Across the Wirral
Electrical work, across the Wirral
The age of the house tells you nothing about the wiring.
Rewiring, consumer units, sockets and lighting, car chargers, garden electrics and fault finding from Birkenhead to Meols. What is already installed decides the job, so we look before we price.
- We look before we price
- In writing, itemised
- We say what is not ours
We look before we price
Mon to Fri 8 to 6
We say what is not ours
Before you ring round
Why nobody can price your job down the phone
A Victorian terrace rewired in 1998 is a more modern installation than a 1975 bungalow nobody has touched. That one sentence is most of why electrical quoting works differently from other trades: the age of the building, which is the thing you can see from the street, tells you almost nothing about the thing that decides the work.
What does decide it is the installation. How the circuits are arranged, what cable is in the walls, what is in the consumer unit, what has been added since and by whom. On a house that has been improved in stages by different people over forty years, nobody has the full picture, and establishing it is a real part of the job rather than a preliminary.
So the first visit is a look rather than a measurement: a socket front off, the board photographed, the loft and the floor voids checked for how cable actually runs. Five minutes of that is worth more than any amount of description over a phone, and it is why we would rather come out than give you a number that will change.
What we do
Eleven things we do, each with its own page. If what you need is not on the list it is probably somebody else's work, and we will say so rather than take it on.
Rewiring
Whole houses and single circuits, where the making good matters as much as the cable.
Read moreConsumer units
The board, which is usually the oldest part and the thing limiting the rest.
Read moreSockets and lighting
Extra sockets, new circuits and lighting changes, priced by how the cable gets there.
Read moreCar charger installation
A charger at home, where the supply, the board and the distance decide the job.
Read moreOutdoor and garden electrics
Supplies to garages, garden rooms and workshops, and lighting outside.
Read moreFault finding
Tracing what is actually wrong, which is most of the work on an old installation.
Read moreSmoke and heat alarms
Mains powered and interlinked alarms, fitted where they need to be.
Read moreElectric showers
A dedicated circuit and the right cable, which is what a shower really needs.
Read moreExtractor fans
Bathrooms and kitchens, with the duct route mattering more than the fan.
Read moreLandlord electrical checks
What the inspection involves and what the duty on a landlord actually is.
Read moreElectrical prices
What moves an electrical price, and why a phone quote is a guess.
Read moreHow a job runs
- 1You send the details
What you want doing, roughly how old the house is, and a photo of the consumer unit if you can get one.
- 2We come and look
What is already installed decides most of the work, and the only way to know is to look behind a socket front and at the board.
- 3You get it in writing
What is being done, what has to be established first, how long it takes and what would change it.
- 4The work, then the making good
Floors and furniture covered first. Where walls had to be chased, what state they are left in is agreed before anybody starts.
What the work looks like
The slots below are placeholders. The pictures elsewhere on this site are example images of the kind of work described and they are not photographs of our own jobs. Nothing here is borrowed from anybody else's. Our own photographs go in as jobs are finished and customers are happy for us to use them.
A consumer unit with the cover off, circuits labelled
Cable run neatly through a floor void before boarding back
A chased wall with cable in capping, before plastering
An outside socket fitted and sealed against the weather
A car charger mounted beside a drive
A loft with cable clipped and run to the drops
Areas we cover
Twelve towns across the peninsula. What decides an electrical job is the age of the installation rather than the age of the house, and on the Wirral those two are often decades apart.
Across the Wirral peninsula
The west side and the coast
Questions people ask before they ring
How do I know whether my house needs rewiring?
Not from its age. What tells you something is what is actually there: old rubber or fabric covered cable, round pin sockets, a board with rewirable fuses, lighting with no earth at the switch positions, or sockets that are warm. Any of those is a reason to have the whole installation looked at properly.
Can I have part of the house done rather than all of it?
Often, and it is a normal way to spread the cost over a few years. What decides whether it is sensible is the state of what the new work joins onto, which is another reason the first visit is a look rather than a quote.
How disruptive is rewiring?
In a modern house with cavity walls, stud partitions and loft access, considerably less than people fear. In a solid walled Victorian house with lath and plaster ceilings, a great deal, because cable has to be chased into masonry and that means plastering and decorating afterwards. The making good is frequently the larger half of the project.
Will you make good after chasing walls?
What state the walls are left in is agreed in writing before anybody starts, because it is the most common source of disagreement in this trade. Cable in, capping on, chases filled is one thing. Plastered ready to decorate is another. Both are reasonable; they are not the same price.
Who is responsible for the incoming supply and the meter?
Not us. The service cable, the cutout and the meter belong to the network operator and your energy supplier, and work on them is theirs to do. If a job turns out to need the supply altered, that introduces a third party and it changes the timescale as well as the price. We will tell you as soon as we know.
Do you do small jobs?
Yes. A socket, a light, a fault, an extractor fan. Getting set up costs much the same whatever the size, so one small job is rarely a tenth of the price of ten.
Which parts of the Wirral do you cover?
Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Bromborough, Heswall, West Kirby, Hoylake, Caldy, Greasby, Irby, Meols and Moreton.
Are you taking bookings now?
Not yet, and the banner at the top of every page says so. The site is finished and the brand is not open for work until the right person is in place. You are welcome to send an enquiry and we will come back to you when it is.
Tell us what the job is
A photo of the consumer unit and a note of roughly when the house was last worked on tells us most of what we need.
Get in touch
Tell us what the job is and roughly how old the house is. A photograph of the consumer unit and of the inside of a socket front answers more than any description.
- Phone0151 453 8836
- Emailcontact@wirralelectrics.com
- WhatsAppSend us a photo of the job
- Based inWirral, Merseyside
- HoursMon to Fri 8 to 6, Sat 8 to 2, closed Sunday