AVIEMORE · GRANTOWN · KINGUSSIE · NEWTONMORE · CARRBRIDGE
Aviemore is 1h 45 south. We get a lot of website enquiries from up there and here's the honest picture: for a small one-off job, travel prices us out before we've started, and we'd rather tell you than dress it up. Where we work best in Aviemore is bundled STL compliance for holiday-let owners, portfolio EICRs for landlords, or bigger project work.
Truth is, most of the Aviemore enquiries we get are single small jobs — a socket, a light, a smoke alarm. And every time we quote them, the travel bill (which is real fuel and real time, not a made-up callout charge) makes us look expensive against a Highland-based sparky who lives 5 minutes down the road. So we'd rather be up front: we're not the right call for one-off small stuff in Aviemore. We are the right call for bigger, packaged work.
Multi-property STL compliance is our sweet spot. If you own two, three, four holiday lets in Aviemore, Carrbridge, Boat of Garten or Nethy Bridge — we come up, do them all in a single day or two, and the per-property price is competitive with anyone. Same maths for a landlord with a portfolio of long-term lets needing annual EICRs. Same maths for a business needing PAT + EICR + fire alarm inspection bundled.
Aviemore and the surrounding villages are one of Scotland's biggest STL markets — skiing in winter, walking and cycling all year, Nethy Bridge steam railway. Highland Council are strict on the licence conditions and the fines for non-compliance are real. If you're running a let and haven't done a compliance pack yet, get it sorted. We do a fixed-price bundle: EICR, PAT for every appliance, interlinked alarms, all certificates dated and ready for the licence application.
All within our range if the work justifies the drive. Grantown has a fair amount of holiday-let and second-home stock. Kingussie and Newtonmore are quieter but still get regular STL work from us when there's a package.
What we do in Aviemore and the Cairngorms
The work doesn't change with the postcode. Every job in Aviemore and the Cairngorms gets the same certificates, same warranty, same voice on the end of the phone.
Five-year electrical safety check with a coded report provided following testing and checks.
See EICR → 02The full electrical pack for a Scottish Short-Term Let licence.
STL package → 03EV charger installation for homes and businesses.
EV chargers → 04Old boards swapped for Hager 18th Edition metal units. Most straightforward domestic consumer-unit replacements are completed within a day. More complex work, including three-phase installations, may take longer. We’ll discuss the expected duration when assessing the job.
Consumer units → 05Full or phased rewires for Highland cottages and farmhouses.
Rewires → 06Urgent callouts for tripping boards and burnt-out sockets, subject to availability.
Emergency →One team, all trades
Highland Sparks doesn't work alone. We work with the same team of trades we've used for years — joiners, plumbers, plasterers, decorators, tilers, roofers. Every one of them working to the same standard we do, and we all know how each other work. That's what stops jobs falling apart on site — no arguments about who does what, no gaps between trades, no fingers pointing when something goes wrong. If your job in Aviemore and the Cairngorms needs more than sparks work, we can quote and manage the whole thing.
Kitchen refit, bathroom install, full renovation, holiday-let refurb, extension fit-out — send the brief and we'll come back with one price for the lot.
Ready when you are
Tell us what's in front of you. We’ll get your quotation to you as soon as possible. Travel and labour are set out in writing so you can see what you’re paying for.
