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Ramsgate ElectricalCT11 · CT12 · Royal Harbour

Ramsgate · Royal Harbour · CT11 · CT12

Registered electrician for the Royal Harbour and the cliffs.

Fuseboxes, rewires, EICRs, EV chargers, solar plus battery, lighting. BS 7671:2018 Amendment 2:2022. Part P registered so we self-certify to Thanet DC building control. Domestic, landlord and small-commercial across CT11 and CT12.

What we do

Six core services. No cowboy add-ons.

Specified for Ramsgate's mix of Victorian cliff-top villas, Pugin-adjacent listed terraces, harbour-front flats above shops and post-war Cliffsend semis. Salt air, Article 4 conservation constraints and Southern-region UKPN sit-down time all factored in.

Fusebox / consumer unit

18th Edition consumer unit swaps with dual RCD or full RCBO configurations. Common in Ramsgate on Wylex 3036 rewireable fuses and Crabtree C50 boards from the late 1980s. Part P certified.

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Full & partial rewire

Whole-house rewires on Victorian terraces and East Cliff villas, one-room-at-a-time so you can stay in the property. Rubber-sheathed cable dating to the 1950s and 60s condemned, replaced to current standards.

How a rewire runs

EICR inspection

Electrical Installation Condition Reports for Ramsgate landlords under the 2020 Regulations. C1, C2 and C3 coded with photos and fixed remediation quotes. Turned around inside 5 working days.

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EV charger install

7.4kW single-phase chargers on driveway or dedicated hardstanding. G98 DNO notification handled with UK Power Networks. OZEV grant applications for renters and flat owners who still qualify.

EV charger options

Solar + battery

MCS-certified PV plus battery installs for the post-HS1 relocator cohort. G99 notification for larger arrays. Roof survey factoring cliff-top wind uplift and Article 4 conservation-area visibility on street-facing pitches.

Solar and battery

Lighting & LED

LED downlight retrofits, dimmable circuits, garden and harbour-view external lighting. Fire-rated fittings for HMO and flat conversions. IP65 for exposed cliff-top and coastal balcony positions.

Lighting design

Our promise

Four things you can hold us to.

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10-year workmanship guarantee.

Every notifiable installation we carry out is covered for 10 years. If a fault traces back to how we installed it, we put it right at no cost to you.

Fixed price up front.

Once we've seen photos or the property, the quote we send is what you pay. No day-rate creep, no "extras discovered in the wall". Anything genuinely unforeseen gets a stop-and-quote before we carry on.

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5% off for pensioners.

Anyone on a state pension, automatic. No card, no proof required. Mention it when you book. Honour system.

Certificates within 30 days.

Every notifiable job gets your Electrical Installation Certificate and Part P Building Regs compliance certificate lodged and posted to you within 30 days. If it slips, we discount the invoice 5%.

Why local matters

Ramsgate wiring is not Broadstairs wiring.

Ramsgate is Britain's only Royal Harbour, granted the title by George IV in 1821 after his embarkation. It is also Pugin's home town: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin built The Grange and St Augustine's Church on the West Cliff between 1843 and 1851, and his neo-Gothic ecclesiastical work still sets the visual grammar of the older streets. Almost the whole of the Royal Harbour and both cliff tops sit in Thanet District Council conservation areas. Article 4 directions across the historic core remove permitted development rights for street-facing electrical work.

That drives how we route cable. Chased channels down a facade need conservation-officer sign-off. External accessories on the West Cliff take a salt-marine specification. Solar arrays on a street-facing pitch of a Grade II listed West Cliff villa need listed-building consent before we can even quote the MCS install. And every Ramsgate job that touches the incoming main gets a service enquiry to UK Power Networks Southern first, because the historic underground network here is dense and sit-down times are longer than Thanet average.

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Conservation area?

We handle the paperwork.

Thanet DC administers conservation areas over most of the Royal Harbour, Vale Square, the West Cliff Pugin quarter, the East Cliff Wellington Crescent frontage and stretches of Nethercourt. Listed buildings run to Grade I at St Augustine and Grade II star at The Grange. Article 4 directions remove permitted-development cover on street-facing works.

We survey the historic fabric before quoting, propose least-intervention routes (loft to void with fished drops rather than chased channels), and support your listed-building consent application when the works require it. Consent fees are not our cost; the survey time and the drafting help are.

Solar in a conservation area  →

Neighbourhoods

Six areas, six wiring stories.

The Royal Harbour is Georgian and early Victorian townhouse over commercial ground floor with tight service risers. The West Cliff is Pugin plus mid-Victorian villa on chalk. The East Cliff is Wellington Crescent and later Victorian terrace with HMO conversion history. St Lawrence is inland Victorian into interwar semi. Pegwell backs onto the Nature Reserve. Cliffsend is post-war and Manston-airport adjacent. Same trade, six different jobs.

Royal Harbour & Marina

Georgian and Regency townhouse frontage over harbour commercial. Multi-storey service risers, historic underground DNO. Salt fog from the marina drives external-accessory spec.

West Cliff

Pugin ecclesiastical grammar. Grade I St Augustine, Grade II star The Grange, Victorian villa terraces on Nelson Crescent. Listed-building consent is a first conversation, not an afterthought.

East Cliff

Wellington Crescent's Regency curve and the later Victorian streets behind it. Heavy HMO and flat conversion. Sub-board proliferation and legacy 3036 fusewire common.

St Lawrence

The valley village inland of the cliff. Victorian terrace and interwar semi, family occupancy. Rewire and consumer-unit territory more than EV and solar.

Pegwell

South Ramsgate onto Pegwell Bay Nature Reserve. Post-HS1 relocator homes with big solar plus battery investment cases. Wind uplift matters on the exposed south side.

Cliffsend

West of Pegwell, near the old Manston airport perimeter. Post-war brick semi and modern estate. Straightforward domestic work; EV charger uptake climbing.

Pugin, the harbour and the cliff

Old town. Old wiring. Modern loads.

The Sunday Times listed Ramsgate in its Best Places to Live UK in 2022, and the town has absorbed a serious post-HS1 wave of London relocators since the 2009 timetable brought St Pancras to 76 minutes. That's driven a housing-stock upgrade cycle we're right in the middle of: consumer units from the 1970s and 1980s condemned on purchase EICRs, whole floors converted from lath-and-plaster into open-plan with modern lighting demand, and driveway EV chargers appearing on streets where the DNO connection dates to nationalisation.

None of this is an emergency; all of it is planning work. We quote before we cut. We match cable routes to the fabric of the house. We tell you if a job needs a listed-building consent before you commit to a completion date.

Standards we hold to

Not shortcuts.

BS 7671:2018 Amendment 2:2022 is the wiring regulation we install to. Part P of the Building Regulations is what we self-certify against via our Competent Person Scheme. G98 and G99 are the DNO notifications for EV chargers and solar arrays into UK Power Networks Southern. MCS is what qualifies a solar-plus-battery install for Smart Export Guarantee tariffs. OZEV is the government grant scheme for eligible EV chargepoint recipients.

None of that is optional. It is the reason a Ramsgate landlord can serve a Section 21 without an electrical breach reopening the case.

Recent work

Where we've been this month.

A running log of jobs across Ramsgate. Updated as we finish them.

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Ready for a quote?

Send a photo of your fusebox or the room you want wired, plus a postcode. We come back same day with a fixed price and the next available slot.