What does a new fuse box cost in a Bolton house?
The fixed packages are £449 for up to 6 circuits, £549 for up to 10 and £695 for 11 or more. Bolton terraces are mostly £449 or £549, and a separate shower switchfuse to absorb can tip a house into the next package. Tired meter tails are a common Bolton extra, £60 to £120, priced from your photos.
How a price is built →Bolton’s housing stock, board by board
Halliwell, Great Lever and Daubhill are classic mill-town terrace territory, with rewireable boxes and meter positions that have moved two or three times over the decades, leaving long, tired meter tails behind. The 1930s semis around Heaton and Smithills usually carry a 1970s Wylex, and the ex-council stock in Breightmet and Tonge Moor has 1980s split-load boards without a single RCBO.
Bolton is also electric shower country. A striking number of BL houses have a shower switchfuse bolted next to an already-full board. One modern board with proper capacity replaces the patchwork, and the shower finally gets the 45A circuit it was always supposed to have.
Farnworth, Horwich and the rest of the borough
Bolton borough stretches well beyond the town centre. Farnworth and Kearsley in the south are dense terraces and interwar council estates with a large private rented share, so EICR remedials make up much of the work there. Little Lever and Westhoughton sit between, with semis and 1970s estates where a plastic board from a later update is the typical find. Horwich, up against the moors, has stone terraces from the railway works era alongside large newer estates around the stadium.
Towards Bromley Cross, Egerton and Harwood the houses get bigger and the driveways longer, and the job is more often an EV-ready board than a failed EICR. Wherever you are in BL, we quote from three photos, fit in one visit with the power off for four to six hours, and hand over the Electrical Installation Certificate and Part P notification before we leave.
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Bolton questions
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It was a normal fix in its day, but it usually means the main board was full. A new board with spare ways absorbs the shower circuit properly, protected by its own RCBO.
Yes, the whole borough from Kearsley up to Horwich is on our regular rounds, and we batch nearby jobs to keep dates flexible.
The same fixed packages as everywhere we work: £449 up to 6 circuits, £549 up to 10, £695 for 11 or more, plus any earthing, tails or bonding your photos show are needed.