Electrician in Cross Green, Leeds

Around 450 homes make up Cross Green, largely traditional terraced and back-to-back houses along and around Cross Green Lane, on a hill to the south-east of Leeds city centre. Pontefract Lane runs through the middle, with a large industrial estate to the south, and the red brick St Hilda’s Church, dating from 1881, stands among the houses. Next door, East End Park is largely 19th-century through terraces with some back-to-backs and a smaller number of semis and detached houses, grouped around a park that was once part of the grounds of Osmondthorpe Hall.

In older terraces like these, circuits have usually been added to in stages as owners wanted more sockets, lighting or a new kitchen. An EICR is the reliable way to find out what that has left behind. Where the report points to an old fuse board, a consumer unit upgrade adds RCD protection without disturbing the rest of the house. Where the cable itself is failing, a full house rewire is the lasting answer, and in a through terrace, with rooms front and back, it is worth planning the new socket and lighting layout room by room before work starts.