Electrician services from TMB Electrics

Electrician in Ewell

Electrician in Ewell for domestic fault finding, inspections, rewiring, consumer unit replacement and planned electrical upgrades, with existing circuits assessed before work is agreed.

Electrician in Ewell

  • Ewell is a short run from Banstead and we are there regularly, from the old village out to Stoneleigh and West Ewell.
  • The interwar semis filling KT17 and KT19 are the bulk of Ewell, and most are on their second or third unit.
  • West Ewell houses rarely need rewiring, they need another circuit for a kitchen, an office or a shower.
  • Listed buildings and weatherboarded cottages where getting the cable in is most of the job.
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Electrician testing a domestic consumer unit during electrical fault finding by TMB Electrics

Ewell homes and their electrics

  • Ewell is an old village centre wrapped in interwar housing, and the work divides along the same line.
  • Many sit straight onto the pavement, so where cable can go is settled with you before the floor comes up.
  • Awkward voids and thin walls make getting the cable across a room the slow part of any job.
  • Now on their second or third board, wanting kitchen circuits and more sockets than 1935 imagined.
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Electrical intake, meter and distribution boards ready for inspection by TMB Electrics

Electrical services in Ewell

Wiring, testing and small repairs are described separately, each with the figure it starts from.

What happens on the day in Ewell

Ewell work is arranged Monday to Friday between 9am and 2pm, with access and any restrictions around the building agreed beforehand.

  1. 01

    Arriving and looking at the building

    In the village the first task is the building itself rather than the board, because a weatherboarded cottage or a listed house decides where a cable can physically go and everything else follows from that. We walk it together, agree what will be lifted and what will not be touched, and settle parking, which on Church Street is the genuine constraint. In a Stoneleigh semi it is the usual look at the board and off we go.

  2. 02

    The work

    Cable takes existing voids wherever they exist, and where they do not, it goes behind skirting or under a lifted board rather than into the face of an old wall. Village cottages are slow work and we would rather take the day than take a shortcut through something that has stood for two hundred years. Anything unexpected is shown to you at the time, along with what it does to the price.

  3. 03

    Testing and the certificate

    Circuits are proved dead, measured, then checked live once they are back on. New boards, new circuits and rewiring have to be notified, so they are registered under Part P and the certificate comes to you. On a listed building we also keep photographs of how things looked before we started, which is useful for the owner and for anyone who follows us into the property.

Why Ewell customers choose TMB Electrics

An old Ewell cottage gets time rather than a shortcut, an interwar semi gets a straight answer about what it really needs, and both get the price in writing first.

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New electrical cabling run through a stripped-back wall during a rewire by TMB Electrics

Electrical maintenance plans

Bronze, Silver and Gold plans provide lower rates, an annual safety certificate and priority booking on the higher plans.

Bronze

£12/mo
Billed annually at £144Save 20%

Lower rates on every job, plus a free safety certificate each year.

  • 5% off labour
  • 5% off certificates
  • Free safety certificate, once a year
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Silver

Popular
£20/mo
Billed annually at £240Save 20%

Double the discount, next-day priority, and a free safety certificate each year.

  • 10% off labour
  • 10% off certificates
  • Free safety certificate, once a year
  • Next day priority
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Gold

£31/mo
Billed annually at £372Save 20%

Best rates, same-day priority booking, three free safety certificates a year.

  • 15% off labour
  • 15% off certificates
  • Free safety certificates, 3 times a year
  • Same day priority booking
  • 2 emergency call-outs a year
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Recent work from TMB Electrics

These photographs show work completed across the wider service area covered by TMB Electrics; they are not all presented as jobs completed in Ewell.

Small consumer unit fitted above the meter on a brick wall
Inside a consumer unit with labelled circuit conductors
Compact consumer unit with surge protection and labelled circuits
Open consumer unit showing neatly dressed circuit wiring
Scorched downlight and burnt ceiling around a halogen lamp
Consumer unit with bell transformer on a plastered wall

Electrician for Ewell and the towns around it

Around Ewell we also work Stoneleigh, West Ewell, Worcester Park, Cheam, Epsom, Ashtead, Banstead, Tadworth, Sutton, Wallington, Coulsdon and Reigate.

Banstead, Sutton, Wallington, Reigate, Purley, Epsom, Kingswood, Surrey, Coulsdon, Tadworth, Ewell, Horley, Burgh Heath, Chipstead, Surrey, Worcester Park, Ashtead

Questions about electrical work in Ewell

What Ewell customers ask before the work is booked.

How much does an electrician cost in Ewell?+

Every job carries its own written price, settled before anything begins. Time on a fault runs from £80 an hour; all the other work has its starting figure on the page for that service. In the village, older buildings take longer than a modern house for the same result, and that shows in the quote rather than appearing as a surprise at the end.

Do you cover all of Ewell?+

Yes. The old village around Church Street and the High Street, West Street, Kingston Road and Mill Lane, the interwar streets across KT17 and KT19, West Ewell around Chessington Road, Ewell Court and Stoneleigh. Epsom and Worcester Park are on the same run, so nothing in this pocket is out of the way for us.

Can you work in a listed building in Church Street?+

Yes, and it is work we enjoy. Listed status protects the fabric of the building, so no cable is chased into original plaster, panelling or beams. It goes through existing voids, behind skirtings, or the long way round. Anything that would show is put to you first, and where consent is needed for what is planned, that is dealt with before the work rather than after.

Why do the weatherboarded cottages cost more to wire?+

Because the difficult part is not the electrics, it is getting a cable from one side of a room to the other without damaging anything. Thin walls, shallow voids and floors that have moved over two centuries mean every run is worked out individually. A job that takes a morning in a 1930s semi can take most of a day in Mill Lane, and the price is honest about that.

My interwar semi is on its second board. Does it need a rewire?+

Usually not. A newer board on sound cable is a perfectly good installation, and testing settles it quickly by measuring insulation resistance and earthing on each circuit. What those houses more often need is extra circuits, since they were built with a handful of sockets and now run a kitchen full of appliances, a home office and a car on the drive.

Do you do landlord inspections in Ewell?+

Regularly. A let property in England has to hold a satisfactory condition report, renewed at least every five years, with a copy given to the tenant. We test, write the report, and price any repairs it turns up as a separate job so you can see exactly what each item costs before deciding. Village properties usually need a longer visit than a modern flat.

How quickly can you get to Ewell?+

TMB Electrics works Monday to Friday from 9am to 2pm. Work in Ewell's older village buildings is planned with enough time for their access and fabric, and the appointment is agreed after the property details are reviewed.

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Whatever the Ewell property needs, a written figure follows shortly after the details arrive.