Services · domestic & managed property

Nine things, done by one man.

Compliance work for landlords, agents and block managers; boards, circuits and fault finding for homeowners. Explained before it starts, tested and certified at the end. City & Guilds qualified — Inspection & Testing 2351-52 and 18th Edition (BS 7671), as stated by Rick himself.

Landlord EICRs

The five-yearly condition report every private landlord in England needs, carried out and signed by the electrician who actually did the testing. Circuits are tested in stages, every observation is coded C1, C2, C3 or FI, and you get told in plain English which of those legally forces remedial work and which is simply an old installation being old. Rick puts his own running total at 1,134 inspections. Tenanted, empty or mid-changeover — the access conversation happens before the visit.

Consumer unit upgrades

Rewireable fuses, plastic enclosures and a single RCD covering half the house all belong to an older set of rules. A modern board gives each circuit its own RCBO, so a faulty kettle trips the kettle's circuit and not the freezer, the lights and the alarm at the same time. Earthing and main bonding get checked and put right at the same visit — the part that quietly fails most condition reports — and every way is labelled before he leaves. 426 boards changed to date, by his own count.

Rewires — houses and flats

New cabling, new circuits, new accessories, tested and certified at the end. The largest job on the books is 277 flats across two Salford tower blocks — which is mostly an exercise in working around residents: one flat at a time, power back on the same day, and a schedule the block manager can actually publish. Houses are done room by room for the same reason. Partial rewires are fine too; not every property needs everything ripping out.

Emergency lighting

Emergency lighting only counts if somebody proves it still works. Rick installs it and maintains it — monthly function tests to confirm each fitting strikes on loss of supply, and the full three-hour duration test once a year with failures listed and replaced. He is currently responsible for over 600 fittings across managed properties, which is the part most landlords and agents forget until an inspection asks for the logbook.

Fault finding & urgent call-outs

Intermittent faults are a diagnostic job, not a parts job. Circuits are split down and tested until the fault is located, then the actual cause gets repaired rather than the symptom reset. The mobile is on Monday to Saturday, so urgent work in Eccles and Salford is usually same or next day. One reviewer's two-way hall switch had never worked properly; it does now.

Managed property & block work

Work for agents and block managers: landlord's supplies and communal distribution, risers and cupboards, emergency lighting and fire alarm circuits, and rolling EICR programmes across a portfolio so the certificates do not all expire in the same fortnight. Reports come back in a consistent format with observations coded the same way each time, which makes a portfolio spreadsheet possible instead of a folder of PDFs.

Additional circuits, sockets & lighting

The everyday work that keeps a house usable: another double socket where the extension lead lives, a dedicated circuit for a new oven or electric shower, downlights set out so the room is lit rather than dotted, outside lighting and a supply to the garage or garden office. Small jobs get tested and certified the same as large ones.

EV charge points

Listed among the specialist services Rick offers alongside home automation and access control. Any charge point install starts with the same questions: what the incoming supply and earthing arrangement will take, where the cable can run, and whether the consumer unit has a way free. Worth a phone call to talk through the property before anyone quotes you a figure off a website.

Fire alarms, intruder alarms, CCTV & access control

Fire alarm systems, intruder alarms, CCTV, door entry and access control appear on Rick's specialist services list, and fire alarm panels and call points turn up regularly in his managed-property work. Scope varies a lot between a domestic smoke system and a communal panel serving a block, so this one is a conversation rather than a package — ring and describe the building.

Specialist services

On the list — ring and describe the building.

These sit alongside the day-to-day work. Scope varies wildly between a house and a managed block, so none of them is sold here as a packaged product with a price attached. Fire alarm panels and call points turn up constantly in the managed-property work; the rest start with a phone call about the property.

EV charge points
Home automation
Access control & door entry
Fire alarm systems
Intruder alarms
CCTV

Ring 07749 730033

Credentials, plainly

No logos you cannot check from your sofa.

Rick states City & Guilds 2351-52 Inspection & Testing and 18th Edition (BS 7671). No competent-person scheme membership is claimed on this site, because none has been evidenced — and a row of scheme logos on a website proves nothing on its own anyway.

What you can do is ask. Certificates and insurance go over before work starts, on request, every time. The other check that costs you nothing: read the Google reviews and notice that each of them names the same man.

Not sure what you need?

Describe the property and the problem. You will be told what is involved — including when the answer is that it does not need doing, which is a sentence worth hearing before you pay for a board you did not need.

Read the landlord EICR guide →

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Eccles, Monton, Salford, Worsley & central Manchester.

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