Domestic & small commercial electrics
Juniper Orbit is a two-van electrical practice working on consumer units, fault finding, rewires, lighting and EV charge points. We survey first, quote in writing, and leave the paperwork behind us.
01 — Work index
Scope, the time a job normally takes on site, and what you are left holding afterwards. If your job is not listed, describe it in the enquiry form and we will tell you plainly whether it is ours.
Durations assume reasonable access to the board and to the route. We confirm them at survey, not over the phone.
Tracing a tripping circuit, a dead socket run or a light that dims under load. Split tests at the board, then along the circuit until the fault is isolated.
A metal board with RCBO protection per circuit, so one fault no longer takes half the house out. Existing circuits are tested before and after the swap.
New double sockets on an existing ring, or a dedicated spur for a fridge, a home office or a workshop bench. Chased and made good, or surface run in trunking where you prefer.
Cooker points, extractor fans, under-cabinet lighting and zone-appropriate fittings, sequenced around the joiner and the tiler rather than against them.
Layouts planned room by room: task, ambient and a dimmable layer. Includes switching plans so the lights you use most are nearest the door.
Staged room by room where you are living in, or floor by floor where the property is empty. Old rubber and fabric-sheathed cable removed, not buried.
Load assessment first, then a dedicated protected circuit to the parking position. Cable route agreed with you before anything is clipped to a wall.
Armoured supply to a shed, studio or garage with its own small board, outdoor sockets and weatherproof lighting on a separate switch.
A full inspection of the installation with coded observations, written so you can tell the urgent items from the housekeeping ones.
02 — Which job is yours
Most people call an electrician without knowing which of these three they need — and the three cost very different amounts. Read the signs below before you book, and say which one sounds closest in your enquiry.
The rest of the installation is sound and reasonably recent. The fault sits in a single accessory, fitting or length of cable.
Cabling is serviceable, but the board or a particular circuit is no longer sized or protected for how the room is used now.
Repairs stop holding because the cable itself is at fault. Staging the work room by room keeps the house liveable while it happens.
03 — On the day
Nothing here is a surprise on the day, and nothing gets rushed at the end. The same five steps apply whether we are there for three hours or three weeks.
We work in dust sheets and take the offcuts with us. Power is only off for the periods agreed at step two.
We look at the board, the route and the rooms involved, then send a written scope with a fixed price and the number of days needed. No work is booked until you accept it.
Before anything is disconnected we agree which circuits go off, for how long, and what stays live — freezers, routers, medical equipment and home working all get planned around.
Cable runs are set out and shown to you before they are chased or clipped. Accessory positions are marked in pencil first, because a socket in the wrong place is a wall repair later.
Every altered circuit is tested and the results recorded. We then walk the job with you, switch by switch, so you leave knowing what each control does.
Certificates and test schedules follow within two working days, along with a note of anything we spotted but did not touch. Waste cable and packaging leave with the van.
04 — Field notes
Small things that make a visit shorter, cheaper, or simply safer. None of them require any tools on your part.
Most boards live in a cupboard behind coats, recycling or a vacuum cleaner. Twenty minutes of clearing can save an hour of careful lifting on the day.
Write down what was switched on each time the breaker goes. A pattern across three events narrows a fault faster than any instrument does.
A breaker that trips again immediately is doing its job. Resetting it over and over hides the fault rather than fixing it — leave the circuit off and tell us which one it is.
A photo of the board and its circuit labels, plus the sticker inside the lid, tells us the age and type of the installation before we set off.
05 — Questions
Answers here are the same ones we would give on the doorstep.
Look outside first: if the street and neighbouring houses are dark too, it is a supply issue rather than yours. If it is only your property, open the board and look for a single device in the off position. Switch off the appliance you used last, reset once, and if it holds you have found the culprit. If it trips again straight away, leave it off and send us the circuit name.
Timed trips usually point at something on a timer or thermostat — immersion heaters, outdoor lighting, heating controls or a freezer defrost cycle. Damp in an external circuit behaves the same way after rain. We test insulation resistance on each leg of the circuit cold, then under load, which separates a genuine fault from accumulated moisture.
Rented homes need a periodic inspection of the fixed installation, with a written report you can hand to the tenant and the agent. We schedule these around tenancy changes where possible, since an empty flat takes half the time of an occupied one. Any coded observations come with a plain-language note of what must be done now and what can wait for the next cycle.
Work inside your own demise is usually straightforward. Anything touching the incoming supply, the riser, communal areas or the building fabric normally needs the freeholder or management company to agree first. Tell us at enquiry stage and we will write the scope in a form you can forward to them, rather than you having to translate it.
Yes, and it is nearly always cheaper. A half-day slot comfortably absorbs several sockets, a couple of light fittings, an extractor fan and a few faceplate changes. List everything in the enquiry, including the jobs you assume are too minor to mention — those are the ones that get forgotten and become a second call-out.
We stop and show you. Older properties hide junction boxes under floors and buried joints in walls, and the honest answer is that no survey finds all of them. You get a photograph, an explanation of whether it is dangerous or merely untidy, and a revised price for the extra work before we continue. Nothing chargeable gets added without your agreement.
06 — Request a visit
The more you can describe now, the more accurate the survey slot and the quote will be. We reply to every enquiry, including the ones we are not the right practice for.