It’s what pushed me to retrain. I’m now qualified, and I’m still building my skills every day. I focus on the smaller jobs — the repairs and tricky faults. The ones many electricians (especially bigger firms) don’t want because they don’t feel they’re worth the time.

Another reason work gets turned down is pricing. It’s hard to give a fair idea of time — and cost — when you don’t yet know the condition of the wiring in the home. In older houses, the consumer unit can be shoe-horned into a tiny kitchen cupboard. That makes the job harder, and it takes longer to do properly.