Our work

Every photograph on this website is a job we have carried out ourselves.

In short

These are photographs of real jobs carried out by S. Sparham Electrical: lighting and LED work, kitchen and renovation jobs, consumer units and testing, outdoor and garden lighting, EV chargers, and three-phase and industrial installations across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. None of them is a stock photograph.

Brushed steel double socket with USB charging, newly installed and chased into a bare plaster wall

Navy shaker kitchen with glass globe pendants over the breakfast bar and recessed downlights through the ceiling

Bank of three double sockets installed in a line along a freshly painted wall

Wall-mounted electric car charge point installed on the brickwork of a house

Open-plan kitchen and dining space with three glass pendant lights over the island and downlights beyond

Renovated room with recessed downlights, exposed stone wall and a slatted oak feature wall with flush sockets

Bathroom with an illuminated LED mirror, brass wall light and an electric shower installed in a tiled recess

Living room after renovation with downlights set through the ceiling and a restored stone fireplace

Finished kitchen in matt black with a wood-effect worktop, downlights set through the ceiling and lighting under the wall units

Black surface-mounted spotlights installed across a newly plastered ceiling in an open-plan room, lit and working before the room is decorated

Vaulted ceiling with two roof windows and downlights fitted into the slope between them

Room at plastering stage with the new downlights and spotlights already installed and switched on

Outdoor lighting at dusk over a catering unit and seating area, with lamps along the canopy and the serving hatch lit

Weatherproof outdoor socket recessed into a plywood-lined wall, with the cable coiled ready for second fix

Testing in progress at a consumer unit, with a Kewtech multifunction tester clipped to the circuit conductors

Outdoor distribution board in a lockable steel enclosure, with two industrial blue sockets mounted on the wall beside it

Converted loft room with white painted brickwork, adjustable wall spotlights and a ceiling light over the exposed chimney breast

Wall-mounted electric car charger on a house wall, plugged in and charging, with the car on the drive behind

Finished kitchen in sage green with downlights through the ceiling, a wood-effect worktop and a lit extractor over the hob

Three-phase switch and busbar inside a distribution board, with the incoming tails and earthing terminated and the ways numbered

Utility area and rear porch with a downlight over the fitted units

Living room media wall in slatted timber, with concealed lighting to the shelves, a wall-mounted television and an electric fire below

Brick house lit at night by exterior downlights washing the walls and lighting the path around it

Garden room and patio lit at night by wall lights along the length of the building

Junction box opened up with the brass cover plate lowered, showing the connector blocks and the cables landed in them

LED strip lighting fitted along the inside of a fitted wardrobe, lighting the rail below

New FuseBox consumer unit with the cover off, fully populated with circuit breakers, a 100 amp main switch and a surge protection device, and every circuit cable terminated

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Before and after

A job from start to finish

Watch the same room go from stripped back to finished.

The same kitchen, start to finish.

Project 01

Kitchen knock-through and rewire

Taking the wall out between the kitchen and the dining room turns an electrical job into a bigger one than most people expect. Once a steel goes in and the ceiling is opened up, the circuits that used to run through that wall have nowhere to go, so the whole area gets rewired rather than extended.

The useful part of a job like this is the timing. Everything about how the finished room is lit gets decided at the start of that clip, while the walls are open and the ceiling is down. Once the plasterer has been, a downlight moves by cutting a new hole, and a socket moves by chasing a finished wall. So the positions were set out against the kitchen drawing before any cable was run: pendant drops centred on the island, downlights worked around the joists and the new steel rather than in a grid, and switching arranged so the room can be lit for cooking or for sitting in.

What the job involved

New circuits for the ovens, hob and extraction
Kitchen and dining sockets rewired to the new layout
Downlights set out around the new steel and the joist runs
Three pendants over the breakfast bar, separately switched
Under-cabinet lighting to the run of base units
Tested, certificated and the board relabelled on completion

The same elevation at dusk, with three up-and-down wall lights throwing light up the brickwork and down over the patio below

The back of the house before the work, in daylight, with bare brickwork above the patio doors and no exterior lighting fitted

Before, daytime After, dusk

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Project 02

Outdoor lighting to the back of a house

The back of a house is usually the part that gets used after dark and the part with no light on it at all. Three fittings changed that here, and the photographs are the same wall, one in daylight and one at dusk.

Most outdoor lighting goes wrong by being too much of it in one place: a single floodlight over the door that makes everything outside its beam look darker than before. The approach here was the opposite. Three up-and-down wall lights were set across the elevation at a matching height, so each one washes the brickwork above and drops light onto the patio below, and the three together cover the whole back of the house evenly. Nothing is aimed out into the garden or over the boundary, which is what causes the light to land in a neighbour’s bedroom and the complaint that follows.

What the job involved

Three up-and-down wall lights across the rear elevation
Set at a matching height and spaced to light the whole wall evenly
Aimed to wash the brickwork and the patio rather than the garden
Outdoor-rated fittings on an RCD-protected supply
Tested and certificated on completion

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