About · one-man firm
Rick Braddock.
You get Rick. That is the whole company. One City & Guilds qualified electrician, covering Eccles, Salford and Manchester — landlord EICRs, consumer units, emergency lighting and rewires.
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.
The work splits roughly three ways: condition reports and compliance for landlords and managing agents; consumer units, circuits and fault finding for homeowners in Eccles, Monton and Salford; and larger programmes for managed blocks — emergency lighting schedules, communal supplies and, at the far end of the scale, 277 flats rewired across two Salford tower blocks with everybody still living in them.
Reviews are the only reference a one-man firm has, and his all name him: Richard did the rewire, Richard did the EICR, Rick sorted the hall switch. That is what you are buying — a named electrician who is still on the end of the same mobile in five years, when the next report falls due.
Qualifications, stated plainly
Rick states City & Guilds 2351-52 Inspection & Testing and 18th Edition (BS 7671). Those are his own words — City & Guilds keeps no public register, and no competent-person scheme membership is claimed here. Ask to see the certificates before work starts. Any electrician worth booking will hand them over without being asked twice.
- Based
- 66 Boardman Street, Eccles, Salford M30 0FQ
- Also at 31 Ridingfold Lane, Worsley, Manchester M28 2UR
- Hours
- Monday to Saturday, round the clock
- Sundays closed · one mobile, answered by the man doing the work
- Experience
- 15+ years, by his own account
- 1,134 EICRs · 426 consumer units · 277 flats rewired
What people say
Every review names the man who turned up.
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“Glad to have Richard to do the EICR for my property, he is very professional and knowledgeable and we had very good communication during his service. I will recommend Richard to all landlords who seriously treat his/her properties as an important asset.”
03“A professional, first class service from Rick. Nothing was too much trouble. Five stars and justly deserved.”
04“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.”