--- title: "Socket and switch installation in Ashtead | 5.0 Star · From £80" description: "Socket installation in Ashtead is a tested spur or a new circuit. Long serving circuits on Agates Lane are not assumed spare. · 5.0 Star from 38 reviews" canonical: "https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-ashtead/socket-switch-installation-domestic" --- # Socket and switch installation in Ashtead > Socket installation in Ashtead is a tested spur or a new circuit. Long serving circuits on Agates Lane are not assumed spare. · 5.0 Star from 38 reviews TMB Electrics, based in Banstead, adds a socket in Ashtead only after a test chooses a spur or a new circuit. A working socket on Agates Lane is not spare capacity. ## Ashtead socket price A tested spur and a new circuit are different figures. The Ashtead quote says which one the test supports, including on a long serving Agates Lane circuit that cannot take another spur. - Socket installation: from £80 - A consumer unit with no spare way is priced before a new circuit is promised. - Making good beyond the new opening is separate. - USB sockets or a particular finish are included only when named. ## Socket and switch installation across Ashtead We serve Ashtead from our base in Banstead. - The Street - Barnett Wood Lane - Woodfield Lane - Craddocks Avenue - Agates Lane - Ottways Lane - Park Lane - Ashtead Park - Ashtead Common - Ashtead station ## What happens on the day The test decides. A spur is used only where the circuit can take it. Extended semis on Agates Lane and Barnett Wood Lane are on long serving circuits, and a socket that already works does not show room for another. Where a new circuit is the honest answer, it lands on the second consumer unit in a 1930s house off Craddocks Avenue or Woodfield Lane, if that unit has a spare way. The Street cottages take socket cable around the building rather than through it. ### Let the test choose The existing circuit is tested before a spur is promised. Agates Lane extensions make this test matter, because the circuit has been in service a long time. If the test fails, a new circuit is described instead of an overloaded spur. ### Land a new circuit properly Off Craddocks Avenue the new circuit uses a spare way on the second consumer unit. A full unit is reported first. The new socket is not hung on a lighting circuit to avoid that conversation. ### Go around the building Cottages on The Street take the new point by a path around the fabric. A chase through the wall is not the default, and the position of the socket is one the cottage can actually hold. ## Ashtead socket questions ### Will you spur off a working socket on Agates Lane? Only if the test shows the circuit can take it. Extended semis there sit on long serving circuits, and a socket that works is not spare capacity. ### Where does a new circuit start off Craddocks Avenue? At a spare way on the second consumer unit, which is what most of those 1930s houses already have. If the unit is full, that is said before the socket is cut in. ### Are cottages on The Street chased for one new socket? No. The cable goes around the building to a position the cottage can hold. Opening the fabric for a shorter path is not the job. ### Can an Ashtead Park outbuilding socket use the house board? Only if that board feeds the building. These houses often have a separate board for the outbuilding, and the new socket starts there after the existing cable is tested. ### Is a double socket on Ottways Lane a different test? No. The circuit that is there is tested, and the result chooses a spur or a new circuit. The lane name does not add capacity. ## Other services in Ashtead - [Electrician in Ashtead](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-ashtead): Ashtead electrician for garden rooms, chargers and new circuits, planned from the real load, route and existing supply. - [Socket and switch installation (all areas)](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/socket-switch-installation-domestic): Socket and switch installation from TMB Electrics starts from £80. 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