Ageing wiring is a risk you cannot see. Cable installed fifty or sixty years ago was never meant for the way we live now, and the first sign of trouble is often the last warning a house gives. The reassuring part is that every rewire we complete ends with a signed certificate confirming the whole installation has been tested and passed.
If the thought of a rewire feels daunting, that is entirely normal — most of the Lancing homeowners we help have never been through one before, which is why our Part P registered team explains each stage of the rewiring work before it starts, in plain English and without jargon.
Whether yours is one of the 1930s bungalows between the Downs and the sea, a semi off the main roads, or an older cottage up towards North Lancing, we carry out complete house rewires and smaller wiring upgrades right across the village.
And if it is the cost that worries you most, start gently: the online estimate gives you a figure with no commitment at all, or ring us and arrange a free survey at a time that suits.
There is very little a Sussex house can hide from electricians who have spent their working lives inside them, which means your Lancing rewire is planned by people who already know what old installations tend to conceal.
Because every job is mapped out before it begins, most full rewires of Lancing homes are completed within two to five days — a far shorter upheaval than many homeowners expect when they first call.
Each installation is tested to the 18th Edition and certificated by our Part P registered team, so you hold written proof that the hidden wiring in your walls is genuinely safe.
Whenever a worry crops up — before the quote, mid-job or months later — you talk directly to an electrician who knows your house, and you get a considered answer rather than a brush-off.
Reassurance begins with registration: each Lancing rewire is delivered under our Part P registration, notified to building control and backed by full certification.
Day to day our electricians are inside West Sussex housing of every age — seafront flats, interwar bungalows, Edwardian terraces — bringing hidden, ageing cable up to the 18th Edition.
Behind them is a small office team who follow your job from the first enquiry to the aftercare call, so no question of yours is ever left unanswered.
"We'd put off rewiring our bungalow near the Widewater for years, dreading the mess and the cost. The survey showed the old rubber cable was in a worse state than we ever knew, yet the whole job was over in three days. They explained everything as they went, and the house honestly felt safer the day they left."
If your Lancing home still runs on decades-old cable, a few measured upgrades can quietly remove the most serious dangers.
Explore wiring upgradesUnderstanding the stages — survey, first fix, testing, certification — takes most of the worry out of a rewire before it begins.
See our rewire processClear, survey-based rewiring quotes for Lancing and the surrounding West Sussex coast, with nothing hidden in the small print.
See typical costsYears of careful work in older properties, the right equipment, and a habit of explaining before doing.
About Brighton RewireThe thought of a rewire tends to worry people far more than the reality of one, at least the way we run it.
Most Lancing houses are finished within two to five days, and at no point do we trade safety or quality of finish for that speed.
The calm comes from preparation: the whole job is sequenced before we arrive, by a team that has rewired many hundreds of homes.
Working throughout Lancing and the wider county for years has shown us nearly every fault ageing wiring can develop, so very little on site catches us unprepared.
We also repair what we open — chases plastered and skimmed by our own hands — so the house you get back looks like the house you started with.
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Some reassurance first: many of the Lancing homes we survey turn out to need only modest work. Even so, ageing wiring rarely announces itself loudly, and the signs below deserve proper attention whenever they appear:
If any of these feel familiar, please don't panic — book an inspection instead. Where smaller, targeted work will keep your Lancing home safe, that is precisely what we will suggest.
Peace of mind should be itemised. When we quote for a full rewire in Lancing, all of the following comes in the price:
For most Lancing homes the answer is 2–5 days, though the honest figure depends on the size of the house, the construction of the walls and floors, and how readily new cable can be routed — a survey lets us commit to a timescale rather than guess at one.
You will almost certainly be able to stay at home while we work, because we take the rooms in sequence rather than stripping the whole house at once; the kitchen and a bathroom stay usable for nearly the entire job, and power is off completely only during the consumer unit changeover.
Repairs to the walls are included rather than left behind: each channel is refilled and skim-coated before we finish, and once the new plaster has fully dried, the house is ready to decorate.
See the day-by-day processAgeing wiring worries homeowners all over Lancing, from the interwar bungalows near the Downs to the terraces closer to the sea, and thorough electrical rewiring — with the house left clean and certificated — is how we put those worries to rest.
Which route suits your home depends on what a survey finds; these are the two we offer.
Where cable has genuinely reached the end of its safe life, a whole-house rewire is the lasting answer: every circuit renewed, a modern consumer unit fitted, and sockets, switches and lighting refreshed room by room, with testing woven through the job rather than saved for the end. It suits homes with recurring faults, shocks from switches, or original mid-century wiring still in service.
See what's includedIf your installation is fundamentally sound but showing its age in places, a partial wiring upgrade can renew the weakest sections — earthing, bonding or the consumer unit — without disturbing the rest of the house. We always inspect first, and if the survey suggests the whole system is failing, we will be honest that a complete rewire of your Lancing home is the safer investment.
Explore upgrade optionsUnsure where your house falls? When testing shows the cable itself remains healthy, a new consumer unit by itself can bring an older Lancing installation up to modern safety standards, and where only part of the property needs attention we will happily quote for just that part. Let the inspection decide — it usually costs less than you fear.
Genuine photographs from rewiring Lancing homes and neighbouring West Sussex properties, showing the stages most homeowners never usually get to see.
An online estimate or a quick phone call is all it takes to set a survey in motion.
Our lead electrician spends around twenty minutes looking over a typical Lancing home, answering your questions as you go.
Within about a day, a clear fixed price reaches your inbox, with the scope spelled out so there is nothing to decode.
Take your time deciding; when you are ready, we settle a start date around your household.
In the run-up we confirm the practical details — access, room order, anything you need kept running — so day one holds no shocks.
The team arrives promptly, walks the plan through with you, and protects floors and furniture before a single cable moves.
You will always know which rooms are finished and which come next, with someone on hand for questions at any point.
Every circuit is tested, your Electrical Installation Certificate is issued, and we check you are content before leaving.
Because no two houses are wired alike, we only ever price from what a survey finds — bedrooms, circuits, wall construction and how the cable can be routed all play their part. For a sense of scale before anyone visits, our rewire cost calculator takes about a minute and gives a realistic range for Lancing properties; a free survey then converts that range into a fixed written quote.
Less time than most people fear: 2–5 days covers the majority of Lancing rewires, with compact bungalows and flats at the shorter end and larger or harder-to-access houses at the longer. Because we move room by room, the house remains liveable throughout, and you will know the planned sequence before work starts.
Beyond Lancing itself we are regularly at work in Sompting, North Lancing, Steyning, Worthing and Shoreham-by-Sea, and if your home is anywhere along this stretch of the West Sussex coast, one phone call will confirm we cover you.
No — repairing the walls is part of the service, not an extra. Every channel we cut for cable is refilled and skim-coated before we leave, so all that remains for you is decorating once the fresh plaster has had a fortnight or so to dry properly.
All of our rewiring is carried out under Part P registration and tested to BS 7671, the 18th Edition, before handover. The Electrical Installation Certificate you receive is your written evidence of a safe installation — the document conveyancers, insurers and any future inspection will want to see.
Lancing sits on the West Sussex coast between Worthing and the mouth of the River Adur, its skyline crowned by the soaring Gothic chapel of Lancing College — one of the largest school chapels anywhere, rising above the Downs since the Victorian era. Down by the shore, the Widewater Lagoon draws walkers and birdwatchers along the shingle. Much of the village took shape between the wars, and its long streets of 1930s bungalows and semis, along with older cottages up in North Lancing, make up the bulk of the housing here. Wiring of that vintage is frequently well past its safe working life, which is exactly the kind of home our Lancing rewires are built around.
Our Part P registered electricians are on the road across West Sussex every week, so Lancing (BN15) and the villages around it are firmly inside our patch. One call books a survey; we handle the rest.
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