1920s family home: staged whole-house rewire
Knob-and-tube wiring replaced throughout a two-storey 1920s home in four stages, with the family living at home throughout.
Service · Homes & businesses
Rewiring
Full and partial rewiring for older homes, renovations and buildings with outdated or damaged wiring.
Overview
Knob-and-tube, ungrounded circuits and decades of DIY additions are common in older properties. A planned rewire replaces them with safe, grounded, properly protected circuits. We work room by room to keep your home usable and patch neatly behind ourselves.
When to call us
- Knob-and-tube or cloth-insulated wiring
- Two-prong outlets throughout the property
- Brittle, cracked or rodent-damaged cable
- You are renovating and opening walls anyway
- An inspection report or insurer has flagged the wiring
What’s included
- Survey of existing circuits and a written rewiring plan
- New grounded circuits sized for each room’s actual use
- AFCI/GFCI protection where required by code
- Updated outlets, switches and smoke-alarm wiring
- Careful access holes and basic patching; decorating optional
Pricing
Quoted per project after a survey. Partial rewires are often possible.
Demo figures. Every job is confirmed in a written quote.
Questions about rewiring
Can we live at home during a rewire?
Usually, yes. We plan the work in stages so that most of the house has power each evening. Kitchens and bathrooms are scheduled carefully to keep disruption short.
Will you need to open up walls?
We fish new cable through existing cavities wherever possible, so most work needs only small access holes. Where larger openings are unavoidable, we tell you in the quote.
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Office hours
Office: Mon–Fri 7:00–17:30 · Sat 8:00–13:00
- Monday – Friday
- 7:00 – 17:30
- Saturday
- 8:00 – 13:00
- Sunday
- Closed
- Emergency line
- Every day, 6:00 – 22:00
Calls outside these hours go to voicemail and are returned from 6:00.