Embarking on the journey of a home rewiring project is a significant endeavour, often representing one of the most formidable challenges for homeowners. The backbone of your home’s electrical system lies within concealed cables within the walls, and it is recommended to consider replacing these cables approximately every 25 years.
These cables play a crucial role in powering your socket outlets, lights, and various electrical appliances such as cookers and boilers. Outdated or improperly installed electrical systems carry inherent risks, ranging from potential fires to electric shocks. Even cables once deemed secure may now be identified as hazardous.
Our home rewiring service is meticulously crafted to address potential issues, ensuring that your home is equipped with state-of-the-art, secure, and certified electrical components. Upon our arrival at your property, we diligently organise and prepare the site for the impending work, emphasising the importance of adhering to the necessary preparations outlined in our terms for a seamless process.
Our experienced team initiates the routing of new cables from your consumer unit throughout the entire property. These cables are strategically concealed beneath floors, within attic spaces, and intricately integrated into the walls and structure of the building. The precise routing process involves lifting carpets and floorboards and creating carefully designed channels within the walls.
The ultimate objective is to terminate these cables at every electrical outlet, organised into distinct circuits for lights and sockets. Through this thorough rewiring process, we prioritise the pillars of safety, modernisation, and certification. Select our rewiring services to fortify your home, ensuring a dependable and contemporary electrical system that will stand the test of time.
We carefully plan all the new locations for your electrical system and mark the fuseboxes, routes and chases.
The carpets and floorboars are lifted to allow the cables to be ran, and we access the attic and basement.
Heavy machinery is used to create channels within the walls and space for the new electrical boxes and accessories.
A tidy is required to remove the majority of the dust and rubble and keep the site clear and free to work.
Our electricians get to work installing your new witing for circuits such as your lights, smoke alarms and sockets.
When the plaster is dry, our electricians proceed with the final terminations and connections of your electrical outlets.
Testing is carried out to ensure the new circuits operate as they should before we send out your final certification.
The time to complete a full rewire can vary from property to property depending on the size and amount of rooms. Typically, the following timescales are a guideline for property size;
This is a guideline only as every job is different.
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A rewire is the ideal time to upgrade other parts of your installation. We often combine rewiring with a new consumer unit (fuse board) upgrade, and can follow up with an EICR safety certificate or landlord certificate once the work is complete. We also handle new electrical installations and fault finding & repairs. We rewire homes across Dorset and the New Forest, including Poole, Bournemouth and the surrounding towns and villages.
For a typical three-bedroom home, a full rewire usually takes around 5–10 working days, depending on the size of the property, the spec and whether you’re living in during the work. We’ll give you a clear timescale with your quote.
It depends on the size and specification of the property and how much making-good is involved. We always provide a clear, itemised quote up front — no hidden extras — so you know exactly what you’re paying before we start.
Common signs include old rubber, fabric or aluminium wiring, a fuse board with old-style rewireable fuses, frequent tripping, scorch marks or a burning smell, and a lack of earthing or RCD protection. If you’re not sure, an EICR will tell you the condition of your wiring.
Not usually — we work room by room to keep disruption to a minimum, though a rewire is inevitably messy and you’ll be without power in the areas we’re working on. We’ll plan the job around you.
Yes. Every rewire is completed and certified to BS 7671, you’ll receive an Electrical Installation Certificate, and as a NAPIT-approved contractor we notify Building Control so you get the compliance certificate for your records.
A rewire is priced on the size of the property, the number of rooms and circuits, and how easy the cabling is to route. As a rough guide across Poole, Bournemouth and Dorset:
We give you a clear, fixed quote after seeing the property — no vague day rates. Period homes across Poole, Bournemouth and the Dorset villages often need extra care around original plaster and features, and we’ll talk you through how we keep disruption and mess to a minimum.
A full rewire replaces the old wiring, sockets, switches and consumer unit throughout the property, bringing everything up to the current BS 7671 wiring regulations. We work room by room where you’re living in, lift and relay floorboards carefully, make good afterwards, and issue full certification and building-control notification on completion.
How long does a rewire take? A typical 3-bed house takes around 5–8 days, depending on size and access.
Do I need to move out? Not usually — we phase the work room by room so you keep power to key areas.
How do I know if my house needs rewiring? Old rubber or fabric-insulated cabling, a fuse box with rewireable fuses, frequent tripping or scorch marks are all signs. An EICR will tell you for certain — and we can carry one out first.
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