Electrician in Hammersmith

Hammersmith is a place of flats. In the 2021 census, three quarters of households in Hammersmith and Fulham lived in a flat, one of the highest shares in the country, and in Grove and Brook Green wards around a third of homes were in converted houses. Often that means a Victorian terrace split into two or three flats, each with its own meter and consumer unit, and each rewired, or not, at a different time.

Some of the streets go back a long way. St Peter's Square was laid out in the early to mid 19th century, and the Ravenscourt and Starch Green area has Victorian houses north of Goldhawk Road and Edwardian ones around Wendell Park. The borough has 44 conservation areas. In an unlisted house, internal work such as a new consumer unit or a rewire won't normally need planning permission, but anything that changes the front of the building deserves a quick check with the council.

King Street and the Broadway are busy with shops, restaurants and offices, and those premises need periodic inspections, PAT testing, lighting upgrades and sometimes over-door heaters for entrances that stay open all day. Hammersmith Broadway ward is different again, with around 65 per cent of households in purpose-built flats in 2021, so the work there leans towards data cabling, LED lighting and extra sockets rather than rewiring. We cover homes and businesses from Brook Green and Brackenbury Village to Ravenscourt Park and Shepherd's Bush.