Our Full House Rewire Service
Are you in need of a full house rewire in Glasgow? HomeRewire specialises in full house rewiring.
Our NICEIC-certified experts can complete an entire rewiring job within 1–2 days to ensure the process is as hassle-free as possible.
Our electrical company applies speed and efficiency to every rewiring job, prioritising quality and customer care.
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The Process Of Rewiring Your Home
Wondering, “How does a full home rewire work?” A house rewire involves replacing all existing wiring,
including lead-insulated cabling, with new wiring. This is essential to ensure safety and remove any potential hazards.
When you rewire a house, specialist electricians will replace or repair all electrical sockets, light fittings,
faulty wiring, and heat detectors to upgrade your entire electrical wiring system.
As part of our full rewire service, we also provide detailed electrical installation condition reports to ensure your
newly rewired home meets safety standards and compliance.
Initial Enquiry
Need a whole house rewire? Your rewiring project starts with an enquiry.
If you are interested in rewiring your house or checking the safety of your electrics, HomeRewire can help.
Simply call us on 0141 459 5909, email us at info@homerewire.com, or use one of the handy contact forms on our website. You can also use our handy fusebox finder tool to get a detailed reply about the age of your installation.
Our office will take your details and briefly discuss your rewire project. We can provide install guide costs and detail similar rewiring projects that we have completed in the area or even on your street.
We also have a strong presence on all the known social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
HomeRewire are an NICEIC approved contractor
Inspection by a Qualified Electrician
Our head electrician, Jamie, will arrange a visit to your property at a time that suits you for an electrical inspection.
The survey for your house rewire won’t take long, as our electricians have rewired so many homes in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Paisley that we only need some brief notes and a discussion
about your electrical requirements.
We aim to send a quote for full rewiring within a few hours. Fingers crossed, we are selected to undertake the full house electrical rewire of your home.
Are Your Electrics Safe?
We may be able to greatly improve the safety of your home with a few simple upgrades.
What's Involved In Rewiring
We eliminate any potential problems and ensure everything is modern, safe and certificated.
Why Use Home Rewire
We come very experienced and equipped to deal with the most difficult challenges.
Install Day
Our guys arrive bright and early to get started on the rewiring work.
Before the full rewire of your house, you should have made prior arrangements and organised the property.
We will take a short time to discuss the positioning and layout of your new electrical system before the electrical installation.
Some clients have this planned out before we arrive, while others are happy for our experienced electricians to advise on the best electrical layout for their home rewiring in Glasgow.
Items to Consider When Planning Whole House Rewires
You can find more information about important item considerations when rewiring your home here, but here’s a brief
summary of items to consider when rewiring a house and planning your all-new electrical system:
- Consumer Unit/Fuse box - Consider the position and whether you require RCBOs, RCDs (residual current device) and surge protection.
- Socket Outlets - Plan the positioning of your new socket outlets in the property and socket type.
- Lighting - Where do you need lights, what type do you need, and how do you wish to switch them on and off?
- External lighting - We recommend light fixtures at the front and rear of the property.
- External Sockets - Many clients opt for an external socket which can be handy for using electric gardening equipment.
- Electric Showers - Do you need an electrical supply for a shower, or does this run from the boiler?
- Electric Cooker - Do you cook with gas, or will you need an electrical supply?
- Smoke Alarms - As a minimum, we suggest a smoke alarm upstairs, downstairs and in the kitchen.
- Outbuildings - Do you have a garage or shed that requires power? If so, how do we reach it?
- Extractor Fans - Do you require ventilation in the property to satisfy building control/building regulations?
- Kitchen - Are you installing a new kitchen, and will that require specific electrical layouts?
Let's Get To Work: The Process of a Whole Home Rewiring
At this stage, you should have received prior information explaining how to prepare for us coming.
In occupied homes, we start by dust sheeting your belongings, organising any remaining furniture, and then lifting any floor coverings,
such as carpets. Our electricians are so experienced in rewiring a house that we only need a short spell to plan
and discuss the best way to rewire each property.
For whole home rewires, we have a quick site meeting between our team to delegate each task, negotiate any challenges,
and agree on the best way forward for the rewiring job.
Isolate the Supply
Whether conducting a partial or whole house electrical rewiring, it's important that we isolate your original electrical supply so all the old electrics and deteriorating wiring are dead and safe to work on.
There's a safe isolation procedure that ensures our electricians are safe at all times from electric shocks and other dangers. A temporary electrical supply is then installed so we can power our tools, chargers and temporary lighting.
Floorboards
Most properties have floorboards, and under these boards is where we run our main electrical cables. In the first few hours of your full electrical rewire, we will lift the necessary boards and make suitable routes to install your new 240v cables.
Chase and Cut
Now that the routes are complete under the floors, we get to work on the messy part. Most clients prefer the cables buried within the walls. To do this, we need to use a chasing machine that cuts through the brick with ease. We then chip out the remaining brickwork to reveal a neat channel in which the 240v electrical cables can be placed.
Cleaning Break
Now that we have made the routes and got the messy stuff out of the way, we regroup, remove the heavy tools, clean the place out, and make sure the working area is free and ready for the wiring.
Electrical Wiring
This is when our electricians must use the technical knowledge learned to wire the property in line with 18th-edition wiring regulations. We use a section of cable rated for each circuit to ensure no overheating and that each circuit can carry enough current to power your devices and all your appliances.
Electrical Circuits In A Typical Home
There will always be certain electrical circuits in a typical home. On a standard property, we expect to see the following circuits:
- Ring mains for socket outlets
- Ring mains for kitchen sockets
- Upstairs Lighting Circuit
- Downstairs Lighting Circuit
- Smoke Alarm Circuit
- Central Heating Circuit
- Shower Circuit
- Cooker Circuit
We allow a few spare circuits within your new 18th Edition Dual RCD or RCBO consumer unit. Examples of additional circuits may be:
- Garage Circuit
- Shed Circuit
- Car Charging Circuit
- Water Heater Circuit
- Hot Tub Circuit
- External Lighting Circuit
- Shower Pump Circuits
- Alarm Circuits
- CCTV Circuits
Wiring Completion
When all the required electrical cables are installed throughout the entire property, it’s time to start putting your home back together.
Firstly, we double-check that nothing has been missed and that all new cabling and actual wiring are in
good condition with no accident damage or potential risk.
Box Out
At this stage, we start to install the electrical back boxes. Galvanised boxes come in 1 gang or 2 gang versions, and we select the suitable box for each accessory. The boxes have threaded lugs which allows us to screw your plug sockets and switches too. They also have space to make any connections required at the rear of the switch. The boxes are screwed securely to the wall, and a rubber grommet is used to create an entry point for your new electrical wiring to go through.
Capping
Protection over the electric cables is not required, and each Electrical Contractor has different methods. However, HomeRewire prefers to use a galvanised metal capping. This is a thin protective capping that goes over the cables and ensures a tidy, professional finish. It also supports the route of the cable and offers some protection against other trades, such as plasterers.
Flooring Re-Instatement
With your new wiring installed, we start to piece the property together. We usually first put any floorboards back down and button up any spaces we breached into. At this stage, the property is almost starting to look normal again, and now is a rest time for another sweep, regroup and discussion over the next moves.
Plaster and Making Good
It’s time for our trusted plasterers to do their thing!
If you haven’t guessed by now, rewiring a house can get messy. It involves cutting into the brickwork of your home, and this means the walls need to be repaired. The plasterers arrive at this stage of rewiring and get to work with the initial bonding coat.
During this time, we aim to give the plasterers some space, so you will find our electricians working on second-fix items
such as your new consumer unit, external lighting, or other areas that don’t require major plaster repairs.
Contact us to find out more about the plastering aspect of rewiring a house in detail here, or to request a useful video we have on the subject.
Once plastering is complete, this leaves a nice surface in which our rewiring electricians can screw the new faceplates against.
Fit Out and Termination
With plastering out of the way, we are fast approaching the end of the project. The hard work is complete, and it’s time to terminate all the new electrical accessories and products throughout your home.
We use electrical side pliers to strip back the PVC Twin and earth cable to reveal the inner core. The inner core is stripped at the very end to reveal a small copper section. The copper section carries the electrical current, and this is the important part that must connect to the terminals of the electrical accessories.
The copper section is connected at the circuit breaker and then at each individual electrical accessory, carrying the electrical current wherever it needs to go. The PVC insulation is in place to protect anyone from touching the copper part and getting an electrical shock.
Examples of Electrical Switchgear Accessories
Below are some examples of electrical switchgear accessories.
The “A” indicates how many amps that accessory can safely handle:
- 32A Socket Outlets Double
- 32A Socket Outlet Single
- 6A Light Switches 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G and more
- 6A Pendant Lamp Holders
- 6A Baton Lamp Holders
- 32A Switched Fuse Spurs
- 6A Fan Isolators
- 45A Cooker Switches and Outlets
- 45A Shower Switches
- 20A Double Pole switches
Other Electrical Products Often Installed:
- Smoke Alarms
- Heat Alarms
- C02 Alarms
- External Security LED security Lights
- Alarm Systems
- Doorbells
- Extractor Fans
- Wall Lights
- Decorative External Lights
- Electric Heaters
Connecting the Consumer Unit
All the electrical accessories and products are connected to the preinstalled wiring, which feeds back to the consumer unit or, as it's better described, a distribution unit.
Here’s a great video explaining how a new modern consumer unit works…
In short, the consumer unit takes the main power and fuses it down to smaller cables which we have installed to power your accessories. It provides safety features and switching options, including consumer unit trips, so you can safely isolate each individual circuit. The trip switches turn off if a fault is detected in the system.
If not completed already, one of our trained electricians connects all the cables at the consumer unit in preparation for the power going on.
Running Initial Tests
Using electrical test equipment, we carry out some initial electrical testing to ensure the cables are safe to energise by looking out for warning signs such as exposed wires or buzzing noise. We have further tests to do when the power goes on, but we have to first ensure it will work properly and avoid any nasty faults.
Powering Up Your Rewired Home
Now for the fun part!
Now that the rewiring process is complete, we get to see all that initial handwork come to light, quite literally.
We start with the main switch, then one by one, energise your new electrical circuits. It’s good to see the property light up, and it gives a great sense of achievement. Our electricians quickly perform some functional tests, such as switching the light switches and trying some load on the sockets to check all the wiring and electrical components are working properly.
Clean Up
When all electrical works are complete, we move on to the big tidy-up. A full electrical rewiring of a house can get very dusty, so it’s important that the prior preparations are done properly to reduce mess.
We use dust extraction equipment when possible to reduce the scale of the mess. But, being such a disruptive building works, it’s inevitable there will be some dust around. We clean at each stage of the job and then get to work on the final clean.
The carpets are down, and we start hoovering each room, starting with the big hoover and then using the small hoover to catch all the fine dust particles. It’s important to clean into all the corners, on top of skirtings, doors, and anywhere else the dust might have found its way to.
Finally, each surface is wiped down with a damp cloth which helps with any surface dust still around. The property will likely need another clean when we leave, but the initial clean by our team is generally pretty good.
We offer a further professional builders’ clean after rewiring a house. While this is often not required, some clients choose this option to go one step further and avoid any cleaning of their own.
You can find out more about the deep clean service and costs included in our full rewires in Glasgow here.
Project Complete!
Your old wiring is gone, and your home is now fully rewired and safe! Included in the cost to rewire, we conduct a thorough electrical installation condition report to ensure your newly rewired home not only meets safety standards but also complies with all necessary regulations.
HomeRewire: Leaders in Full House Rewiring in Glasgow
When you choose HomeRewire for your home’s electrical rewiring in Glasgow, you can trust that you’re in good hands. Our electrical work is always conducted professionally by a registered electrician, and we offer competitive rewiring costs. Whether you require partial or whole house rewiring or a periodic inspection to ensure safety, we’ve got you covered.
We’ll get your full rewire project done in record time! Call our office today on 0141 459 5909 and take the next step towards a full house rewire with Scotland’s rewiring specialist.
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