Mackworth is a large estate on the west side of Derby, most of it built in the 1950s. Homes from that period that have not been rewired since are well past the age where the wiring should be checked, which is why EICRs, consumer unit upgrades and rewires are our most common jobs in Mackworth. We also add circuits for new kitchens, electric showers and EV chargers as houses are modernised. We explain what we find in plain terms and put the price in writing before any work begins on your home.
Electrician in Mackworth
Electrical work on the Mackworth estate and around Markeaton, from safety inspections and new boards to full rewires. Local to Derby and NAPIT registered.
Electrical work in Mackworth
- DE22 postcodes
- About 4 miles from our Chaddesden base
- NAPIT registered, every job certified
Homes in Mackworth
Mackworth was Derby's largest post-war council estate, about 3,000 homes. The first houses on Enfield Road were lived in by 1951 and the Prince Charles Avenue shops opened in 1959. Most roads take their names from places in London, and the streets were curved on purpose to stop through traffic. There are small bungalows built for older residents too. Many homes are now privately owned, though a lot remain social housing. Houses from the 1950s were often wired with few sockets per room, and some still have that original layout.
Mackworth in numbers
From the 2021 Census, for the 3,671 households in the streets around Mackworth.
- 48%of homes are semi-detached (England: 31%). Semis are usually straightforward to work in: two floors and short cable runs to most rooms. Rewires
- 34%of households own their home outright (England: 33%). If you’ve lived somewhere for years and never had the wiring tested, an EICR tells you where it stands. Ours start at £150 plus VAT. EICRs and fuse boxes
- 45%of households have two or more cars or vans (England: 35%). Fitting a home charger you’ve bought yourself costs £450 plus VAT, and one well-placed charger can serve both sides of a drive. EV chargers
- 7%of homes heat with oil, bottled gas or solid fuel (England: 5%). Off the gas grid, an air conditioning unit can heat a room as well as cool it. Can air con heat your home?
Source: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, under the Open Government Licence.
The jobs we do most here
On Mackworth the regular jobs are EICRs, new consumer units, rewires and extra circuits.
Covering Mackworth and nearby
We cover the Mackworth estate and the DE22 postcode, plus Markeaton and the streets off Kingsway. Many houses here still have the original layout of one or two sockets per room, so adding sockets is one of the most common requests alongside a new consumer unit. If you are a landlord with more than one property on the estate, we can inspect them in a single visit.
Asked in Mackworth
My parents live in a Mackworth bungalow. Can you raise the sockets so they don't have to bend?
Yes. We can move sockets higher up the wall, usually around waist height, and add switches by the bed or chair. It is a common change for older people and makes daily life easier. All new points get RCD protection and a certificate.
Our Mackworth house only has 1 socket in each bedroom. Is adding more a big job?
Not usually. Upstairs we can often run new sockets from the existing ring through the floor void, with little damage to the walls. If the ring is already doing a lot, or tests badly, we would add a new circuit instead. We check before we quote.
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Installed an electric charger a while back, did an amazing job, managed to get the exact charger we wanted (some others couldn’t) and genuinely made such a tidy job of it…
Fabulous service! Very polite and efficient. The job was completed to a high standard. Would recommend highly…
My spot lights in my bathroom had died and my linked smoke alarms needed replacing, Jack and James swooped down like international rescue and sorted the job professionally…
Very nice young man very obliging did a lovely clean job, Would recommend any job mine was only small he didn't mind at all
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