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Electrician in Corfe Mullen, Dorset (BH21)

Electricians for Corfe Mullen and its BH21 postcodes. Most of the village went up in one long building burst, which means whole streets were wired in the same few years. We see the same faults house after house here, so we usually know what is behind your wall before we open it. Your price goes in writing before we start, and it moves only if you change the job. No VAT to add. No markup on materials. A 10-year guarantee.

Price your Corfe Mullen rewire yourself

You do not have to wait for a quote to get a number. Price it yourself first: the instant quote tool turns your room and socket count into a real figure while the kettle boils. It does the sums against the same rate card we quote from.

A free survey then locks that number in writing. 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 deal on every Corfe Mullen job: nothing gets bolted on at the end.

What we do in Corfe Mullen

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

• Full house rewires - empty properties, priced live on our instant quote tool
• Fuse box swaps - from £625; on the estate housing here this is the job far more often than a full rewire
• EICR safety reports - fixed price by circuit count, and the sensible first step before you commit to anything bigger. See EICR reports
• EV chargers - plenty of driveway here, so the charger is easy; getting a big enough supply out to a detached garage is the real question
• Garage, shed and garden supplies - see below, this is a Corfe Mullen speciality
• Fault-finding - a breaker that will not reset, a dead socket ring, lights dipping when the shower runs

Areas we cover

All of Corfe Mullen, including:

• Wareham Road and the estates either side of it
• Higher Blandford Road - the Broadstone end of the village
• East End and the lanes out towards Sturminster Marshall
• Naked Cross and the southern edge of the village
• Broadstone, Merley, Wimborne, Upton and Lytchett Matravers - the neighbours

Pete is based in Poole, an easy run out to Corfe Mullen, with daily van runs across BH21. There is no call-out charge for Corfe Mullen. Not sure if we reach you? Give Pete a call and ask.

Why Corfe Mullen homes need rewiring

Corfe Mullen is one of the biggest villages in Dorset, and most of it was built in one burst. The estates off Wareham Road and Higher Blandford Road went up through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, on top of the older 1930s ribbon housing and the village's old heart around East End.

That matters for wiring. A whole generation of Corfe Mullen homes is now 50 to 60 years old - and a house that has never been rewired since it was built is running on wiring designed for a kettle, a telly and one socket per room.

If you are not sure whether you need anything done, we will do a free survey and a quick on-the-spot check. If the wiring is fine, we will tell you.

The 1960s and 70s estate problem

Homes from Corfe Mullen's big building years share a set of quirks we see again and again:

• No earth on the lighting circuit - standard before 1966, so metal light fittings and switches are a real risk
• A small rewireable fuse board with no RCD protection and no room for new circuits
• First-generation PVC cable - it lasts, but the circuits behind it were sized for 1960s life, not today's kitchens
• Patchwork wiring - fifty years of extensions, porches and garage conversions, each wired by a different hand to a different standard

None of these mean your home is about to fail. They mean it deserves a proper look. An EICR safety report tells you exactly where it stands, in writing, before you spend a penny on a rewire.

The tell-tales on an estate house here

What tends to turn up once we lift a floorboard in the village:

• A small fuse box with no spare ways - fine in 1968, but there is nowhere to add a shower, an oven or a charger without starting again
• Metal light switches with no earth behind them - normal before 1966 and still in plenty of homes here
• An extension or garage conversion on mystery wiring that nobody has paperwork for, joined into the original circuits
• A kitchen fed from the old ring, so the lights dim when the kettle and the washing machine go on together
• Sockets added over the years in a chain, each one spurred off the last
• Warm plugs, scorch marks or a buzz from the board - stop using it and call us

Garages, sheds and everything down the garden

Corfe Mullen plots are big, and that creates a job we do here more than anywhere else: supplies running out to a detached garage, a shed, a workshop or a summer house.

Most were put in decades ago, and the same problems come up:

• Cable buried straight in the soil with no ducting and no armour, often only a spade's depth down
• An old cooker cable pressed into service to feed a whole garage
• No RCD at either end, on a run going outdoors, which is exactly where you most want one
• No isolation at the outbuilding, so the only way to make it safe is to switch off the house

If you are thinking about an EV charger, a workshop or a garden office, this is the bit worth checking first. The charger is the easy part. Getting a big enough, safe supply to where you want it is the real work, and we will tell you straight what yours needs.

Done properly, a garden run means armoured SWA cable in ducting with warning tape above it, buried deep enough that a fork or a fence post can never find it. The outbuilding gets its own small board, so you can switch it off out there without plunging the house into darkness. Both ends get RCD protection. That spec outlives every gadget you ever plug into it.

A board swap day, start to finish

On this village's housing the board swap is the most common job we quote, so here is what the day actually looks like:

1. Morning: we find the board - under the stairs or in the garage on most of these estates - photograph everything, and label what each fuse really feeds, which is rarely what the old handwriting says
2. Midday: the power goes off while the old rewireable board comes out and the new one goes in. Plan for a few hours without electricity - boil the kettle early
3. Afternoon: every circuit is tested from the new board, one by one. Anything that fails a test gets talked through with you before we touch it - a failed test is a conversation, not a surprise invoice
4. Before we leave: the power is back on, every switch on the new board is labelled properly, and your certificate follows by email

Buying one of these houses?

Corfe Mullen's estate houses are changing hands as their first owners downsize, and the survey nearly always carries the same line: "an electrical inspection is recommended". That line is vague on purpose - the surveyor cannot open the walls.

An EICR (from £160) turns it into facts before you exchange. If the wiring is sound, you buy with confidence. If it is not, you are negotiating with a written report in your hand instead of a guess - on a 50-year-old installation, that report can be worth many times what it cost.

Do you have to move out?

For a full rewire, yes. We only rewire empty properties. Power goes off, floors come up and dust gets everywhere, so nobody wants to be living in it while we work.

For smaller jobs you stay put, and on this village's housing that is usually the answer anyway. The first-generation PVC cable in these estates is often still sound. It is the board, the socket count and the add-ons that have aged, and a consumer unit upgrade plus a couple of new circuits fixes that for a fraction of a rewire.

What it costs

Every job is priced fixed in writing after a free survey. As a guide, most Corfe Mullen 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 - the written price stands unless you change the job yourself
• 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 Broadstone - the next town east
• Electrician Wimborne - just across the A31
• Electrician Poole - a short run south
• EICR safety reports
• Rewire cost guide 2026