Shardlow grew in the eighteenth century as an inland port where the Trent and Mersey Canal meets the Trent, and its brick warehouses, wharves and workers' cottages still line the water. Many have been converted into homes, offices and pubs. Old buildings like these need electrical work that respects their fabric, with cable routes planned around solid walls and beams. We rewire, replace old boards and design lighting that suits the property, and the finished work comes with full certification.
Electrician in Shardlow
Electrical work in Shardlow, the canal village with its Georgian warehouses and cottages. NAPIT registered and careful in historic buildings.
Electrical work in Shardlow
- DE72 postcodes
- About 5 miles from our Chaddesden base
- NAPIT registered, every job certified
Homes in Shardlow
Shardlow is often called Britain's most complete surviving canal village. Its warehouses date from the 1770s to about 1820, including the Clock Warehouse of 1780, and most are now businesses or private homes. Workers' cottages and merchants' houses grew up alongside, as the population went from 200 in 1780 to over 1,300 by 1841. The Shardlow Wharf conservation area, designated in 1975, has more than 50 Grade II listed buildings. Old brick near water can hold damp, which is hard on back boxes and connections. Fixings in listed buildings need agreeing first.
Shardlow in numbers
From the 2021 Census, for the 785 households in the streets around Shardlow.
- 44%of homes are detached (England: 23%). Bigger houses usually mean more circuits and longer cable runs, so a rewire or a new board takes a little more planning. Rewires
- 45%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
- 54%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
- 10%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
Shardlow means rewires in older properties, new boards, and lighting for houses and converted warehouses.
Covering Shardlow and nearby
We cover Shardlow, Great Wilne and the DE72 villages around them, including Aston-on-Trent, Elvaston and Weston-on-Trent. Much of the village is a conservation area, so we discuss the look and position of new fittings with you, especially on the outside of buildings.
Asked in Shardlow
We live in a converted canal warehouse in Shardlow. Can new lights be fixed to the old beams?
Possibly, but if the building is listed you'll need consent for anything that alters the beams. Clamp-on fixings and surface cable runs can avoid drilling. We'd suggest options and positions, and you agree them with the conservation officer first.
Our Shardlow cottage gets damp in the walls. Is that bad for the wiring?
It can be. Damp corrodes metal back boxes and terminals and can let current track where it shouldn't. An insulation test shows whether it is affecting the circuits. Where the damp can't be cured, we use sealed accessories and keep cables out of the wettest walls.
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Knowledgeable, diligent and friendly. Josh did a great job fitting a new light for me and kept me informed of what he was doing and what was required. Thank you, very happy with the service.
We recently bought a house that needs renovating. Josh is fantastic, an honest and reliable electrician whom we will be using on many occasions while we finish the house.
I contacted Josh from a local magazine initially to put a new light in and then to have all my light switches replaced. Josh has been professional, polite, on time and respectful on both visits…
I spoke to somebody on the phone and they were great at providing me with information and really helpful. I then booked in with them the next day to fix a tumble dryer plug and they came out within 4 hours and were extremely fast and very friendly. Thankyou for all your help. Great price too
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