Edenbridge’s High Street holds a run of medieval and timber-framed buildings — including the fourteenth-century property that houses the Eden Valley Museum — alongside Georgian and Victorian frontages, most with flats and offices above the shops. Boards in buildings of this age have usually been fitted wherever space allowed and added to repeatedly, and many still have no RCD protection at all. The twentieth-century housing around Marlpit Hill, Stangrove and Spitals Cross makes up much of the rest of the town, and those boards are increasingly falling short of current 18th Edition standards.

It’s beyond the town that Edenbridge differs most from its neighbours. The surrounding farms, smallholdings, equestrian yards and converted barns typically run multiple buildings off one original supply, with sub-boards and circuits added as outbuildings changed use — a workshop here, a stable block there, a garden office in a converted store. These installations benefit enormously from a full assessment rather than a board swap. Rural properties across the Eden Valley are also commonly fed by overhead supplies, which makes a Surge Protection Device particularly worthwhile given the exposure to lightning-induced voltage spikes. And on the low ground near the river, where flooding has been a recurring issue for the town, board position and the condition of low-level circuits are worth checking properly rather than assuming.