How long does it take you to do a rewire
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Cirrus
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Surely that depends entirely on the size of house and it's structure and fabric, if it is void or occupied. I am pricing for a 7 Bedroom
Revved Up Sparky
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I'm not a sole- trader but I was recently involved with a large contract rewiring (in trunking) 3 bedroom occupied LA houses and one sparky and one mate were given 10 working days to do each one which I managed very easily. Obviously the quickest ones were the ones where there was very little furniture/ carpets- especially upstairs, loose floorboards and no boarded attic.
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Cirrus
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Oh, I did - honestly. Thing is, every rewire is totally different and therefore so are timescales. Without any theoretical parameters set down the thread is pointless.
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A piece of string is exactly TWICE the length that it is when measured from one end to the middle. Simples. as for the time taken to do a rewire, the answer is
(n+1).
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As Cirus mentions, I think you need to define a basic specification, rooms, accessories, circuits etc, otherwise you will just have several members giving different times for different specified properties which will be very difficult to compare. On its simplest form I think some members work on half hour per point and a bit more for the CU and testing. The structure of the property and the tools you have available are also very big contributing factors.
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I think you will find that is 'Woods variable'...............(.proportional to length of leg X visible cleavage ) / (size of Partner X Size of waist]............. :coat
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A few weeks back myself (mate) and boss took 6 days ( 8.45-5ish ) to do an occupied 2 bed terrace. He is very customer aware and they were in during the day and a lot of time was spent continously tidying up which looks good but does slow things.
Ash , you may have gleaned that its not possible to give any guidelines on your question .
All you can do is :-
a) Always do the survey (And look at the KME's checklist on the Forum)
B) Easy bit... list all the materials.
c) Harder bit ....break the job down into logical sections if you don't like looking at the whole and thinking HHhmmmm! 2 weeks work there , (So, upstairs lts ****hours , upstairs plugs ***Hours etc)
If you quoted for it taking you 10 days and it takes 11 , forget it , next job could be the opposite way round.
In other words , the more you do the better you'll become.
All you can do is :-
a) Always do the survey (And look at the KME's checklist on the Forum)
B) Easy bit... list all the materials.
c) Harder bit ....break the job down into logical sections if you don't like looking at the whole and thinking HHhmmmm! 2 weeks work there , (So, upstairs lts ****hours , upstairs plugs ***Hours etc)
If you quoted for it taking you 10 days and it takes 11 , forget it , next job could be the opposite way round.
In other words , the more you do the better you'll become.
too many variables. some of them
size of property
empty or lived in
carpets in the way or not
how many sparks
how good they are
plasterboard walls or solid
lots of accessories or just the basics
so for a house, i would say any time between 2 days and 3 weeks
matt.leung
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i would say a couple of weeks.... that is allowing for an issues that may arise (as they always do!!!)
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The quickest one was a 3 bedroom cottage. It was easy because all the walls were dry lined and in most cases I was able to use the old wiring as a draw wire to pull the new wire in.
With the owner helping to pull the wiring in, it was all done in 50 hours on site.
With the owner helping to pull the wiring in, it was all done in 50 hours on site.
Ive had occupied 3bed LA done in a day with a 5man team, = 5days
also had 3bed un occupied done in 3 days with a 2man team, = 6 days
have also saw 3 bed unoccupied take 15days with a 3man team, = 45days! [cos they were worse than useless] !!!
also had 3bed un occupied done in 3 days with a 2man team, = 6 days
have also saw 3 bed unoccupied take 15days with a 3man team, = 45days! [cos they were worse than useless] !!!
To do the rewire on the place I am doing the PI on now, probably about 400 man days ish, could be more or less depending on changes and other things and could not be done with one man.
To be honest would take a lot of thought to consider it, would definitely need a fork lift truck & a cherry picker though! ]
To be honest would take a lot of thought to consider it, would definitely need a fork lift truck & a cherry picker though! ]
that wasnt deke, brian and sandra was it :slap
me and my mate rewire your average 3 bed semi in six days, three days to first fix, one day for plasterer to patch, fifth day to 2nd fix sixth day to test and certify
obviously this might not be consecutive days cos were basically lazy!
obviously this might not be consecutive days cos were basically lazy!
If we`re to use your premise and provided info; and I`m pricing it purely on "how much to rewire my house, but I don`t know anything about it yet"?
Then I would refuse to fix a cost - but I`ll go in on dayrate..... ]
Then I would refuse to fix a cost - but I`ll go in on dayrate..... ]
