Price for sockets in house

Yep - it's a bodge I'm referring to:(.

Surveyor didnt say house needed rewiring (not the slightest hint from him about it). Electrician I had in for extra work I wanted didnt say place needed rewiring and just added extra sockets/changed fusebox to consumer unit and I thought that was "it".

Now found out that both of them let me down and place should have been completely rewired (it does help if one is told these things!!:cool:) and I think I'm going to have to have some wiring behind some sockets replaced now:mad::mad::mad:. Hence trying to figure out my "worst case analysis" of cost in case...though I've got fingers crossed NIC/EIC will sort this for me (as I chose an electrician from their list).

So trying to figure out my worst case analysis in case I have to pay for this myself.

Thanks anyway folks. Looks like I'm not going to be able to get much of an idea - oh well....I'll mentally set to one side £1,000:mad: and hope that (if I'm the one who has to pay for bodging) that that will cover it.

EDIT; I know so little about electrics (being a householder) that I'm reading another current thread with astonishment at finding one needs higher voltage type cable if having range cooker instead of ordinary cooker - I wouldnt have had the foggiest idea about that. I just thought it was "old cooker out - new cooker in" and electrician to connect existing wire....

Would wires put into a 1970s house by a "bad" builder (as I'm told he was) have been put into conduit?

We are talking external walls (and not internal plasterboard walls).

I've been told this latterly by a tradesperson.

By now (long story later) and I can see it would have been best if it had been totally rewired when I bought it (if only I'd been told that by "Homebuyers Survey" or initial electrician).

The way things are now though - which is that some rewiring has been done and it's how much of the gap to bridge between where it's currently at and the full rewire I would have had done if I'd known.

I've had an internet friend explaining to me now just how these sockets were probably set up and exactly what needs to be done to sort things in them to more modern standards and he's told me he reckons it's down to 10 minutes per socket.

So, with that, I think it looks like I need an electrician in for around 2 hours and I know exactly what to tell them to do (in their own technical language) now:)

So - my likely costs are:
- 2 hours of an electricians time
- small amount on necessary materials to do what internet friend has explained to me.

So I think I now have a (very rough guesstimate) of the ballpark figure I'm looking at now:
2 hours of electricians time = say £100? Absolute max = £200 (to allow for a minimum charge thing if I have to)
Small amount of materials = cant think that would be more than £100 surely?

So - I'm hazarding guess at somewheres between £200 - £300.