Electrical and Fire Safety Work Across Epsom, Ewell and Stoneleigh
Our base is at 820 Garratt Lane in Tooting, about nine miles north on the A24 through Morden and North Cheam, so a job in Epsom is a short run rather than a special trip. The borough is run by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, and fire safety in most premises is enforced by Surrey Fire and Rescue Service rather than the London Fire Brigade. The wholetime fire station is on Church Street, KT17 4PW, and the service recorded 3,722 incidents in the borough between January 2020 and December 2025.
We cover KT17, KT18, KT19 and the KT4 fringe around Worcester Park: Epsom town centre and Ewell village, the 1930s suburbs of Stoneleigh, West Ewell and Ewell Court, the large houses of Woodcote and Chalk Lane, Stamford Green, Langley Vale and the redeveloped hospital estates at Horton. Lektrix Installations Ltd has been registered at Companies House since 1957, company number 00595683, and NICEIC registered since April 1962 under its Approved Contractor and Domestic Installer Schemes.
Landlord Electrical Safety Certificates
Every private tenancy in England needs its fixed wiring inspected and tested at least every five years, and the report given to the tenant within 28 days of the inspection. We inspect, issue the Electrical Installation Condition Report and put right anything coded C1, C2 or FI within the 28 days allowed, or sooner where the report calls for it. The maximum civil penalty for a missing report rose to £40,000 on 1 November 2025. Managing agents and letting agents across Epsom and Ewell send these through in batches at renewal time, and we work to their schedule.
Rewires, Consumer Units and Fault Finding
A very large share of Epsom's housing predates 1945, and an unusually concentrated share of it went up in the 1930s, so whole streets reach the rewire stage together. Rewirable fuseboards, unearthed lighting circuits and borrowed neutrals turn up street by street rather than house by house.
Fire Risk Assessments
Since 1 October 2023 every responsible person has had to record the fire risk assessment in full, and record who carried it out. The duty covers shops, offices, pubs, care homes, schools and the common parts of blocks of flats and shared houses, but not the inside of a private home. We carry out and write up fire risk assessments for premises of that kind across Epsom and Ewell, and we tell you before you book who will attend and what their training and experience is.
EV Charge Point Installation
Woodcote, Langley Vale and the Downs Road Estate up towards Epsom Downs are full of detached houses with drives, and that is where a home charger makes sense. An older single-phase supply often needs a load assessment, and sometimes an upgrade, before a 7kW unit can go on. Around the station there is little off-street parking, so demand shifts towards commercial charge point installation.
Fire Detection and Alarm Systems
Lektrix Installations Ltd is a BAFE Registered Organisation, ID 303447, holding BAFE SP203-1 for the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of fire detection and alarm systems, third-party certificated by NICEIC. That registration covers alarm systems and nothing wider. Fire risk assessment sits under a separate BAFE scheme that we do not hold, and we would rather say so than leave it vague; our assessments are carried out under the competence test in the Fire Safety Order.
Commercial and Industrial Premises
Kiln Lane and Longmead hold Epsom's two main employment areas, including the twenty-five units of the Nonsuch Industrial Estate at KT17 1DH. The town centre is different again: the shops of the Ashley Centre, the bars and restaurants of South Street and Epsom Square, and the Odeon Luxe cinema on Upper High Street.
What the Local Housing Stock Actually Needs
The borough's population went from 18,804 in 1921 to 27,089 in 1931, and the housing follows that curve. Stoneleigh is the clearest case: the station opened on 17 July 1932, the first houses went up in 1933 and the estate was essentially complete by 1939, so whole streets of bay-fronted semis come round to a rewire at much the same time. Older again are the Victorian terraces around Epsom station and the late-Georgian villas of Church Street and Chalk Lane, where twenty-one conservation areas make cable routes, surface fixings and meter positions a planning question as much as an electrical one.
The five former Epsom Cluster hospital sites — Horton, Long Grove, The Manor, West Park and St Ebba's — became roughly 1,850 homes from the late 1990s onwards, with Noble Park on the West Park site completed in April 2012 around the retained water tower. One estate can hold listed Edwardian fabric alongside later new-build houses and apartment blocks, which means communal supplies, landlord's circuits and shared risers that have to be tested separately from the flats they serve.
What we are called out for most often here:
- Electrical Installation Condition Reports
- Full and partial rewires
- Consumer unit replacement
- Fault finding and emergency repairs
- Fire alarm design, installation and maintenance
- Emergency lighting installation and testing
- Portable appliance testing
- Communal and landlord's circuit testing
Sockets, lighting, showers and consumer unit work for owner-occupiers sit on our domestic electrical services page.
Fire Risk Assessments and What the Law Requires
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 puts the duty on the responsible person — usually the employer, owner, landlord or managing agent — to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the fire risk. Article 9(3) requires the assessment to be reviewed regularly, and whenever something significant changes; there is no statutory annual interval. Since 1 October 2023, section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 has removed the old five-employee recording threshold and the limit to significant findings only, so the findings are now recorded in full, together with the name of the person who carried out the work.
In England there is no licence, no protected title and no mandatory register for fire risk assessors. Article 18(5) sets an outcome test instead: sufficient training and experience, or knowledge and other qualities, to do the job properly. A stricter rule in section 156(4) of the same Act has never been brought into force, so the law does not oblige you to appoint a certificated assessor, whatever you may read elsewhere. Because your record has to name the assessor, we set out in advance who will attend and what their background is, so you can satisfy yourself before you commit.
The Fire Safety Act 2021 clarified that the Order covers a block's structure, external walls, balconies and flat entrance doors. The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 added duties in every building with two or more sets of domestic premises and common parts used for escape, with the fire door check duties starting above 11 metres — which takes in the converted hospital estates and the newer apartment blocks in Epsom town centre and on Kiln Lane.
Licensed HMOs and the Council's Document Pack
Epsom and Ewell Borough Council runs the national mandatory scheme only — a licence is needed where five or more people from two or more households share a kitchen or bathroom — and a licence is generally granted for five years. There is no additional or selective scheme covering smaller lettings. The application asks for an Electrical Installation Condition Report from an inspection in the last five years, a current fire risk assessment, a fire detection test report, an emergency lighting test report, a PAT report, a gas safety certificate, an EPC and a compliant floor plan. Five of those eight are electrical or fire documents, and we can produce all five.
Detection Grades, Put Plainly
It is often said that every licensable shared house needs a Grade A LD2 system. That is not the national position. The LACORS housing fire safety guidance of 2008, which councils still work to, recommends Grade D LD3 for a normal-risk shared house of up to four storeys, and Grade A LD2 at five or six storeys and for bedsit conversions of three storeys and above. Many councils do impose Grade A LD2 as a licence condition, and where they do it binds you — but as a licence condition, not as a national legal requirement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who enforces fire safety law in Epsom?
Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, not the London Fire Brigade, enforces the Fire Safety Order in most premises here; the station is on Church Street, KT17 4PW. Epsom and Ewell Borough Council enforces separately under the Housing Act 2004 where a shared house is licensed.
Does a flat above a shop on the High Street need a fire risk assessment?
If the building holds a business and two or more flats sharing an escape route, yes. The common parts, escape route, structure and flat entrance doors are covered; the inside of an individual flat is not. Many of these buildings in Epsom town centre are listed or sit in a conservation area, so the assessment has to work with the fabric that is there.
Which postcodes do you cover?
KT17, KT18 and KT19 in full, plus the KT4 fringe around Worcester Park. That takes in Epsom town centre, Ewell village, West Ewell, Ewell Court, Stoneleigh, Cuddington, Woodcote, Chalk Lane, Stamford Green and Langley Vale.
My house is in a conservation area. Does that change a rewire?
It changes how the work is run, not whether it can be done. There are twenty-one conservation areas in Epsom and Ewell, among them Church Street, Chalk Lane, Ewell Village, Woodcote, Worple Road and Stamford Green. Meter boxes, external routes and visible fixings can need consent, and a listed building needs listed building consent in its own right.
How often does a fire risk assessment have to be reviewed?
The Fire Safety Order sets no fixed interval. Article 9(3) requires the assessment to be reviewed regularly so that it stays up to date, and particularly where there is reason to think it is no longer valid or something significant has changed, such as an extension, a change of use or new equipment. Annual review is common practice rather than a legal rule.
Can I carry out my own fire risk assessment?
Legally you can, if you are competent. Article 18(5) of the Fire Safety Order asks for sufficient training and experience, or knowledge and other qualities, to do the job properly. For a small single-storey premises with nobody sleeping there that is realistic; for a block of flats it usually is not.
Can an EV charger go on a 1930s semi in Stoneleigh?
Usually, yes. The limiting factor is rarely the driveway; it is the incoming supply and the existing load. We assess the load first, and where a single-phase supply will not take a 7kW unit the answer is a load-limiting device or a supply upgrade.
How much does a fire risk assessment cost?
It is quoted per building, after a short conversation about what the premises is, how many floors and units it has, whether anyone sleeps there and what detection is already fitted. It is invoiced on its own, separately from any remedial work that follows.