How much does a fuse box replacement cost in Chorlton?
£449 for up to 6 circuits, £549 for up to 10 and £695 for 11 or more. Chorlton terraces usually sit in the £549 package, but a house with a new loft room or kitchen extension often moves up to £695. Earthing, meter tails and bonding are priced from your three photos, so the figure is fixed before we arrive.
How a price is built →What sits behind Chorlton’s front doors
The streets around Beech Road, Chorlton Green and Martledge are late Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many with a cellar and a board fixed to a wooden panel either at the cellar head or high above the front door. Most were rewired once, decades ago, and that rewire left a Wylex box with pull-out fuse carriers. The house has changed around it many times since; the board has not. It still works, which is exactly why it was left.
Further out, the 1930s semis of Chorlton Park and off Barlow Moor Road carry the under-stairs version of the same story, sometimes updated in the 90s to a plastic split-load board with one RCD covering half the house. Chorltonville is its own case: arts and crafts cottages in a conservation area, where we fit the new consumer unit in the old one’s position and nothing changes on the outside. Your photos show which version you have.
Why the board comes up halfway through a project
In Chorlton the job rarely starts with a fault. It starts with a builder. A loft conversion needs new lighting and socket circuits, a kitchen extension wants an oven, a hob and underfloor heating, and the electrician doing that work cannot add them to a board with no spare ways and no RCD protection. The old board has to go before the new circuits can be connected and signed off.
We fit around the build. Send photos early and we size the board for the circuits that are coming, not just the ones you have now, so the project electrician connects straight into labelled spare ways. The Electrical Installation Certificate and Part P notification for the board are yours on the day we fit, separate from the building work. Tell us the build dates and we fit before the walls close up.
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Not in any way you will see from the street. The consumer unit is inside the house, so the outside stays exactly as it is. We fit the new board where the old one was, or in a better spot close by if your photos show the current position is too cramped for a modern unit.
Before the new circuits go in, ideally before first fix. Send photos now and tell us what the loft and any extension will add. We fit a board with spare ways for those circuits, so your project electrician connects to them later without a second board change.
It can, and it often does. Plenty of Chorlton terraces have the meter and board high up by the door. If the panel is sound we mount the new metal board in the same place; if the tails are tired or too short we price new ones from your photos, typically £60 to £120.
Nearby, and the rest of Greater Manchester
Same fixed price and no travel charge anywhere across the nine boroughs we cover.