Quote to fit 4 new sockets

[MARC D SPARK]

Hi people how much would you quote to add 4 new sockets?

1st one in living room at shoulder height. Skirting and floor boards will need lifting. Chasing up the wall and sheaving.

2nd in kitchen. Slight chasing in wall and then chasing up back of units to ceiling level all most.

3rd in bedroom into brick wall at skirting height. Slight bit of chasing out of wall and sheaving. Lifting skirting and floor boards up.

4th into a studded wall which is plaster and laff. Socket to go in at head height and chasing down the wall through a fire break then into the floor.

Any advice will be appreciated, thank you

 

[cliffed]

Looks like it’s gonna be over a days work,so you either go for day & a half or 2 days work,charged at your rate & materials.
I would say £300 approximately.

 

[Octopus]

Earthing? bonding? RCD's?

Could be 3 days work in total, plus any faults you may find....

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I'm with Murdock on this one.

More info needed: Earthing, Bonding, RCD's, Is there stuff crammed in every corner of every room e.t.c.

 

[The Ghost]

Spur or radials or on ring final circuit. Who is doing the plastering? Strange heights for the sockets. Anyway assuming you have addressed earthing being satisfactory etc. I guess £450 tops if its a ring final, maybe £250 if we are talking spurs/radials and anything in between for a hybrid install. Any faults or inadequacies existing to be added to that.

 

[PEG]

Level of finish? Access? Cottage with 15" granite walls? Existing circuit arrangements? ...and i would be very expensive,concerning laff and sheaving work...

It would be literally easier,to paint single,different numbers,on the backs of 10 piglets (with one,having a decimal point),chase them round a field,and line up four of them,to arrive at a quote.

We need many more details,or there is n

 

[MARC D SPARK]

Spur or radials or on ring final circuit. Who is doing the plastering? Strange heights for the sockets. Anyway assuming you have addressed earthing being satisfactory etc. I guess £450 tops if its a ring final, maybe £250 if we are talking spurs/radials and anything in between for a hybrid install. Any faults or inadequacies existing to be added to that.

Hi, it will be ring main so working of an existing socket then using junction boxes to extend one of the cables to the new socket and so on. He has a plasterer coming in so I don’t have to worry about that. I’m quite new to this and I don’t want to over quote as he is a friend.

 

[MARC D SPARK]

I'm with Murdock on this one.

More info needed: Earthing, Bonding, RCD's, Is there stuff crammed in every corner of every room e.t.c.

His sockets are on a ring main and I’m going to incorporate them into it. The downstairs ring sockets are on a seperate breaker than the upstairs. The upstairs only has 4 sockets so I’m adding 2 more to it. Carpets being thrown so I can cut it up and save the underlay. Floor boards are coming up and junction boxes will be fitted with easy access. All are going onto brick walls accept the one upstairs, which is a studded wall with plaster and laff. The sockets are to be flush with the walls so chisel out brick for back boxes, cable, sheaving.

 

[Spoon]

Floor boards are coming up and junction boxes will be fitted with easy access.

Silly question but I have to ask.
You are using 'maintenance free' connections aren't you?

 

[Risteard]

What is "sheaving"?

 

[MARC D SPARK]

Silly question but I have to ask.
You are using 'maintenance free' connections aren't you?

Standard round 4 way 30amp junction box

 

[Spoon]

Standard round 4 way 30amp junction box

and you are fitting these under the floorboards?

 

[telectrix]

What is "sheaving"?

Dunno. he's having a Laff

 

[Octopus]

Standard round 4 way 30amp junction box

Totally unsuitable and non compliant

You need the Hager J803's

 

[telectrix]

why use JBs? why not joint in socket boxes?