Old wiring holds a house back, plain and simple. Cable that managed a kettle and a few table lamps in 1975 was never designed to feed an induction hob, a home office and a car on charge overnight — and when it's asked to, it seldom fails politely. A properly planned rewire gives the house capacity for the way you live now.
We are Part P registered, and decades spent rewiring houses across West Sussex have taught us where the real work lies: in the planning, in sizing circuits for the loads still to come, and in leaving room on the board for whatever you add next.
Chichester's housing keeps us on our toes, from listed Georgian townhouses inside the walls to Victorian terraces and postwar semis on the fringes, and we carry out full electrical rewires and partial upgrades across every one of those styles.
If a rough figure would help you plan, the online estimate takes a couple of minutes; otherwise phone the office and we'll arrange for an electrician to walk the property with you and price it properly.
There is very little a Chichester property can spring on electricians who have rewired Georgian townhouses, Victorian terraces and everything since — and that depth of experience shows in the planning as much as the wiring.
Because the routes, circuits and board layout are settled before anyone lifts a floorboard, the typical Chichester full rewire is completed within two to five days.
Part P registered electricians certify every installation to the 18th Edition, with circuits sized generously so tomorrow's kitchen refit or EV charger won't catch the system short.
Ring with a question and you speak to someone who has stood in your loft, not a switchboard. The electrician leading your rewire remains your point of contact throughout.
Rewiring a home is a chance you get once in a generation, which is why every Chichester job we finish is signed off by a Part P registered contractor and treated as thirty years of service life in the making, not a quick fix.
Week in, week out our electricians are on West Sussex properties of every age — Georgian townhouses, Victorian terraces, postwar estates — and each installation goes in to the 18th Edition, with capacity planned for the appliances and chargers households keep adding.
The office side matters just as much: quotes that arrive when promised, a schedule that holds, and someone answering the phone long after the certificate has been filed away.
"We bought a 1950s semi out at Parklands knowing the electrics were tired, and once we both started working from home the old board tripped almost weekly. They rewired the house in five days, doubled the sockets where we needed them and left spare ways on the board for a car charger. The place finally keeps up with us."
Modern appliances lean hard on ageing circuits. A measured upgrade can bring an older Chichester installation back within its depth.
Explore wiring upgradesPlanning, first fix, second fix, testing, certification — we manage the whole sequence so nothing gets skipped or rushed.
See our rewire processStraightforward, competitive pricing for rewiring work throughout Chichester and the rest of West Sussex.
See typical costsSeasoned electricians with proper kit, who have met most of what older properties can throw at a rewire.
About Brighton RewireA rewire, handled well, should slot into family life rather than upend it.
Across Chichester we complete the bulk of our full rewires in two to five days, and that pace comes from preparation rather than haste — no corner gets cut to hit it.
Before a single cable goes in, we have mapped the circuits, agreed socket positions with you, and thought hard about the loads your household will be drawing five years from now.
Long experience around Chichester and the wider West Sussex area means the quirks of older buildings — odd voids, solid walls, past botch-jobs — rarely cost us time.
The making-good is ours as well: chases filled and skimmed to a standard a plasterer would nod at, leaving you nothing but the decorating.
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Not every tired-looking installation needs replacing, and we tell plenty of Chichester owners theirs will serve for years yet. What follows, though, is the shortlist of symptoms experience says you should never sit on:
Recognise only one symptom? A targeted repair may well see your Chichester home right, and if that is the case, that is exactly what we will recommend.
Quote a Chichester rewire with us and the scope below is what the figure buys — the complete installation, not a cut-down one:
Allow 2–5 days for the majority of Chichester rewires, with the exact figure resting on floor construction, storey count and how kindly the building takes to new cable routes. We confirm the timescale at survey rather than guessing.
Rooms are completed in sequence, which is why most households keep living in the property throughout; the kitchen and a bathroom remain in service for all but a single day, and the full power-down is limited to the board changeover.
Plastering follows the electrical work within the same price, so once the skim has dried the house is ready for decorating — with wiring underneath it sized for the next few decades rather than the last few.
See the day-by-day processFrom cathedral-quarter townhouses to estate semis at Parklands and beyond, electrical rewiring in Chichester takes in every age of building — and the right answer is not always the biggest job.
Two routes cover nearly every home we survey.
Where cabling has genuinely reached the end — shocks off switches, scorched boards, insulation past its best — the full rewiring service is the lasting answer. Every circuit is renewed and tested as the work proceeds, a new consumer unit goes in with spare capacity on the board, and sockets, switches and lighting are refreshed throughout, leaving headroom for EV charging and whatever else the coming years bring.
See what's includedWhere the bones of the installation are sound, a wiring upgrade deals with the weak points alone — tired cable runs, dated earthing and bonding, or a board overdue for replacement. Our Part P registered electricians test before recommending anything, and should the survey show the system is beyond sensible repair, we will say so plainly and price the full rewire.
Explore upgrade optionsBetween those two sits a common middle case: cabling that tests soundly behind a board that does not. There, a consumer unit upgrade on its own brings an older Chichester installation up to modern protection standards, and where only part of a house needs rewiring we will quote for that part alone. The survey settles it, not the sales patter.
Genuine photographs from rewiring jobs across Chichester and West Sussex, covering everything from cable runs at first fix to the finished boards.
Run the online estimate, or call the office and we will arrange a survey.
Twenty minutes or so on site lets our lead electrician measure the job and answer questions as you walk.
The written quote reaches your inbox, usually inside one working day.
When the price works for you, we set a start date that fits family and work.
Ahead of the start we confirm the details, from parking to which room goes first.
The team arrives early on day one, walks the plan through with you, then gets on.
Updates come daily, and the electrician leading the job stays on hand for questions.
Every circuit is tested, the certificate handed over, and the house checked with you before we go.
From the property itself rather than a rate card: bedrooms, circuit count, floor construction and the fittings you specify all feed into it. The rewire cost calculator on this site produces a working ballpark in about a minute, and the free survey then converts that into a fixed written quote.
Between two and five days for most homes, with smaller flats at one end and larger or three-storey properties at the other. Because the plan is settled at survey stage, the timescale in your quote is one you can arrange your week — and your home office — round with confidence.
Regularly. Alongside Chichester itself our electricians cover Fishbourne, Bosham, Lavant, Tangmere, Selsey and the Witterings, so if you are in this corner of West Sussex the answer is almost certainly yes — a quick call will confirm it.
They are. Filling and skim-coating every chase is written into the job, so the walls come back ready for decoration. Our only advice is patience with the paintbrush: fresh plaster should be left a couple of weeks to dry out first.
It means the people rewiring your home are Part P registered and the completed installation is tested to BS 7671, after which you receive an Electrical Installation Certificate. Solicitors, insurers and letting agents expect that document, and it becomes the reference point for future inspections.
Chichester began as the Roman town of Noviomagus, and its Roman walls still trace the line of the old defences around a compact, largely Georgian centre. The four main streets meet at the ornate Market Cross, the cathedral spire rises over the rooftops, and the modernist Festival Theatre sits just to the north, while Chichester Harbour opens out to the south-west. Much of the city's housing is listed Georgian townhouses and Victorian terracing within and around the walls, giving way to interwar semis, bungalows and postwar estates on the fringes. A good deal of that older stock still carries wiring long overdue for inspection or replacement — precisely the kind of West Sussex home our Chichester rewires are built around.
Our Part P registered electricians are on the road across West Sussex every week, so Chichester (PO19) and the villages around it are firmly inside our patch. One call books a survey; we handle the rest.
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