How We Choose Electricians

Electricians based in or around Brentwood who work across Brentwood, Shenfield, Hutton, Warley, Pilgrims Hatch, Doddinghurst, Ingatestone, Mountnessing and Billericay. To be considered, a firm needs a public Google listing with reviews and a phone number homeowners can call.

The page is capped at 10 electricians, and currently lists 7. A short list is the point: it means every firm on it gets seen, and adding a firm means taking one off.

Electricians who belong to a government-authorised competent person scheme, such as NICEIC or NAPIT, can self-certify that their work meets the Building Regulations. Every electrician on our list has been confirmed as registered on the official Registered Competent Person Electrical register or the scheme’s own register. We never take a badge on a firm’s website as proof on its own. If we can’t confirm a firm, it doesn’t go on the list.

Each profile names the scheme, the name the firm is registered under, and the date we checked. Registrations can lapse, so check the register yourself before work starts — our guide to checking an electrician is registered shows how.

Google reviews. We note each firm’s rating and number of reviews, and we read the reviews. The summary on every profile describes the work the reviews actually mention — including when that isn’t what you might expect, such as a firm whose reviews are mostly solar panels or air conditioning. Every profile shows the date the rating was checked.

Companies House. We look each firm up by its exact name, or by the company number its own website gives. Every profile says what we found: an active company with its number, a company of that name that has been dissolved, or no match. No match is normal for a sole trader and isn’t a mark against a firm. Company records were last checked on 22 October 2026.

Contact details. The website on each profile is the link from the firm’s Google listing, which for some firms is a Facebook page; profiles say so. Where a Google listing shows no phone number, the number comes from the firm’s own website, and the profile says that too.

Few reviews. A firm with fewer than 3 Google reviews is labelled “Few reviews”. Treat it as a lead to check, not a settled verdict.

We don’t independently verify insurance, warranties, qualifications beyond scheme registration, membership of other trade bodies, prices or the quality of anyone’s work. Before you hire, ask to see public liability insurance, get written quotes, and make sure you’ll receive the right certificate when the job is done — our guide to Part P and notifiable work explains which.

The list on the electricians page is shuffled every six hours. Everyone visiting in the same six-hour window sees the same order, and nobody holds the top spot for long. The order doesn’t mean anything: it isn’t a ranking, and nobody can pay to move up it. The summary table under the list is alphabetical for the same reason.

We re-check ratings, registrations and company records when we update the listings, and every profile shows when its details were last checked. If a firm stops trading or its registration lapses, we take it off.

Homeowners never pay anything, we don’t take commission, and we never pass your details on as a “lead”. You call electricians directly on their own numbers.

Listed electricians don’t pay anything at the moment. Later we’ll offer them a simple monthly plan — and only once we can show each one real numbers on the visits and calls the page sends them. Whatever happens, position can’t be bought: the order rotates for everyone, and every summary says what the reviews say.

Spotted something wrong, or run a listed business and want it removed? Email hello@localledger.co.uk. We act on removal requests the same day.