebury, together with the rest of Cannock Chase. We also cover all other WS postcodes, WV9, WV10, Stafford and the wider ST postcode area. Full detail is on our service areas page.

Nearby areas we cover

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• EICR testing
• Commercial EICR testing
• Recent work and projects
• All service areas

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