--- title: "Electrician in Sutton | 5.0★ | TMB Electrics" description: "Sutton electrician for EICRs, fault finding, rewiring, consumer units and EV chargers, with clear next steps before booking." canonical: "https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-sutton" --- # Electrician in Sutton > Sutton electrician for EICRs, fault finding, rewiring, consumer units and EV chargers, with clear next steps before booking. Domestic electrician in Sutton for EICRs, electrical fault finding, house rewiring, fuse board replacement, EV charger installation and other planned electrical work. ## Electrician in Sutton Sutton is ten minutes from our base in Banstead, so we are somewhere in the town most weeks of the year. ### Fuse board replacements The 1930s houses through West Sutton and Sutton Common commonly run on a board with no RCD protection behind it. ### Rewires near the town centre Victorian and Edwardian semis rewired a room at a time now carry two or three ages of cable on one board. ### Extra circuits for extended houses Kitchens, loft rooms and home offices in Belmont, Benhilton and Rosehill usually want a circuit of their own. ## Sutton homes and their electrics Sutton's housing spans roughly a century, and what is behind the board follows the year the house went up. ### Victorian and Edwardian semis near the centre Rewired piecemeal as rooms were done, which leaves several ages of cable feeding one consumer unit. ### Sutton Garden Suburb Arts and Crafts houses where cable is worked around the fabric of the building instead of driven through it. ### 1930s houses through West Sutton and Sutton Common Well built, and short of sockets by any modern measure, so an added circuit beats a full rewire. ### Belmont, Benhilton, Rosehill and Carshalton Road Interwar and post war houses, many extended, where the extension wiring is what we look at first. ## Electrical services in Sutton Boards, rewires, inspections and the smaller repairs each have a page of their own. - [Electrical Fault Finding & Repair in Sutton](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/electrical-fault-finding): Electrical fault finding in Banstead and Surrey from £80 per hour. Tripping circuits, dead sockets and flickering lights traced and repaired by TMB Electrics. - [EICR in Sutton](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-sutton/eicr): Book an EICR in Sutton for a home or rental, with clear reporting and separately quoted remedial work where needed. - [House Rewiring in Sutton](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/house-rewiring): House rewiring in Banstead and Surrey from £1,800 by TMB Electrics. Full and partial rewires with a new consumer unit and Part P certificate. - [Fuse board and consumer unit upgrade in Sutton](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/fuse-board-replacement): Fuse board and consumer unit replacement in Banstead and Surrey from £375 by TMB Electrics. Modern RCD protection, fitted and certified in a day. - [EV charger installation in Sutton](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/ev-charger-installation): EV charger installation in Banstead and Surrey from £400 by TMB Electrics. 7.4kW home chargers on a dedicated circuit, installed and certified. - [Electric Shower Installation in Sutton](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/electric-shower-installation): Electric shower installation in Banstead and Surrey from £220 by TMB Electrics. New and replacement showers on a properly sized circuit, certified. - [PAT Testing in Sutton](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/pat-testing): PAT testing in Banstead and Surrey from £120 by TMB Electrics. Portable appliance testing for landlords, offices, shops and workshops with a full record. ## What happens on the day in Sutton EICR appointments are arranged Monday to Friday between 9am and 2pm, with the property access and any circuits that must stay live discussed beforehand. ### Arriving and looking at the board First thing is the consumer unit and the meter, because those decide how the rest of the day goes. In a flat over a Cheam Road shop that means the stair cupboard, and whoever holds the key wants warning the week before. We then agree which rooms go dark and when, so a home office or a shop till downstairs is not caught out. Nothing gets pulled apart before you know what the day looks like. ### Working through the house One room at a time, with power dropped only on the circuit we are on. In a Victorian semi near the centre that means lifting boards on the ground floor and getting into the roof space, since generations of cable meet in both. Older lath and plaster gets treated gently. Anything we find that changes the price stops the job for a minute so we can talk about it, rather than turning up on the bill. ### Testing and the paperwork Circuits are tested dead, then tested live: earth loop impedance, insulation resistance and RCD trip times. A new board, a new circuit or a rewire has to be notified, so it is registered under Part P and the certificate comes to you. Sutton landlords tend to want a copy sent straight to the letting agent as well, which is easily done at the same time. ## Why Sutton customers choose TMB Electrics The cost is written down first, the same hands do the work, and a Sutton landlord gets paperwork worded for a human being rather than another electrician. ## Electrical work in Sutton homes Consumer units, lighting and rewiring photographed on Sutton properties. ## Questions about electrical work in Sutton What Sutton owners and landlords ask before they book. ### How much does an electrician cost in Sutton? A price is written down for your property before the work starts, because a shower and a rewire share nothing but the van. Chasing a fault is charged by time, from £80 an hour, and every other job has its starting figure on the page for that service. Nothing on the day goes above what you accepted unless something turns up behind the plaster and we have talked about it. ### Do you cover all of Sutton? All of it. The streets behind the High Street, West Sutton, Sutton Common, Sutton Garden Suburb, Belmont, Benhilton, Rosehill and out along Carshalton Road. Cheam, Carshalton and Wallington sit on the same run, so a job on one of those roads is no further for us than the town centre itself. ### My Victorian semi has been rewired bit by bit. Does it need doing properly? Not necessarily. Testing tells us which of those stages was done well and which was not. Plenty of houses near the centre keep two thirds of their existing wiring and only need the oldest circuits replacing, priced as a partial job. Where the earliest cable is rubber or fabric covered, it has reached the end of its life and the whole house is the honest answer. ### Can I get more sockets in a 1930s house in West Sutton? Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs we do out that way. A house built for a wireless and a standard lamp now runs a kitchen full of appliances and two people working from home. Extra sockets can be spurred off an existing circuit where the tests allow it, or given a new circuit of their own where the load justifies it. ### My flat is above a shop. Can the wiring still be tested? It can. Flats over the Cheam Road and High Street parades have supplies that split between the shop and the homes above, and the meters usually live in a cupboard on the stairs. Access to that cupboard is arranged before the visit rather than on the morning, because it is the single thing that turns half a day into a whole one. ### Do you work in Sutton Garden Suburb? Regularly. Those Arts and Crafts houses were built with real care and they deserve wiring that respects it, so cable is worked around the structure instead of chased straight through it. That takes longer than it would in an ordinary semi and the quote says so up front. What comes out at the end is a house that looks untouched. ### When can you come out to a Sutton property? TMB Electrics works Monday to Friday from 9am to 2pm. Send the Sutton address and a description of the work through the website so the next suitable appointment can be discussed. ## Electrician for Sutton and the towns around it Beyond Sutton the van reaches Cheam, Carshalton, Wallington, Worcester Park, Belmont, Banstead, Purley, Coulsdon, Ewell, Epsom, Ashtead, Tadworth, Reigate and Horley. ## Book Online A line about what the Sutton property needs is enough for a written price to come back. ## Business facts - Service area: Banstead, Sutton, Wallington, Reigate, Purley, Epsom, Kingswood, Surrey, Coulsdon, Tadworth, Ewell, Horley, Burgh Heath, Chipstead, Surrey, Worcester Park, Ashtead - Hours: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 09:00–14:00 - Phone: +447460070551 - Email: trevor@tmbelectrics.co.uk ## Book Online - [Book Online](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/#chat): Send the job details and request a quote from TMB Electrics. ## Sitemap - [Full sitemap](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/sitemap.md): Complete machine-readable page directory.