New Build & Extension Electrics, First and Second Fix, North Yorkshire

Getting the first fix right saves the arguments later.

First fix is the stage nobody sees and everybody feels afterwards. Cable routes, back boxes, the position of every socket and switch, and the provision for things that are not being fitted yet. It goes in while the walls are open and it is expensive to change once they are not.

The half hour spent walking the plans before any cable goes in is the cheapest half hour on the whole job. Where the telly is going, which side of the bed people sleep, whether the island is definitely staying where the drawing says it is. Those conversations happen at first fix or they happen at second fix with a chase cut through new plaster.

The Worsdale Electrical van parked on a driveway beside a brick house during a job. — On site when the programme says so

Working alongside the other trades.

Plasterers cannot start until first fix is done and inspected. Kitchen fitters need the supplies in the right places before their units arrive. Get the sequence wrong and someone stands about being paid to wait.

The business has grown to the point where some work goes in alongside trusted subcontractors, which is what makes it possible to hold a date on a build programme rather than pushing it back a fortnight. Every job is still overseen directly and the paperwork is the same whoever is on the tools.

What is covered

What this covers.

First fix cable, back boxes and containment
Second fix accessories, fittings and terminations
Consumer unit installation and full testing
Extensions and renovations tied into the existing installation
Outside lighting, garage and garden supplies as part of the build
Provision left for things being added later, such as a car charger
Certification for building control and for the homeowner

Priced after a look at what is actually there. A figure over the phone on work like this would be a guess, and a guess is how people end up with a second, bigger number halfway through.

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Leave provision for a charger while the ground is open.

On a new build or a big extension, running a duct or a cable out to where a car will eventually park costs very little while the trenches are already dug and the walls are already open. Doing it afterwards means digging a drive that has just been laid.

Even where no charger is going in yet, it is worth ten minutes of thought at first fix.

See the EV charger page

Where

Covered across North Yorkshire.

This work goes out across the whole patch, from Swaledale and Wensleydale down to York and Harrogate.

HuntonHunton is home.See the area RichmondRichmond and the villages around it, from the market place down to the river.See the area Reeth and SwaledaleReeth and up the dale beyond it.See the area Hawes and Upper WensleydaleHawes and Upper Wensleydale.See the area LeyburnLeyburn and the surrounding part of Wensleydale.See the area Catterick and Catterick GarrisonCatterick, the Garrison and the estates around them.See the area

Hunton Richmond Reeth Hawes Leyburn Catterick Bedale Northallerton Darlington Harrogate York Middlesbrough All areas

Also

The rest of the board.

RewiresFull and partial rewires, and consumer unit replacements carried out to the 18th Edition of the wiring regulations.Read more EICRsAn Electrical Installation Condition Report is an inspection and test of the whole electrical installation, written up so you can read it.Read more Fault findingTripping breakers, dead sockets, lights that flicker when the kettle goes on, a fault that only shows up when it rains.Read more

Everything we cover EV chargers

Questions

Worth knowing before you ring.

Do you work to a main contractor or direct for the homeowner?

Both. Self builds and extensions direct for the homeowner, and packages on new build work. The paperwork and standard of finish are the same either way.

Can you tie a new extension into an old installation?

Usually, but it depends what is already there. The existing board and supply have to be capable of taking the extra load, and an old board with no spare ways and no RCD protection often needs changing as part of the job. That gets established before the quote rather than discovered halfway through.

Who provides the certificates for building control?

Worsdale Electrical certifies its own work and hands the certification over on completion, so you have it for building control and for the file when the house is sold.

First fix, second fix, and turning up when you said.