How much does a consumer unit replacement cost in Wilmslow?
Wilmslow pays the same fixed packages as Greater Manchester: £449 up to 6 circuits, £549 up to 10, £695 for 11 or more. Most Wilmslow houses are the £695 package because of their size and extensions; Handforth semis and town-centre flats are often £449 or £549. Extras are priced from your three photos.
How a price is built →Executive estates and the boards they grew
Beyond the older villas around Fulshaw Park and the centre, much of Wilmslow is detached houses from the 50s, 60s and 70s: Lindow, Pownall Park, Dean Row, Morley. Many have integral garages, and that is where the board usually lives. The typical find is an 80s split-load unit that replaced the original, a second small board added for a later extension, and a switchfuse for the garage or a garden room.
Bringing all of that into one metal consumer unit with an RCBO on every circuit is the standard Wilmslow job. It stops a single fault tripping half the house, adds surge protection, and leaves spare ways, which matters here because so many drives now have, or are about to have, an EV charger. We size those ways for 32A and 40A circuits, and the charger installer connects to them on their own visit.
Handforth, apartments and the rest of SK9
Not every SK9 job is a large house. Handforth has streets of post-war semis and newer estates that follow the south Manchester pattern: an under-stairs board from the 70s or 80s, a shower on a separate switchfuse, and a survey on the sale flagging it all. The apartment blocks near the town centre and the station are another kind of job again, with boards in the flats and meters in a shared intake room run by a managing agent.
For apartments we arrange access to the intake room with the managing agent before the date is fixed, and only your flat loses power on the day. For every property the route is the same as in Manchester: three photos, a fixed price within two working hours, one visit, and the Electrical Installation Certificate handed over before we leave, with Part P notification made for you.
The four jobs that bring Wilmslow households to us
Wilmslow questions
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Yes. We take Wilmslow jobs regularly, and the fixed packages are exactly the same as in Greater Manchester. The only difference is scheduling: we group SK9 bookings together, so your date may be later in the week rather than the next working day.
If your current board has no spare way or no RCD protection, yes. A new consumer unit gives the garden office supply its own RCBO from day one. We fit the board only, so your electrician or builder connects the office supply to it afterwards.
It is standard wording for an older board without RCBO protection, and on its own it does not say how urgent things are. Your photos let a qualified electrician look properly and give you a fixed price, and a new consumer unit with its certificate settles the point.
Nearby, and the rest of Greater Manchester
Same fixed price and no travel charge anywhere across the nine boroughs we cover.