Any electricians on here ?

[lozz]

Hi chaps, is anyone on here clued up on electrics,

looking on a Guestimate of how much a Re-wire on a house wouid cost so ican start saving up
So far ive had a Quote of 8 grand, Surely thats not right,
but theres alot of wiring a suppose,

6 bedrooms, 2 living rooms and kitchen /basement/ loft
garage, greenhouse and a guest house, half of it i dont forken use either,

all the wiring is pretty much fooked and needs out, acouple of the fuse boards look like theyve come off the Antiques roadshow,
iwill get some pics up when iget chance just to show how old they are,

[lozz]

check this fuse box out out

how old do you rekon that is

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[lozz]

found some more modener wiring
but ive not a clue what its for

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time for it all to come out me thinks

[Bailes1992]

About 6-8 grand is generally in the right mark.
The majority of that will be copper and materials.

[lozz]

Cheers,

Thats my cars going up for sale then, and my planned holiday is gone,

ah fuggit, thats life a s'pose.


found this box thing, looks like its melting but it isnt, not got a clue what thats for either, iwill find out soon tho

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[Bailes1992]

Why don't you do it in stages?

Get someone in to come and change the consumer unit, get one fitted with an RCD which will make like a million times safer! (Providing everything is earthed). While they're doing the consumer unit get all the bonding conductors changed.

Then maybe do the upstairs lighting. Then the upstairs power, then the downstairs lighting, then the downstairs power etc etc.

Just do it phase at a time?

[lozz]

Iwouid have it done like that,
but the wife and kids are chronic asthma suffer 'ers so its not an option,

for that reason iwouid have to move them down south for a few weeks to the mother n laws holiday -let house
its empty through the winter so its not aproblem,

so that way ican rip into everything im no good with electrics but everything else plastering etc iwill be doing to save a few quid,

[steve_earwig]

6 bedrooms, 2 living rooms and kitchen /basement/ loft
garage, greenhouse and a guest house, half of it i dont forken use either,

Blimey Lozz, you are the Duke of Monmouth and I claim my five pounds

About 6-8 grand is generally in the right mark.
The majority of that will be copper and materials.

Perhaps you could break that down a little, maybe Lozz wouldn't be saving a whole lot by doing all his own channelling and plastering, or is that estimate for cheating and using conduit?

[lozz]

6 bedrooms, 2 living rooms and kitchen /basement/ loft
garage, greenhouse and a guest house, half of it i dont forken use either,

Blimey Lozz, you are the Duke of Monmouth and I claim my five pounds

Nah nothing like that mate,
in reality its not my house it belongs to a good mate of mine
hes just let me have it on a if out breaks you fix it basis, he only bought it for the land its on

im going to get an electrian in to change the fuseboxes and work from there me thinks,