24 hour emergency electricians in Buckhurst Hill
Period and interwar property between Loughton and Woodford.
We are out this way regularly, and you will get a straight answer on the phone about when we can reach you rather than a guess.
07502 396654Answered by a person, any hour. No call-out fee.
What we get called to in Buckhurst Hill
Buckhurst Hill is a mix of older village-centre property and comfortable interwar housing, and a lot of it has been extended or converted into flats at the upper end. The recurring emergency here involves electric heating and hot water in converted upper floors, where a substantial load was added to an installation that had no particular capacity in reserve when it was designed.
A consumer unit in the utility room of a detached house, examined on an emergency call-out in Buckhurst Hill 
Armoured cable laid in a trench across a lawn to a garden office, found by an emergency electrician in Buckhurst Hill
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 an honest answer about when we can reach Buckhurst Hill — including if that is not as soon as you need, in which case we will say so rather than take the booking.
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 Buckhurst Hill (IG9), the area page covers what we do there and what the housing stock tends to need.
Something wrong in Buckhurst Hill right now?
A person answers at any hour. No call-out fee, and a straight answer about when we can be with you.