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Rewiring a house, cost advice please

davidwalker2
I would be very grateful for some advice about the cost of rewiring a house. I have a builder’s contract electrician quote a price of £6700 for the rewire of a house I have purchased in Devon.  It is terraced, has two bedrooms, lounge, kitchen/family room, loo, two en-suite bathrooms and includes a new cu.  Does this sound about right?  The builder is not taking a cut, he is happy to get paid for the work he is doing.

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    John Peckham:

    As Lisa says above it depends what the contractor is being asked to do. If means moving furniture, lifting carpets and floor coverings, lifting floor boards or sheet boards, chasing out and making good, digging a trench to a garden building and running out 60m of SWA to a consumer unit and final circuits, 40 down lighters and 50 sockets, separate circuits for oven and hob etc then not a bad price.




    Indeed! How long is a piece of string?


    At one end of the spectrum you may have a building which is unoccupied, has been gutted, and in reality is similar to a new build.


    At the other is an occupied home with furniture and carpets, etc. as John says; make before break, and you have to replace the boards and tidy up each day; oh yes, and you cannot isolate everything (except when the dogs are taken for a walk) 'cos the broadband must stay on. ?


    Somewhere in the middle is an unoccupied house with capping over the old cables so that the new ones can be drawn in without much bother.


    £9k - VAT = £7.5k.


    Difficult to see more than £1k of materials - it's not a mansion = £6.5k.


    @ £30/hr that's 217 hours or about 5½ week's work.

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    John Peckham:

    As Lisa says above it depends what the contractor is being asked to do. If means moving furniture, lifting carpets and floor coverings, lifting floor boards or sheet boards, chasing out and making good, digging a trench to a garden building and running out 60m of SWA to a consumer unit and final circuits, 40 down lighters and 50 sockets, separate circuits for oven and hob etc then not a bad price.




    Indeed! How long is a piece of string?


    At one end of the spectrum you may have a building which is unoccupied, has been gutted, and in reality is similar to a new build.


    At the other is an occupied home with furniture and carpets, etc. as John says; make before break, and you have to replace the boards and tidy up each day; oh yes, and you cannot isolate everything (except when the dogs are taken for a walk) 'cos the broadband must stay on. ?


    Somewhere in the middle is an unoccupied house with capping over the old cables so that the new ones can be drawn in without much bother.


    £9k - VAT = £7.5k.


    Difficult to see more than £1k of materials - it's not a mansion = £6.5k.


    @ £30/hr that's 217 hours or about 5½ week's work.

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