House rewiring in Bristol

It comes down to the condition of the installation, not just its age. Warning signs such as burn marks, buzzing sounds, or a breaker that trips repeatedly are worth acting on, and so is a consumer unit that is still a wooden backed fuse box. An inspection will tell you honestly whether targeted repairs are enough or whether a rewire is the better long term answer.

A full rewire starts from £4,500 + VAT for a one-bed flat and from £4,700 + VAT for a one-bed house, and each extra bedroom adds £350: a three-bed house starts from £5,400 + VAT, a four-bed house from £5,750 + VAT, and five bedrooms or more from £5,900 + VAT for a flat or £6,100 + VAT for a house. Concrete ground floors add £1,200 to £1,850 + VAT. These are starting prices for a basic specification rather than fixed prices, because the number of circuits, sockets and lights, the lighting design and the making good all move the figure: we survey the property first and give you a written specification with a firm price before any work starts. The calculator on this page works out a starting price for your home in a few taps.

A full rewire replaces the cable, accessories and consumer unit throughout the whole property in one certificated job. A partial rewire covers a defined area, such as one floor, one circuit, or the rooms affected by an extension, and is priced the same way, from a survey.

Yes. Where testing shows part of the installation is sound, a partial rewire can cover one floor, one circuit or the rooms affected by an extension, and the rest can follow later. Each stage is surveyed, priced and certificated on its own. Rewiring the whole house in one go is usually quicker overall and means one round of disruption, so we will tell you honestly which suits your home.

A full rewire is notifiable work under Part P, but as a NAPIT registered contractor we self certify the job under the Competent Person Scheme. That means you are not left arranging or paying for a separate Building Control inspection, and you receive a Building Regulations Compliance Certificate once the job and paperwork are complete.

It is best not to. For a full rewire we always try to have the house empty, so we will ask you to move out while the work is done if you can. Parts of the house are without power during first fix, floorboards come up and there is dust, and an empty house is safer and quicker to rewire. If moving out really is not possible, tell us at the survey and we will talk through what can work.

A typical three bedroom house takes roughly a week to ten days from first fix to a finished, certificated job. First fix, when the old wiring comes out and the new cable goes in, is the longest stage at around three to five days; second fix and testing follow once the walls are made good. Bigger homes and solid floors add time, and an empty house is always the quickest to rewire.

Some damage is part of the job. New cables sit in channels cut into the plaster, so expect straight chases along cable routes and neat holes at sockets and switches, and in older homes with soft lime plaster the odd extra patch can come away. We leave a first fix tidy up; plastering and making good beyond that are priced separately after the survey, and decorating is best left until the rewire is finished.

Yes. A full rewire is notifiable work, so it is certified and registered through NAPIT and covered by the NAPIT Work Quality Guarantee for six years after completion: if the notified work is found not to meet the Building Regulations and we were unable to put it right, NAPIT arranges for it to be corrected, up to £25,000 or the contract value. The consumer unit and the fittings carry the manufacturer's guarantee, which is separate from ours. You also receive the Electrical Installation Certificate and the Building Regulations Compliance Certificate for the property file.

Bristol Phoenix Group Ltd rewires houses and flats across Bristol. We are NAPIT approved and TrustMark registered electricians based in South Bristol, rated 5.0 on Google, and a full rewire starts from £4,500 + VAT (from £5,400 + VAT for a three-bed house), fixed in writing after a free survey. Whoever you choose, check they are registered with a Part P scheme such as NAPIT or NICEIC, and ask for a written specification and the certificates before work starts.

Not quite. A house rewire replaces the wiring in a property that is already built and lived in, working around existing furniture, floors and finishes. New build and extension wiring means installing wiring into a property from scratch, before floors and walls are closed up, and the two are treated differently for notification purposes under Approved Document P of the Building Regulations. If your project is a new build, loft conversion or extension rather than rewiring an existing house, our new build and extension wiring page covers that instead.