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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.

David
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    Many thanks for the really helpful replies, I now have a better appreciation of the factors involved, and I get the impression that the price is in the right ballpark.

    For information, the house will be unoccupied whilst the work is carried out although there will be some furniture, and other building work being done.  It has suspended floors, but some boards in roughly the right places will be raised anyway.  I don’t know if the electrician is VAT registered, I will find out (the builder isn’t, small local builder, uses local tradesmen and supplies).


    David
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    6 rooms for £6,700? I bet that electrician doesn't have his holiday in Butlins!

    Regards, UKPN.
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    davidwalker2:
    Many thanks for the really helpful replies, I now have a better appreciation of the factors involved, and I get the impression that the price is in the right ballpark.

    For information, the house will be unoccupied whilst the work is carried out although there will be some furniture, and other building work being done.  It has suspended floors, but some boards in roughly the right places will be raised anyway.  I don’t know if the electrician is VAT registered, I will find out (the builder isn’t, small local builder, uses local tradesmen and supplies).


    David




    Hi David you are allowed to get a couple more quotes? Perhaps also see if they are part p registered with one of the self cert schemes?

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    Doesn't have to be Part P registered for that price! He just gives the council their cut. A drop in the ocean at that quote.

    Regards, UKPN.
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    A thousand pounds per room, what’s going into them?


    Is the consumer unit having surge and arc protection?


    Andy B
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    Lisa, may I borrow/steal that photo? It's very appropriate for many occasions!
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    Still hard to say without knowing what has been priced for, but assuming there is something like 25 socket outlets, a couple of cooker circuits, maybe some appliance isolation and single sockets, a couple of extract fans, 10 lights, cooker hood. board and bonding, I would think about 2 weeks work so somewhere between £3,200 and £4,500 depending on quality of accesories etc.
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    Seems to be a problem counting spaces . These will have light/ power in them? A little bit more than six unless you do not count the loo's , hallway and corridor. Not sure how some have  decided the house was "modest"....there are en-suites and "family room", suggesting a bit more than your usual two up two down. Also, not forgetting, a very discerning client who will likely be keeping taking note of the procedure.?


    Perhaps if competitiveness is your bag, you could do it "DNO Stylee"
    1. Take full payment upfront

    • Joint new cables onto old.

    • Tarmac the chase's in.

    • Bond the TV aerial and lead flashing.

    • Leave temporary walk-boards over the excavations in the floors for weeks on end, until someone returns to back-fill.

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    --------------And, when there is a sizeable outage as recently, restore 1,000,000 customers in 45 minutes and at its peak, 3000 calls queuing up. And another thing, would this electrician be available on Xmas day and rescue customers in a foot of snow? We are talking about a tiny house, perhaps they should call DIY SOS, they will knock up a new 5 bedroom house in 9 days.


    Regards, UKPN
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    To be fair (I am assuming there's a long term friendly? rivalry going on here... ) both sides have humour.... but... in some countries (ahemerica) bonding the cable tv is mandatory and WILL be checked by the inspector.


    Here we tended to use isolators (to prevent the cabinet, maybe 300 yards or more away) introducing extraneous earth potential, possibly from a TNC-S supply that might even come from a different s/s.


    Recently i've noticed they don't seem to actually worry so much? or maybe the isolation's now at the cabinet end (easier to control for the cable co)

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