Candlewick

Service Period rewires

Rewire a Victorian home without wrecking it.

Most of our work is in houses with a hundred years of plaster and paint worth keeping. We lift boards instead of chasing walls, and we tidy up every evening.

Hold a lamp up to the hall. Move your cursor (or drag a finger) across the dark hallway to see the finished room. The tiles, newel post and cornice are original and untouched.

A dark Victorian hallway with the lights off The same hallway lit by a glass pendant, showing encaustic tiles and an oak staircase
Hall & stairs, Hemel Hempstead

Four steps, no surprises.

  1. 1

    Survey and test

    We test every existing circuit, lift a few boards and photograph what we find. You get a written fixed price with the cable routes marked on a plan.

  2. 2

    Lift, don’t chase

    Cable goes under floorboards and through the loft wherever it can. Where a wall must be opened, we cut one neat channel and make good before we leave that room.

  3. 3

    One room at a time

    The house keeps its lights on downstairs while we work upstairs. Nobody lives under dust sheets for a fortnight.

  4. 4

    Test, certify, hand over

    Every circuit tested to BS 7671, a new RCD-protected board labelled in plain English, and the certificate in your hand on the last afternoon.

9 daystypical start to certificate on a three-bed Victorian terrace
£4,200a fixed price, from, for that terrace, boards back down
Every nightwe hoover, lay the boards and leave the kettle plugged in
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