Sockets and lighting
Sockets and lighting on the Wirral
Extra sockets, new circuits and lighting changes. The price is almost entirely about how the cable reaches the new position.
- We look before we price
- In writing, itemised
- We say what is not ours
Sockets and lighting
The same socket, two very different prices
Adding a socket sounds like a fixed job and it is not. The accessory and the cable cost very little. What varies, and varies enormously, is the route. A new socket on the other side of a stud wall from an existing one is quick. The same socket on a solid masonry wall in a room with a concrete floor and no loft above means chasing, and chasing means plastering and decorating afterwards.
So the honest way to ask for a price is to say where you want it and what the wall and the floor are made of, and the honest way to give one is to look. It is also why the number of sockets matters less than their positions: four on one wall that already has a circuit in it can be cheaper than one on the far side of a room.
Lighting is the same question with a ceiling instead of a wall. Changing fittings in existing positions is straightforward. Moving them, adding downlights, or splitting one switch into two means working above the ceiling or cutting into it, and a lath and plaster ceiling in an older Wirral house is not something to perforate casually. Often asked about alongside car charger installation, outdoor and garden electrics and fault finding.
Talk about the sockets
Four sockets on a wall that already has a circuit can cost less than one across the room.
Stud and timber floor is quick. Solid masonry and concrete means chasing and making good.
A loft or a floor void makes lighting easy. A lath and plaster ceiling with a room above does not.
Done across Wallasey, Bebington, Bromborough, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Sockets and lighting on the Wirral
What this job 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.
Why people use us
Agreed before anything is cut
The route and the making good standard are settled at the quote, because that is where the cost actually is.
- Routes planned with the rooms rather than for convenience
- Making good standard agreed in writing
- Existing positions reused where that is the sensible answer
- Floors and furniture covered before anything starts
Frequently asked questions
Sockets and lighting: the questions people ask
The ones that come up most. If yours is not here, ring and ask.
How much is it to add a socket?
It genuinely depends on where. The materials are a small part of it. A socket back to back with an existing one is a fraction of the cost of the same socket on a solid wall across the room, and no honest number can be given without knowing which.
Can I have downlights in any room?
Usually, with two things to check. Whether there is access above the ceiling, and whether the ceiling will take being perforated. A lath and plaster ceiling in an older house is a real consideration rather than a formality.
Can you add sockets without chasing the walls?
Often, by coming up from a floor void, down from a loft, or through a cavity. Where none of those is available, the choice is chasing or surface trunking, and both are worth discussing before you choose a position.
Can you put a socket in the garden?
Yes, and it is a different job from an indoor one because of the weather and the route. That is covered on the outdoor and garden electrics page.
Done across Wallasey, Bebington, Bromborough, and everywhere else on the peninsula.
Tell us where, and what the wall is
Position and construction is the whole question, and a photograph of the room answers most of it.
About Wirral Electrics
Wirral Electrics is not taking bookings yet. The pages here are finished and the information on them is accurate, and the brand will start taking work when the labour behind it is in place. What that means, and what this site deliberately does not claim.
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