Our electricians in Fleetwood
Fleetwood is the top of our patch and the end of the tram line, twenty minutes from Poulton up the A585 and along Amounderness Way. We have worked in the town since the firm started, from the terraces around the Mount to the units at the docks, and we schedule Fleetwood jobs in blocks so nobody pays for a van sitting in traffic.
We quote the same prices as everywhere else on the Fylde, and we do not charge extra for being at the far end.
Homes in Fleetwood
Fleetwood was laid out in the 1830s and 1840s and the old town still follows Decimus Burton’s plan: the Mount, North Euston Hotel, Queen’s Terrace and the grid of streets behind. The housing is mostly Victorian terraces, two-up two-down and larger, built in long runs with shared walls and cellars. Electrically they share the same history: wiring in rubber or early PVC, consumer units on the cellar steps, bathrooms added into box rooms with no proper bonding, and loft spaces where fifty years of aerial cable and old lighting circuits have piled up.
The streets between Lord Street and the seafront, and around the Marine Hall, were once lodging houses and are now a mix of family homes, flats and private rented property. Landlords here come to us because the council takes a close interest in housing standards and a current electrical report is the first thing asked for.
Further out, the inter-war semis along Broadway and Poulton Road, and the post-war estates at Larkholme and Chatsworth Avenue, have the usual run of ageing fuse boxes and extensions. Fleetwood sits on a peninsula with sea on three sides, and the salt and damp get into everything outside: meter boxes, outdoor lighting, garage supplies. We have replaced more corroded external consumer units in FY7 than anywhere else.
Work we do most in Fleetwood
EICRs and landlord certificates lead the way, for the terraces let privately and for the flats above the Lord Street shops. We know what the council’s housing team expects to see and we write the report so that they can read it.
Rewires are more common here than in most towns because so many of the terraces have never had one. A two-bed terrace is a week’s work with the house empty, and we plan it around the move-in date.
A consumer unit upgrade is the middle option when the cables test fine but the board does not. We fit a lot of them on cellar walls, raised off the floor and away from the damp.
Fault finding in old terraces is a skill in itself. The usual suspects are a damp cellar, a borrowed neutral between two lighting circuits, or a socket painted over so many times the back box has rusted through.
Smoke and heat alarms go in on nearly every rented terrace we visit, and outdoor power for yards and sheds keeps us busy in the summer.
Commercial work in Fleetwood
Fleetwood’s commercial life runs through the docks, Freeport and the market. At the fish park and the units around the dock estate we do installation work for processing and cold storage, three-phase supplies, and the inspection and testing that insurers and food hygiene audits require. At Freeport the retail units turn over tenants regularly and each change brings a fit-out and a fresh certificate. Fleetwood Market and the shops on Lord Street and Poulton Road rely on us for emergency lighting and fire alarm testing, which has to be logged and ready to show the fire officer.