My whole house has no power, what should I do first?

Check with neighbours first, it could be a wider street outage rather than your property. If it's just you, call us and describe what you can see on the consumer unit.

I can smell burning from a socket, is that urgent?

Yes, that's a genuine emergency. Turn off at the consumer unit if it's safe to reach, stay clear of the socket, and call us straight away.

My power has gone off at night, how do I know if it is my fault or the network?

Look at whether your neighbours still have light. If the whole street is dark it is a network outage, and that is handled free on 105, not by us. If it is only your property, the fault sits inside your own installation and that is when to call us out.

Can you make it safe tonight even if the full repair takes longer?

Usually yes, and it is often the right call. Isolating the affected circuit makes the property safe and gives you the rest of the house back, then the permanent repair and any certification happens in daylight. You get the price for both stages before either one starts.

What counts as an electrical emergency?

Total loss of power, sparking, burning smells, exposed wiring, or a shock from an appliance or fitting. If you're not sure, call and describe it, we'll tell you straight whether it needs us out tonight or if it can wait.

Do you carry parts on the van for electrical faults?

Yes, we stock the most common fault-finding and repair parts. Most emergency electrical jobs are sorted on the first visit without waiting for parts.

What if the fault turns out bigger than it sounded on the phone?

That happens, a single dead socket sometimes turns out to be a fault further back in the circuit. We stop, explain what we've found, and give you a revised price before doing anything further. You're never billed for work you haven't agreed to.

Should I keep resetting the trip switch until someone arrives?

No. One reset to see whether it holds is reasonable. Repeatedly forcing a breaker back on is not, because the breaker is doing its job and the fault it is protecting you from has not gone anywhere. If it trips again, leave that circuit off and wait.

Do you need access to the communal close or riser to fix it?

Sometimes. In tenement and high-rise properties the supply and metering can sit in a shared cupboard or riser rather than inside your own flat. Tell us when you call if close access needs a factor key or a neighbour, because sorting that in advance is often the difference between fixing it that night and coming back.

What areas around Glasgow do you cover for electrical emergencies?

Glasgow and roughly 50 miles beyond. Call 07988 591331 and tell us your postcode, we'll tell you straight if we cover it and how quickly we can be there.

My property's an older Glasgow tenement, does that make an electrical fault harder to trace?

Sometimes, older tenements can have wiring altered in parts over many decades rather than as one full rewire, which means we check the actual current layout rather than assuming a standard modern plan. It doesn't stop us fixing it, it just means being thorough rather than guessing.

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Total loss of power, a burning smell from a socket, visible sparking, none of that waits until morning. Our qualified electricians are on call across Glasgow around the clock. Isolate at the consumer unit if you can do it safely, then ring and describe what you saw.

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While You Wait

Four things worth doing before we arrive, they won't fix it, but they'll limit the damage.

Turn off at the consumer unit if it's safe to reach

If you can get to it safely, isolating the supply stops the problem getting worse while you wait.

Stay away from water near anything electrical

Never touch a socket, switch or appliance with wet hands, or if there's water anywhere nearby.

Move clear of sparking or smoking sockets

Don't try to investigate or reset anything that's visibly sparking, smoking or smells of burning.

Call us and describe what's happening

Tell us what you can see, hear or smell. It helps us bring the right parts and gives you an honest ETA.

Is This An Emergency?

Not sure if it can wait until morning? Here's how we'd judge it, but honestly, just call and describe it, we'll tell you straight.

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•Total loss of power to the property
•Burning smell from a socket, switch or the consumer unit
•Visible sparking from any electrical point
•Exposed or damaged wiring
•An electric shock from any appliance or fitting

Can Usually Wait

•A single dead socket when others nearby still work
•A light fitting flickering intermittently
•A new socket or fitting you'd like installed
•A routine EICR booking for a landlord renewal

What Happens When You Call

You call, we ask what's actually happening

Not a script. We ask what you can see, hear or smell, and whether anyone's at risk. That tells us what to bring and how urgent it is.

We give you an honest time estimate

Based on where you are and what's going on, not a vague 'within the hour' that call centres use to get you off the phone.

We isolate and make safe, then diagnose properly

Safety first, then we find the actual fault rather than guessing and swapping parts.

Clear price, then the fix

Once we know what's wrong, you get a price before any work starts. If parts are needed that we don't carry, we tell you honestly and arrange the quickest return visit.

What's Covered

Here's what emergency electricianfrom Mo's team includes.

No power or partial power loss diagnosed and made safe on arrival
Isolated and made safe first, properly assessed before anything's touched again
Sparking, burning smells and exposed wiring treated as genuine emergencies
Common parts carried on the van for most fault types
Background-checked team, same people every visit, no subcontractors
Clear price given before we start, no surprises on the bill

Every emergency electrical job, clear price before we start, work guaranteed for 12 months, £5m public liability insurance on every job.

Glasgow's Wiring and Why It Matters in an Emergency

Glasgow's electrical installations are as mixed as its housing. Older tenements and pre-war properties can still have wiring that's been added to and altered over many decades, rewired in parts rather than as a whole, which means a fault can be sitting somewhere that a modern plan wouldn't show. Post-war and newer properties generally have more standard, fully modernised installations.

Shared tenement stairwells and communal areas add another layer, a fault in a shared supply or communal lighting circuit isn't always a single flat's responsibility, and working out where a problem actually sits is sometimes the first job before any repair can start.

Landlord properties across the city vary considerably in how recently the wiring's been checked or upgraded, and a periodic EICR is the way to actually know the condition of a property's electrics rather than guessing based on age alone.

Who You'll Get

The team handles electrical emergencies across Glasgow the same way as every other job, properly assessed rather than a quick guess. Whatever the property, the approach is to isolate and make safe first, then find the actual cause of the fault before touching anything further. It takes a bit longer to look properly, but it means the job's actually fixed when we leave, not just quiet until the next fault trips it again.

What Else Often Comes Up

An electrical emergency rarely stays isolated to the one symptom you noticed. A tripped circuit can point to a fault anywhere along that circuit, not just the appliance plugged in when it happened. Burning smells and sparking are always treated as an emergency requiring immediate isolation, never assessed as a lesser issue over the phone. Where water's been involved, anywhere near the fault, we check the wider area before assuming the problem's contained to one point.

Pricing, In Plain Terms

We give you a clear price before any work starts. That price is what goes on the invoice. Emergency electrical pricing reflects the actual fault, not the time of day, so a straightforward isolate-and-repair costs the same at 2am as it would at 2pm. What changes the cost is usually how far into the property's wiring the fault sits, a problem at a single socket is quicker to resolve than one that means checking back through a circuit. We'll always tell you before starting if something's likely to push the price up, rather than surprising you on the invoice.

Should You Try Resetting the Trip Switch Yourself First?

A single reset at the consumer unit is usually safe to try if power's simply tripped out and there's no smell of burning, no visible damage and no water involved. If it stays on, that's a fine outcome. But if it trips again straight away, or if you can see damage, smell burning or there's been any water near the fault, stop and call us rather than resetting it repeatedly. Repeated resets on a genuine fault don't fix anything and on electrics that's not a risk worth taking to save a callout.

Emergency Electrician, Areas We Cover Across Glasgow

We're on call across Glasgow and 50 miles beyond, 24 hours a day. Find your area:

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Emergency Electrician Questions

Call 07988 591331 and you get an honest ETA straight away. Sparking, burning smells or anything involving water near electrics gets treated as immediate and goes to the front of the queue. A single dead socket with the rest of the house working is real but not urgent, and we will say so rather than charge you emergency rates for it.

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