Electrical fault finding and diagnostics

The real cause

Fixing the fault, not just the symptom

It's tempting to reset a tripping breaker and hope it holds. But a trip is the system telling you something is wrong — and if you keep resetting it, the underlying fault is still there. We treat the cause, not the symptom, so the problem doesn't keep coming back.

Some faults are straightforward. Others are intermittent and awkward — the kind that only show up in the rain, or when a particular machine switches on, or at no obvious moment at all. These are the ones that catch people out, and they're exactly the ones we enjoy getting to the bottom of.

The sort of faults we track down

• RCDs and breakers that keep tripping
• Dead sockets, circuits or lighting with no obvious cause
• Nuisance trips that come and go with no pattern
• Intermittent faults that never happen when you expect them
• Buzzing, warm fittings or a smell of burning
• Faults that appeared after building or plumbing work

How we work

We work through the installation systematically — isolating circuits, testing methodically and narrowing things down until the fault is proven, not guessed at. When we've found it, you get a clear report of what's wrong and your options for putting it right, with a price agreed before we carry on.

Most of this work is for commercial premises, but the same approach works just as well in homes. A fault is a fault — and the answer is always the same: find it properly, explain it plainly and fix it once.