Full and partial rewires for Radstock terraces, semis and cottages, planned room by room and finished with a new RCBO consumer unit, mains-interlinked alarms and a full certificate.
Priced per property, fixed in writing after a survey.
A rewire is the right answer when the cables themselves are the problem. The signs are an EICR with several C2 codes for insulation resistance or missing earths, rubber-insulated or fabric cable still in use, sockets that have been added by spurring off spurs, or a lighting circuit with no earth at all. If the cables test well, a new board and some targeted work may be enough, and we will say so.
Most Radstock rewires are on terraced and semi-detached houses. The walls are often solid stone or brick, so the cable routes need thought. We use the floor voids and loft wherever we can, drop cables down inside walls where the construction allows, and only chase where there is no other route. Chases are filled ready for your plasterer.
Every rewire includes a new RCBO consumer unit, a full set of mains-interlinked smoke and heat alarms to BS 5839-6, and an Electrical Installation Certificate. The work is notified to Building Control through NAPIT.
Radstock was the centre of the Somerset coalfield, and the terraces built for mining families are still the core of the town. Houses of that age were not built with electricity in mind, so whatever wiring they have went in later, often in stages. Where we find PVC cable from the 1960s or 1970s, it is now around fifty years old and was installed before RCDs, before current earthing rules and before most of the loads a modern kitchen puts on a circuit.
Terraces also bring practical issues. Floorboards may have been replaced with chipboard sheets that are glued and screwed. Front rooms often have original features owners want to keep. Party walls limit where cables can go. We walk round with you before quoting and agree what stays untouched.
If the house has a cellar, its ceiling often gives the easiest route for ground-floor circuits. We check it on the survey.
Every rewire is priced per property after a survey. The quote lists what is included, room by room.
We don't publish a price list, because size, construction, access and the finish you choose all move the price. Every rewire is quoted after a survey, and the written quote is fixed.
Most owners stay in the house. We work in two stages: first fix, when the floors are up and cables go in, and second fix after plastering, when the accessories go on. A 2-bed terrace usually takes four to six working days.
We also rewire in Writhlington, Clandown, Westfield and Kilmersdon, where many cottages share the same age and construction as the town terraces. In BA2, Peasedown St John has a mix of older cottages and estates from the 1960s, 1970s and late 1990s, and Timsbury has a conservation-area core where routes need more care.
For listed or period houses, see our heritage rewires page for Radstock.
Tell us the number of bedrooms and roughly when the house was last rewired, if you know. We will call back to arrange a survey.
A survey costs nothing and the written quote is itemised room by room.
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