Electrics - does this sound about right?

BBen

Does this sound about right? They quoted me £3000 for a full rewire so this seems a bit steep in comparison.

• Consumer unit upgrade to 17th edition including mains tails and earthing testing and certification £475
  
• Extra sockets in bedrooms to bring the total to three per room £350
  
• Install a mains wired smoke detector circuit to include 3x smoke detectors,1x heat detector and a carbon monoxide detector £460
  
• fix earth fault to attic light £80
  
• fault fiding to high resistance reading on earth of ring main £80

Total £1445

The house up north and vacant, and all cables are to be set into the walls, includes VAT and materials.

krey

daylight robbery if you ask me...but than again My dad is an electrician and has thought me everything so I can do the stuff myself. Find someone else you should be able to do it for £445 from a private electrician not £1445.

Mr.Generous

krey wrote: »

daylight robbery if you ask me...but than again My dad is an electrician and has thought me everything so I can do the stuff myself. Find someone else you should be able to do it for £445 from a private electrician not £1445.

Pretty much my view, I'd be surprised if they added a new circuit for smoke alarms, they are usually in the lighting circuit. (oh no someone is going to shout at me for daring to say this) Is it a 3 storey house? Id be generous and say £700-800 for the lot, great job for the money at that price.

Risteard

krey wrote: »

you should be able to do it for £445 from a private electrician

Absolute nonsense.

coffeehound

Mr.Generous wrote: »

Pretty much my view, I'd be surprised if they added a new circuit for smoke alarms, they are usually in the lighting circuit. (oh no someone is going to shout at me for daring to say this)

The wiring isn't just for power, it's so one smoke alarm will trigger all the others.

OP: how many bedrooms?

£160 to find two earth faults might be a bit pricey.

brightontraveller

BBen wrote: »

Does this sound about right? They quoted me £3000 for a full rewire so this seems a bit steep in comparison.Consumer unit upgrade to 17th edition including mains tails and earthing testing and certification £475

I,d say reasonable to cheap side

BBen wrote: »

Extra sockets in bedrooms to bring the total to three per room £350

Not enough info impossible to tell

BBen wrote: »

Install a mains wired smoke detector circuit to include 3x smoke detectors,1x heat detector and a carbon monoxide detector £460

Type, installation method etc without again impossible to tell senors could be £10-20 each could be £50-70 each

BBen wrote: »

fix earth fault to attic light £80

Not enough info how they fixing it

BBen wrote: »

fault fiding to high resistance reading on earth of ring main £80

Seams reasonable could even be cheap who knows how long it takes to find a fault

BBen wrote: »

Total £1445

The house up north and vacant, and all cables are to be set into the walls, includes VAT and materials.

Price for rewire if above is included chasing in , smoke etc cheap for a house expensive for a shed but you omit that info so hard to say ?

If a house cheap if thats an indicator, ditto works that there is enough info to make a reasonable estimate are also, But you'll get those that are clueless and just say it should be cheaper because they base there pricing on not knowing a thing