re-wiring whole house

A question about : re-wiring whole house

am moving into a 3 bed terrace in Fife and was wondering what a reasonable price would be to get the whole place rewired.

And if anyone knows anyone good and fairly priced in the fife area I'd appreciate it.

Best answers:

• Not sure about fife but we had it done in our 3 bed terrace
  2 yrs ago at a cost of around Ј2500 i recall. Thats in the the south east.
• try and find a sparkey who will do it at the weekend for cash most will do this. if you do it should be somewhere in the region of Ј1000-Ј1500 depending on what you want.
• Can't see anyone doing it for cash anymore. A full rewire would come under part p which means it "can't be done on the side"!
• I thought part P only applied in England and Wales and unless I am mistaken Fife is in Scotland
• Sorry i didn't know that!
• Things are starting to change in Scotland so get it done pretty sharp if i was you, not in law yet but soon will i think.
• The big advantage in Scotland and NI will be that the new colour scheme is already in use so nobody will be able to tell when the work was done, unlike England and Wales where if its in Brown and Blue you need a cert.
• if they let you ,offer to do the dirty work yourself to lower costs, like chasing out walls finishing off plastering or what ever they dont realy want to do themselfs. it can often take hours of labour charges just to do the donkey work, might as well do it yourself for free.
• I am paying £4000 for a full house rewire in London inc moving all furniture & replastering for a 3 bed terraced inc new electrics in the loft. They say it will take 4 weeks. How do others get it done so quickly?!
  The quote I got was excellent compared to the other 3 who gave me quotes. This was a reocmmendation from someone. The others who quoted me were from the local paper.
• We paid Ј1300 for a 3 bed terrace not including plastering
• wow 1300 quid 4 a 3 bed rewire, do you know there names i want them 2 work 4 me at that price, if they charge 3 times as much it would still be cheap,assuming they gave you all the paper work etc.
• Hi as a ex Sparky (changed jobs earlier this year) in Southern england, the cost of a re-wire for a 3 bed house Flush (chased in) using good quality sockets/switches/consumer unit etc to part P (or equivalent in Scotland) and fully certificated should not unless they are ripping you off cost more than 2K + VAT, however as previously mentioned if you carry out some of the work (if the house is occupied) like emptying the rooms, taking up carpets and making coffee etc you should be able to negotiate the price. No sparks that I know of like moving furniture and taking up flooring wheras chasing out is par for the course. You may even get a better deal if you get someone else to do the plastering up of the chases. My experience is based on 30 years with Southern Electric SEC , man and boy, but now moved on to easier work. Hope this helps, but get a few quotes and pick their brains so by the time you talk to the 4th or 5th contractor you have some knowledge of what they are going to do, and definatly get it in writing. IF you use an NICEIC approved contractor you have some recourse if you are unhappy. Hope this helps.
• you don't need part P, but use a registered electrician- they have a complaints procedure and insurance etc.
  A cost of around £1500-£2500 all in is reasonable. Remember to get it all in writing and get any extras done at same time (alarms tv points, bt points etc)
  hope this helps
  Stewart
• Does anyone know if its ok to do all the sitting of the metal back boxes yourself for this, running the cable and just letting the sparky connect up the sockets and new consumer unit
• one of my customers got one of these, they quoted nearly Ј500 for an new consumer unit- all bonding was fine so it was quite straight forward.
  Did it for less than half the price. (18 months ago)
• 2,5 - 3k acr-electrical.co.uk