If you're sitting on the fence about rewiring, chances are you already know the cable is old — what holds most people back is not knowing what the job truly costs, and how far that number might drift once work begins. That is exactly where our approach to rewiring differs: one surveyed price, honoured to the end.
Decades spent rewiring houses around West Sussex have taught us that the trade's worst habit is the vague estimate that swells once the floorboards come up. We price from a proper survey, put the figure in writing, and stand by it — because a quote that moves was never really a quote.
Petworth's housing keeps an electrician honest, from timber-framed cottages with listed status to Victorian terraces and interwar bungalows on the fringes, and we've delivered complete house rewires in all of them with the price settled before a single board was lifted.
Begin with the online calculator if you'd like an early figure, or telephone us and we'll arrange a free survey and a written quote that won't change.
Our electricians learned the trade on the county's older housing, and between them they have rewired more cottages, terraces and bungalows than anyone could count. When we quote for a Petworth home, it comes from experience, not guesswork.
Because the survey tells us exactly what the work involves, we arrive with the materials, the plan and the manpower to complete most Petworth rewires within two to five days — with no overrun and no revised bill.
Every installation is the work of Part P registered electricians, tested against the 18th Edition and certificated — so what you paid for is exactly what the paperwork confirms you received.
From first survey to final handover you deal with the electrician running your job, which means questions about the work — or the bill — are answered by someone who genuinely knows both.
When we sign off a rewire in Petworth, it carries the name of a Part P registered contractor — and behind that signature sits a plain promise that the work was done properly, once, at the price we agreed.
West Sussex housing is what we know: Georgian cottages behind listed frontages, Victorian terraces, bungalows from between the wars, each one wired to the 18th Edition without shortcuts.
The office side matters just as much, and ours keeps your quote, your schedule and your certificate in good order from the first telephone call to long after handover.
"We took on a tired Victorian terrace along the Midhurst road knowing the electrics would need doing before anything else. What impressed us most was that the figure on the original quote was the figure on the final invoice, even though the solid walls gave them a harder week than they'd expected. Tidy, courteous and straight with us throughout."
Many older Petworth homes still run on installations fitted generations ago. A survey tells you where you stand.
Explore wiring upgradesFirst fix, second fix, testing and certification — one team carries the whole job through from survey to sign-off.
See our rewire processFixed written quotes for rewiring Petworth homes, with nothing bolted on once work is under way.
See typical costsA seasoned local firm, at ease in listed and period properties, and straight with every customer.
About Brighton RewireThere's a way of running a rewire that keeps a household calm, and after all these years we have it down to a routine.
The survey comes first, because a properly surveyed job is a properly priced one — and it's the reason most Petworth houses are finished within two to five days with the invoice matching the quote.
On site, the work follows the plan we agreed with you: circuits renewed methodically, floors lifted and relaid with care, and the house left workable at the end of each day.
Decades spent on rewiring jobs throughout Petworth and West Sussex have taught us to spot the complications early and price them in from the start, sparing you the mid-job surprises other trades apologise for.
The plastering is ours to finish as well; each chase is filled and skimmed so the walls go back to how we found them, only safer behind the surface.
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In our experience a fair share of the Petworth homes we look at can be put right without a full rewire — yet there are certain findings that, after decades in this trade, we treat as non-negotiable:
If only one of these rings true, targeted remedial work may well be enough — and whichever way the survey points, the advice will be plain and the price attached to it firm.
Cost certainty starts with knowing what the figure buys. On every Petworth rewire, our fixed quote covers the lot:
Allow 2–5 days for the average Petworth rewire, though the survey will tell us precisely — a compact cottage takes less time than a three-storey townhouse, and solid floors or listed fabric add a day rather than a mystery charge.
Families almost always stay in residence while we move through the property one area at a time; you keep the kitchen and a bathroom for all but one day, and the supply is only shut off completely while the new board is connected.
The plastering of every chase falls within the quoted price — as it should — so decorating is the only task remaining once the walls have dried out.
See the day-by-day processHouse rewiring is our trade in Petworth — listed cottages in the old streets, terraces, semis and bungalows further out — and every job is quoted in full before a tool comes off the van, so the figure you accept is the figure you pay.
Which of the two routes below is right depends entirely on what the survey finds.
For wiring that has genuinely reached the end — perished cable, a failing board, faults that wander from room to room — the complete rewiring service is the lasting answer. Every circuit is renewed, a modern consumer unit fitted, sockets, switches and lighting replaced through the whole house, and the finished installation tested and certificated, all inside one fixed quote.
See what's includedWhere the survey shows the core of the installation still has life in it, a wiring upgrade deals with the weak points alone — earthing, bonding, the consumer unit or a particular circuit — at a fraction of the upheaval. Our Part P registered electricians will tell you candidly which side of the line your home falls on, because quoting for work a house doesn't need is not how a firm lasts in this trade.
Explore upgrade optionsAnd if the answer sits somewhere in the middle? A consumer unit replacement alone can modernise an older Petworth installation where the cabling still tests soundly, and a partial rewire is always on the table when only part of the house calls for it. Whatever we recommend arrives priced, itemised and fixed.
Photographs taken on working rewires around Petworth and West Sussex, showing the stages a job passes through before it earns its certificate.
A phone call or the online form is all it takes to set a survey in motion.
An experienced electrician looks over the property — around twenty minutes for most homes — and hears what you want from the job.
Within about a day you'll have a single figure in writing, covering everything the survey identified.
When the quote suits, we set a start date around your household rather than our diary.
Before arriving we confirm the practical details — access, parking, which rooms come first.
The team turns up early on day one, walks the plan through with you, then gets on with it.
Each day you'll know what's finished, what comes next, and that the price hasn't moved.
Testing, sign-off and your Electrical Installation Certificate, handed over with the house as we found it.
From a survey, itemised and fixed — never from a rate card or a guess over the phone. Bedrooms, circuits, cable routes and your choice of fittings all shape the figure, and our rewire cost calculator will give you a sensible starting number in a couple of minutes. The written quote that follows the survey is the number we hold to; extras only arise if you ask for extra work.
Between two and five days for the majority of homes we rewire around Petworth. A small cottage or flat is quicker; a three-storey house, solid floors or listed fabric stretch it a little. The schedule is settled alongside your quote, so both the time and the money are known before we start.
It is. Fittleworth, Tillington, Byworth, Duncton and Graffham all see our vans regularly, and we take on rewiring work across this stretch of West Sussex. Telephone us and we'll confirm cover for your address.
We do, and it falls within the quoted price. Each chase is refilled and skim-coated before we leave, so the walls need nothing but decoration. Allow the fresh plaster a couple of weeks to dry out before painting, and the job is complete.
It means the rewire is designed, installed and tested by Part P registered electricians to BS 7671, the 18th Edition, and finished with an Electrical Installation Certificate in your name. Solicitors, insurers and letting agents will expect that document, and it stands as proof the work met the standard you paid for.
Petworth is a small West Sussex market town that grew up around Petworth House, the great National Trust mansion whose state rooms hold one of the country's finest collections of Turner paintings, set within a deer park landscaped by Capability Brown. The narrow, winding streets of the old town are lined with Georgian frontages and known across the county for their antique dealers. Much of Petworth's housing is period and listed — timber-framed and Georgian cottages, Victorian and Edwardian terraces, with interwar semis and bungalows around the edges — and a good deal of that older stock now carries wiring well past the age at which it should be inspected or renewed, which is exactly the sort of home our Petworth rewires are built around.
Our Part P registered electricians are on the road across West Sussex every week, so Petworth (GU28) and the villages around it are firmly inside our patch. One call books a survey; we handle the rest.
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