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Electrician in Broadstone, Poole (BH18)

Electricians for Broadstone and all of BH18. Street after street here is bungalows, which is good news: a bungalow is the cleanest rewire there is, because the cable runs through the loft instead of under your floors. A fixed price in writing that only changes if you change the job. No VAT to add. No markup on materials. A 10-year guarantee.

Price your Broadstone rewire yourself

You do not have to wait for a quote to get a number. Build your own price in about 60 seconds. Tell it how many rooms and how many points, and it works the price out live from the same rate card we quote from.

Then we fix it in writing after a free survey. There is no VAT to add, and we charge materials at cost with no markup - our margin is in the labour, and your price is fixed. That is the promise: quotes, not estimates. The number only moves if you change the job.

What we do in Broadstone

There is no call-out charge for Broadstone. We are open 7 days a week - call any day, 7am to 7pm, and Saturday appointments are available at normal rates, not emergency rates.

• Bungalow rewires - the job we do most here, and the cleanest kind. See why below
• Fuse box swaps - from £625; in Broadstone that is usually a 1970s or 80s board in the hall cupboard of a long-owned bungalow
• EICR safety reports - fixed price by circuit count, and the one most asked for here before a probate sale. See EICR reports
• EV chargers - nearly every Broadstone home has its own driveway, so this is normally a short, tidy job
• Extra sockets and lights - the fix when a bungalow still has one socket a wall
• Fault-finding - a breaker that will not stay in, a dead ring, lights that dip

Areas we cover

All of Broadstone and BH18, including:

• The Broadway and the shops and flats around the centre
• The golf course side - the tree-lined roads of upper Broadstone
• Springdale and the Dunyeats Road area
• Lower Blandford Road out towards Corfe Mullen
• Merley, Corfe Mullen, Creekmoor and Canford Heath - the neighbouring areas

Pete is based in Poole, minutes down the road, with daily van runs through BH18. There is no call-out charge for Broadstone. Not sure if we reach you? Give Pete a call and ask.

Broadstone housing, and what each type needs

Broadstone grew up around its railway junction on the old Somerset and Dorset line. The track closed in the 1960s and is now the Castleman Trailway, but the housing it left behind is why the electrical work here looks different to the rest of Poole.

• Bungalows, and lots of them - whole roads, mostly 1950s to 1970s. Frequently one owner for thirty years or more, so the board and the socket count are stuck in the decade the house was built.
• Big Edwardian and 1930s houses up by the golf course. Solid walls, picture rails, deep skirtings. The wiring has usually been done once, in the 70s or 80s, and is now due again.
• Post-war semis off Lower Blandford Road and Dunyeats Road. Sound cable as a rule, so the job is normally the board and a few extra circuits rather than a full rewire.

Broadstone also sits high, on some genuinely steep roads. On a sloping plot the meter and the board are often in an odd spot - a raised side entrance, a garage below the house - and that decides where the new board can sensibly go.

Bungalow rewires - Broadstone's speciality

Broadstone has one of the biggest stocks of bungalows in the area, and a bungalow is one of the cleanest rewires there is. With a full loft over every room, most of the new cabling runs through the loft instead of under floors - so there is less lifting, less chasing and less making-good than in a two-storey house.

A lot of Broadstone bungalows are bought from long-term owners and modernised by the next one. If that is you, the order matters: rewire first, before the plastering, the new kitchen and the decorating - not after. An empty, just-bought bungalow is the perfect rewire, and it is done before you move in.

What one long ownership does to the wiring

The usual suspects, and where they turn up:

• A 1970s or 80s board with no RCD - the standard find in a bungalow that has had one careful owner since it was built
• Rubber or fabric-covered cable in the older detached houses near the golf course, brittle enough to crumble when it is moved
• One socket a wall, because that was plenty in 1965 and is nowhere near enough now
• An immersion heater on its own ancient circuit, often the oldest wiring left in the house
• Loft cable resting on the joists under new insulation - very common where lofts were topped up for the grant schemes and nobody lifted the cable clear
• Warm plugs, scorch marks or a buzz from the board - stop using it and call us

Not sure which of these matter in your home? An EICR safety report puts it in writing, with every problem graded by how urgent it really is.

Working in Broadstone, and who signs it off

Broadstone is part of Poole, so it comes under BCP Council. Cross the boundary to Wimborne or Corfe Mullen and it is Dorset Council instead. Anything notifiable gets registered with whichever one covers your address. That is our job, not yours, and your certificate follows without you chasing it.

Two practical things about working here:

• Steep roads and long driveways up the golf course side. Fine for the van, but it can mean a long carry from the road, so we allow for it rather than surprising you with it.
• The Broadway flats - parking is time-limited and there is no loading bay outside most of them. We unload first, then move the van, the same as any town centre.

Do you have to move out?

For a full rewire, yes. We only rewire empty properties. The boards come up and the walls get opened, so an empty home is faster and cheaper for you.

In Broadstone that fits the market almost perfectly. A large share of the bungalows here change hands after a long single ownership, often as probate sales, and get modernised straight away. If that is your situation the order matters: rewire first, then plaster, then the kitchen, then decorate. Doing it the other way round means cutting into work you have just paid for.

For smaller jobs you stay put. A board swap, an EICR or an EV charger is a day or less. If the cable is sound and only the board is dated, a consumer unit upgrade may be all you need.

What it costs

Every job is priced fixed in writing after a free survey. As a guide, most Broadstone rewires fall in these ranges by property size - there is no VAT to add:

• 1-bed flat - from around £2,800 to £4,000
• 2-bed - from around £3,800 to £5,500
• 3-bed - from around £4,500 to £7,000
• 4-bed - from around £6,500 to £11,000
• 5-bed and up - from around £10,000 to £16,000

These are guide ranges, not your quote. Build your own price on the instant quote tool, or see the full rewire cost guide for what changes the number. A 5% booking deposit holds your date, then you pay in stages as the work progresses.

Why choose Dorset Rewires

• Quotes, not estimates - a fixed price in writing that only changes if you change the job
• A price you can build yourself on our instant quote tool, then fixed after a free survey
• No VAT to add (we are not VAT registered, not yet)
• No markup on materials - we charge them at cost, our margin is in the labour
• Part P registered
• A 10-year workmanship guarantee in writing
• Pete quotes every job himself and gives your price on the spot, the same day
• The work is done by Pete and our own employed electricians - all on PAYE, no dodgy subcontractors
• A 5% booking deposit, then staged payments as the work progresses

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Related pages

• Electrician in Poole - the next town south
• Electrician in Corfe Mullen - just west across the A31
• Electrician in Wimborne - the neighbouring town north
• House rewires in Poole
• EICR safety reports
• Rewire cost guide 2026