Rewire costs

typeractive

With regards to rewiring a house.

Does anyone have any advice of what to expect for a 4 bed house, living room, dining room, kitchen, hall, stairs, landing etc.Basically if I could get an electrician to come into a property that is totally gutted (i.e. a skeleton build), to lay all the cables to sockets etc, prior to a plasterer sorting out the walls etc.

Surely it would be cheaper and (hopefully) preferred for electricians to do such work as there is less pulling up floors and making holes here and there?

Any basic ideas?

will-he-payitoff

typeractive wrote: »

With regards to rewiring a house.

Does anyone have any advice of what to expect for a 4 bed house, living room, dining room, kitchen, hall, stairs, landing etc.Basically if I could get an electrician to come into a property that is totally gutted (i.e. a skeleton build), to lay all the cables to sockets etc, prior to a plasterer sorting out the walls etc.

Surely it would be cheaper and (hopefully) preferred for electricians to do such work as there is less pulling up floors and making holes here and there?

Any basic ideas?

Get three quotes then post them on here on a seperate post.

27col

baldelectrician wrote: »

You could go to serewfix website and price up a consumer unit (MK as it is dearest and best) and a few drums of pryimmian cable

I reckon the first fix cost will be closer to the £400 mark (£500 inc consumer unit)

Excuse my ignorance, but what is pryimmian cable. Not a name I was ever familiar with when I was an electrician. Maybe I knew it under another name.

baldelectrician

it used to be Pirelli cable

brownbake

No Chasing or plastering, using an apprentice....

Seems like a rip off to me....

diermo

Hi, new to all of this, but just got a quote for re-wiring a two bed flat. I wonder if anybody had any idea, whether the quote is reasonable. Basically the work would be carried out whilst the flat was lived in. The work would take approximately four weeks. Two new boards would have to go up, all the wiring would be chased in to colving, 20 sockets, 1 oven socket, 6 light sockets, a fan in bathroom and connecting underfloor heating. I've been quoted £8750 for the works with certificates. Just wondering if this sounds reasonable and the going rate? DIERMO

baldelectrician

I quoted a flat rewire (unoccupied) this week at £2400- the flat is more like a 3 bedroom house rather than a flat as it had previously been converted into 2 flats.

sparkykink

Wow,
I think it's time to get out of my current job and back into housebashing!

22 days?
Good God, not a bad return on a few hundred metres of twin & earth a a bit of capping.
I thought I was slow but at £30 a door contact I think I can make a living at that rate.


I can't believe he's had the brass neck to admit he's using apprentices.
It's a shame, it gets the rest of us a bad name.
You,ve had your hat nailed on I'm afraid.

Good luck

ch3f

Hi all, I thought I'd received all the feedback I was going to receive so thank you for the latest feedback.

Please feel free to respond with any further constructive/feedback especially any electricians.

Thank you for supplying a day rate for apprentices (refer to earlier post).

To anyone who reads this I also have some specific questions that I would appreciate feedback on.

I have been working out some basics on the apprentices cost.

I understand 1 apprentice is on £150 a week the other on £100 a week so the weekly profit - overheads for a 5 day week from the 2 apprentices is (2 apprentices x £100 x 5 days ) - (£150 + £100) ; £1000 -£250 = £750,
Weekly (5 day profit £750 - overheads)

I appreciate there are overheads that could be high however does this look like covering overheads with a small marginal profit?

( I appreciate it depends on how the business is structured) and I would also assume they have a full order book for the year with no downtime so the risk of no work is not covered as an overhead.

What would a reasonable return look like?

Also how many days a year are apprentices available for work (ie taking out holidays college etc)?

Once again thanks for reading this, if there are any responses I will also respond and when this is closed down I will advise on outcome.

craigyp2009

Sorry, but I am just starting out and I would typically charge approx £2500 - £3000 for this kind of work.

Infact I have just been creating some flyers for my local area:

Full Re-Wire ( including Standard light fittings, DB Box, Switches and Sockets etc)

Digital TV aerial ( and Distribution Amp Supplying most rooms in house)

Phone Sockets to most Typical rooms in house (+ one to Alarm)

Intelligent Alarm System ( that contacts your phone and others when triggered "So if your shopping / at work / Holiday etc or they disable bell box outside of the house" you and others find out about it)

Plus a Local Area Network System to "pipe" broadband to most rooms in the house

This price is based upon a typical 3 Bed House in my area (of course the price may vary slighty dependant upon extra requirements etc, but certainly not by the extent that your getting charged.

I am really sorry but I think his van must have an orange flashing cowboy hat on the top, and I bet they all wear stripy overall's with arrows on lol!!


Craig