24 hour emergency electricians in Barking
Three eras of housing within a few streets, and each one fails differently.
For an emergency anywhere in London we are usually with you inside the hour.
07502 396654Answered by a person, any hour. No call-out fee.
What we get called to in Barking
Barking gives us Victorian terraces near the town centre, interwar estate housing behind them, and Barking Riverside, which is new enough to have been built to a modern standard throughout. The terraces bring us rewire-grade faults dressed up as a tripping breaker. The Riverside flats almost never have a fault in the installation at all — when we are called there at night it is usually a single appliance or a heat-damaged connection at an accessory, and the job is to prove that quickly rather than start pulling a board apart.
A three-phase distribution board in the back of a shop unit 
A stairwell to flats above a shop, meter cupboard inside the door
What to do while you wait
Switch off the circuit, not the house
If something is arcing, scorched or smells hot, turn off the breaker for that circuit at the consumer unit and leave it off. You keep the lights on everywhere else, and nothing gets worse while we are on our way.
Leave it as you found it
Resist swapping the socket or resetting the breaker repeatedly. A fault that has been reset a dozen times is harder to find, and the state you found it in is often the most useful evidence we have.
Tell us what changed
What was switched on, what work has been done recently, whether water has got in. Most faults have a cause somebody already knows about, and hearing it on the phone shortens the visit.
If you cannot get to the consumer unit safely, or there is water involved, or you can smell burning and cannot tell where it is coming from, do not go looking. Get everyone out of that room and ring us.
How the call goes
On the phone
A person picks up, not a machine taking a message for the morning. You will be asked what it is doing, told what to switch off in the meantime, and given a time — for an emergency in Barking that is usually inside the hour.
On arrival
The first job is making it safe, which is not the same as fixing it. Once the danger is gone there is time to find out what actually happened, and that order matters more at two in the morning than at two in the afternoon.
Before we leave
You will be told what was wrong, what was done about it, and whether what is left is finished or holding. Where a proper repair needs daylight, materials or another pair of hands, we will say that plainly instead of pretending the job is closed.
Not an emergency?
This page is for the things that cannot wait until morning. For rewires, fuse boards, EICRs and everything else in Barking (IG11), the area page covers what we do there and what the housing stock tends to need.
Emergency call-outs nearby
Something wrong in Barking right now?
A person answers at any hour. No call-out fee, and a straight answer about when we can be with you.