Services

Electrical services

Nineteen jobs electricians are hired for across the UK, each with what the work involves, what it typically costs, and what to ask before you book.

A wall mounted charge point beside a car on a drive, its lead run out to the connector

EV chargers

Fitting a 7kW wall charger on a dedicated circuit, load assessment against the main fuse and existing demand

£800 to £1,400 for a 7kW home charger

A bench of appliances being tested one at a time, passed items labelled

PAT testing

Testing appliances across an office or a shop, labelling and asset registers by item

£1 to £3 an item, with a minimum charge

A consumer unit with its lid open, test leads run to it from an instrument, and a schedule of results alongside

EICR

Periodic inspection and testing of a whole installation, coding c1, c2, c3 and fi observations

£150 to £300 for a domestic report

A tiled roof with a solar array on its rails, scaffold to one side and the inverter on the wall below

Solar panels

Roof mounted arrays on tile, slate and flat roofs, inverter siting, dc isolation and cable runs

£5,500 to £9,500 for a 4kW system

An aerial on a chimney mast with its cable run down to the set inside

TV aerials

Fitting and aligning a digital aerial, distribution amplifiers feeding several rooms

£100 to £250 for an aerial fitted

A corridor with the alarm panel, a detector, a call point and a sounder on one loop

Fire alarms

Designing and installing systems to BS 5839, conventional and addressable panels

£1,200 to £4,000 for a small commercial system

A darkened room lit by a torch, a scorched socket sparking, and one device tripped at the board

Emergency electrician

Total loss of power to a property, a circuit that trips the moment it is reset

£80 to £160 for the first hour, out of hours

Floorboards lifted and a wall chased, a drum of cable paying out to a back box

Rewiring

Full rewire of a property back to the meter, partial rewires of lighting or socket circuits only

£3,500 to £7,500 for a three bedroom house

A wall mounted battery and its inverter, cabled back to the consumer unit

Battery storage

Adding storage to an existing solar array, ac coupled retrofit where the inverter stays

£3,500 to £8,000 installed

A camera fixed under the eaves covering the approach, with a ladder against the wall

CCTV

Four and eight camera systems with a recorder, camera positions that cover approaches rather than walls

£450 to £1,200 for a four camera system

A lifted floorboard over a damaged cable, an instrument connected, one device tripped

Fault finding

Tracing an earth fault that trips an RCD, finding a break in a ring final circuit

£60 to £110 an hour, plus parts

A consumer unit with its circuits, the signed certificate beside it and the scheme's copy behind

Electrical certificates

Installation certificates for new circuits, minor works certificates for alterations

£90 to £250 for a certificate on completed work

A pair of driveway gates with the motor at the hinge, a keypad post and photocells across the opening

Electric gates

Automating existing gates with underground or ram motors, running supply, safety edges and photocells

£2,500 to £7,000 installed

A freestanding cooker under its worktop with the cooker switch above and the supply run to it

Cooker installation

Connecting a freestanding cooker to an existing outlet, fitting a cooker switch and outlet plate

£80 to £200 for a like for like connection

A bathroom fan ducted through a tiled wall to the outside, with its pull cord isolator

Extractor fans

Fitting a bathroom fan with an overrun timer, ducting through a wall, soffit or roof tile

£120 to £300 fitted

A hot water cylinder in a cupboard with the immersion boss, its timer and a spare element

Immersion heaters

Replacing a failed immersion element, fitting twin element cylinders on off peak supply

£150 to £300 to replace an element

A rented front door with an agent's board, the consumer unit inside and the report issued

Landlord certificates

Five yearly reports on rented homes in England and Wales, reports across a portfolio on one visit

£150 to £280 for a two bedroom rental

Spike lights along a garden at dusk, cable trenched between them back to a transformer

Outdoor lighting

Running armoured cable to lighting in a garden, spike and wall lights on a switched garden circuit

£200 to £900 for a garden lighting run

Three ceiling alarms on one interlink running across a landing and into a kitchen

Smoke alarms

Interlinked mains alarms on a dedicated circuit, heat alarms in kitchens and smoke alarms on escape routes

£300 to £600 for a three alarm interlinked system

A commercial distribution board, containment across a ceiling and lighting above a desk run

Commercial electrical

Distribution boards and sub mains in commercial units, lighting, power and containment in offices

£45 to £80 an hour, or priced by project

The main earthing terminal with bonding conductors clamped to the incoming gas and water, and an earth rod

Earthing and bonding

Running 10mm bonding to incoming gas and water, fitting an earth rod on a tt installation

£150 to £400 to bring bonding up to standard

A PIR floodlight under the eaves lighting the approach to a door at night

Security lighting

Fitting PIR floodlights to a wall or soffit, setting detection range so the light does not trigger on the road

£120 to £280 fitted

A socket fitted beside an open back box, with the chase above it still to make good

Sockets and switches

Adding sockets to an existing ring, moving a socket or switch during decorating

£80 to £160 for each additional socket

Armoured cable trenched from the house board across to a small consumer unit in a garage

Outbuilding supplies

Running a submain in armoured cable to an outbuilding, fitting a small consumer unit at the far end

£400 to £1,200 for a submain and small board

A new consumer unit on the wall with the old fuse box taken out beside it

Fuse box replacement

Replacing a rewireable fuse box with an RCBO board, upgrading a split load board to individual rcbo protection

£450 to £900 for a domestic board

A bell box under the eaves, a keypad by the door and a detector covering the hall

Intruder alarms

Wired and wireless systems with a control panel, detector positions that avoid pets and radiators

£500 to £1,200 fitted

An electric shower on a tiled wall with its pull cord isolator on the ceiling

Electric showers

Replacing an electric shower like for like, upgrading cable and protection for a higher kilowatt unit

£200 to £450 to replace like for like

Downlights fitted along a ceiling with two holes still to cut and a hole saw below

Lighting installation

Fitting fire rated downlights into a ceiling, hanging pendants and chandeliers on a new rose

£60 to £120 for each fitting

A smart switch beside an opened switch position, with the hub and a phone controlling it

Smart home

Smart switches and dimmers on existing circuits, neutral wires added where a smart switch needs one

£400 to £2,500 depending on the scope

A panel radiator and a storage heater in one room, with the programmer on the wall

Electric heating

Replacing night storage heaters with modern units, fitting electric radiators on their own circuits

£250 to £600 for each heater fitted

A control panel with an emergency stop beside a machine, its isolator and containment above

Industrial electrical

Machine power, isolation and emergency stops, control panel building and modification

£50 to £90 an hour

A hot tub with its rotary isolator on a post, fed by armoured cable trenched from the house

Hot tub supply

Running a dedicated RCD protected supply to a tub, fitting an external rotary isolator within reach

£350 to £800 for a dedicated supply

A patch cabinet with panels and leads, a ceiling access point and a data point on the wall

Data cabling

Cat6 points to desks, TVs and access points, patch panels and comms cabinets

£80 to £160 for each data point