Expert House Rewiring Services in Bristol
Specialists in Empty Property Rewires. Moving into an older home in Bristol, or renovating? We provide full house rewiring, new build wiring, and fuseboard upgrades, ensuring complete safety and compliance.
Specialists in Empty Property Rewires. Moving into an older home in Bristol, or renovating? We provide full house rewiring, new build wiring, and fuseboard upgrades, ensuring complete safety and compliance.
Whether you're moving in, investing, or developing, old or non-compliant wiring is a significant risk. We help our clients ensure safety, compliance, and long-term value by specialising in comprehensive electrical upgrades across the region. If you require general minor installations or landlord safety checks outside of a full overhaul, view our master Domestic Services Bristol central hub.
The most efficient time to rewire is when the property is empty. We minimise disruption, maximise speed, and ensure your new Bristol home is safe and ready on move-in day.
Future-proof your rental asset with certified wiring. A full rewire reduces maintenance costs and ensures you meet all EICR and licensing requirements for tenants in Bristol.
Reliable electrical partners for developers building new properties in the Bristol area. Guaranteed, scheduled, and full Part P building control compliance from start to finish.
We install all hidden cabling, back boxes, and circuit routing. Perfect for empty properties or during major renovations.
Timescale: 2-4 Days (Average)
Installation of all sockets, switches, and your new RCBO Consumer Unit. We bring the system to life.
Timescale: 1-2 Days (Average)
Full EIC certification and Building Control notification. We ensure your Bristol home is 100% compliant.
Price: Included in Quote
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Rewiring a home in Bristol is a big decision. If you have an unfurnished property, a tight deadline, or just want to speak to a human before booking, we're here to help.
A property developer acquired an old Victorian building in the city centre (BS1 area) being converted into high-end residential apartments, requiring two full, simultaneous rewires under a tight 4-week deadline.
Our dedicated project manager ensured seamless coordination across both properties, installing fire-rated systems, new consumer units, and full lighting plans, delivering both homes fully certified and on schedule.
Because property sizes and structural walls vary wildly across the region, pricing is completely bespoke. However, based on current local rates, a standard 3-bedroom semi-detached home (like those in Filton, Kingswood, or Hanham) averages between £5,300 and £7,500. Smaller 2-bed terraced properties or flats start around £4,200, while larger, older stone-built detached properties out towards Chipping Sodbury or Thornbury can easily exceed £9,500 due to the complexity of the routing.
This is the most common question we get during home purchases. A modern consumer unit (fuse board) equipped with RCD and RCBO safety switches is an excellent upgrade, but it cannot fix degraded, 40-year-old cables hiding inside your walls. If your wiring is old rubber (VIR) or brittle PVC, putting a brand-new fuse board on top is like putting a sports car engine into a rusty vehicle with no brakes. The board will safely trip to prevent fires, but it won’t stop the cables from failing underneath. If your wiring is structurally sound but lacks safety protection, a fuse box upgrade is fine; if the cables are past their lifespan, a rewire is mandatory.
Yes, it is physically possible, but we always advise clients to vacate if they can. Rewiring is an intensely dusty, invasive engineering process that involves lifting floorboards, cutting channels (chasing) into solid brick walls, and turning off the power blocks zone-by-zone during the day. If you live in the property—especially if you work from home or have children—it means packing away furniture daily and living in a construction environment. If you are buying an empty property or moving between homes, scheduling the rewire before your furniture arrives is the smartest and most cost-effective path.
For an empty or completely vacant property, our multi-person specialist teams can typically complete a full first-fix, second-fix, and testing sequence within 3 to 5 working days. If the property is occupied and full of furniture, the process slows down because we must move belongings, lay protective sheeting, and make the home safe and clean for you to sleep in every single evening. This typically stretches the timeline out to 7 to 10 working days.
Ripping out old cables and dropping in new ones requires us to cut precise slots, called "chases," into your plasterboard or solid brick walls. We leave the final skim coat or decorative finish to professional plasterers and painters. Because a rewire affects almost every room, most homeowners use this opportunity to completely redecorate their spaces anyway.
If your home hasn't been touched since the 1980s or earlier, look out for these clear warning signs:
This is a major concern for owners of Victorian terraces in Bedminster or traditional stone cottages in South Glos. We use heavy-duty, dust-extracted wall chasers to slice clean grooves directly into the stone or masonry. The cables are then threaded through protective plastic conduit capping before being plastered over. We avoid running visible surface plastic trunking wherever humanly possible to preserve the architectural character of your home.
Absolutely. A full house rewire is a blank canvas. Modern households draw far more power than properties built in the 1970s. During our initial design and planning stage, we map out your modern lifestyle requirements. We can seamlessly integrate dedicated high-load circuits for kitchen induction hobs, hardwired Cat6 ethernet data cables for home offices, mains-powered interlinked smoke alarms, and heavy-duty cabling pre-installed for your future EV home charging point.
Upon completion, full testing is carried out to ensure every circuit is compliant with standard UK regulations (BS 7671). You will receive an official Electrical Installation Certificate (EIC) directly from us. Because we are fully registered with NAPIT, we also log the project directly with your local building control authority (e.g., Bristol City Council or South Gloucestershire Council). They will mail you an official Part P Compliance Certificate, which is a vital legal document you must hold when selling or renting out the property in the future.
A modern, professionally installed rewire using high-quality PVC-insulated copper cabling and an RCBO consumer unit is designed to safely last between 30 to 40 years, provided it isn't altered or damaged by amateur DIY work. We stand behind our workmanship completely, providing an ironclad 6-year workmanship guarantee alongside the standard manufacturer warranties on all faceplates, consumer units, and accessories installed.
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Many electricians in Bristol are simply not interested in the small jobs.They want the choice jobs and will drop you when a bigger,supposedly more lucrative project comes in.
Others advertise as electricians having no qualifications.They thrive on the basis that you don't understand what they do and as a result charging for shoddy,and often dangerous electrical work.
I set up Burridge Electrical to provide you with a quality service and provide you with exactly what you need from a qualified electrician.
