How much does a fuse box replacement cost in Wythenshawe?
£449 covers up to 6 circuits, £549 up to 10 and £695 for 11 or more. Most Wythenshawe semis are £449 or £549; houses with an extension or a charger on a new driveway usually need the £695 EV-ready board. Earthing, meter tails and bonding are priced from three photos, so you know the full cost first.
How a price is built →When the council stops being your electrician
For decades the electrics in most Wythenshawe houses were the landlord’s job, and many were upgraded in estate-wide programmes: a new board, sometimes the meter moved outside, all done to the standard of the day. Once a house is bought under right to buy, that upkeep stops. Owners in Benchill, Sharston, Northern Moor and Woodhouse Park now live with boards fitted in the 80s or 90s that nobody has looked at since.
Those tend to be split-load units with a single RCD covering the sockets, or earlier boards with no RCD at all. Plastic enclosures, no surge protection and one fault taking out half the house are the usual findings. The wiring behind them is often in better shape than the board, because it went in as part of a planned programme, so a straight board swap with full testing is normally all that is needed.
Outside meter boxes and new driveways
Many Wythenshawe semis had their meters moved into a box on the outside wall during those upgrades, with the tails passed through the brickwork to a board in the hall or kitchen. The box is exposed to the weather, and the tails inside are often the thinnest that were acceptable at the time. We check both in your photos, and where new tails are needed they are priced up front, typically £60 to £120.
The long front gardens the estates were planned with are also becoming driveways, one dropped kerb at a time. Owners adding a charger find the old board has no spare capacity, so we fit the EV-ready package and leave a way sized for the charger circuit. The charger installer then makes the final connection on their own visit. Your photos tell us whether the meter tails also need upgrading for the extra load.
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Yes. Once you own the house, the electrics are yours to maintain, consumer unit included. There is no legal deadline for an owner-occupier, but a buyer’s survey will usually flag an old plastic board when you come to sell. Send the three photos and we will price a replacement.
Usually, yes. Ask the charger installer what capacity they need, then send us photos of the board, meter tails and earthing. We fit an EV-ready board with the right spare way, and the installer connects the charger when the driveway is finished, without waiting on us.
That box is your meter tails photo. Open it and photograph the meter and the cables leaving it. In Wythenshawe that box is often the weak point, and the photo tells us whether the tails need replacing before we set the price.
Nearby, and the rest of Greater Manchester
Same fixed price and no travel charge anywhere across the nine boroughs we cover.