How much does a fuse box replacement cost in Ashton-under-Lyne?
Fixed packages: £449 up to 6 circuits, £549 up to 10, £695 for 11 or more. Most Hurst and Waterloo terraces land on £449 or £549; the larger villas near Stamford Park often need £695. Earthing, meter tails or bonding are priced from your three photos before you book, so the figure does not move.
How a price is built →Terraces, villas and the boards inside them
The streets of Hurst, Waterloo and Ryecroft are mostly late Victorian terraces, two up two down or a little larger, many with a cellar. The meter and the old fuse box usually sit at the cellar head or in a cupboard by the front door, and the box itself is often a Wylex rewireable from a 1960s or 70s rewire, sometimes with a newer switchfuse added for a shower. There is no RCD protection anywhere, which is the first thing any electrical report here picks up.
Around Stamford Park and up towards Hurst Cross the houses get bigger: stone and brick villas built for mill owners and managers, now family homes or split into flats. These carry more circuits, occasionally two boards from different decades, and meter tails that were extended when the meter moved. Consolidating that into one metal board with an RCBO per circuit is usually a £695 job, and your photos show us whether the tails need replacing too.
Flats over shops in the town centre
Stamford Street, Old Street and the roads round the market have plenty of flats above shops, many let privately. Their supplies are often awkward: the meter can be in the shop’s back room or a shared lobby, with the tails running up through the building to a board on the landing. We work out the route from your photos, and where the meter sits behind someone else’s door we arrange access with the shop or the agent before we book.
Most of these flats are small, so the board is usually a £449 job. The usual trigger is a landlord EICR coding the old enclosure and the missing RCD protection, which starts the 28 day clock. We fit, test and certify in one visit and hand over the written confirmation your tenant must receive. Power is off for roughly four to six hours, so a tenant loses a morning or an afternoon, not a day.
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Ashton-under-Lyne questions
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It is common, and it is one of the better reasons to replace the board, because damp is hard on old fuse carriers and rewireable fuses. Send a photo that shows the board and a bit of the wall around it, and we will tell you whether anything extra is needed before you book.
Only whoever can open the door to the meter, plus your tenant to let us into the flat. If the meter is inside the shop, we agree a time with the shopkeeper or your agent in advance. The new board is usually live again within four to six hours.
Yes. Each flat’s consumer unit is priced from its own photos and fitted on its own, so a freeholder or a single owner can book one or all of them. Where they share an intake cupboard we isolate one supply at a time, and the other flats keep their power.
Nearby, and the rest of Greater Manchester
Same fixed price and no travel charge anywhere across the nine boroughs we cover.