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Rewire nearly 4k

MarcoM
MarcoM Posts: 809 Forumite
Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
in House buying, renting & selling
Hi all,

Just had a quote from a reccomended electrician for the rewire of 4 bed house in manchester.

£3700 including plastering.

Had a major headache getting someone down to quote (someone who is part p etc etc).

Downside is he says it will take nearly three weeks:confused:

five days for chasing and first fix, three to five days for plastering (see previous thread) and two to three days for final fix, testing and paperwork.

Any thoughts?

It will be one electrician and a helper doing the job.

Nelly does this look all right. Someone we trust recommended this guy but does the price timescale look reasonable?

Thanks

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  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Just had our 3 bed semi rewired cost £1500 included new consumer unit d square and mk switches and sockets even replaced all light pendants.He didn't make good as we had the whole house reskimmed for £1800. My next post is going to be my 1000th so going to pick a good thread to post it.
  • pocket8s
    pocket8s Posts: 83 Forumite
    Sounds expensive to me! I know of someone in the Manchester area who can help. If you want more details pm me.

    pockets
    If at first u dont succeed .......then sky diving is not for you! :idea:
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    pocket8s wrote: »
    Sounds expensive to me! I know of someone in the Manchester area who can help. If you want more details pm me.

    pockets

    It would be amusing if it turned out to be the same person.

    £4K,, they are having a laugh.

    :)

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    we dont know the size of the cable runs, nor how many sockets nor how many lights nor if they want a shower etc etc
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