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In Ealing the local power network is run by SSEN, not UK Power Networks. If your street is off, call 105 and you will be put through to SSEN. If only your home is off, or you can smell burning, switch off at the main switch if it is safe and call an emergency electrician.
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Tell us what is wrong and where. If it might be a power cut, check the street first and call 105.
The homes in Ealing
Ealing grew as a suburb in the late Victorian and Edwardian years and between the wars. The Valuation Office Agency counts 28% of its 149,870 homes as built before 1919 and 30% between 1919 and 1939, with 54% now flats. Edwardian houses fill Ealing Broadway, Pitshanger and the Brentham Garden Suburb. Hanwell and Acton have Victorian terraces, many split into flats. Greenford, Perivale and Northolt are largely 1930s semis. Old houses here have usually been rewired, but often in stages, and switch and socket boxes set into old plaster walls are a frequent source of loose connections.
Most of London is supplied by UK Power Networks, but the Mayor's answer to the London Assembly confirms that Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon are served by SSEN. That matters when you are looking for a power cut map at night. Call 105, which routes you by postcode, or use SSEN's own power cut checker. If the street is dark, no electrician can fix it. If only your home is off, it is a job for an electrician. Our guide to power cuts in Ealing and Hounslow explains more.
In Edwardian houses in W5 and W13, wiring has often been replaced while the old switch and socket positions were kept. Cable has been extended inside walls, and metal back boxes from earlier installs sometimes remain. A switch that buzzes, crackles or feels warm usually has a loose terminal or a dimmer that does not suit LED bulbs. Stop using it and get it checked, because heat at a loose terminal damages the cable behind it. Our advice on a buzzing light switch covers what to look for.
Dimmer switches are a common cause too. Many Ealing homes swapped old filament bulbs for LEDs without changing the dimmer, and older dimmers were not designed for the small load an LED draws. The result is flicker, a hum, or a dimmer that runs warm. A dimmer rated for LEDs usually fixes it.
Victorian terraces split into flats each have their own meter and consumer unit, with a separate landlord supply for the hall light and door entry. If the hall is lit but your flat is off, the fault is on your side. Landlords letting these flats need an EICR at least every 5 years under the 2020 regulations.
Ealing has many conservation areas, including the Brentham Garden Suburb. Electrical work inside your home does not normally need planning permission, but outside lights, external meter boxes and cable runs on front walls can be noticed. If you live in a conservation area, ask the council before fitting new equipment on the outside of the house. Inside, notifiable work such as a new consumer unit follows Part P in the usual way, through a registered competent person or the London Borough of Ealing's building control. Interwar semis in Greenford and Perivale often still have older fuse boards from a 1960s or 70s rewire.
Most asked for in Ealing
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Lights out? We help you rule out a network cut with 105 first, then find what has tripped inside your home.
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Flickering, buzzing switches, dead lights or a lighting circuit that trips. Found and fixed safely.
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Landlord EICRs to the current wiring rules, with plain English findings and repairs quoted separately.
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Dead sockets, faults that come and go, or a tingle from a tap. Traced with proper testing, not guesswork.
Call 105. In Ealing it connects you to SSEN, which runs the local network, not UK Power Networks.
Often a loose terminal or a dimmer that does not suit LED bulbs. Stop using it and have it checked.
Yes. Private landlords in England need one at least every 5 years and must give tenants a copy.
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