Wells fits a lot of building history into a small city: medieval and Georgian stone around the Cathedral and the Market Place, Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas towards the edges, post-war and newer estates, and farmhouses on the Mendip fringe. We inspect, repair, upgrade and rewire all of it, and cover the villages from Wookey and Coxley up the A39 to Chewton Mendip.
Wells is often called England's smallest city, and the streets around the Cathedral, the Bishop's Palace, Vicars' Close and the Market Place hold the oldest houses we are asked into. Medieval and Georgian stonework is unforgiving of careless chasing. Before anything is cut we agree the cable routes with the owner: under floors, behind skirtings, through voids the building already has, and on the surface in neat, sympathetic trunking where that does less harm than cutting.
If your building is listed, talk to us early, because the route the cables take becomes part of the job rather than an afterthought. Inspections of listed and heritage properties are priced after a walk-round instead of at the standard rate, since circuit counts and access vary so much from one old building to the next. Our heritage rewiring page for Wells explains how we treat period fabric.
Victorian terraces. The usual findings are an older board without RCD protection on every circuit, lighting circuits that predate earthed fittings, and sockets added as spurs from other spurs. A consumer unit replacement in Wells, with a Type A RCBO on every circuit, deals with the protection side. The cabling behind it is a separate question, and testing answers it.
Edwardian villas. Bigger rooms and more circuits, and often a mix of old and new wiring left by earlier partial updates. These suit a partial rewire: replacing the circuits that test badly and keeping the ones that are sound. See rewiring in Wells for how a survey decides between full and partial work. Full rewires are priced after that survey.
Post-war and newer estates. Wiring from the post-war decades can be close to the end of its useful life, so an inspection is the sensible first step. On the newest houses the work is usually additions: outside sockets, garden lighting, a car charger, or a better board.
If you own and live in your home, no law sets how often it must be inspected. The common guidance is roughly every ten years, and whenever a house is bought or sold. A buyer's surveyor may ask for specific evidence, such as confirmation that gas and water pipes are bonded, and a current report saves weeks of back and forth.
Landlords have fixed duties: an inspection at least every five years, a copy to each tenant within 28 days, and any remedial work finished within 28 days of the report. Our landlord electrical compliance page for Wells covers the detail, including smoke and carbon monoxide alarm rules, which are explained on smoke alarms in Wells.
An EICR in Wells is priced on the size of the home and the number of circuits. Every circuit is tested, readings are recorded, and anything coded comes with a written remedial quote.
On the Mendip fringe around Wells, the parking space can be some distance from the house. That is workable. We run armoured cable through a duct or along a buried route on its own dedicated circuit, and the cost rises with the length and the groundwork rather than with any extra risk. What we do need is a safe cable route on your own property.
At survey we check the earthing, because some properties need an earth electrode, and whether the supply needs load management with a CT clamp. We notify the distribution network operator for you, set the app up before leaving, and certify the circuit. The written quote sets out exactly what is included, charger and all. More on our EV charger page for Wells.
For the day-to-day jobs (a dead socket, lights that flicker, a new outside socket, a shower circuit, a cooker switch) our electrician page for Wells has the detail.
We also take on work in shops, offices and commercial units across the city, from first fix in a fit-out to fault-finding on existing systems. A recent call-out in Wells was to diagnose a fault on an alarm panel. Panel-based fire alarm systems are a different kind of installation from domestic smoke alarms, and have their own page: fire alarms in Wells. For general business work, see our commercial electrician page for Wells.
Our Wells work spreads out along the main roads. East along the A371 lies Croscombe in the Sheppey valley, and south-east is Pilton. Wookey is just to the west and Coxley to the south-west. The A39 climbs north-east to Chewton Mendip on the Mendip top, with Emborough and Ston Easton beyond. Each village has its own character, and below is what we tend to deal with in each.
Croscombe is about 2.5 miles east of Wells on the A371, the road on to Shepton Mallet, and its stone cottages sit along the valley of the River Sheppey. During a house sale in the village we tested continuity of the main protective bonding to the gas service, measured 0.05 ohms, and wrote a bonding confirmation for the buyer's surveyors. Sales stall over exactly this kind of query. If you are selling an older cottage here, a current EICR means the buyer's questions already have written answers.
Coxley sits about 2 miles south-west of Wells, between the city and Glastonbury. Whatever the age of a house here, the questions we ask are the same ones we ask in the city. Is every circuit protected by an RCD? Is the board in a metal enclosure? Are there working, interlinked alarms on each floor, with a heat alarm in the kitchen? Is the earthing sound? An inspection answers all four in a single visit, and it is the first thing we suggest if you have just moved in.
Wookey, about 2 miles west of Wells, is its own village, separate from Wookey Hole. This is where we fitted a Hypervolt charger at the end of a 48-metre armoured run, with its own outdoor enclosure for the protective device and surge protection. Where parking is well away from the house, that is not a reason to go without a charger: a long run, done properly on a dedicated circuit, is entirely safe. The cost goes up with distance and groundwork, which is why we survey before pricing.
Chewton Mendip lies on the A39 on the Mendip top, about 5.5 miles north-east of Wells. Properties up here are exposed, and anything outdoors takes a beating from the weather. When we inspect, we look hard at outside fittings: weatherproof sockets that are no longer weatherproof, floodlights with no local means of isolation, and supplies to garages and barns run in ordinary flat cable instead of armoured. Each is a commonly coded item on an EICR, and each is a straightforward repair once it has been found.
Emborough is a high Mendip village of stone cottages and farms in quarrying country, about 5 miles north-east of Wells and under 3 miles north-west of Oakhill. Where an older installation has been patched rather than replaced over the years, the board is usually the weak point. If yours still has rewireable fuses or no RCD protection at all, a new RCBO consumer unit is the biggest single safety improvement available. We test every circuit before and after the change, so you know the wiring behind the new board is sound.
Ston Easton is about 7 miles north-east of Wells and about 4 miles north of Oakhill, beside Ston Easton Park and on the A37 north of Shepton Mallet. For homes out here, the alarms deserve a look. Wireless RadioLINK interlinked alarms can be fitted without lifting floors, with a heat alarm in the kitchen and a carbon monoxide alarm in any room with a boiler, wood burner or other fixed fuel-burning appliance. Each alarm's date is recorded for its 10-year replacement.
Pilton lies about 4 miles south-east of Wells, a village of stone cottages, farmhouses and barns near where the Glastonbury Festival is held, and it has its own page on our site. One Pilton call this year was a dead circuit caused by a nail driven through a cable under the floor. We found the spot, lifted the floor and repaired the cable. It shows why we test rather than guess: the damage could not be seen from the room above, and the fix was one repaired cable, not a new circuit.
Real 2026 jobs from the city and the villages around it, with names and addresses left out.
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Yes. The centre of Wells is medieval and Georgian stone, and we plan cable routes with the owner before anything is cut, using existing voids, floor spaces and surface routes where they do less harm. Inspections of listed and heritage properties are priced after a walk-round rather than at the standard rate. If listed building consent is relevant to the work, raise it with us at the start.
It is a sensible step. There is no legal requirement for owner-occupiers, but the common guidance is to inspect when a house changes hands. The report tells you whether the board, earthing and circuits are sound, and gives you coded observations with a written quote for anything that needs fixing. The price depends on the size of the home and the number of circuits.
Yes. We have been called out in Wells to diagnose a fault on an alarm panel. Panel-based systems in commercial premises are a different kind of installation from the interlinked smoke and heat alarms we fit in homes. Tell us the make of panel and what it is showing when you call, and we will tell you what we need to find the fault.
Usually, yes. In Wookey we fitted a charger at the end of a 48-metre armoured cable run through a duct and across a garden. The cable has to follow a safe, legal route on your own property, and the longer the run and the more digging involved, the higher the price. We check the route, earthing and board at survey and give you a fixed figure.
Every job is priced as a whole, in writing, after a survey, or after a phone consult with photos for small jobs. VAT at 20% is shown separately. The price does not move unless we find something hidden that changes the job, and if that happens we stop and talk to you before doing anything extra. Our in-house electricians carry out all the work.
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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