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24 hour emergency electricians in Rainham

The eastern edge of our own patch, out towards the marshes.

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

07502 396654

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

What we get called to in Rainham

Rainham runs from older village-centre property to postwar estates and then to the industrial river frontage, and the call-outs split along the same line. Domestic work here is much like the rest of the borough. What Rainham adds is small commercial and light industrial premises where a fault takes out a business rather than a kitchen, and where the first job on arrival is to work out what can be brought back safely tonight and what genuinely has to wait.

  • A garden outbuilding lit at dusk with armoured cable run to it
    A garden outbuilding lit at dusk with armoured cable run to it
  • A weatherproof outdoor socket and isolator on a garage wall
    A weatherproof outdoor socket and isolator on a garage wall

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

  • An electrician at a front door at night with a torch and tool case
  • A consumer unit being examined by torchlight during a power failure
  • A scorched and discoloured socket removed from a wall
  1. 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 Rainham that is usually inside the hour.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  • NICEIC Approved Contractor
  • NICEIC Domestic Installer
  • Part P Electrical Safety
  • Registered Competent Person
  • City & Guilds
  • EAL — Enginuity Group
  • CORGI
  • British Gas Local Heroes
  • OVO Energy

Not an emergency?

This page is for the things that cannot wait until morning. For rewires, fuse boards, EICRs and everything else in Rainham (RM13), the area page covers what we do there and what the housing stock tends to need.

Electricians in Rainham

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Something wrong in Rainham right now?

A person answers at any hour. No call-out fee, and a straight answer about when we can be with you.

Call now, 24/707502 396654