Electrician in Ickenham
Detached houses, long gardens, outbuildings with ambitions — Ickenham’s electrics are all about distance and capacity. We are the NICEIC firm from the next town over.
- NICEIC Approved Contractor
- 12-month workmanship guarantee
- Certificates with every notifiable job
Big plots, long cables, and houses that keep growing
Modern Ickenham grew out of the 1922 Swakeleys estate sale, and the result is the most generous housing on our patch: detached houses set back from the road, proper driveways, long gardens, and outbuildings that started as sheds and are now offices. Electrically, distance is the theme. Power to the garden office, lighting down the garden, a charger at the far end of the drive — the cable run is half the job, and pricing it honestly up front is what separates a tidy quote from an on-the-day surprise.
Inside the houses it is capacity: multi-circuit kitchens, extra bathrooms, and consumer units asked to feed everything the house has grown into. We check the board before adding anything — and tell you straight if it is fine as it is.
The two-car question
Nearly half of Ickenham households run two or more vehicles, and increasingly both are electric. One main fuse, two chargers and a family home takes a bit of engineering to get right — load management, sensible scheduling, and occasionally a hard conversation about what the supply will actually take. The full picture is on our Ickenham EV charger page.
What we do in Ickenham
- EV charger installation — Two-car households are the Ickenham speciality; load management makes them work.
- Consumer unit replacement — Boards checked for capacity before the house grows again.
- EICRs & safety reports — Electrical safety inspections for landlords, homeowners and buyers. A proper test of the whole installation, with a clear report.
- Lighting installation — Garden and security lighting on the big plots — buried properly, IP-rated, RCD-protected.
- Electrical repairs — Tripping circuits, dead sockets, broken switches, odd smells. Faults found properly — not just reset and hoped for.
Questions we get asked in Ickenham
Do you do outdoor power — garden offices, outbuildings, gates?
Yes, and Ickenham’s plots make it a regular job for us: armoured cable buried at the proper depth, RCD protection throughout, IP-rated fittings outside. Done to spec, certified — not draped through a hedge and hoped for.
How much does it cost to run power to a garden office in Ickenham?
It depends almost entirely on the route — distance, what the cable has to cross, and whether the consumer unit has capacity. Send photos of the board and the route and you will get a fixed written price. The long gardens here mean it is worth pricing properly rather than guessing.
Can you sort a tripping circuit?
Yes — proper fault finding, not just resetting the breaker and hoping. On the bigger Ickenham houses with outdoor circuits, the culprit is very often moisture in a garden fitting; we trace it, fix it and test the circuit through.
We run two electric cars — can our supply cope?
Usually, with load management doing the arithmetic. Nearly half of Ickenham households run two or more vehicles, so it is a question we answer a lot — there is a full page on it: EV charger installation in Ickenham.
Do you charge for quotes?
No. Photos first, fixed price in writing, and a straight “that doesn’t need doing” when it doesn’t.
Need an electrician in Ickenham?
Call 07436 061 266 or send the form — tell us the job and the postcode, and you'll get a fixed quote in writing.