Quote for electrical work

Curry_Queen

Can anyone give me a rough ballpark figure of what I could expect to pay an electrician for the following work please?

1. Installing exterior motion sensor floodlight (light supplied by myself).
2. Installing light fitting and switch, plus 2-gang electric socket to outbuilding adjacent to house.
3. Installing the same as above to shed approx 4m away from house.

Cheers

Pressleyno1

Installing exterior motion sensor floodlight (light supplied by myself).-

Depends on whether you want this light to come of an existing lighting circuit, of if you'd want to put a new cable in for its own circuit. The first option would be cheapest. £50 maybe


Installing light fitting and switch -

Is this the flood light from above, or a different light all together. Again it dependant on whether you want it on its own circuit. Maily because if you did then a new cable would have to be put in therefore more work to be done. However, this should cost about £50 if it was from an existing joint box.


plus 2-gang electric socket to outbuilding adjacent to house -

This could be more costly. You have to run a cable from the board to this socket. The cable used isn't your standard cable, it's quite a big one, so it'll be expensive depending on length of run. It'd also have to be underground, so a small trench would need to be dug. So roughly I'd say £150 (see below)

Installing the same as above to shed approx 4m away from house. -

You could have the shed of the same circuit as the outhouse, whcih would mean more cable etc, so I recon for the outhouse and shed you're talking £200-£250

It's hard to say without seeing the job, but with labour and material costs, it looks like a days work, you might be looking at £400-£500. If you lived local to me I'd do it for a knock down price, as would many other sparks who do homers and jobs on the side. So my advice would be to ask family and friends if they can recommend someone instead of going to a proper company.


REMEMBER, THIS IS JUST A ROUGH ESTIMATION, I DON'T KNOW WHAT MY COMPANY I WORK FOR WOULD CHARGE FOR ALL THIS, BUT I REALLY DOUBT IT'D BE UNDER £400.

mbailey

Pressleyno1 wrote:

If you lived local to me I'd do it for a knock down price, as would many other sparks who do homers and jobs on the side. So my advice would be to ask family and friends if they can recommend someone instead of going to a proper company.

Does that mean the Job would still be done under Part P?

Is the part P qualification done for the firm you work for or the individual electrician? I thought it was the firm that was registered and not the individual.

But as you are in Scotland, then I guess it is different...