Maidenhead is one of the most mixed towns we work in. A house on Alwyn Road and a house on Wessex Way are separated by about a century, and the electrical work they need has almost nothing in common.
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Fully insured
Public liability cover in place on every job, domestic and commercial. Add cover amount
BS 7671 18th Edition
Every installation designed, installed and tested to the current wiring regulations.
Maidenhead, Berkshire
The borough's own townscape assessment divides Maidenhead into character areas by the decade they were built, and it is a genuinely useful map for our purposes. Fourteen of those areas are Victorian and Edwardian — Alwyn Road, St Lukes, Norden Road, Ray Mill Road West and the rest — and another fourteen are inter-war: Boyndon Road, Laburnham Road, St Marks Road, the pebble-dashed and tile-hung semis with leaded lights. All of that predates the 1966 regulation change that brought an earth to lighting circuits, and all of it predates the switch to modern PVC twin and earth around 1970. That is where we find rubber, fabric and occasionally lead-sheathed cable, and where a full rewire is usually the honest answer. The much larger group of areas built from the 1960s onwards — Oldfield, Wootton Way, The Binghams, Wessex Way, Priors Way — is a different job entirely. The cable is generally fine. What is not fine is the board: RCDs were not introduced until 1981 and were not required on all socket circuits until 2008, so an original consumer unit in that stock offers no protection anyone would accept today. The executive estates from the 1970s onwards, Camley Park Drive and Maidenhead Court Park and Islet Park Drive, bring their own problem, which is simply that large houses on large plots have outgrown the number of circuits they were built with — double garages, garden lighting, outbuildings and now car chargers, all hanging off a board designed for a 1975 household.
What we do in Maidenhead
Older properties with rubber or fabric-insulated cable, undersized circuits or a board that keeps tripping. We plan the circuits accordingly and cover everything from first fix through to second fix, testing and certification.
Replacing older units that have no RCD protection with an 18th Edition metal-clad consumer unit, RCBO protection on every circuit, and full earthing and bonding brought up to standard. Most are done inside a day.
Bespoke lighting solutions to suit any room, shape or size, designed around what you actually want from the space. From hanging a simple ceiling rose to bespoke LED strip lighting with smart switching.
First and second fix covered in collaboration with all other trades, ensuring a smooth process from start to finish and an exceptional installation throughout.
We self-certify all of our own work, from minor works right through to full Electrical Installation Certificates on fuse board upgrades and new installations.
Something tripping and nobody can explain why? We'll trace it and tell you what it actually is. Speak to our electrician about our current hourly rate for fault finds.
Lighting a garden properly, and getting a real supply out to a shed, garden office or outbuilding. Buried armoured cable, its own protection at the board, and certification on completion.
Questions
Yes. Maidenhead is part of our regular working area, along with Cookham, Bray, Holyport, Furze Platt and the surrounding villages. Call 07482 209800 and we'll arrange a free survey.
We reply to enquiries the same day, most days within the hour, and we'll give you a firm survey date on that call rather than a vague window.
No. Quotes are free and there's no obligation. We survey the job, write the price down and leave it with you — no same-day discounts, no pressure on the doorstep.
Protec Elec Ltd is NAPIT registered, which means we're assessed against the national standard and authorised to self-certify our own work under Part P. We carry public liability cover on every job.
Before you get quotes
What replacing a consumer unit costs in the UK, published averages by property type, and how to tell whether your fuse board actually needs changing.
How to tell whether your house needs rewiring or just a new consumer unit, what the age of your property tells you, and when to get it properly tested.
What a rewire costs in Reading and across Berkshire, why local housing stock changes the number, and what a fixed quote should actually include.
Tell us what you need and we'll come back the same day — usually within the hour.
