How much does a consumer unit replacement cost in Oldham?
Fixed prices of £449 up to 6 circuits, £549 up to 10 and £695 for 11 or more. Most Oldham terraces are £449 or £549. Older stone properties are the ones most likely to need an earthing upgrade, £80 to £160, and we see that in your earthing photo, so the total is fixed before we book.
How a price is built →Old stone, old boards
The mill-town terraces of Glodwick, Werneth and Hathershaw, and the stone weavers’ cottages towards Lees and Springhead, were built before domestic electricity existed. Whatever board is in there was added later and often not touched since. Rewireable boxes are the norm, and the earthing arrangements in older stone properties are the thing we check hardest in your photos.
Oldham also has a strong landlord market, and council enforcement of the 2020 electrical safety regulations here is real. A good number of our OL jobs are 28 day EICR remedials where the board, the bonding and the tails all get sorted in one visit.
From Failsworth to the Saddleworth villages
The borough climbs from the edge of Manchester up into the Pennines, and the housing changes with the height. Failsworth and Chadderton, closest to the city, are brick terraces around the old mills plus plenty of interwar and 1960s semis, with boards much like north Manchester’s. Royton and Shaw mix terraces with larger estates from the 60s and 70s, where a 1980s split-load board without a single RCBO is the usual find.
Saddleworth is its own world. Uppermill, Delph, Dobcross, Diggle, Greenfield and Denshaw are stone villages, much of them conservation area, with converted barns and mill workers’ cottages on steep lanes. Some outlying houses run on their own earth rod rather than the supplier’s earth, which we plan for from your photos. Saddleworth jobs are grouped, so dates there usually land later in the same week.
The four jobs that bring Oldham households to us
Oldham 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.
Send the three photos, including the earthing one near the meter. Older stone terraces sometimes need an earthing upgrade, and the photo lets us price it in advance rather than surprise you on the day.
Yes, and we prioritise it because of the 28 day deadline. Send the report and photos and you will have a fixed line-by-line price within two working hours.
Yes, Lees, Springhead, Grasscroft and the Saddleworth villages are all covered from our OL rounds.
Nearby, and the rest of Greater Manchester
Same fixed price and no travel charge anywhere across the nine boroughs we cover.