Electrician in Halton, Leeds

With the Temple Newsam estate directly to its south, Halton is an LS15 suburb east of Leeds city centre, bordered by Cross Gates to the north, Colton to the east and Halton Moor to the west. It grew substantially through building just before and after the Second World War. Its housing is mainly owner-occupied, and almost three-quarters of it is semi-detached or detached. Selby Road has the shops, and St Wilfrid’s Church, a listed Arts and Crafts church from 1939, stands out among the houses. Halton Moor, next door, is a 1930s council estate of red brick terraces and semis laid out around Coronation Parade, with Lakeland Court, its refurbished tower block, to the south.

In a semi or detached house of this age, a loft conversion or kitchen extension adds circuits to an installation that may already be decades old, so loft and extension wiring usually starts with a look at the board. If it lacks RCDs, a consumer unit upgrade comes first. The same check applies before an EV charger goes onto a drive, because a charger draws a heavy load for hours at a time. On Halton Moor, where the houses are now around ninety years old, it pays to find out how old the cable is before planning anything bigger.