Kirkby was built at speed from the 1950s to house Liverpool families and Northwood, Southdene and Tower Hill all went up in that same push. Houses built in one go tend to need the same things at the same time and seventy years on the thing they need most is a board that can actually protect them. Plenty here still have rewireable fuses or an early plastic board with no protection worth the name.
We test every circuit before the changeover, so anything hidden is found and priced honestly rather than sprung on you halfway through. The new consumer unit gets a safety switch on every circuit and surge protection as standard, every way is labelled by hand and you get the full test results before we leave. Most swaps are finished inside a day.
Right for the town's stock
Ex-council and system-built housing at Northwood, Southdene and Tower Hill is most of what we work on here.
Surge protection included
Your TV, broadband and appliances protected from spikes as standard, not sold to you as an extra.
One day, one price
Most boards are swapped inside a day for a fixed price agreed before we start.
Your questions, answered
How much does a new fuse box cost in Kirkby?
Across the UK a consumer unit replacement usually runs between about £450 and £900, depending on circuits and any remedial work needed to pass the tests. We confirm your price in writing first.
My house is ex-council. Does that change anything?
Only in what we expect to find. A lot of ex-council stock here has original circuits behind a newer board, so we test everything first rather than assuming the board is the whole story.
How long will the power be off?
Usually a few hours in the middle of the day, planned so you are back on as soon as possible.
Is it worth doing if nothing is going wrong?
An old board is the one thing that fails silently, because it simply does not cut the power fast enough when it matters. It is the cheapest job with the biggest safety gain on a house of this age.
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