How to price/quote a re-wire, Exotic life of an Electrician 

The door at the bottom of the stairs, did they cut the top off with an axe

I would of added a combined heat and Co alarm in the lounge and Dining room due to the gas heaters

Nice to see you back Nick with Adam. Nice garden but I would gut the house. It has a lot of potential for an older customer I can understand why they are less likely to want to do this:

Western Power would most likely do free upgrade for cut out, to 80A/!00A fuse, instead current 60A fuse I presume.Have them doing free upgrade here in two weeks. Seen earth rods tarmac over in the past....

hi guys I thank you for making these videos as they do help a lot but when you are speaking sometimes about what you might be using please slow down as you know what your saying but just be aware that its not all sparks that are watching etc thx

Some nice old fluorescent fittings in that house someone would pay decent for them

3 core for switch... Not feed the switch?

But where did you twos get your lockdown haircuts from?! 😜😂

10 k take it or leave it

That boiler of doesn't need electric unless future proofing

With the Age of the installation I would be wary of asbestos in the consumer units on the fuse carriers when stripping out. I personally wouldn't put switched fused spurs on the larger 2.6 -3kw storage heaters as I've seen them burn out get hot because of the load. Best to put a 20 amp double pole switch

Sounds about right for a non vat price ,I have to charge vat so I have to make it 20% cheaper than an electrician working from home with not many overheads so you would make more from it than me but luckily I'm normally pricing against other vat companies so normally get the jobs. Alot of new customers dont go with the cheapest but with the middle price so dont make it too cheap. 1 job we had was to change all the lights in 2 blocks of private flats .the cheapest was about £5000 I was £8000 and the 3rd was £12000 and I got the job , with many other jobs after that without any quotes

WTF with the door @ 2:00 Nice to have one of your videos to watch again 😀

Something about sparkies and their own homes comes to mind.

I don't price much as I'm mostly subby at moment. As you went through the Items I built a figure in my head of where I'd want to be. I thought £4600. Then you said £4565, I wasn't far off with my guestimate ;-)

Worth having a look at JW's vid on cooker circuits as he suggests that 6mm could be over egging it now and 4mm would be fine. Glad to see you back on the road again👍

I want one of those old ivory wylex consumer unit for my collection

Western Power will normally provide a TNS or TNC-S free of charge unlike UK power Networks!

Check out this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hYdWyKIuwQM.html What hourly rate we should all be charging not London/ Inner city of course which all are more !

Nice to see you back Nick and hopefully you have been safe and well! 👍 If the previous owner was an electrician it must have been way back when? 😂

5.7 Ohms is great for a TT, if it is one. It really ought to have an RCD (or VOELCB in such an ancient setup) fitted if it actually is a TT though! Those strip lights in the garage should be in a museums!

Living on the edge at 17:35 hanging a metal saw next to that 240v live box!

Did you get the job? Can we see the finished work?

Check out John Ward's video on cooker circuits. 4mm is sufficient for a 32amp breaker rather than 6mm. 6mm was only used because of the correction factor associated with a 30amp bs3036 fuses. We've all been wasting money on 6mm we didn't need 🤣🤣

Just an estimate but as I'm vat registered it would be £4800 + vat. That would be a Kent price. London would be 20 to 30 % higher to allow for parking/travel and general London agro.

Hi. I'm in my mid 30's and decided to take full scope electrician course on line with practical. Needed a change of career. It takes about 2 years to complete. I've loved watching your videos to get feel of life as an electrician. One question. With no previous experience in construction, once I'm trained... Where would you suggest looking for work?

Hi mate would you not fit mains powered carbon monoxide alarms on your smoke circuit? In the rooms with gas fires and a combined heat and smoke in the kitchen? Aico alarms can transfer stored data straight to your phone through a series of beeps! Should check it out

We have missed you xx

welcome back, dses are doing a sideline in haircuts now give him a bell!

Considering the age of the house and assuming low income there are grants to help this fella out

Looks like pilc cable ? Can see lead plumb but can't see earth that is normally connected . Ask your dno for a reading directly to the lead and if all ok provide a 16mm earth

I don’t think I could sleep safely and soundly knowing that my electrics were like that. The idea of non-earth harks back to the days when it was considered that any metal enclosure that was earthed had the potential to be at 240 V in a fault situation.

The water pipe is being used as the electrode as was the norm many years ago, but for it definitely being a TT , I’d expected there to be a VOELCB at the origin.

Hi from New Zealand! Cheers for the perspective 👍

Unless it's in the middle of nowhere and fed overhead it can be converted to a PME supply can't remember how much it costs now although it will require digging up the drive if it's lead incommer get a proper earthbond to put on it (not a pipe bond)

Great video, as honest and true to life as always. I probably would have thought about a bathroom fan. Old sparks house? Every plumber has a dripping tap.

£281.02 for a PME includes an isolator though

Looks a nightmare job, I always warn the customer of the problems ,like you did ,but I would have mentioned any surface trunking that was needed,price sounds ok with me.good luck .

Love the new video! Been hammering all yours last couple of weeks

That old socket that fed the cooker hood is an old Clock connection socket for an electric clock!

I'd heard that the reason light fittings were put nearer the window is so that the first electric lights mimicked natural daylight. The off centre pendants were definitely a thing from at least the 30s right through to the 60s. In hindsight though I've come across small terraced houses from 1900-1910 both sides of the Pennines where they've asked me to add a central pendant to a dining/living room with only wall lights, and upon taking up the board in the middle of the bedroom there's been a defunct gas pipe centrally Edit: I'm in Sheffield, similar spec but Crabtree board and only T&E to switches, no VAT, no making good, estimate off the top of my head would be 4-5k. If the switch drops will pull into existing conduit/capping think I'd give the customer the option of surface mounted sockets above the skirting to save on the making good other than the kitchen. If you need to put an earth rod in I'd be lifting one of those flags at the side of the garage I think. Out of interest would you put the board somewhere like 1.2-1.5m from the floor in that cupboard, with maxi trunking up and down?

Hi Nick, good to see you again, never thought of running 3c & e for light switches, that would mean that you still run to the ceiling rose? I'm continuing with a rewire tomorrow(Tuesday) and I've got to run the cables in tomorrow so I might try it in this way

Cover Nantwich in Cheshire? Need some outdoor lighting done down to some decking, garage lights etc.

Does everyone love loud Exhausts around there? 🤣 But another great vid and topic!

Hopefully that gas water heater in the bathroom is not working any more..that's realy dangerous. Here in Portugal there used to be many like that, but it's been made illegal several years ago. It's funny to see how different things are even between european countries. I've remodeled an old 1960's house and the wiring was terrible..everything running on 1mm2 cable, on just one circuit without any earth.. The "only safety feature" is that we run much lower amps to the houses here..most people have the basic tariff which limits the available power to 15amps..limiting the possibility of those wires melting..

Great video, I was thinking about the same price as you. Let’s hope you get the job, as it would make an interesting video or two.

Its sad that first impression due to your youthful looks would make people think lack of experience but having watched a few of your videos i am really impressed by your knowledge and approach to your work. You’ve restored my faith in youth of today! I would hire you to work in a jiffy!

How has that house not burned down ! Some of the worst electrics I’ve ever seen.

Here in Canada that job would easily be $12k CAD. And we for the most part have wood frame walls with drywall or lap and plaster. A lot easier to deal with then the solid plaster / concrete / brick you seem to deal with a lot. Hard to find good honest contractors, glad your town has you to rely on.

Recently got my main fuse changed as I looking at getting an EV and they changed me from TT to TN-S at the same time . Everything thing done free of charge by UK power networks..

Well don't you fancy your self.

Hi Nick thanks for sharing your video with me and I would like to see more of your videos and why do all electricians need to wear rubber gloves 🧤 and I never wear rubber gloves 🧤 would I have to wear the gloves 🧤

I'd be putting heat and Co combined detectors in the rooms with gas heaters

Do you use a dedicated app on the iPad when surveying what’s required or just take notes ?

11:40 ..........i think its just "greased shut" lol

so did you end up getting the job?

19:24 wait I recognize that walk...

They put the bedroom light close to the window to stop your shadow going on the curtains when your undressing.....👀👌

what annoys me about all this is , people would rather pay some chav with a paint brush five hundred quid to paint a room then pay for a rewire which could affect their lives to a much greater degree then a nice coat of paint !!!

Where have you been? Hiding

Ceiling light fixtures hanging from their power cords ? Electrical devices in the shower ? U.K. houses seem to be very dangerous.

With that age of property and installation they used to use the old water pipe as the main earth many years ago. 👍🏼 Just need to install a new earth rod with the rewire. I'm suprised there is not a voltage operated trip that must had been removed. 🙉

Been a sparky 4 years and only done 1 rewire 👀 would love to see some footage if you get the job!

22:46 what was so funny??

What was the price/quote ? Didn't catch it, the captioning is a bit messy.

Great video. What are you doing about the garage? I’m thinking of getting back into house bashing myself. Is it necessary to doing a testing course? Something like C&G 2391

Are you just rewiring like for like, so same number of sockets per room or do you add more ? How do you know how many your going to install or do you ask the customer what they're budget is first and work off that. Cheers

Is this DSES old house 😂

Nice vid think that price is a little cheap I'd be putting in a buffer of about 500 in case your there a extra day or so 👍

My house is a lead incomer and the cut out burned out a while ago. The dno put a pme cut out onto it so I have 3 options now either the braided thing on the lead sheath with the 4 screw terminal block or the neutral terminal on the cut out. Or link them both. Seems an odd way of leaving it but I don’t care as it’s only my house. Excellent videos thanks.

Great video, possibly don't go down the road of commenting/showing a customers hygiene habits.. Remember they are paying you. 👍

How long would a rewire like that take? 3 days? 5 days?

A lot of suppliers no longer offer economy 7 or night storage. If meter replaced that subscription may go and customer left with a redundant fuse board and heaters not working. Maybe timers in consumer unit on rcbos would be better for heaters or change a few heaters, night storage radiators much more expensive to buy than ordinary radiators.

For Stafford you need to add 10% to your prices as your a bit cheap.

All I'm getting at the minute is bits. Bits bits and more bits. Driving about jobbing. Boring

He should at least be offered a low cost simple board change with one plug until can spend more and run things on extension lead as that installation will fail shortly leaving completely cut off.

Lived in rewire just finished 3rd and last one never again

where was this video filmied what area due to i recognise the accent and i think your local

How many mirrors do you have in your house.

Glad your both doing ok. Hope you get the job it will make a great video ripping that lot out ain’t seen an install that bad for a long time.

Nagy would charge 15k.

Any Sussex electricians on here? I need one!

i'm so far behind, catching up...

Hi Nick, enjoy the videos and find them very helpful, just curious does the price include chasing or do you just mark it up for someone else. Thanks

Great content! Im a plumbing heating engineer,but enjoy these.

Are you using pricing software if so which one?

wow those olde BC ended fluros...

sounds a fair price and good to see. Guessing you would be in the middle so spot on

100th person to like ;) great videos as always - very interesting

I would recommend 10mm for shower

at 23:00 those big closets sometimes they have a socket inside

Where are you based?

Couldn't hold in the laughter with the squeeky door? 🤣

Love your vids but that hat is absolutely shocking

What’s the cost for ripping out all the old wiring? Or is that factored into the cost of the new fittings?

Leaving roughly 3grand labour/profit on that mate? How long do you reckon it’ll take you and Adam? Also is it lived in?... good luck to ya, you seem a grafter and a good lad! Cheers

Welcome back dude, great video 👍

I've seen some instagram stories, thought it that bad till I watched this.... oh god... HOW IS THAT HOUSE NOT BURNED DOWN?! How is possible with all power hungry storage heater heating?! 😱😱😱 Regarding tiled wall in the kitchen, could you be able to feed cable on other side of the wall into socket? Or routed elsewhere out of sight?

Also good price mate.

Nice one Bateman 👍