Consumer unit and rewiring · El Campello
Consumer unit replacement and rewiring in El Campello
Seafront apartments and hillside villas need almost nothing in common, and the same quote cannot cover both.
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- Call-out fee agreed before we travel
- Real project photos
- Emergencies 24/7, typically 60–90 min
El Campello runs for kilometres along the coast and climbs inland, and its housing changes completely along the way.
Which of the three possible jobs you need depends almost entirely on which of those you are in.
Two building types, two different pieces of work
Along Muchavista and the seafront the stock is apartment blocks, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s. These have centralised meter rooms, corrugated conduit in the walls that is usually still usable, and installations that were adequate for their period. The work here is normally the board and its protective devices, sometimes with additional circuits drawn through the existing conduit, and walls stay closed.
Inland, the urbanisations are detached houses on generous plots, many built or extended across several decades. Their installations are wider in every sense: outdoor circuits to gates, pools, garden lighting and outbuildings, long runs, and additions made at different times by different hands. The board in one of these frequently has more circuits leaving the house than staying in it.
The consequence is that the same words describe different jobs. A rewire in a seafront flat is a contained, predictable piece of work. A rewire in an inland villa involves buried cable, outdoor enclosures, distances that need sizing for voltage drop, and a genuine question about which of the existing outdoor runs are worth keeping at all.
It also means a price quoted for one tells you very little about the other, which is worth knowing when a neighbour reports what they paid. We survey the property rather than the postcode.
What we typically find here
- Seafront flats where the existing conduit is intact and walls need never be opened
- Inland villas with more circuits leaving the house than staying inside it
- Outdoor runs added at different times by different hands, with no coherent design
- Buried garden cable of unknown route, discovered when a gardener finds it
Common questions
My neighbour paid a certain amount. Should mine cost the same?
Only if you live in the same kind of property. A rewire in a seafront flat is contained and predictable; the same work in an inland villa involves buried cable, outdoor enclosures and long runs that need sizing for voltage drop. We survey the property rather than the postcode.
Do the walls have to come open in a 1970s seafront flat?
Usually not. These blocks were built with corrugated conduit and much of it is still usable, so new cable can often be drawn through it. Testing that is the first thing we do, because it decides which of the three jobs you are in.
More on consumer unit and rewiringEverything we do in El Campello
Work we have done
Photographs of installations we carried out ourselves. No stock photography.
Pricing
What electrical work costs
Installations, consumer units and rewiring are priced after we have seen the installation, as one fixed figure.
Call-out fee agreed before we travel
For emergencies and repairs we tell you the call-out fee before anyone sets off, so you decide with the cost in front of you.
Free, fixed quotes for planned work
Planned work such as EV chargers, air conditioning and solar is quoted free, as one written figure with no provisional items.
Nothing extra without your yes
Beyond the agreed visit, nothing chargeable is done until you have approved it.
What affects the price
- The state of the existing installation and the consumer unit
- How many circuits are involved, and what protection each needs
- Cable distance and the route the cable can physically take
- Access: surface containment, chasing walls, ceilings, communal areas
- Property type and size
- Materials and any paperwork the job needs
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- English & Spanish
- Call-out fee agreed before we travel
- Real project photos
- Emergencies 24/7, typically 60–90 min