21 miles from the workshop
Electricians in Chichester
Our telephone number is a Chichester number — 01243 — and the city is the western end of the patch: Georgian frontages inside the walls, modern estates in the villages, and a different network operator from most of our area.
In short
An electrician in Chichester from Solar Squirrel means the NICEIC-registered team that fits and certificates our solar systems doing the everyday electrical work too: consumer unit changes, extra circuits, lighting, outdoor power and fault-finding, 21 road miles from our Washington workshop. Every circuit we add is certificated by the people who did the work. No price list — a quote follows a look at the board and the house, and we say at the door if the fault you rang about is a symptom of something bigger.
What we take into account in Chichester
The house, the board and the street decide an electrical job here more than the thing you rang about does. These are the ones that decide it in Chichester.
The local facts behind a Chichester quote
- Approximately 21 road miles west of Washington, largely on the A27; our published number, 01243 882444, is a Chichester-code number.
- Chichester is the SSEN end of our patch: the network operator here is Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks rather than UK Power Networks, which is who is told about a new car-charging point or a supply upgrade. The MPAN on your bill confirms it.
- A conservation area covers the historic core inside the Roman street plan, with a high density of listed buildings — on a listed house the route of a new cable is a consent conversation before it is a drilling one.
- Georgian and earlier frontages in the centre give way to substantial post-war and modern detached stock in the surrounding villages, where most of the straightforward electrical jobs are.
- The coastal plain is flat and open and the Manhood peninsula is close to the water, so outdoor fittings towards the harbour are specified for the exposure.
Inside the walls and out in the villages
Inside the city walls the job is a period house: an old consumer unit, an earthing arrangement to check, and fittings that have to respect a listed interior or a street frontage. Out in the villages it is the modern list — an extra circuit for an extension or a garden office, lighting, outdoor power, a charging supply on a house with a drive. We quote from the board and the house, and we say at the door if the thing you rang about is a symptom of something bigger.
The solar side of the same visit is on solar panels in Chichester, and EV charger installation is the same team; here the operator we notify is SSEN.
The 01243 number, and what it does not mean
A Chichester dialling code is where our number lives, not where the vans start: the workshop is at Washington, twenty-one miles east, and Chichester is inside the thirty-mile line we work to, so the quote is the quote. Every circuit we add is certificated by the electricians who fitted it. Our general electrical work page sets out the list and the order of a visit; electricians in Littlehampton cover the coast between here and Worthing.
Two things people in Chichester ask before they book
“Why is my operator different from my friend’s in Worthing?”
Because the county is split: Worthing, Horsham and the coast east are UK Power Networks, while Chichester, Bognor and the villages towards Petworth are Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. It changes who we notify, not what we fit.
“My house is listed — is that the end of it?”
No, but it changes the order. Interior electrical work is generally fine; where a cable or a fitting touches the fabric or a street frontage, the consent question comes first and we tell you before anything is marked out.
What you are not committing to
- A conversation on the phone first — ownership, the board, the fault — so no visit is wasted.
- A written quote with the reasons in it, and a separate line for anything we think the board needs that you did not ask for.
- If the honest answer is “leave it alone”, you hear it.
- The same electricians do the work and sign the certificate: MCS certified · NICEIC Approved Contractor.
Questions we get asked in Chichester
Do you cover Chichester for electrical work?
Yes. Chichester is about 21 road miles from our Washington base along the A27 and inside the thirty-mile line we work to. Consumer units, extra circuits, lighting, outdoor power and fault-finding by our own NICEIC-registered electricians, with the certificate for any new circuit signed by the people who did it.
Who notifies the network operator for a charger in Chichester?
We do — and here it is Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, not UK Power Networks. The MPAN on your bill confirms it, and the notification is part of the installation.
Electricians across the patch
Worthing
7 miles · West Sussex
Electricians in WorthingHorsham
13 miles · West Sussex
Electricians in HorshamBrighton & Hove
17 miles · East Sussex
Electricians in Brighton & HoveLittlehampton
12 miles · West Sussex
Electricians in LittlehamptonHaywards Heath
19 miles · West Sussex
Electricians in Haywards HeathBurgess Hill
19 miles · West Sussex
Electricians in Burgess HillThe next step
Get a Chichester quote
Tell us the job and the house, and whether it is a fault or a plan. A written quote follows, with the reasons in it — 21 road miles from our workshop, by the electricians who will sign for it.
- Call 01243 882444
- Email hello@solar-squirrel.co.uk
- Based Washington, West Sussex
If solar genuinely won’t pay for itself on your usage, we’ll say so and save us both an afternoon.