Doyle & Kerr electricians arriving at a semi in Heaton Moor with a coil of cable

Electricians in Stockport since 2009

Wired for the next forty years.

EV chargers, air-source heat pumps, solar and batteries, and the consumer unit that has to cope with all of it. Designed, fitted and signed off by our own electricians, out of a yard off Hempshaw Lane.

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Approved contractor
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Heat pumps and solar
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Authorised installer
4.9 on Google
167 reviews

Before we quote, we model your house

Every design starts with the same question: what does this house do on the coldest day of the year? Here is a real one, a 1930s semi in Heaton Chapel with a 7 kW heat pump, 4.4 kWp of panels, a 10 kWh battery and a car on the drive. Scroll through its twenty-four hours.

One January day in a Stockport semi.

00:00Car charges on the overnight rate
00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00
Solar generated Heat pump EV charging Battery level
Bought from the grid
0.0 kWh
Made on the roof
0.0 kWh
Cost of the day
£0.00
Same day on petrol and a gas boiler
£14.20

Two jobs from last month.

Same cupboard, same driveway. Photographed by the lads before they unloaded the van and again before they left.

New metal-clad consumer unit with RCBOs and a circuit chart under the stairs
1960s rewireable fuse board with pull-out fuse carriers under the stairs
BeforeAfter
Consumer unit, Edgeley SK3. A 1960s rewireable board, fuse wire on a card beside it, no RCD protection. New 18th Edition board with RCBOs and surge protection, cupboard made good. One day, £620.
Wall-mounted EV charger beside the front door with the car plugged in
Extension lead trailing from the front window to an electric car
BeforeAfter
7.4 kW charger, Bramhall SK7. Eighteen months of charging through the front window on a 13 amp lead. Tethered smart charger on the wall, load-balanced to the 80 amp supply. Half a day, £895.

Ring at 10pm. Someone answers.

When the team is on a job, our phone assistant takes the call. It knows our diary, our prices and our postcodes, and it books you straight in. Anything it can't answer goes to Shona in the office first thing.

Incoming, 21:4700:00

    What we fit, and what it takes.

    InstallTypical specTime on siteFrom

    EV charger

    7.4 kW smart charger, tethered or socket, load-balanced to your supply. Set to charge on the cheap overnight rate.

    Half a day

    £895

    Air-source heat pump

    5 to 12 kW, sized room by room. Radiators checked, cylinder swapped, £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant applied for you.

    3 to 5 days

    £2,950 after grant

    Solar and battery

    4 to 6 kWp panels with a 5 to 13.5 kWh battery. Battery-only installs for homes already on a time-of-use tariff.

    2 days

    £7,850

    Consumer units and rewires

    18th Edition boards with surge protection, full or part rewires, EICR reports for landlords and buyers.

    1 day to 2 weeks

    £620

    EV charger plugged into a car on a wet driveway in Stockport at dusk

    Plugged in at six. Full by seven in the morning, on the 7p rate.

    A 7.4 kW charger adds about 30 miles an hour. Most of our customers never charge anywhere else.

    From the job log.

    4.9 on Google from 167 reviews. A few from the last eight weeks, as they came in.

    1. M207 kW charger, Didsbury
      “Charger on the wall by lunchtime, and they spotted our main fuse was 60 amps and sorted the upgrade with Electricity North West for us.”
      Rachel M.
    2. SK48 kW heat pump, Heaton Moor
      “First winter on the heat pump. House is warmer than it ever was on the combi and the bill is down about a third.”
      Owen & Lucy T.
    3. M25Solar and battery, Prestwich
      “Rang on a Sunday night expecting nothing. Got booked for a survey on the Tuesday. The engineer explained every option without upselling.”
      Imran H.
    4. M41Full rewire, Urmston
      “Rewired a 1930s semi with us living in it. Dust sheets everywhere, holes made good, done a day early.”
      Dee W.
    5. SK3Consumer unit, Edgeley
      “Old fuse wire board out, proper one in, certificate emailed the same night.”
      Gareth P.

    One yard, twelve circuits.

    Vans leave Hempshaw Lane at 7.30. We think of our patch like a circuit chart: every run below is somewhere we fitted something this year, all inside forty minutes of the yard.

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    Two electricians loading the van at the Hempshaw Lane unit

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    Rather talk? 0161 496 0712. Someone answers, day or night.

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