info@positivenav.comAvalon, Macmillan Road, Rowley Regis, B65 8ASCall AboutDomestic Commercial Service Areas Contact07518 498193Request Estimate - Home - Domestic - Electrical Contracting Domestic # Domestic ElectricalContracting for HomesAcross Birmingham Rewires, consumer units, fault-finding and additions carried out by one contractor, certified on completion, and quoted before a single cable is lifted. Request Estimate07518 498193 Loxone partner · No-obligation quotes · Reasonable call-out fees where they apply · Local to Rowley Regis Loxone Partner Accredited on the smart building platform we install. No-obligation quotes A written price with no pressure to proceed. Reasonable call-out fees Told to you upfront where a fee applies. Domestic and commercial One contractor for the house and the business. ## What domestic electrical contracting covers Domestic electrical contracting is everything between the incoming supply and the last socket in the house: the consumer unit, the circuits feeding lighting, sockets, cooker, shower and outbuildings, and the protective devices that disconnect those circuits when something goes wrong. Most homeowners only think about it twice, once when something stops working and once when they are selling, extending or letting the property. We handle the whole scope rather than the convenient part of it. That means full and partial rewires, consumer unit replacement, additional sockets and lighting circuits, outdoor and garden supplies, garage and garden office feeds, kitchen and bathroom installations, fault-finding, and inspection with the remedial work that follows. The same team that surveys the property does the installation and the testing, so nothing is lost between one visit and the next. The reason to use a contractor rather than a general handyman is not the wiring, it is everything around it: correct cable sizing for the load, correct protective device for the circuit, correct earthing and bonding for the property's supply type, and certification that stands up when someone official asks for it. Getting those wrong does not usually cause an obvious failure. It causes a hidden one. ### Who it is for Homeowners renovating or extending, landlords who need a compliant installation and evidence of it, buyers acting on a survey finding, and anyone living with a board that trips without explanation. ### When it is needed Before a kitchen or bathroom fit-out, when adding an EV charger or heat pump, when a fuse board still uses fuse wire, after water damage, and at the end of an inspection interval. ### What you get A surveyed scope, a written no-obligation quote, staged works that keep the house liveable, full testing on completion and certification you can hand to a solicitor or insurer. ### Why professional work matters An installation can look finished and still be unsafe. Loose terminations, undersized cable and missing RCD protection show up as heat, nuisance tripping and shock risk, not as a visible defect. ## What it costs to leave it alone Electrical faults rarely announce themselves. They develop quietly, and the cost of dealing with them climbs the longer the installation is left in service in the condition it is in. ### A loose connection becomes heat damage A terminal that is not tight enough carries the same current through a smaller contact area. That produces heat at the joint, which discolours and eventually chars the accessory and the cable behind it. What would have been a two-minute correction becomes a replaced circuit and a scorched wall. ### Old boards leave whole circuits unprotected A rewireable fuse board will not disconnect fast enough to protect a person against a fault current in the way a modern RCD or RCBO does. Every additional appliance, extension lead and outdoor socket added to that installation increases exposure that was never designed for. ### Nuisance tripping gets bypassed instead of diagnosed The common reaction to a board that keeps tripping is to move appliances between sockets until it stops. That hides a genuine insulation or earth fault while leaving it energised. The fault does not go away, it simply stops being visible until it fails under load. ### Undeclared work stalls a sale or a tenancy Uncertified notifiable work, no inspection record and DIY alterations all surface at exactly the wrong moment: during conveyancing, at a letting inspection or at an insurance claim. Retrospective certification means opening up work that was already finished and paid for. ### Overloaded circuits meet modern loads Housing stock wired for a kettle and a television now runs induction hobs, electric showers, car chargers and home offices. Circuits sized for the old load run permanently near their limit, and cable that runs hot for years degrades long before it fails outright. ## How we run the work - 01 ### Survey and inspection We look at the incoming supply, the board, the earthing and bonding arrangement, and a representative sample of circuits. You find out the actual condition of the installation before you commit to anything. - 02 ### Diagnosis and written quote You get a plain-English explanation of what needs doing, what can wait and what should not, with an itemised no-obligation quote. If there is a cheaper sequence that spreads the cost, we tell you what it is. - 03 ### Programme agreed with you We agree the room order, access times and which days affect power. On occupied homes we work so that heating, fridge and at least one working socket circuit stay live overnight. - 04 ### Installation First fix runs cabling and back boxes, second fix installs accessories, the consumer unit and lighting. Cable routes follow permitted zones so a future nail or fixing does not find a live conductor. - 05 ### Testing and verification Continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, earth loop impedance and RCD operation are tested and recorded. Results are checked against the design, not just eyeballed for a pass. - 06 ### Completion, certification and handover You receive the certification for the work, a walkthrough of what changed and where things now isolate, and a straight answer on when the installation should next be inspected. ## What you get out of it ### Speed Surveyed scope and pre-ordered materials mean the job runs to the days quoted instead of drifting across weeks. ### Safety Correct protective devices, correct bonding and tested disconnection times, so a fault clears in a fraction of a second rather than persisting. ### Longevity Cable sized for the actual load, not the minimum that passes, so the installation still has headroom when you add a charger or a heat pump. ### Cost control One contractor for survey, installation and testing removes the coordination gaps where extra visits and extra charges usually appear. ### Reliability Faults are diagnosed by isolation and measurement, so you get the cause fixed rather than parts replaced one at a time. ### Evidence when it counts Certification and inspection records that satisfy solicitors, insurers, lenders and letting agents without a scramble. ## The detail behind the work Domestic installations vary enormously across West Midlands housing stock, from pre-war terraces with mixed-era wiring to new-build estates with everything on one board. The specification changes with the property. ### Full rewires and partial rewires A full rewire replaces every circuit and the consumer unit, and is the right answer where cabling is rubber or fabric insulated, where multiple generations of alteration have been layered on top of each other, or where the property is being stripped back anyway during renovation. It is disruptive, and the cheapest time to do it is while floors are up and walls are open. A partial rewire targets the circuits that need it, often a kitchen, a bathroom or an outdoor supply, while leaving sound circuits in place. It only makes sense when the existing installation has been inspected and proven sound, otherwise you are connecting new work to an unknown quantity. ### Consumer units and protective devices A modern board uses RCBOs or RCD-protected ways so that a fault on one circuit does not black out the whole house, which matters when a freezer or a home office is on the other side of the board. Metal enclosures, surge protection and correctly labelled ways are standard rather than upgrades. Board replacement is not a like-for-like swap. It requires the earthing and main bonding to be verified first, because a new board with fast protective devices depends on an earth path that actually meets the required impedance. Where bonding to gas and water is undersized or missing, that is corrected as part of the work rather than noted and ignored. ### Cabling, materials and methods Circuits are wired in twin-and-earth for concealed domestic runs, in flexible conduit or armoured cable where they leave the building, and in fire-rated fixings where cables run through escape routes. Outbuildings, garden offices and garages are supplied with steel wire armoured cable buried at depth with warning tape above, not with an extension lead through a wall. Cable routes stay inside permitted safe zones, capping and grommets protect cable at every metal edge, and terminations are torqued rather than tightened by feel. These are the details that decide whether an installation is still sound in twenty years. ### Kitchens, bathrooms and special locations Bathrooms and shower rooms are classed as special locations, with zoning rules that dictate what fitting can go where, what IP rating it needs and how it must be protected. Downlights over a bath, shaver sockets and extractor fans all sit under those rules, and they are among the most commonly ignored parts of a DIY installation. Kitchens combine high continuous loads with limited space behind units. Cooker and induction hob circuits are sized to the appliance's actual demand, appliance sockets are made accessible or switched above the worktop, and cable routes are planned before the units go in rather than negotiated around them afterwards. ### Inspection, testing and rented property Periodic inspection reports the condition of an existing installation against current standards, coded by severity so you know what is dangerous, what is a potential problem and what is simply an improvement recommendation. Rented property in England requires inspection at least every five years and evidence provided to tenants. We keep inspection and remedial work under one contractor, so an unsatisfactory report converts into a scoped, priced list of remedial works instead of a document you have to interpret and shop around with. ### Domestic work alongside smart systems Where a property is heading towards automation, the electrical first fix decides what is possible later. Running switch drops back to a central location, allowing space in the board position, and pulling data cable while walls are open costs comparatively little at first fix and a great deal afterwards. As a Loxone partner we routinely prepare domestic installations for smart lighting, heating and blind control even when the automation itself is a later phase, so the rewire you pay for now does not have to be reopened. ## Frequently asked questions How much does domestic electrical work cost in Birmingham?Price depends on the size of the property, the condition of the existing installation and how much making-good is involved, so we quote per job rather than publishing a flat rate. Every quote is no-obligation and itemised, and where a call-out fee applies it is reasonable and told to you before we attend, never added afterwards. How long does a full house rewire take?A typical three-bedroom house is normally a five to ten working day job, split into a first-fix stage where cabling is run, and a second-fix stage where accessories, the consumer unit and lighting are fitted and tested. Occupied properties are staged room by room so you keep power and heating overnight. Can I stay in the house while the work is done?In most cases yes. We agree a room order with you before we start, isolate only the circuits being worked on, and restore power at the end of each day. On a full rewire there will be short periods with no power in specific rooms, and we tell you which day each of those falls on. Do I get a certificate when the work is finished?Yes. Notifiable work is certified and you receive the documentation for your records, which is what a solicitor, insurer, mortgage lender or letting agent will ask for. Keep it with your property paperwork, because replacing it later is far more effort than filing it now. How often should a consumer unit be replaced?There is no fixed expiry date, but a rewireable fuse board, a unit with no RCD protection, or a board showing heat damage should be replaced rather than patched. If your board still uses fuse wire, it predates the protection now expected on socket and lighting circuits. How long does domestic electrical work last?Cabling installed to current standards and protected correctly has a service life measured in decades. What shortens it is mechanical damage, water ingress, overloaded circuits and DIY alterations. Periodic inspection every ten years for an owner-occupied home, and every five years for rented property, keeps that lifespan intact. Do you carry out landlord inspections and remedial work?Yes. We inspect rented property, report the findings clearly, and carry out any remedial work needed to bring the installation up to a satisfactory condition. Because the inspection and the remedial work are handled by the same contractor, you are not chasing two trades and two schedules. Can you find an intermittent fault that other electricians have missed?Intermittent faults are usually a loose connection, a damaged cable under load, or moisture in an outdoor circuit. We fault-find by isolating and testing circuits section by section rather than replacing parts and hoping, so you get a diagnosis and a fixed cause rather than a temporary improvement. Do you attend urgent problems?Call us and describe what is happening. Loss of power, burning smells, tripping that will not reset and any visible damage are treated as priority, and we will tell you honestly on the phone when we can attend rather than promising a slot we cannot hold. Which areas do you cover for domestic work?We are based in Rowley Regis and work across Birmingham, Solihull, Dudley, West Bromwich, Halesowen, Oldbury, Wolverhampton, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon, with project work in London and Manchester. ## Related services - Smart home automation - EV charger installation - Future Home Standard (2027) - All domestic services - Positive & Nav Electrical home - Contact us for a no-obligation quote ## Where we work - Birmingham - Solihull - Dudley - West Bromwich - Halesowen - Oldbury - Wolverhampton - Warwick - Stratford-upon-Avon ## Get the installation surveyed before it decides for you. Tell us what the property is doing and we will tell you what it needs, with a written no-obligation quote and reasonable call-out fees where they apply. 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