Derby, Derbyshire · DE22 base
We are based in Derby, not passing through it. From Darley Abbey and Allestree to Pride Park and the city centre, we design, install and programme automation and electrical systems that work on day one and still work in ten years.
Free initial consultation at your Derby property — no obligation, no sales script.
16+ years
Domestic, commercial and industrial experience
Full Scope
NAPIT registered for all aspects of electrical work
6-year
NAPIT-backed workmanship guarantee on qualifying installs
£10m
Public and employers' liability cover
Free
Initial consultation, no obligation
Working in Derby
R Electrical Solutions Ltd operates from a DE22 base on the north-west side of Derby, which makes the city our shortest journey of the working week. That matters more than it sounds: local jobs get surveyed quickly, snagging visits do not need a half-day of travel booked around them, and a commissioning tweak after handover is a short drive rather than a scheduling problem.
Ross Hutchinson has spent 16+ years working across domestic, commercial and industrial electrical installations, including control panel and production-line commissioning on bespoke food-handling systems. In Derby that background shows up in unusual places — a Victorian villa in Strutt's Park with a rewire and a Loxone system going in together, or a small manufacturing unit off Ascot Drive that needs its lighting and HVAC brought under one controller.
Derby is not one housing type, it is half a dozen. Allestree, Littleover, Mickleover and Oakwood are dominated by post-war and later detached and semi-detached family housing with reasonable cable runs and loft access. Darley Abbey, Strutt's Park and the roads around Duffield Road hold older stone and brick properties, many in conservation areas, where surface containment is unacceptable and every route has to be planned before a single wall is chased.
Closer in, the city centre and the Cathedral Quarter mix flats above commercial units with converted mills and offices, so an automation or CCTV project often has to satisfy a landlord, a tenant and a building manager at once. Pride Park and the industrial estates on the south and east of the city bring the commercial and industrial side: three-phase supplies, panel work, emergency lighting, EICRs on lease renewal and building management systems that were installed by somebody who has long since stopped answering the phone.
Because Derby is our home city we also see the same recurring jobs: EV chargers being added to houses whose consumer units were last touched in the 1990s, garden lighting and power on the larger plots north of the city, and full whole-home Loxone systems in properties being extended or reconfigured rather than newly built. We plan those as one project, not as an electrician's job with a smart home bolted on afterwards.
Stone and brick properties around Darley Abbey, Strutt's Park and Duffield Road where lath, solid walls and protected finishes rule out lazy cable routes. We survey and plan runs before first fix so the fabric of the building is not the thing that gets compromised.
Allestree, Mickleover, Littleover and Oakwood properties being extended, re-roofed or reconfigured. These are the classic candidates for a staged automation build — heating control and one room of lighting now, cabling in place for the rest later.
Converted mills, offices and apartments where communal supplies, landlord consents and limited riser space shape what is possible. We work to what the building allows rather than promising what it cannot take.
Pride Park offices, retail units and the industrial estates south and east of the city. Lighting, HVAC, access control and panel work brought under one building management system, with RAMS issued before we start.
Our DE22 base sits a short drive from almost every Derby postcode — DE1, DE3, DE21, DE22, DE23 and DE24 are all local runs rather than travel jobs, which means survey visits, first fix days and post-handover adjustments are straightforward to schedule. Derby also sits at the centre of our wider coverage, so travel to Duffield, Belper, Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Ripley is measured in minutes rather than hours.
Services in Derby
Every service below is available across Derby and delivered by the same team, under NAPIT Full Scope registration. Follow any link for the detail on how that service is designed, installed and certified.
Whole-home Loxone design and programming for Derby properties, from a single room of lighting to a fully integrated house. Free initial consultation at the property.
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Scene-based lighting that flatters the room and stops the whole house running at full brightness all evening.
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Room-by-room control so you stop heating empty rooms and the house warms to a schedule that matches your day.
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Multiroom audio and dedicated cinema rooms cabled properly, so picture and sound land right at first switch-on.
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Hikvision and Ajax partner installations that alert your phone with footage worth looking at, not motion noise.
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Structured cabling and access points sized for a full house of devices instead of one router in a cupboard.
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Rewires and additional circuits on Derby's older housing stock, sequenced so the property stays liveable while the work runs.
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EICRs and fault finding for Derby landlords, sellers and business tenants, reported so you can see what is urgent at a glance.
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BMS and control panel work for Pride Park offices and the city's industrial units, with RAMS issued for every project.
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Generation and storage designed alongside your controls. MCS accreditation is currently in progress.
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Home and workplace charge points installed with load management so the supply is never the weak point.
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Remote and on-site support that keeps the system performing long after the handover walkthrough.
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A DE22 address means Derby is the shortest journey we make. Surveys, first fix days and post-handover tweaks are easy to schedule rather than something that has to wait for a run out to the city.
Domestic, commercial and industrial experience in the same pair of hands. A house is wired to the same discipline as a production line, which is why the consumer unit looks like the panel schedule says it should.
Registered for all aspects of electrical work, not a narrow scope that stops at the interesting part of the job. Certification is issued properly and Building Regulations notifications are handled for you.
Loxone-trained and partner-listed, with Lutron, Rako, KNX, ClickSmart, HD Anywhere and Sonos also designed and programmed in house. You are not sold one manufacturer because it is the only one we know.
Qualifying installations carry a NAPIT-backed 6-year workmanship guarantee. All other work carries a minimum 1-year guarantee, with maintenance packages available beyond that.
£10m public liability, £10m employers' liability and £1m professional indemnity. Enough for any Derby commercial site that asks for documentation before you set foot on it.
Local conditions
Certain problems repeat by area, and Derby has its own set. Knowing them before the survey means we quote for the job that is actually there rather than the one that looks likely from the doorstep.
Large parts of Derby's housing stock date from before the 1970s, and plenty of it is still running on cabling that has been extended, spurred and part-replaced by successive owners. Rubber and early PVC insulation goes brittle, borrowed neutrals appear across lighting circuits, and the first symptom is often an RCD that trips for no obvious reason. An EICR tells you where you stand before it becomes an emergency.
The older properties around Darley Abbey, Strutt's Park and the Duffield Road corridor were built solid, often in stone, with no cavity to hide anything in. Retrofitting automation cabling there is a design job before it is an installation job. Get it wrong and you end up with surface trunking on a wall nobody wanted trunking on.
EV chargers, heat pumps, hot tubs and garden buildings are being added to Derby homes whose main supply and consumer unit were sized for a very different household. Load calculation and, where needed, load management is not optional — it is the difference between a charger that works every night and one that keeps taking the house out.
Plenty of Derby's offices and industrial units run building management systems that were commissioned years ago by a contractor who has moved on, with no documentation and no one who understands the strategy. Heating fights cooling, lighting runs all night, and energy bills quietly absorb it. We take those systems on, document them and put them back under control.
How the job runs
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We come to the property, walk it room by room, and listen to how you actually live or trade in the building before anyone talks about kit.
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Once you decide to progress, we produce the design — schematics, cable routes and control strategy — so nothing is invented on site later.
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Containment, cabling and back boxes go in while the building is open, on a staged payment tied to that milestone.
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Accessories, panels and controllers are fitted, then programmed, tested and certified to BS 7671 before anyone signs anything off.
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You get a walkthrough, the certification pack and the choice of a remote or in-person maintenance package to keep the system right.
Before you enquire
Yes. Derby is our home city — the business operates from a DE22 base on the north-west side and we work across DE1, DE3, DE21, DE22, DE23 and DE24 as well as the surrounding villages.
Derby is our shortest journey, so survey and consultation visits are usually the easiest for us to schedule. We will give you a firm date and time when you call rather than a vague window.
We deliberately do not publish prices, because automation and electrical projects vary too much for a headline figure to be honest. The initial consultation is free and you receive a written quotation before you commit to anything.
Emergency and out-of-hours support is available on request, particularly for commercial and automation clients. It is not sold as a standard guaranteed service — call us and we will tell you honestly what we can do.
Yes. We are NAPIT registered under Full Scope, covering all aspects of electrical work, and we issue the appropriate certification and handle Building Regulations notification where it applies.
Yes, and we do it regularly. Older properties need the cabling strategy designed before anything is chased, and in some cases a mix of wired and wireless is the sensible answer. That decision is made at the design stage, not improvised on site.
Yes. Offices, retail units and industrial premises across Pride Park and the wider city, covering lighting, HVAC and access control under one BMS. RAMS are issued for every commercial project.
No. Many Derby clients start with heating control or one room of lighting, with the infrastructure designed so the system expands later without reopening walls.
Yes. Derby sits at the centre of our coverage, which extends to Nottingham, Duffield, Belper, Burton upon Trent, Sheffield, Ilkeston, Long Eaton, Ripley, Chesterfield, Ashbourne and Matlock.
Qualifying installation work carries a 6-year workmanship guarantee backed by NAPIT. Everything else carries a minimum 1-year guarantee, and maintenance packages are available after that.
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NAPIT Full Scope · Official Loxone Partner · 6-year workmanship guarantee on qualifying installations · £10m public liability