Modern electrics, quietly done.

Yes — we regularly work on listed and period properties, planning concealed routes that protect original fabric and providing documentation your conservation officer needs.

We go to real lengths to conceal cabling within the structure. Where a surface run is unavoidable we use sympathetic containment and agree it with you first.

We do — nave relighting, heritage sconces and uplighting for churches and chapels across Mid Somerset.

Usually, yes. Any works that affect the character or fabric of a listed building require listed building consent from your local planning authority. We prepare clear documentation for your conservation officer showing cable routes, fixing methods and any intrusive works, and we adjust the design to minimise what needs consenting in the first place.

Most of the time, yes. We use existing service voids, lift original floorboards with care and return them like-for-like, run cable through base-coat skirting and architrave lines, and where unavoidable use the shallowest surface-fix in conduit painted to match. Chase-cutting in original lime plaster is a last resort, only with consent.

Heritage projects are priced individually after a paid survey. Typical whole-house work on a Grade II farmhouse or Bath townhouse sits between £25,000 and £60,000 depending on size, finish level and phasing around other trades. We quote fixed prices after a paid survey, not ballpark day rates.

Yes — we prefer it. We attend design-stage meetings, mark up cable routes and fitting positions on your drawings, and coordinate with the main contractor's programme. Drawings, RAMS and O&M manuals are provided in the format your architect or PM expects.

Bath, Wells, Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Shepton Mallet, Glastonbury, Wincanton, Sherborne and the surrounding villages of Mid Somerset and North Dorset. We occasionally travel further for longer projects — ask.

Yes — Bath is one of our core heritage markets. We routinely work on Grade II Georgian townhouses across the Royal Crescent, Lansdown, Bathwick and Widcombe areas. Cable runs follow original service penetrations and lifted floorboards, never chased into ashlar or original lime plaster. Switch plates and sockets specified in unlacquered brass or polished nickel to suit period interiors. All works documented for B&NES conservation officers.

Yes. Wells properties — including the cathedral precinct, Vicar's Close and the conservation area — need particular care. We liaise directly with Mendip District / Somerset Council conservation officers, prepare reversibility statements where required, and run cable invisibly through existing voids. Brass and bronze accessories colour-matched to the building. No surface conduit on principal elevations. BS 7671 18th edition compliant throughout.

Yes. Boards are lifted with a heritage chisel and marked sequentially so they go back exactly where they came from. Square nails, cut nails or original brass screws are kept and re-used. Cable runs are carried in joist drillings to BS 7671 zone rules with grommets fitted to prevent abrasion. Where boards are tongue-and-groove or feature original limewash, the lift sequence is agreed with the conservation officer and documented in our RAMS.

We attend a pre-application meeting with the conservation officer, the architect and the client. We bring drawings showing proposed cable routes, fixing details and accessory schedule with finishes. We issue a method statement and reversibility note for the LBC application. Once consent is granted we work to the consented drawings and notify in-flight changes through the architect. Final certificates and as-built drawings are issued to the LPA on completion if requested.

Forbes & Lomax Invisible Light Switch, Dowsing & Reynolds and Corston unlacquered brass plates, Buster + Punch solid brass and smoked bronze, Hamilton Hartland antique brass, and Davey Lighting weathered brass for surface conduit. Unlacquered finishes preferred so the brass patinas naturally. We colour-match plates to existing ironmongery and supply samples ahead of specification sign-off.