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Emergency electrician in Wandsworth

For an electrical emergency in Wandsworth, Battersea or Tooting, check whether neighbours and the hall lights have power. If the street is off, call 105 for UK Power Networks. If water is coming through a light or your flat alone is off, switch off at the main switch if it is safe and call an emergency electrician.

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Electrician in Wandsworth

Tell us what is wrong and where. If it might be a power cut, check the street first and call 105.

The homes in Wandsworth

Wandsworth has the oldest housing of the areas we cover. The Valuation Office Agency counts 43% of its 157,890 homes as built before 1919, and 32% before 1900. 72% are flats or maisonettes, many inside Victorian terraces that were built as family houses in Battersea, Earlsfield, Southfields, Tooting and the streets around Wandsworth Common. Roehampton has large post war council estates, including the Alton Estate. Converted terraces mean separate meters, a landlord supply for the hall, and flats stacked on top of each other, so a leak from above reaching your lights is a common call.

Leaks through lights in converted flats

In a Victorian house split into two or three flats, the bathroom of the upper flat often sits above the kitchen or hall of the one below. When a seal fails or a bath overflows, water follows the cable holes down to ceiling roses and switches. If this happens, do not touch the light or switch. Switch off at the main switch if you can reach it without standing in water, tell your neighbour, and keep the lights off until the circuit is tested. Our advice on water leaking through a light fitting covers the steps.

If the leak is coming from your own bathroom, turn off the water at your stop tap. In converted houses the stop tap is often under the kitchen sink or in a hall cupboard. Find it before you need it.

Unsatisfactory EICRs in old houses

With so many rented flats in old buildings, Wandsworth landlords often get EICRs coming back unsatisfactory. Common reasons include missing RCD protection, missing bonding to pipes, and old wiring under floors. Under the 2020 regulations the work must be done within 28 days, or sooner if the report says. Since Amendment 4 to the wiring regulations, an FI code no longer fails a report by itself, according to NICEIC. Our guide to an unsatisfactory EICR explains what to do next. Tenants should get confirmation in writing once the work is done.

Landlord supplies, risers and who to call

In converted houses, meters are often together under the stairs or in the front hall, with a separate landlord meter for the communal light and door entry. If the hall is dark but your flat is fine, contact the freeholder. Wandsworth is served by UK Power Networks.

For a power cut affecting the street, call 105 or check the UK Power Networks map. For a fault inside your flat, an electrician. For communal lights or door entry, the freeholder or managing agent. Notifiable work is self certified by a registered competent person or notified to Wandsworth Council's building control. In Roehampton's larger estates, the supply to each flat often comes up a shared riser, and faults on the riser are for the building owner or the network operator, not for you.

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