20/04/2026
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we recently attended a job where the customer had paid a local “electrician” to carry out a rewire. In the first four months, the “electrician” was paid £3,500 for the work undertaken. This rewire had been ongoing for over 12 months when the customer started to question whether the man was actually an electrician at all.
In the end, after the customer had had enough of living on a building site for so long, with help from his neighbours, they made sure the “electrician” did not carry out any more work. The customer would fall into the “vulnerable person” category and, because his trust in tradesmen and people in general had been broken, he lived like this for another 3 months before his neighbours stepped in and gave us a call.
When we arrived, it was actually very sad to see how someone from our local area could be left like this by another local person. The customer was heartbroken when we told him the house had been left unsafe and some of the “new” circuits had to be locked off for safety reasons.
We agreed with both the customer and the neighbours that we would rewire the property. We disconnected all new accessories and reused what we could to keep the cost down, as the customer had already paid out a large chunk of what the rewire should have cost anyway.
On a 3-day completion, the customer was over the moon to have a certificate proving his property's electrics were safe to use and pleasing to the eye but most importantly, his property was well on its way to being a home again.
⚠️😡 The pictures below show what the customer was originally left with by the cowboy electrician:
