Our Services
Commercial and higher end domestic electrical work across the South East
Lake Electrical is an electrical contractor based in Battle in East Sussex. We cover inspection and testing, LED lighting and energy saving, main panels and power distribution, electric heating, commercial installation and fit out, high end domestic rewires, smart home work, data and networking and EV charging. Nine services, one contractor, one record of what is actually in your building.
NICEIC approved contractor. SafeContractor accredited. DBS-checked engineers. Trading since 2008.
Electrical services across Kent, East Sussex, Surrey and the South East
Almost all of our work is in buildings already in use, which shapes the programme more than the wiring does. Offices are refitted a floor at a time. Schools have to be finished inside a holiday. In a church a faculty decides what may be touched. A university estate wants many buildings tested in one format, and an industrial site cannot lose supply while we work. If you know the building rather than the service, start at sectors.
One contractor, or a different firm for each piece
The common pattern is a different firm for every piece of work. A testing company inspects and emails back a report full of limitations, because a cheap EICR is priced per circuit and the engineer gets about five minutes on each one. Each firm works out what is in the building at your cost, and none of them keeps the record, so when the board fills up and one more circuit is needed, nobody can say what feeds what.
We would rather do the lot, in order. Inspect the building, say which findings matter this year and which can wait five, price the remedial work ourselves, and upgrade the board the inspection found at capacity. One survey, one certification trail, the same engineers each time.
The four services we focus on
These four turn round in weeks rather than months, and they are how the larger jobs start.
The larger installation work
Commercial electrical installations
Most of it is refurbishment and fit out in buildings that stay open while we work, so the programme counts for as much as the installation. Power, lighting, containment, boards and certification sit in one scope, and we are usually appointed by the occupier paying for their own fit out. See commercial electrical installations.
High end domestic and rewires
Rewires and high end builds, reaching us through an architect or a builder whose client cares more about the standard of the work than the lowest figure. The decisions that matter are made months before first fix: where the board goes, how many circuits the house needs, and what has to be chased in before plastering. See high end domestic and rewires.
The additional services
The audio visual side is handled by our sister company, OBAV. On a fit out, a school hall or a church the group covers the electrical and the audio visual on one contract, so the loudspeakers and the screens are not planned past the electrician.
Smart home and automation
Smart lighting and control depend on wiring installed before the walls close, so switch drops, ceiling positions and the cable back to a central cabinet are settled at first fix. See smart home and automation.
Data and networking
Data cabling shares containment, routes and often a cabinet with the electrical installation, so one contractor covering both removes the argument about who crosses whose tray. We test every link. See data and networking.
EV charging
The part that decides an EV job is the supply. One charger or a car park full, the answer is in the spare capacity at the board and at the intake, and load management will sometimes avoid a supply upgrade costing more than the chargers. See EV charging.
The work we are set up for
Ours is commercial and higher end domestic work: fit outs, testing programmes, lighting and heating upgrades, rewires and high end builds. Single repairs and one-off call-outs are not what we are organised around, and a one socket job is served better by a local electrician. We are not the cheapest, and we are straight about that.
Accredited across all of it
NICEIC approved contractor, SafeContractor accredited, DBS-checked engineers, and commercial work since 2008.
Recent work
What clients say
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Why clients choose the Lake Electrical team
Trading since 2008, family run and owner led. The owners run the jobs themselves, so the person who walks the building with you prices it and is answerable for it. Call in working hours and you get a person in the office rather than a voicemail. Our engineers have all been with us at least two years, so you get the same faces back. What you pay for is an engineer who understands the installation, and work carried out to BS 7671.
Services questions answered
Do you visit before quoting
Yes, on anything beyond the smallest piece of work. The supply, the spare capacity in the boards, the age of the wiring and the access are none of them readable off a drawing, and every one of them moves the price.
How is the work priced
From the survey and the drawings rather than a rate card, and against tender documents where they exist. You get the scope and the cost in writing before anything is agreed, with anything still unknown named as unknown rather than buried in a figure.
Do you work for main contractors and on tenders
Yes. Much of our commercial work is priced against tender and specification documents and delivered to a main contractor’s programme and paperwork, and we are used to public sector and education procurement.
Do you do maintenance as well as installation
Yes, alongside the installation work rather than as a separate call-out service. We carry out remedial work from our own reports and from other people’s, retest and recertify on the cycle a building needs, and look after what we have installed.
Request a quote for your electrical work
If you know what you need, tell us the building and the work and we will come and price it. If you are not sure which service it belongs to, describe the building and we will tell you. A few details is enough for us to come back with a price, usually the same day.
Know what you need? Request a quote. Not sure where to start? Get in touch, or call [[NAP: phone number]], Mon to Fri, 8am to 5pm.
We work across Kent, East Sussex, Surrey and the wider South East.