Eccles · Salford · Manchester
One electrician.Every certificate signed by the man who did the work.
Able Electricians is Rick Braddock — a City & Guilds qualified electrician working out of Eccles. Landlord EICRs, consumer unit upgrades, emergency lighting, rewires and the compliance paperwork that goes with them, for homeowners, landlords and managing agents across Salford and Manchester. Rated 5.0 on Google.
Who turns up
Richard “Rick” Braddock. He takes the call, does the inspection, writes the report and puts his name on it. Every Google review names him personally — which, when the firm is one man, is the only reference worth having.
Rated 5.0 on Google
What Rick does.
Mostly compliance work for landlords, agents and block managers across Salford and Manchester — plus the ordinary domestic jobs that keep a house running.
5.0
Rated on Google · live
1,134
EICRs completed — Rick's own count
277
Flats rewired, two Salford blocks
600+
Emergency light fittings looked after
Job figures are Rick's own running totals, taken from his records — not an audited statistic.
15+ yrs
Eccles & Salford
Eccles · one-man firm
You get Rick. That is the whole company.
Able Electricians is a one-man business run by Richard Braddock — Rick to most people — from Boardman Street in Eccles. He quotes the job, does the job, tests it and signs the certificate. Nobody is sent in his place, because there is nobody else to send.
The bulk of the work is landlord and managed-property compliance across Salford and Manchester: condition reports, consumer units, emergency lighting schedules and the occasional block-sized rewire. By his own count that runs to 1,134 EICRs, 426 consumer units and 277 flats across two Salford tower blocks.
The honest version of the pitch: a one-man firm is slower to book and far harder to fob off. You will wait for a slot. You will also get the same electrician back next year, who remembers what he found last time and wrote it down.
City & Guilds 2351-52 — Inspection & Testing
Rick's own stated qualification, and the one that matters for an EICR: it is the inspection and testing ticket, not a general electrical course. There is no public register to look it up on, so ask to see the certificate before anyone tests your installation — his or anyone else's.
18th Edition, BS 7671
Also self-stated. It is the current wiring regulations, which is why new boards go in as RCBO consumer units with surge protection considered rather than a rewired version of whatever was there before.
Rated 5.0 on Google
Every review names the person who turned up — Richard, or Rick. When the company is one man, that is the only reference that counts.
The same number for fifteen-odd years
Rick puts his experience at 15+ years. One mobile, answered by the person who will be stood in your hallway — no office, no dispatcher, no subcontractor you've never heard of.
For landlords & agents
The certificate, and what the law actually asks of you.
Private rented homes in England need an Electrical Installation Condition Report at least every five years, copies go to tenants and the council on request, and C1, C2 and FI observations force remedial work inside 28 days. Here are the rules as they stand now — written out properly, because half the guides online are still frozen in 2020.
Every 5 years
At minimum — or sooner if the report itself specifies a shorter interval.
28 days
To give existing tenants a copy of the report after the inspection.
28 days
To complete remedial work for any C1, C2 or FI observation and get written confirmation.
7 days
To supply the report to the local authority if they ask for it.
Recent work.
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The bit that makes it a real EICR
A condition report is a set of measurements, not a walk round with a torch. Every circuit gets tested, every reading gets recorded, and the observations that come back are the ones the meter found.
Fuse board out, RCBO board in
Each circuit protected on its own device, earthing and bonding put right at the same visit, and every way labelled before the cover goes back on.
Communal panels, tested and logged
Fire alarm panel, call point and landlord's board in a block. Over 600 emergency light fittings across managed properties sit behind a monthly function test and a yearly three-hour drain.
Second fix in a loft conversion
New board under the eaves, circuits run and terminated, power back on the same day — the same approach that got 277 flats rewired without emptying two tower blocks.
In their words
“I will recommend Richard to all landlords who seriously treat their properties as an important asset.”
★★★★★ — William Choi, via Google
01“Richard Braddock did a great job with my house rewiring. He's a kind, helpful, and hardworking electrician who explains everything clearly and provided all the proper certification.”
02“A professional, first class service from Rick. Nothing was too much trouble. Five stars and justly deserved.”
03“A full 5 stars. I highly recommend Rick, he is an excellent electrician, really knows his stuff. I had a problem with a hall 2 way switch which wasn't working properly. Rick sorted it out efficiently and professionally.”
04“Had some work done off Able Electricians a while ago and they provided me with 5 star service. Reliable and 5 star job thanks.”
First call to signed certificate.
01
Ring the mobile
07749 730033 goes straight to Rick — Monday to Saturday, at almost any hour. Tell him the property, the postcode and what you need: a certificate by a date, a board that trips, a flat between tenants. He will tell you on the phone whether it is a job for him.
02
A time, and the access you'll need
For an EICR you'll be told roughly how long it takes, that the power goes off in stages while circuits are tested, and what he needs to get at — consumer unit, loft, under the stairs. If tenants are in, that conversation happens before the visit, not on the doorstep.
03
Tested, written up, and told straight
You get the report with every observation coded, and a plain-English explanation of what is genuinely unsatisfactory versus what is simply old. No invented C2s to manufacture remedial work. If the board is fine, he will tell you the board is fine.
Where he works
Eccles outwards — Salford, Monton, Worsley and central Manchester.
Based on Boardman Street in Eccles with a second address over in Worsley, so the M30 and M28 postcodes are effectively on the doorstep and central Salford and Manchester are a short run in. Further out across Greater Manchester is usually possible for compliance work and block contracts — ring and ask before you assume.
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- Salford
- Monton
- Worsley
- Central Manchester
- Greater Manchester