Electrical Rewiring Tamworth

The chances are much of the current wiring will need an upgrade to comply with present safety standards if your property hasn’t been rewired in the past 15 years. There’s a strong likelihood of needing a replacement consumer unit (fuse box) as well as substantial, if not full, rewiring if you’re planning on major refurbishments that amount to a material alteration, as defined in Part 2 of The Building Regulations 2010. Conversions and extensions must satisfy the Part P: Electrical Safety guidelines completely as they are classed as ‘new work’. In addition, all existing wiring has to be brought up to standard to ensure that the additional load produced by the new work can be handled safely and also that cross bonding and earthing requirements are met. At Ross Harvey Electrical, we can usually determine whether a property has recently been rewired by inspecting the consumer unit, electricity meter and also any exposed areas. Should you be looking at buying property, it’s often a good plan to have these inspections made in order to prevent unexpected surprises. A property with an obsolete consumer unit, for example, or with a mixture of sockets and switches or surface-mounted wiring, may possibly require a complete rewiring.