How much does a consumer unit replacement cost in Royton?
Royton consumer unit replacements are fixed: £449 up to 6 circuits, £549 up to 10 and £695 for 11 or more. A 60s or 70s estate semi or town house is usually £549; smaller terraces near the centre are often £449. Any earthing, bonding or new tails show in your three photos and are priced before you book.
How a price is built →Original boards on the estates
When the estates around Heyside, Holden Fold and Thorp went up, the houses were wired new, and the board fitted was whatever the builder bought in bulk: a Wylex or MEM box, rewireable fuses or early plug-in breakers, no RCD. Because the wiring was new and has generally held up, many owners never had a reason to touch the board. That is why we still find so many originals here, in the hall cupboard or on the garage wall.
Some of these houses were also built with storage heaters on an off-peak supply, which usually shows up as a second meter or a time switch beside the board. That is normal and it does not stop a replacement; it simply means more to photograph. Send a wide picture that takes in everything on that wall, and we will price the change to cover all of it, in one written quote.
The older centre and how it differs
Round the town centre, Rochdale Road and towards Haggate, Royton is closer to its Oldham neighbours: stone and brick terraces from the cotton-spinning years, rewired later, with boxes at the cellar head or behind the front door. These are usually smaller jobs, often the £449 package, but they are also the ones where we look hardest at the earthing and at meter tails that have been extended or moved over time.
Across both kinds of house, the reason people call is usually one of three: a house sale where the buyer’s survey flagged the board, a new electric shower the old board cannot supply, or a fuse that keeps blowing in an old rewireable carrier. Whichever it is, the job is the same single visit, with the certificate handed over before we leave.
The four jobs that bring Royton households to us
Royton questions
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Rarely. PVC-sheathed cable from the 60s and 70s usually tests well decades on; the board is the part that has aged. We test every circuit dead and live before the new consumer unit goes live, so you know exactly where you stand.
No. Garages are a common spot for boards on Royton estates, and the new consumer unit goes back in the same place, fed by the same tails if they are in good order. The metal enclosure is well suited to a garage wall.
Not on its own if the circuit has a fault. What a new board brings is proper testing of that circuit on the day. If it fails, we show you the result and price the remedial per fault before doing it, so the cause is found rather than hidden behind a heavier fuse wire.
Nearby, and the rest of Greater Manchester
Same fixed price and no travel charge anywhere across the nine boroughs we cover.