A lit front door on a London terrace at night, seen from the wet pavement

24 hour emergency electricians in East London

Our own patch. We are based in it, not visiting it.

For an emergency anywhere in London we are usually with you inside the hour.

Answered by a person, any hour. No call-out fee.

What we get called to in East London

East London is where we are based and where most of our work is, and for an emergency that is the whole difference. We are not crossing the city to reach you, and between Barking and Dagenham, Newham, Redbridge, Hackney and Waltham Forest there are only so many kinds of installation — interwar estate, Victorian terrace, converted flat, new riverside block. We have almost certainly seen yours before, on a street near yours.

A consumer unit in the under-stairs cupboard of a 1930s semi
Lifted floorboards showing old wiring running between joists

What to do while you wait

A gloved hand switching off a single breaker at a consumer unit

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 East London 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.