Our electricians in Poulton-le-Fylde
Poulton is where we started in 2004 and where the office still is, on Breck Road, a short walk from the Market Place and the stocks. Our vans are parked up here overnight, so if you are anywhere in FY6 you are usually the first job of the morning or the last of the afternoon, with no travel built into the price.
Being local cuts both ways. A good number of our Poulton customers are people we see in Booths or at the Teanlowe, and the work has to stand up to that.
Homes in Poulton-le-Fylde
The bulk of Poulton’s housing went up between the wars and in the decades after. The 1930s semis along the Breck, around Carleton and off Garstang Road are the classic case: solid houses, often extended twice, with wiring that has been added to rather than replaced. We regularly find the original rubber-insulated cable still feeding a landing light, a plastic fuse box with rewirable fuses in the understairs cupboard, and a kitchen extension running off a spur that was never meant to carry an induction hob and a tumble dryer.
Hardhorn and the lanes out towards Staining have older cottages and farmhouses, some with an overhead supply and earthing that was never upgraded. Carleton has a lot of 1960s and 1970s bungalows that are now being opened up for people retiring to them, which is when the wiring gets looked at properly for the first time. The newer estates off Blackpool Old Road and around Moorland Road were built to a reasonable standard, and there the work is usually EV chargers, garden power and a bigger consumer unit, the fuse box, to cope with what a modern house plugs in.
Work we do most in Poulton-le-Fylde
Fuse box replacements come top of the list in Poulton, simply because of the age of the houses. A consumer unit upgrade with RCBOs, one protective device per circuit, means a fault in the garage does not plunge the whole house into darkness.
Full rewires follow close behind, usually on a semi that has just changed hands and is being done up before anyone moves in. That is the right moment: the floors are up and the plaster is coming off anyway.
Poulton has a lot of driveways, which makes it good EV charger country. Most 1930s semis have the supply at the front of the house and a short run to the drive, so the standard price covers the install more often than not.
Landlords with flats above the shops on Breck Road and around the Market Place come to us for EICRs and landlord certificates, and we do a steady trade in fault finding when an RCD keeps tripping in a house that has had a few owners and a few decorators. Hot tub supplies have taken off in the bigger gardens around Carleton and Hardhorn since 2020.
Commercial work in Poulton-le-Fylde
The town centre is independent shops, cafes, estate agents and salons, most of them in older buildings with flats above. We do their commercial inspection and testing, keep their emergency lighting and fire alarms tested and logged, and have fitted out several units on Breck Road and Chapel Street when a new tenant moved in. We also look after a couple of the dental and veterinary practices on the edge of town and the offices on the Fylde Road business park.