Evercreech sits about 3.5 miles south-east of Shepton Mallet and about 3.2 miles north-west of Bruton, and we have worked in the village and the parish this year. This page walks through a real board replacement here, what it turned up, and how the surrounding villages are covered from the Shepton Mallet and Bruton service pages.
The tower of St Peter's church is the landmark most people know, and the name Evercreech Junction survives from the days when it was a stop on the old Somerset & Dorset railway. The parish reaches beyond the village to Stoney Stratton, Chesterblade and Evercreech Junction, so a job "in Evercreech" can mean a house in the centre or a farmstead a couple of lanes away.
The housing is a mix of older stone houses and cottages, later homes, and farms with outbuildings. That mix is why the jobs vary so much. An older cottage may need its board and earthing brought up to date; a newer house may just want an extra circuit or a charge point; a farm wants supplies and lighting in its outbuildings that will stand up to weather and use.
The clearest way to explain what we do is to describe a job we actually did. This year, at a house in Evercreech, the owners had an older Wylex board where the circuits were split between two shared RCDs. On a board like that, one fault on one circuit trips the RCD and cuts power to every circuit sharing it, which is often half the house. The work went like this:
A typical board replacement is an eight to ten circuit RCBO board, including surge protection and AFDDs on bedroom socket circuits. The price depends on circuit count, access and any remedial work found. Both our Shepton Mallet fuse board page and our Bruton fuse board page apply to Evercreech.
During the work we tested the existing garage supply and found an old cross-polarity fault. In plain terms, the line and neutral conductors had been swapped somewhere along the way. The garage still worked, which is why nobody had noticed, but with polarity reversed a switch or fuse ends up on the wrong conductor. Turn a light off and the fitting can still be live; take a fuse out and the appliance is not actually disconnected.
We corrected it as part of the new garage supply. It is a good example of why every circuit is tested at the end of a board change, not just the new ones. Faults like this sit quietly for years and only show up when someone measures them.
Not everything is a board change. At Stoney Stratton, within the parish, we replaced a fused spur under a kitchen sink that had failed, tested it, and carried out a lighting survey with an options pack so the owners could choose what to do next. Damp under a sink is hard on electrical accessories, and spurs for dishwashers and washing machines are often tucked away exactly where a leak will find them.
For small jobs like this we confirm the price with you before we start. For everyday work, see our electrician in Shepton Mallet page or the Bruton domestic electrician page; both cover Evercreech.
Evercreech does not have its own set of service pages, because it sits between two towns that do. Use whichever is more convenient; the prices and the way we work are the same.
The hub pages for Shepton Mallet and Bruton cover the wider areas.
Ditcheat lies about 2.1 miles south-west of Evercreech and about 2.6 miles north-west of Castle Cary. It is a racing-stables village, and properties with yards need outdoor electrics that are built for it: lighting a yard can actually be worked in, weatherproof sockets, and armoured supplies to stables, stores and tack rooms, each protected separately at the board. Inside the older houses the usual jobs apply, from replacing boards that lack RCD protection to inspections before a sale.
Alhampton is about 2.8 miles south-west of Evercreech and about 1.7 miles north-west of Castle Cary. A small place of stone houses and farm buildings, it produces the kind of jobs that come from homes extended bit by bit over the years: an outbuilding run in the wrong cable, a kitchen fed off a ring that was never meant to carry it, or a board that has run out of spare ways. An inspection is usually the first step, so the price covers what is actually there.
Cranmore is about 3.0 miles north-east of Evercreech, with the East Somerset Railway heritage line running through and Cranmore Tower up on the ridge. Typical work for homes there includes board replacements, charge points on driveways, extra sockets and lighting, and mains interlinked alarms. Where an older property has no RCD protection at all, we usually suggest an inspection first so any problems in the circuits are known before a new board goes on.
Batcombe is one of the villages around Bruton and is almost entirely period stone, with St Mary's church tower at its centre. Work there leans towards careful jobs in old houses: inspections, board replacements and rewires where cable routes have to be planned around solid walls and original finishes. There is more on the village and its hamlets on our Batcombe area page.
From this year's work. We name the place only.
Leave your details and a line about the job. We will ring you back to talk it through and arrange a survey or a written price.
On older boards, groups of circuits share an RCD. When any circuit in the group has an earth fault, the shared RCD trips and every circuit on it goes off. An RCBO board gives each circuit its own protection, so a fault only switches off the circuit it is on. That is what we fitted in Evercreech this year, and it is the only kind of board we install.
It means the line and neutral conductors have been swapped somewhere in a circuit. Things usually still work, so you would not know without testing. The risk is that switches and fuses end up on the wrong conductor, so an appliance or light can stay live when you think it is off. It is found by polarity testing, which is part of every inspection and every board change we do.
Yes. The whole of Evercreech parish is covered, including Stoney Stratton, Chesterblade and Evercreech Junction, along with neighbouring villages such as Prestleigh in Doulting parish. We price the same way here, with a written fixed price after a survey or a photo-based phone consult for small jobs.
Yes. We run a new armoured cable from the house board to the garage, protected by its own RCBO, and fit weatherproof or metal-clad sockets and lighting at the far end. The whole supply is tested before we finish, including polarity. You get certification for the work and Part P notification where it is notifiable.
Most of a day, with the power off for much of it. The old board comes out, the new one goes in, every circuit is tested and labelled, and you get an Electrical Installation Certificate with Part P notification through NAPIT. If testing finds faults on existing circuits, we explain them and agree what to do before going further.
Priced by the job, not by the hour. A written, fixed price after a survey, NAPIT certification on every notifiable job.
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