Ramsgate · Royal Harbour · CT11 · CT12
Fuseboxes, rewires, EICRs, EV chargers, solar plus battery, lighting. BS 7671:2018 Amendment 2:2022. Domestic, landlord and small-commercial across CT11 and CT12.
Solar and battery: 0% VAT ends on 31 March 2027. From 1 April 2027 the rate goes to 5%. Surveys, approvals and installs take weeks, so book early. See prices and how it works.
What we do
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 and conservation-area constraints are factored in.
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.
See pricing & timingWhole-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 runsElectrical 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.
Book an EICR7.4kW single-phase chargers on driveway or dedicated hardstanding. The network operator is told where the charger needs it. OZEV grant applications for renters and flat owners who still qualify.
EV charger optionsAll solar installs are MCS-certified. Solar only, solar and battery, battery only or plug-in solar, with plain price ranges and a roof and planning check before we quote.
Solar and batteryLED 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 designOur promise
EAL-qualified (Ofqual-regulated), including Level 3 Periodic Inspection, Testing and Certification. Certificates available on request.
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.
Anyone on a state pension, automatic. No card, no proof required. Mention it when you book. Honour system.
Every notifiable job gets your Electrical Installation Certificate and test results posted to you within 30 days. If it slips, we discount the invoice 5%.
Why local matters
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. Parts of the Royal Harbour and the cliff tops sit in Thanet District Council conservation areas, which affects how and where work can be done.
That drives how we route cable. Chased channels down a facade are worth agreeing with the conservation officer first. External accessories on the West Cliff take a salt-marine specification. For solar, a listed building needs listed building consent, and in a conservation area nothing may be fitted to a wall, balcony or roof enclosure that fronts a highway. We check your address before we quote. Any job that touches the incoming main is agreed with the network operator first.
Conservation area?
Thanet has 27 conservation areas on the national planning data (checked October 2026), and those in Ramsgate include Ramsgate, Ramsgate Royal Esplanade, Montefiore and Pegwell. Check the council planning map for your address, or send it to us and we will check it before we quote.
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.
Neighbourhoods
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.
Georgian and Regency townhouse frontage over harbour commercial. Multi-storey service risers. Salt fog from the marina drives external-accessory spec.
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.
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.
The valley village inland of the cliff. Victorian terrace and interwar semi, family occupancy. Rewire and consumer-unit territory more than EV and solar.
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.
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
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
BS 7671:2018 Amendment 2:2022 is the wiring regulation we install to. The network operator is told about EV chargers and solar arrays, and larger systems need their approval before work starts. All solar installs are MCS-certified, which 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
A running log of jobs across Ramsgate. Updated as we finish them.
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.