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cost of rewiring

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  • 03-11-2013 10:46am
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    cargen
    Registered Users Posts: 272 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have been quoted 5.5k for rewiring a 3 bed house semi detached in Dublin.
    I was expecting 4k, do you think the price is high or my expectation are wrong. I am gettin another quotation next week.
    What should I ask to compare the two prices. How do I know who is providing the best service for the price?

    Thanks


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    kkelliher
    Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭kkelliher


    cargen wrote: »
    Hi,

    I have been quoted 5.5k for rewiring a 3 bed house semi detached in Dublin.
    I was expecting 4k, do you think the price is high or my expectation are wrong. I am gettin another quotation next week.
    What should I ask to compare the two prices. How do I know who is providing the best service for the price?

    Thanks

    To me it sounds about average but it all comes down to number of light fittings, type of fittings, number of sockets, power points, tv, internet etc etc and you would need to confirm the quotes include for the same qty of everything and to the same spec of finish


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    Timmyboy
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Timmyboy


    It's important to define and descripe location and detail of all electrical fixtures in all rooms/areas of the house.

    E.g.

    Small Bedroom:
    1 single gang Cat 5 and Telephone
    1 single gang light switch for main light by door
    2 double gang socket outlets (one by leading edge of main door and one at corner by window)
    1 single gang satellite outlet
    1 single gang lamp socket by bed head
    etc.


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    trades101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32 ✭trades101


    During the summer my parents gutted and revamped a house for 7k including rewireing and plumping plastering extending the bathroom. And materials
    We still can't believe they did it.

    Rewireing was like €400 not thousand hundred. No one else will ever get it like that my dad is some man for getting things On the cheap


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    lynchieboy
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭lynchieboy


    Rewireing was like €400 not thousand hundred. No one else will ever get it like that my dad is some man for getting things On the cheap[/QUOTE]

    €400 to rewire a house, the cost of cable alone would be more than that:rolleyes:


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    trades101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32 ✭trades101


    lynchieboy wrote: »
    Rewireing was like €400 not thousand hundred. No one else will ever get it like that my dad is some man for getting things On the cheap

    €400 to rewire a house, the cost of cable alone would be more than that:rolleyes:[/quote]

    Tbh I don't know how my dad swung that the electrocution was recommended to him a his plumber friend.


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    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,140 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    trades101 wrote: »
    the electrocution was recommended to him a his plumber friend.
    sums this price up really:D


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    Curious Geroge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Curious Geroge


    Friend recently rewired as part of a full renovation, 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 living rooms, 2 entrance halls and kitchen with new points in bedrooms and living rooms for tv, new points in bathrooms for showers. Just under 3k including standard fittings.


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    windfan
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭windfan


    Hi there, any chance of getting contact info for the electrician, sounds like a decent price. Ta


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