Fair price for new 4 bed house electricity wire?

[markharro]

This will be 3phase but a fairly standard instal and no data cabling or other smart home stuff which I will be doing myself. What would be a ballpark figure? I have just had my first quote which has sort of crushed me with how expensive it is.

 

thanks

[Kelvin]

How expensive was it? 

[Canski]

my first quote was just under £11 k 

[markharro]

add £14k to that!

[jayc89]

Not exactly the same, but I would have thought more expensive, I had our house re-wired 18 months ago, inc. chasing our brickwork etc, which took an age. Included data and aerials to all rooms, re-routing the phone line into a new "comms cupboard" and few other bits we added in (couple of extractor fans, hanging and wiring our staircase light etc). It came to just over £10k for both 1st and 2nd fix. 

[Kelvin]

Yes well get more quotes. 😂 

 

Quotes for stuff are all over the place. 64m² of Alwitra roofing membrane fitted. First quote £14,000! The second quote is £5000 which I still thought was a bit dear but that’s what I’m going with. 

Edited February 20, 2023 by Kelvin

[Nickfromwales]

I've stopped quoting for wiring work tbh, as even pricing at £18k and above for a typical 4 bed, we just never made any money. Outside lights, a bit of interior lighting design and some TV points / LAN connections etc soon put the hours and materials costs too high to be of interest.

North of £20k for a comprehensive 3ph wiring install is not crazy money tbh, but if you get a small, local firm or sole trader you'll defo save money. 

[Mike]

1 hour ago, Canski said:

my first quote was just under £11 k 

I recently had a similar quite for a 1 bed apartment - albeit it's well specced.

 

So I'll be doing all the prep - putting in all the ducting, wall boxes etc. - and buying almost all the kit, other than the cables, so the electrician only has to pull the wires through, fit the consumer unit and make the connections, similar to a rewire. Although you still need to know what you're doing to get everything in the right places.

 

Edited February 20, 2023 by Mike

[markharro]

Think I will have to do something similar - what % can you save this way?

[jack]

It's a long time ago but we had a quote for £14.5k for very standard wiring of a large 4 bedroom house in 2015 in the south east  i assume that'd have to be well north of £20k now.

[Kelvin]

I’ve budgeted £18k! Should get quotes back this week. Plumbing was £12k. 

[Mike]

2 hours ago, markharro said:

Think I will have to do something similar - what % can you save this way?

Just a guess, but I'm hoping to save between 1/3 and 1/2 of the labour cost and, by carefully shopping around, maybe 10% on the materials. But I won't have an answer for a few months.

[Mattg4321]

It all depends on a lot of things. It does sound perhaps a little high. I’m guessing it’s not 4 sockets and a centre light in each room though?!