Our electricians in Garstang
Garstang is the inland end of our patch, twenty minutes from Poulton along the A586 through Great Eccleston and St Michael’s, or up the A6 from the Blackpool side. It is the only part of our coverage that is not on the coast, and the work is different for it: fewer problems with salt, more with distance, outbuildings and supplies put in for a very different farm fifty years ago. We cover the villages either side of the A6 as well, from Bilsborrow to Scorton and out to Pilling.
Homes in Garstang
Garstang town itself is a tight old centre of stone and brick along the High Street and Church Street, with cottages and townhouses from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thick walls, and wiring that has been threaded through them as best it could. Behind the High Street the yards and courts hide flats and small houses that are often let, which brings landlord certificates and the occasional surprise under the floor.
Beyond the centre the housing changes quickly. Bowgreave has the larger detached houses and bungalows of the 1960s and 1970s, with long gardens, garages and the first wave of EV chargers. Catterall and Cabus are a mix of older cottages along the A6, post-war semis and a lot of new building. The new estates off Garstang Road and towards the bypass, and the developments around Catterall, were wired to current standards, and the work there is adding to them: outdoor sockets, garden lighting, a charger, a supply to a home office at the bottom of the garden.
Then there are the farms. The land between Garstang and the coast is dairy and arable, and the farmhouses, barns and stables around Nateby, Winmarleigh and Cabus often have a single old supply feeding a sprawl of outbuildings through cable that was buried without protection or strung between posts decades ago. We spend a lot of time putting that right: a proper distribution board in the house, armoured cable to each building, and RCD protection where there was none.
Work we do most in Garstang
Outdoor power and lighting is the Garstang job above all others. Supplies to barns, stables, workshops and garden rooms, yard lighting, and sockets where the alternative is a trailing lead.
Consumer unit upgrades follow, both in the old houses in town and in the farmhouses, where the board often has to be enlarged to take the circuits that were tacked on over the years.
EV chargers are busy in Bowgreave and on the new estates, and increasingly on farms. Longer cable runs are normal here and we price them honestly.
Rewires come up in the stone cottages in the centre and in farmhouses that have never had one. Fault finding on a farm supply is its own trade: a tripping RCD can be a mile of damp cable or a rodent in a feed store, and we have found both. EICRs serve the flats behind the High Street and the holiday lets in converted barns.
Commercial work in Garstang
Garstang’s High Street is independent shops, the Thursday market, pubs, cafes and the small businesses in the yards behind it, and we do inspection and testing and fit-outs for many of them when a lease changes hands. Agricultural businesses are the other half of the commercial work: milking parlours, grain stores and workshops need three-phase installations done to the standards that the dairy and insurers require. We also look after emergency lighting and fire alarm testing for the schools and village halls in and around the town.