Steve Rooke Ltd

A consumer unit starts tripping at nine on a Sunday night, or a shop owner in Worthing finds half the lighting circuit dead before opening, and the first question is whether someone qualified will actually pick up the phone. Steve Rooke Ltd answers that with 24/7 emergency call-out cover, which is the practical reason a firm like this gets saved in a contacts list and kept there. Behind the call-out sits a much broader electrical contractor, and the spread of work Steve Rooke Ltd lists is what makes it worth examining beyond the panic-button scenario.

Services across commercial, industrial, domestic sectors

Steve Rooke Ltd is a commercial, industrial and domestic electrical contractor based in Worthing, West Sussex, with more than twenty years of trading behind it. That mix is worth pausing on. Plenty of electricians pick one lane and stay in it, but here the same outfit handles a factory installation, a high-street fit-out and a rewire in someone's terraced house. The service list runs through commercial and industrial installations, domestic electrical work, lighting design, inspection and testing, data cabling, electric heating systems, EV charging point installation, and solar PV with battery storage.

Keeping pace with EV charging and solar storage

The newer end of that range, the EV charging points and solar storage, shows the firm has kept pace with what people are asking for instead of coasting on legacy trade. That is not an accident; it takes deliberate re-training and investment in kit, and the fact that Steve Rooke Ltd has added both tells you something about how the business is run.

The inspection and testing line is as telling as the flashier items, because it is the unglamorous work that landlords, letting agents and businesses genuinely need on a regular schedule. A contractor that provides it usually has a grip on the compliance paperwork, which is a separate skill from running cable. Data cabling sitting next to electric heating systems points the same direction: this reads as a firm comfortable on a commercial site, as much as in a domestic kitchen. The lighting design mention suggests they will plan a scheme from scratch instead of just swapping fittings, which is a different kind of engagement with a client and attracts a different kind of project.

Verify credentials through NICEIC, ECA, JIB Gold

Steve Rooke Ltd holds NICEIC Approved Contractor status. NICEIC is the UK's government-sanctioned independent regulator for the electrical industry, so that accreditation is not a self-awarded badge; a third party assessed the work and renews the assessment regularly. On top of that sits membership of the ECA, the Electrical Contractors' Association, and operation under the JIB scheme with every electrician on the books carrying a JIB Gold card. That Gold card detail is the one worth not skipping past, because it means each electrician on site has individually proven their qualifications, with the credential attached to the person who holds it. It makes a practical difference when you are authorising access to a live distribution board.

Steve Rooke Ltd also carries a registered company number, 03589524 on Companies House, which lets anyone who wants to do their homework confirm it is a real, traceable entity with a filed history. For a trade where fly-by-night operators are a well-documented problem, the combination of regulator accreditation, trade body membership and a verifiable registration gives a wary buyer concrete reassurance to lean on. A homeowner letting a stranger touch the consumer unit, or a facilities manager signing off a new contractor for a commercial site, both get something concrete to cross-check before any work begins.

Geographically the reach extends beyond the Worthing base. Steve Rooke Ltd covers East and West Sussex and Hampshire, with named towns including Brighton, Hove, Crawley, Worthing, Portsmouth and Southampton. That is a sizeable stretch of the south coast, and naming specific towns instead of a vague regional radius reads as a firm that knows precisely where it operates and does not overstate its patch.

Outside the firm's own pages, the public picture is solid if limited in breadth. The Yell listing for Steve Rooke Ltd shows a 5.0 rating across 19 ratings, which is a strong score even if the sample is modest. A clean five with that volume of entries is harder to dismiss than a single glowing testimonial, and the pattern of responses looks consistent. Facebook adds one review, though without an aggregate star score displayed. Nothing surfaced on Trustpilot, Google or the other major platforms, so the public record rests mainly on that Yell entry. It is enough to corroborate the trade credentials without pretending Steve Rooke Ltd has a volume of public reviews it plainly does not.

Contact methods and service area coverage

Getting hold of the firm is straightforward, which counts for something when an electrical fault is time-sensitive and you want answers quickly. The homepage carries two phone numbers, a landline and a mobile, a WhatsApp option, a physical address in Worthing, and office hours set out plainly. The WhatsApp route suits the way people actually reach a tradesperson now, firing off a photo of the offending fuse board rather than composing a formal written enquiry. Between the published address, multiple contact numbers and the stated hours, there is no hunting around to work out how to reach Steve Rooke Ltd.

The limit of what can be assessed from outside the firm is the narrow spread of review platforms. A buyer who prefers to cross-reference across Google, Trustpilot and Yell will find only one of those well populated here, and the single Facebook entry does not add much independent weight. That is a caveat about the available evidence trail, not a judgement on the quality of the work itself. In electrical contracting the accreditations are what regulators and insurers rely on, and Steve Rooke Ltd has stacked those correctly.

Taken together, Steve Rooke Ltd presents as a serious, properly credentialed electrical contractor with a broad service range, two decades of trading history and backing from the industry's main bodies. The range is the headline: a firm willing to wire a factory, design a lighting scheme, install an EV charger and turn out on a Sunday night at short notice is covering a lot of ground, and the published credentials give a buyer a genuine basis for confidence rather than a leap of faith. Where the public profile is narrower than some buyers prefer, the NICEIC, ECA and JIB Gold cards provide a checkable foundation the unregistered competition cannot match. For the Sussex and Hampshire coast, Steve Rooke Ltd is a credible option worth putting on a shortlist.