Full and partial rewires for Surrey’s period, post-war and modern homes, planned around your family, priced fixed, and finished with proper making good.
A rewire is the biggest electrical decision most homeowners ever make, and the one where choosing well matters most. Done properly, it’s a once-in-40-years job that makes your home safer, adds value, and quietly disappears into the walls. Done badly, you live with the evidence. Surrey Hills Electrical has rewired homes across the county, Victorian terraces in Dorking, 1930s semis in Epsom, barn conversions in the Hills, and we’ve learned that a good rewire is as much about planning, dust sheets and communication as it is about cable.
If your home has any of the following, it’s worth a professional opinion:
Pre-1960s insulation becomes brittle and dangerous.
With rewirable fuses, a wooden backboard, or no RCD protection.
Old style or damaged sockets, or sockets mounted in skirting boards.
No obvious cause.
From decades of piecemeal additions.
Flagged C1 or C2 observations against the wiring.
None of these automatically means a full rewire, an inspection first tells you honestly what you’re dealing with, and sometimes a partial rewire or board change is the right answer. We’d rather quote you the smaller job you need than the bigger one you don’t.
Replaces every cable, socket, switch and the consumer unit. It’s the right call when wiring is uniformly old, when you’re renovating anyway, or when an EICR shows problems throughout.
Targets the circuits that need it, often the ground floor sockets or the kitchen, while sound modern circuits stay. It’s common in homes extended in stages, where 1970s wiring meets 1990s additions.
We’ll tell you which you need with evidence.
Guildford, Dorking and Reigate are full of them: solid walls, lath-and-plaster ceilings, and original features worth protecting. We chase neatly, lift boards carefully, route through voids where possible, and put back what we disturb.
The classic Woking and Epsom semi often has a patchwork: original circuits, a 1980s kitchen addition, a loft conversion on a spur. These homes benefit most from a rewire that rationalises everything into one safe, documented installation.
Much of our patch sits in the Surrey Hills National Landscape, and many villages are conservation areas. We’ve worked in listed cottages where every fixing matters, surface routes in period-appropriate finishes, minimal intervention, and liaison with your conservation officer where consent is needed.
A 3-bed semi typically takes 5–10 working days; larger or period homes, two to three weeks. We agree the programme before we start and tell you immediately if anything threatens it, surprises in 100-year-old walls do happen, but silence about them shouldn’t.
Usually not. We work room by room and restore power each evening. Some families decamp for first-fix week in bigger jobs; most stay put.
Yes, phased and partial rewires are common, especially alongside staged renovations. We’ll design the sequence so nothing is done twice.
Chases are filled and sanded as standard; full re-plastering and decoration can be included in your quote if you’d like one point of responsibility.
There’s no honest “no”, but careful chasing, sheeting and routing through floors and voids keeps redecoration to patches rather than rooms.
An Electrical Installation Certificate (EIC) covering the whole installation, with Building Regulations Part P notification. It matters when you sell.
Not necessarily. If the cabling tests sound, a consumer unit upgrade alone may be right. An EICR will tell you, and we quote from evidence.
