How much does a consumer unit replacement cost in Didsbury?
Fixed at £449 up to 6 circuits, £549 up to 10 and £695 for 11 or more. Most Didsbury flats are the £449 package, and the family semis of East Didsbury usually £549. Where a conversion’s meter tails or bonding need work, that is priced from your three photos too, so the price is fixed before we arrive.
How a price is built →Didsbury’s two kinds of job
West Didsbury’s big Victorian and Edwardian houses were carved into flats decades ago, and each carve-up left boards of a different vintage stacked in one hallway cupboard. Replacing one properly means understanding whose supply is whose; your photos of the cupboard tell us most of it, and we sort access with the freeholder or managing agent.
East Didsbury and the roads off Wilmslow Road are more conventional semis, typically with a 1970s or 80s board that predates RCBO protection. A lot of these jobs are triggered by a house sale or a landlord EICR, both of which want the same thing: a certified modern board, quickly.
How Didsbury differs from its neighbours
Didsbury sits between Withington’s student houses and the quieter suburbs to the south, and its fuse boards reflect that. The lets here are more often professional flats and family homes than student HMOs, so the EICR work tends to be a single board rather than whole-house licence conditions. The large Victorian villas off Palatine Road and Lapwing Lane often have cellars too, and in some the original intake is still down there with each flat fed from it.
On the family side, kitchen extensions and loft rooms are common in the semis of East Didsbury and around Fog Lane, and each adds circuits an old board has no space for. Driveways off Parrs Wood Road and School Lane are gaining chargers as well. We fit the consumer unit with the spare ways those need, and the power is back on the same day.
The four jobs that bring Didsbury households to us
Didsbury questions
Anything else, call or WhatsApp. A real electrician answers, 8am to 8pm, seven days.
Our WhatsApp is run by SB Electrical Group, the team behind Fuse Box Fitters.
Yes. It is the most Didsbury job there is. We identify your supply from the photos, arrange access with the freeholder or agent if needed, and only your flat loses power on the day.
Send the report and photos, get a fixed line-by-line price within two working hours, and we complete the remedials well inside your 28 days with the written confirmation for your tenant and agent.
Yes, both are on the same rounds as Didsbury, along with Withington and Chorlton next door.
Nearby, and the rest of Greater Manchester
Same fixed price and no travel charge anywhere across the nine boroughs we cover.