Papa Electrical

STAY AWAY FROM THIS PERSON Absolute Theif!!! Call the police if he turns up Now trading as Skye electrical services, have reported him to rated people, turns out he has had several other companies previously as well after some web searching. He use's the following names John brayford John cummins Brayford John Patrick brayford John Patrick cummins brayford Drives a Ford Focus as his van is in for 'repairs', doesn't even have a multi meter in his tools. Also his wife had a part in the dealings she's called Sharon, both have used several post codes over the last few years. Not one of the electrical bodies have him registered.
Jun 8th, 2016

Oh my god I don't know where to start apart from I can believe my house as not burnt down. He rewired my house and there is loads of things wrong he won't answer his phone it goes straight to answer machine. He gave us what we thought was a certificate and we have now found out its not... I honestly don't think he is registered. Plz don't trust this COWBOY
Sep 18th, 2015

I gained a quote from Papa Electrical via the 'rated people' website and hired him to come and fit a new consumer unit in my house, the man who came was polite and completed the work in a few hours. Two months after the work was completed I had my old gas fire removed and a new electric fire fitted which was plugged into the mains socket. A few days after it was fitted I heard a very loud buzzing noise coming from the consumer unit when the fire, oven and kettle were on, it was purely by chance that I heard this noise. I called an electrician out immediately and he was shocked to find that Papa Electrical had wired my socket ring into the lighting ring, something that could have easily caused a fire. The reason that I didn't call Papa Electrical out is because they are based over 100 miles away and quote on the rated people website for jobs anywhere in the country, and besides, I had absolutely not confidence in them. It only took the electrician 20 minutes to fix the fault, I am very lucky that my house didn't burn down.
Dec 10th, 2014

I have to agree with the other reviews here, and would advise anyone not to use this guys services for any electrical work. I too hired him (via Ratedpeople) to fit me a new consumer unit and do me a 1st fix for 3 sockets and 3 wall lights. After he's finished the job, I firstly got a massive whack off a socket that was wired to a breaker that showed as "OFF", I called him back to investigate and he put this down to a faulty breaker and replaced. All sorted? Absolutely not! This weekend, I wired up the sockets and lights and found that the socket nearest the box tripped the switch anytime I plugged anything into it. I called out another electrician, this time regulated by NICEIC. He was astonished at the state of the wiring in the box. Similar to the other guy who's left a review here, he created a ring within a ring and also wired MCB's to RCD's so that even if the MCB was switched off, it was still live. He'd also put too many live wires into an MCB which was causing them to conflict\overload. The NICEIC electrician also reviewed the Part P certificate he'd left me with which contained all the supposed load tests. He concluded that given the state of the wiring, this was complete bollocks and he's 'certainly' made them up. If you value your property and your life, do not call him.
Sep 23rd, 2014