Services

Full electrical design service produced on AutoCAD drawings indicating exactly where the electrical contractors should install light fittings, switches, socket outlets, mains distribution boards, audio visual systems, security systems and mechanical plant requiring electrical connections. Plans fully coordinated with client professional design team, furniture locations, radiator positions and how you intend to use the properties electrical systems.

Why employ the services of an electrical designer? There are lots of reasons why, but here are eight:

1. Great lighting designs. Advice on lamp temperature colours, beam angles, type of lights and control.
2. Help with the selection of the best electrical products available within your budget.
3. It will almost certainly save you money. Engaging with an electrical designer early in your project’s life, will allow the designer to produce detailed drawings with exact locations and quantities of electrical points. This will allow you or your main contractor to send out enquiries to electrical contractors who will all be producing costs on the same information.
4. Fewer claims for variations as included at the start of the project and tendered competitively.
5. Fewer costly mistakes and completing the job once only. An electrical designer will identify possible conflicts and help to design them out of the installation.
6. Help with initial budgets and tender analysis from bidding contractors.
7. Help with the selection of the best electrical contractor to suit your project.
8. Why rely on the main contractors preferred electrician who will ask you two weeks before first fix starts to roughly mark up a plan for them to work to. Clients are unlikely to be conversant with modern home electrical systems and your electrician who may be great at installing electrical systems, but has little design experience. Avoid if you are able the “just  spray paint on the walls where you want your electrical outlets”. Skill and experience are required to design electrical installations and it should not be left to chance and likely to result in disappointment with the final product and potential costly changes.

Following a free initial consultation, we will gather information on your project’s electrical requirement, listen to your design strategy and establish the level of service required. This will allow us to offer you a fixed professional fee for our service.

What we will review with you:

Existing or new electrical supply, does it have sufficient capacity to meet your project needs? You may be considering electric car charging, air or ground source heat pumps or air conditioning. All these items create a high demand on the incoming supply of property and may require a new application to National Grid for a supply upgrade. We will prepare a projected load schedule and if required will arrange for National Grid to provide quotations for any services alterations required.

• Broadband and communication services will require reviewing to make sure they meet your entertainment and work download speeds. Like electrical supplies modern homes are data hungry and you will need a provider that can meet service levels required. We will review these services with you and advise on suitable local providers in your area offering the best packages. In rural locations where wired services have limited download speeds, we can advise on satellite systems like Starlink.
• Security requirements, closed circuit television and security alarm systems.
• Audio visual systems which will include television distribution systems, data installations, music distribution and system dimming.
• Lighting is so important with any new home or redevelopment, but is often neglected as clients have difficulty finding electrical designers with the appropriate knowledge or design flair to help with this part of their installation. We have years of experience working within some of the finest residential homes within the United Kingdom and can offer advice on the best lighting solutions to meet with the style of your home and décor.