Work in Glastonbury comes in a particular mix: flats above shops on the High Street, medieval and Georgian cottages in the centre and Bove Town, Victorian and Edwardian terraces, newer estates, holiday lets, and farmhouses scattered across the Levels. This page covers how we handle each, the jobs we have done in and around the town, and the villages we reach from here.
Glastonbury has plenty of flats over shops, and they have their own quirks. The flat may share a stairwell with the shop below, the meter can be somewhere awkward, and the wiring may have been altered as the use of the building changed. When we inspect one, we establish exactly which circuits belong to the flat, how its board is supplied, and whether the escape route down the stairs is covered by working, interlinked alarms.
This year we put right a list of EICR remedials in a town-centre flat. Low insulation resistance was traced and fixed, a broken socket and its back box were replaced, a mains smoke alarm was renewed and a heat alarm added in the kitchen, then everything was re-tested so the report could be updated. That is a typical shape for remedial work here: several modest items, each one straightforward, that together turn an unsatisfactory report into a satisfactory one.
If you let a flat in the town, our Glastonbury landlord compliance page sets out the five-year inspection duty and the 28-day deadlines, and the Glastonbury EICR page explains what the inspection itself involves.
The oldest houses in Glastonbury, in the town centre and up Bove Town, are medieval and Georgian cottages. Small rooms, thick walls and low ceilings make cable routes the main thing to plan. We carried out an EICR on a nine-circuit cottage in the town this year.
When an old cottage needs more than repairs, we look first at whether a partial rewire will do. Replacing only the circuits that fail testing keeps disruption and cost down, and keeps more of the original fabric untouched. Where the whole house needs it, a full rewire in Glastonbury is planned room by room so you can keep living there, and for listed or sensitive buildings our heritage rewiring page for Glastonbury goes into how we protect the building.
One Glastonbury property needed its fire detection extended to meet a fire safety requirement. We fitted five mains-powered, wirelessly interlinked alarms covering the hall, landing, living room, kitchen and utility. The wireless interlink meant no floors were lifted, and every alarm sounds when any one of them detects a fire. We certified the electrical work we carried out, which is what an electrician can properly certify on alarm work; we do not issue fire certificates.
For landlords, the 2015 alarm regulations as amended in 2022 require a smoke alarm on every storey with living accommodation and a carbon monoxide alarm in any room with a fixed combustion appliance other than a gas cooker. Holiday lets should have the installation inspected and tested at least every five years. Packages, layouts and prices are on our Glastonbury smoke alarm page.
In the Victorian and Edwardian terraces, a tired consumer unit is often the first thing to go. We replace it with a metal RCBO board, so a single faulty circuit cannot black out the whole house, with surge protection and arc fault detection on bedroom sockets. See consumer unit replacement in Glastonbury. On the newer estates, with driveways, the common request is a home charger, explained on our Glastonbury EV charger page.
Smaller work is just as much part of the week. In one Glastonbury house we upgraded the first-floor accessories, replacing worn back boxes as we went, and repaired a faulty kitchen socket. In another we fitted a new bathroom light and an external PIR floodlight. Our Glastonbury electrician page lists the everyday work, and shops and offices are covered on the commercial page.
From Glastonbury our work spreads in a ring: Meare and Westhay out on the Levels to the north-west, Coxley on the way to Wells, Walton and Ashcott to the west and south-west, Butleigh and Baltonsborough to the south and south-east, and Pilton along the A361 towards Shepton Mallet. Farmhouses, long drives and outbuildings change the kind of work involved, as the notes below explain.
Meare lies about 3 miles north-west of Glastonbury out on the Somerset Levels, and its parish takes in Westhay. Farmhouses across the Levels stand on low, wet ground, so the parts of an installation we check most carefully are the buried and outdoor ones: supplies to barns and sheds, outside sockets and the earthing arrangement at the house. Where a property depends on an earth electrode, we test it and record the result. Indoors, older farmhouses often carry wiring from several decades, and an inspection sorts out which circuits can stay.
Coxley sits between Glastonbury and Wells, about 3 miles north-east of Glastonbury. When a house here is being improved, the electrical side usually follows the building work. A new kitchen needs a dedicated cooker circuit and a 2-gang cooker switch. A refitted bathroom needs new lighting and an extract fan on a timer or PIR-and-timer. Rooms that are used differently now need sockets where people actually want them. Before adding anything we check that the board and earthing can take the new circuits safely.
Butleigh is about 3.5 miles south of Glastonbury, below the Hood Monument on the hill above the village. Village homes with gardens, garages and outbuildings need outside power and lighting done properly, and that is typical work out here: PIR floodlights on stone walls, garden sockets with RCD protection, and armoured cable to sheds and workshops on circuits of their own. Getting outdoor work right first time matters, because water and frost find any shortcut, and a shortcut outside usually shows up as a tripping circuit inside.
Baltonsborough is a Levels-edge village about 4 miles south-east of Glastonbury, with farms and long private driveways. Long drives mean long cable runs to gates, lights and outbuildings. In the village this year we jointed and weatherproofed a damaged supply cable to an electric gate, then traced the gate's fault to a blown fuse and fixed it, testing insulation and continuity afterwards. Cables along a drive get damaged by vehicles, digging and the weather, so testing the whole run, not just the bit that looks broken, is part of the job.
Walton lies about 3 miles south-west of Glastonbury, just west of Street on the road towards Bridgwater. For owner-occupiers here, no law requires alarms in an existing home, but interlinked mains alarms are a modest-cost safety upgrade for any house. A RadioLINK package for a three-bed semi typically has three smoke alarms, a heat alarm in the kitchen and a carbon monoxide alarm. New homes and some extensions and loft conversions need mains alarms; we design those to plan.
Ashcott is about 4 miles west of Glastonbury, on the edge of the Levels near Shapwick Heath. Out on the edge of the Levels, the deciding factor for a home charger is often the earthing rather than the cable run: at survey we check the earthing arrangement, and some rural properties need an earth electrode for a charger. We also check whether the supply can carry the extra load or needs a CT clamp for load management. Hypervolt, Zappi, Ohme and Andersen are the chargers we fit.
Pilton sits on the A361 between Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet, a village of stone cottages, farmhouses and barns, with its tithe barn and the Glastonbury Festival held nearby. Barn conversions here bring lighting challenges: pendants hung between exposed roof trusses, high ceilings and long switching runs. On a conversion we first fix while the structure is open, then second fix and test at the end, issuing an Electrical Installation Certificate and notifying the work under Part P. Pilton has its own page with more detail.
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We inspect and test the installation that serves your flat: its board, its circuits and the earthing and bonding that support them. Before we start we confirm which circuits are yours, because in older buildings over shops the wiring is not always where you would expect. Anything we find beyond your installation, such as a shared supply arrangement, we note so you can raise it with whoever is responsible for that part of the building.
Holiday lets should have the installation inspected and tested at least every five years, under government fire-safety guidance for paying-guest accommodation. The price depends on the size of the property and the number of circuits. If the report is satisfactory, the certificate is issued the same day.
Yes. We use Aico mains alarms with wireless RadioLINK interlinking for retrofits. Each alarm needs a permanent mains supply, but the alarms talk to each other by radio, so there is no need to run interlink cables between floors. Each has a sealed 10-year lithium back-up battery, and we give you a written list of every alarm's position and manufacture date.
Not usually. The base price covers up to ten circuits on a single-phase supply, and a typical three-bed house has six to ten. A nine-circuit cottage we inspected in Glastonbury this year fell within it. Listed or heritage buildings are the exception, because they are priced after a walk-round. If we find something that needs fixing, the remedial quote comes in writing alongside the report.
Yes. We cover the villages and farms around Glastonbury, including Meare and Westhay, Butleigh, Baltonsborough, Walton, Ashcott and Coxley. Farm work tends to centre on supplies to barns and sheds, outdoor lighting and power, and the earthing at the house, which we check and test as part of any inspection or new circuit.
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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