Electrician in Loughborough

Student lets and landlord EICRs

Loughborough University brings thousands of students to the town, and many live in shared houses in the streets around the campus and between the university and the town centre. That makes Loughborough one of the busiest rental markets in the county.

Shared houses work their electrics hard: several people cooking, charging devices, running heaters and gaming at once. Every rental property must have an EICR at least every five years, and HMOs may have additional licence conditions from Charnwood Borough Council. The government's landlord guidance sets out the rules.

For Loughborough landlords, we:

• Book EICRs around tenants, including over the summer changeover
• Explain every code on the report and quote for remedial work straight away
• Upgrade old fuse boards to RCBO consumer units to cut nuisance tripping
• Add sockets so tenants aren't relying on extension leads

Family homes and renovations

Away from the student areas, Loughborough has everything from Victorian terraces near the town centre to post-war homes in Shelthorpe and Thorpe Acre and larger houses towards Nanpantan. We carry out rewires, kitchen and extension wiring, lighting upgrades and EV charger installs across all of them.

Smoke alarms and fire safety in shared houses

Landlords in England must fit a smoke alarm on every storey used as living accommodation, and a carbon monoxide alarm in any room with a fixed combustion appliance, such as a gas boiler. Larger HMOs usually need a more comprehensive system of mains-powered, interlinked detectors, and licence conditions may specify exactly what's required.

We install and test mains-powered, interlinked smoke and heat alarms, and we can combine the work with an EICR so the whole property is signed off in one visit. It's the simplest way to keep tenants safe and your paperwork in order before the new academic year.

Why choose us as your electrician in Loughborough?

We're NICEIC approved, fully insured and give fixed written quotes before any work starts. Landlords like that we're easy to get hold of and produce clear paperwork. Homeowners like that the electrician who quotes is the one who turns up and does the job.

Loughborough is also a town with a proud engineering heritage, from the Great Central Railway to the bell foundry, and it has plenty of workshops and industrial units. Our commercial electricians can help there too.

Shepshed and the Soar Valley villages

Shepshed has grown considerably, with new estates around an older centre of terraces and cottages, while Quorn, Barrow upon Soar, Sileby and Mountsorrel each mix village character with modern housing. Across all of them we carry out the same range of work as in Loughborough itself: rewires, consumer units, lighting, EV chargers and inspections for buyers, sellers and landlords.

Nearby areas

From Loughborough we often head west to Coalville, south-east to Syston, and back east to our base in Melton Mowbray.