Full and partial rewires across Thanet.

When you need one. If your house still has rubber-insulated wiring (pre-1965), lead-sheathed wiring, or TRS cotton-braid (roughly 1945-1965), the insulation is at end-of-life. If your sockets are round-pin, or the wall-switches show fabric-covered flex behind them, the fixed wiring almost certainly predates BS 7671 entirely. Partial rewires are common where a mid-1990s kitchen and bathroom refit brought parts of the house up to spec but left bedrooms and living rooms on the original circuits.

Fixed pricing

• Full rewire, any property size: from £2,990
• Partial rewire (single floor, up to 6 circuits): £1,600 - £2,800
• New consumer unit included in every full rewire. Plastering-back and redecoration by others - we chase and cap only.

Thanet housing-stock notes

Margate and Ramsgate Victorian terraces

Solid-brick walls, lath-and-plaster ceilings, cellar or under-stair meter cupboards. Original wiring typically ran surface-clipped in the cellar and up under floorboards; you often find a mid-C20th refit layered on top with junction-box daisy chains that no modern electrician would sign off. Chased-in rewires are cleaner but disruptive; a soffit/skirting cable-tidy route is a real option on some properties.

Westgate and Birchington 1930s semis

Cavity wall construction from the mid-1930s onwards, joist-run cables under suspended timber floors. Cotton-braid TRS is the common find; it is safe when undisturbed but crumbles the moment a joist is lifted. Full rewires on this stock are typically clean, 5-8 day jobs.

Broadstairs 1950s-60s stock and later

PVC-insulated wiring from around 1960 onwards is still serviceable if it has not been thermally overloaded (loft-run cables above insulation are the usual failure point). Partial rewires - kitchen and bathroom bring-up-to-spec, plus a new board - are more common than full replacements here.

How we run a rewire

1. Survey visit (30-45 min), fixed price emailed same day.
2. Power-off booked with UK Power Networks Southern if the tails need renewing.
3. First fix: chase-in, drop-in, back-boxes, board removed and temporarily made safe.
4. Plastering-back (by your decorator or ours; we can quote both).
5. Second fix: face plates, switches, board, energise, test, certificate.

Notifiable under Part P of the Building Regulations; we register the work with Thanet District Council building control through our competent-person scheme.