Nearly every single comment is questioning your 30k quote. You are proud of your work and stand by your price. Are you going to reply and explain what every sparky on here deems extortionate? Size of property etc? Time, bodies on job, anything? Any reason for 30k ? It would look better if you answered, you are being accused of extortion by some......
how many typical 3 bed homes have 18 circuits? it is a massive house, quite possibly one of those 5/6 floor georgian houses in and around central London.. thats a lot of work, especially if you are having to go in and pull up flooring and chasing out brick walls...
As of 2023 - The average cost to rewire a 3-bedroom house is in the region of £4,450 - £8,000. Depending on the size and layout of the property, it should take 6-10 days to carry out the rewiring work. If you're looking to remove and replace wiring, the average cost to rewire a 4-bed house is somewhere between £6,080 - £9,380. Most people in the UK don't even earn 30k per year, and you are wanting to charge 30k for about ten days of work. Insane.
the average 3 bed house uses 5/6 circuits, the consumer unit shown here has 17/18 circuits...it clearly is not an average 3 bed home... as it has 3-4 times the amount of circuits, then the price would generally be 3-4 time more, and if its a much bigger house, the length of cable and labour to fit will also be greater, so the cost of that will also be factored in.. and if there are outbuildings with buried cables...even greater still..
@@S.Trades a 100m spool of wire is £71 lets call it a quid per meter to give them some leeway a grand of the stuff would be 1000 meters so unless this house somehow ends up needing 10,000 meters ive no god damn clue how they drummed up 30k googles saying a 3 bed has 300m of wire on average so not even a grand is going on the wire and im looking at mortal prices not trade rates and hes a electrician he buys this stuff all the time so hes probably getting something for a discount but like others have say 30k? thats a decent ways towards a whole new house
@@iainansell5930 ok so lets assume half the rate is pureley in cable its 70p per meter on average where in christs name is this guy putting fifteen thousand meteres of cable average 3 bed is 300m lets assume they have the fanciest house with all the bells and whistles and it uses 8x the cable most do thats still only 2400 meters of cable which is between £1700 and £2400 in cable where is he pulling the other 25k+ from im leaving him some huuuuge margins for pricing here and i still cant make his numbers add up to anything other than 5 k in materials 10k in labour and 15k in renting a huge horse cock dildo to fuck me up the arse with
@West London general builder 🤣🤣🤣 says everything about you I need to know really. And I'm a plasterer/render who works in London have done for 17years. Any proper builder would see where the fuse board is and the door it's next and could tell its probably a block of flats
It's really hard work, me and my ex's dad rewired my ex's house and it was the hardest weeks work I've ever done... The wire alone without the boxes etc was around £3000... I think the equipment altogether came up to around £5000 and that was just a 3 bedroom terrace house.... £10000 is way too cheap for that kind of job and they seem to have got what they paid for.
@@samuelwoods164a rewire is tough..if he's leaving the house as it was...it could easily cost 30k making everything good again...I advised someone to do reddo tye heating system too..they ended up gutting the place, completed rewire and re plumbing, and new insulation, kitchen etc. They were right....costly...but the house is good now
This dude is as fake as they get. I worked as an electrician, and that cost goes normal in like industrial buildings or office buildings or similar projects... Not a house or an apartment building. Maybe if it was 50 floors of 20 rooms each, then I could see it as 100 euros per room plus installing any light fixtures or other elements in a room. But this was a single rack he showed..... Anything over 2000 euros is a joke for that work. Hell even 2k is too much, but you have to pay your worker a fair wage no matter what, any fool with patience and a will to read can rewire a house tho.
@@leomahmet7555 I do agree it should be a little cheaper but if you aren't trained messing with the pixies in the wall without an apprenticeship or otherwise is a quick way to a small box. 120-240v mains is a fearful thing, I've seen people get badly hurt shockingly quick.
@@mikew735 well, that can go for everything, swing an axe wrong while chopping wood once bad enough and the potential worst outcome is the same, electricity just kills faster and cleaner than most things so the room for error is smaller. But to claim its not easily learnable is a joke. If Gypsies can make bootleg electrical grids with exposed wires... Any sane and mentally capable person can atleast rewire their own house, high voltage/triple phase is scary tho, that I'd agree on nobody should touch without years of training
If you have an old house, at least in the US, you have aluminum wire. Adding extension cords will just create more heat. Aluminum is a great conductor, but it's not as flexible, it can end up with small gaps which produce arcing, and over decades you end up with a fire hazard.
Extension chords??. Really.. I bet you buy the 16 gauge chords and run them 50ft connected to another 16 gauge 50 footer..look cheap labor is not skilled and skilled labor isnt cheap..
Not theft by any stretch. What most people forget is that your business needs to make a profit, not just pay you your day's wage. People aren't being forced to pay, so if someone chooses to pay whatever is offered, then that is part and parcel of a free-market economy.
@@xenomorph6961 but it could be that people are paying because they don't know any better, they are trusting the trade that its a reasonable price. Some customers could be easily roped in and unscrupulous trades out there would happily exploit a customers vulnerability.
the house i live in was 20k in 1998 when it was bought so to rewire this house you’re going to tell me it’s more than what the house was purchased for ridiculous
@@YANANSPETCAT £20k in 1998, what did you buy, a derelict shoe box? Even my parents small 3 bedroom semi was £57k in 1998 😂. And no he’s not saying it would cost more than your house, because that was 1998 prices, £30k in 1998 would have been about £13,350. Also depends on the size of your house, how old is the house, and plenty of other variables that factor into cost.
For 30k I hope your re plastering, re wall papering and re carpeting the place aswell as full rewire and a life time guarantee. Absolute liberty, you give sparks a bad name. If the customers watching, I see how many circuits you need, I tell you now between 10k and 15k max.
for this particular house, for 10k, many corners would have been cut, and it seems, were cut.. the size of the consumer unit is the clue, its about 4 times larger than your typical 2 storey 3 bed house... you would generally have an upstairs ring, downstairs ring, upstair light and downstair light circuit, and a kitchen radial circuit.. you miight have a circuit for an electrical shower, and maybe a circuit for the boiler(we don't, our boiler runs of the kitchen radial...)so thats 5-7 circuits..so yah, the vid shows from 17 to 19 circuits there...
30 k for rewire... In my country I C a get brand new car for 30k. That's such a BS. Idk but always when I have seen UK handyman videos they charge uncalled numbers. "I think I am best so I charge 30k"
@@James27Simkonah. If its a big house and it needs a full rewire its actually not a bad price honestly. But the other company probably isnt picking up because she never paid them
@@EnglishDrifts69GTxRED mines 2 bed and got quoted 5k for full rewire top end, this gaff is meant to be 5 bed so 25 grand for an extra 3 rooms, stupid money. The kid claims loads of expensive art has to be moved but that ain't a sparkies job to account in to their price so they're mugging people off with them prices
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
Mentions of the massive house, expensive paintings and furniture tells you exactly why such a high price was quoted. But with a name like “artisanelectrics” I’m not surprised they’re overcharging 😂
@@RenM908It’s been over 2 months, so I’m sure you’ve completely forgotten about this. But I’m happy to say, after some long calculations, I finally have you an answer! To put it bluntly mate, the “massive 5 bedroom house” in question, is fucking massive. In fact, it’s so big, that big isn’t even an accurate word to describe such a structure. No! The correct and accurate term would indeed be “massive”, as implied by it being a “massive 5 bedroom house”. I hope this helped👍🏼
@@artisanelectrics If that's true, which I doubt it is, £1875 per person per week? I get you have materials etc but it still feels like a lot. You should be bloody ashamed of yourself
This guys prices are ridiculous mate. I know a proper electrician does a 5 star job and still comes in at half the price. Artisan knows they can take advantage of favourable market conditions, but it’s only a matter of time before we get more tradesman and they’re forced to lower the price due to not getting jobs due to extortionate prices.
@@paulhancock3844 you used to do an entire house for £600 back in 2003?? Mate you need to get back in the game you could make a killing now. But I think you were undercharging because that sounds too cheap to be true.
@@JDMz £2-3k absolute max on wiring, panels, switchboards and materials. Even charging £50 an hour on larger assignments in London is taking the Mickey, but let’s go with £60. Various trade comparison sites that I cannot link here advise that a five bedroom house would require 10-15 days for an electrician to rewire and multiple sites suggest £7k to £10k for the job, allowing for a generous pay and VAT. £7-10k at £60 an hour works. Assuming that electricians often use help to maximise their input, we can assume that some of the work will be carried out by a lower paid labourer, so even the £7k quote is more than generous. So: £30k - £3k = £27k £27k divided by a very generous 100 hour allowance gives us £270 per hour. Only a greedy scum electrician would think that they are worth as much as a barrister. What’s your math?
@@JDMz no you do the math cause ive been sat here tryna figure this out and im leaving HUGE margins in the numbers and im still not finding the part in the numbers that says a 4 weeks of work cost THE ENTIRE YEARLY SALLERY of the average joe
@Stephen Toby i got a bungalow rewired during summer .8 rooms and garage and a couple of security lights.just under 6k by a top local highly certified spark.this house must have been huge.
you have absolutely no idea how big the property is.. are you an electrician? since you think the price is too high go on and explain to everyone where you trained and gained qualifications ?
I was a mechanic. I told my customers you can pay me some now or pay me much more later. I prefered the pay more later option. I used to advocate maintenence. Later in my career I told them to drive the nuts off of it, I'll fix it. Job security and all that.
Lets be honest…most electricians could walk you through physical therapy its not rocket science lol a physical therapist couldnt do an electricians job
30k is theft plain and simple regardless of how many paintings you had to move, 10k is still pretty steep. I guarantee they’re elderly as well, I’m glad they didn’t pay you for the work you did the second time around you deserved it with a price like that. People like you give all of us electricians a bad name stop robbing those who don’t know better.
I know the business and you could safely and reliably rewire the average primary school for 30k. It isn’t rocket science. The margin this company must be making is insane. Apple couldn’t compete!!
30k for that. Happy to live in the US, my recent panel replacement was 2500. They offered to do my entire house for 15 including the service to the pole.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
@@artisanelectrics canned reply. I have a four bedroom house that had been lived in since 1931, and it didn't cost even close to the low figure. There was only one electrician. We moved the furniture, although very little had to be moved. I still don't know why paintings had to be removed. All the outlets in my house are near the baseboards, and the light switches are near the doors. So there would be no reason to get near any paintings or pictures. Most of hard work was under the house where the original wires were located. They all had to be removed as they were knob and tube wiring. Look it up if you don't know. We had an old time fuse box, and that was replaced with a modern breaker box, and things were divided up into a lot more circuits as the original wiring was in just three main circuits, one for overhead lights, one for outlets, and one for the electric water heater (220V). I think the people were screwed by both prices.
30k you must be having a laugh😂😂 that’s just pure greed I know you are based in Cambridge but that price to me seems ridiculous, I work in the midlands and the average round here is around 4.5k to 6k for a 3 bed rewire. Unless that house was extremely big I suppose😂
Rewire for empty 3 bed with chasing out you are talking around 1k materials then let’s say you allow 1 week first fix with an apprentice which is generous at £400 a day for the pair of you, then 3 days second fix, that’s £4200 and that is plenty of time. Work fast and organised with good tools first fix in an empty house 2 days 1 day second and give yourself another for testing plus fucking around
@@tombruton 3 days for a 2nd fix how slow are you? Me and my mate 1st fix 3 bed semi re wire in a day and I’ll 2nd fix and power it up on my own in a day
@@escfxp Yeah. Variables are buying fancy tool and vans and ripping people off under the pretence of doing it properly. I had a rewire done last year for 8k and that was on a 7 bed house. Too many of these tradesmen coming on RUclips trying to justify their bonkers prices. They all want rich clients, that's the be all and end all of it.
@@abskan4015 Was the property occupied or not? How many points were involved? Was any level of making good included? Were there any cavity spaces in floors/walls?What was the earthing arrangment? What level of protection did you have on the CU? What brands were used? How many circuits were created? Is the property listed? Which part of the UK is the property in? Has the penny dropped yet?
@@escfxp what nonsense. All those variables do not equate to 30k. You might be an employee trying to justify these prices but there is no excuse trying to rob people blindly with artisan prices.
Thank you for sharing this totally real story which isn't just marketing to force already desperate homeowners who can't afford their mortgage 30k for a rewire. Great job lads! 👍
Had a full rewire done on a 7 bedroom Victorian house for just over 8k in 2019. Perfect job and not a single issue so far.. I know there's inflation and all that but 30k is an outrageous price unless this was a hotel.
What part of the country was that? Recently a company in london won a rewire of a 2 bed flat for £220k - everything is relative and specs are an important part as well as the location
@@chadodell4887 People are pulling numbers out their arses to try and say Artisan's price is ridiculous. Sure a rewire could be done 6-10k, easy to do if it's empty and not lived in and you're in a dirt cheap part of the country..
@@chadodell4887 im his defense and i won't call anyone out. Material prices went thru the roof. For steel piping what i use its 4.3x the price from 2 years ago. As well living costs went up. A new van is almost 5k more expensive. Tools are rising in price. And well gasoline is batshit crazy and i think the good sir wants to hold over from that 30k a bit for himself
A lot of things are different in the electrical trade in the UK, but some things remain the same. There's one company where I live that is so bad every time we see one of their vans my coworkers and I joke about following them and offering to repair what they just worked on.
I'm a good fault finder and I would quite happily go to that house 5 days a week for 4 months for 20 grand. After the first few days I'd just wash up and do some dusting because the faults would all be done
Na bro I’m a spark and I wouldn’t charge that , I work on commercial jobs not domestic but still know 30k is expensive , depending on how big the house is and how many rooms
@@luluboxingtv2880 I only do a few bits and pieces for myself nowadays, so I’m not exactly up to date with pricing up jobs but how big does a house need to be for it to be a 30k rewire
If you're the most expensive in your area by 10s of thousands, you have to know that your WAY above market rate for the area and your NOT charging what it should cost.
For people's reference. My cousins boy is 23 & has just bought his 1st house in Ramsgate, a really run-down 3 bed semi, but it's a good 1st house. Needed a rewire, so I suggested he got a local guy to quote it so he had an idea of the going rate, I said I'd do it cheap. I'm more of a commercial, industrial sparx, but I have done a lot of domestic in my time & thought a quote of 5-6k felt right. The guy said 5k & I did for 3200. It was completely empty & took me 6 days with the help of my 79 year old dad helping with chasing & making good for 3 days bless him. Kitchen was super basic & pendants, no d.l's. I think I had about 1800 out of it once I gave my dad a bit & materials.
Let's rephrase that. If someone tells you they are willing to do work at 30% the cost of the labor, maybe they are cutting the fking corners off your house to shave pennies that will kill you later
@@snooks5607 no, and dude the woman paid 500 quid for the fix of the thing they wanted 30k for, they just set some fuses, lmfao. the ppl probably didnt replace a done fuse and that caused tripping.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
@@artisanelectrics still seems excessive to me but I don’t know the extent of the work carried out. I’ve done some pretty big renovations myself as a jobbing builder and I don’t think I’ve had a sparky top 30k yet…. However, working around clients can add time and complications to a job, and if it was me I wouldn’t want to touch any of the paintings… I would ask for the house to be prepped before I got there. Put them in storage till I’m done. If you can charge that kind of money and still get the work then fair play to you.
In the US, homeowners are litigious about things that can be dangerous, and sometimes things that are just cosmetic. Don't know what kind of recourse the home owner has where you are, but I'd be contacting them by lawyer if they didn't answer the phone after an expensive job.
Please, please, PLEASE hire your nephew. Then at least the insurance money will stay in the family when you burn the fk to death because you didn't get professional electrical work
a grand? thats just labour right you covered materials? for the massive favour your newphew did for you you better have sent him on his way with atleast 1-2 grand for his troubles in proffit
We had two large Victorian mansions turned into a hotel and we paid less than that. In 07 it was like 5/6 grand. Yea thing's have gone up but not THAT much. This is exploiting the elderly.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
Fair play if you priced yourself out of it cos it's a nightmare job and/or client. If not, then that's a disgusting price. I heard you guys weren't cheap before, but come on, that's robbery
Ive had cheap work done that was bad and cheap work that was faultless. I've also had expensive work done that was bad and expensive work done that was faultless. There is no guarantee that more money equals a better job.
My electrician ,who’s a polish guy, rewired our three bedder for £8.5k. Arrived on time every day,did a decent days work,only two quick food breaks,no sitting around chatting or reading a rag. Perfect job no issues. Comming over here ,fixing stuff,taking our jobs.
It's not the right price. It's just straight up greed. No average homeowner can afford a 30 grand rewire. This isn't about good work. This is mainly exploitation of the elderly. This is theft.
What.. 30k there was a time when people did an honest days work for an honest days pay. We’ve got to appoint now where even an electrician expects to become a millionaire.
I learned this lesson the hard way... It with electric work but a tree cutting. Went with the lowest bidder. They damaged my air-conditioning unit, never repaired it or paid for it... Had to get someone else to finish the job.
It’s the same thing for me, I charge car owners $1000 (US) for an oil change, but they’re getting 5-star personalized service from someone who takes pride in their work, and can concoct horror stories about people who’ve used Jiffy Lube.
Yeah 1k for a fucking oil change .... I own a mustang and I do my oil change for around 150-200 euros(i live in germany) and before you start screaming I get the premium.filter and premium oil not some cheap shit
If anybody is stupid enough to pay you 1k for an oil change, good for you. What's involved in your 5 star premium service? Diamond sockets? Golden oil pan? Custom made carbon fibre oil funnels that they can keep?
I rewired my ex's house with her dad, one of the hardest weeks work I've ever done... The wire alone cost around £3000 so I can totally understand why it would cost that much.... Did a great job too.
They probably told the other company you charge $30k and they pulled the 10k number out their ass realizing they're dealing with someone whos desperate. I bet this wud be $5k total normally
I got a rewire done on a 4 bedroom house 3 years ago. No issues, big firm, 6.5K. 30k is ludicrous and basically printing money if people are paying it.
I think people should watch the full video to see it's a 50 year old 5 bedroom house that would be lived in whilst getting the work done. It wasn't a small job.
Ive seen alot of your guys work, and id admit you do a fantastic job very polite, but i have a sparky mate similar to yourselves in skill and workmanship, he said even to rewire an entire house 4 bedroom 2 bathroom and a downstairs should be 10-15k max depending on if occupied. At 30k you would make all houses so expensive. And a quick google puts average uk price for a 6 bedroom property at 15k plus vat of course.
@William Tell yeah id imagine not wrong there, in all honesty they should, in my opinion, discount a job if being used for YT as it also benefits them more than me as the customer.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
@@artisanelectrics can you explain that more? Why wouldnt the customer remove their possesions for you? If you have 4 on the job doing it room by room, why 4 weeks, with existing wiring as "fish" cable shouldnt it be 2 weeks for 4 guys? Can you also explain why having to move goods would mean you can double the suggested price on check a trade or any other reputable website? Please dont think im slating you, genuinely curious behind the thinking!
I work for a place that provides welding and steel structures for construction industry. We lost a bid for parts for a project we were already part of otherwise, because we were few euros more expensive per part. Now the total cost of us fixing the shitty parts + installing the fixed parts has doubled what it would cost to take our bid + whatever they already paid for the parts. This shit is common for me to deal with as part of my dayjob.
From the very short bit you can see of the house.....its massive....two wings of rooms around a central building.....looks like stone so you are probably looking at 5+ rooms and upstairs downstairs.....30k sounds like a great quote for a brand new wiring system espescially if they have great reviews
£30k is mental I don't know what the spec was but better be super high for that price. I am just finishing 4-bed house for a friend who does property development, and will be around £15-£17K ish maybe a tad more all in. It is to a high spec all mk, dimmable downlights led strip, over £3000 in leds and profile all rgbww which takes time to install properly in every room, data and tv in every room HDMI ready for main tv room tv sockets in every room, a 15m garage outside lighting garage and lighting power. 3 pir light's 2 outside sockets way more stuff too much to list. All done to a very high standard, 2 rcbo cu's neatly done a massive spec, just don't get your prices. I could do that cu, in around 4-6h and I am not super fast, and would be very neat. I know your work is good but not worth the prices you charge and you fit fusebox at those prices as well mad really mad.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price. House valued at around £2million
@@artisanelectrics what the property cost is irrelevant...the materials used and time it takes is still the same. Just because a property is worth 2 million...it doesn't mean the cost of the parts and time it takes goes up. You're just a greedy guy...admit it.
I really wanted these guys to do a Solar install but they were 2.5x a reputable national company. I truly think that their work is top notch but taking the time to make a consumer unit pretty does not come free and arguably does not make it perform any better. I hope that they continue to thrive though as I find the content really interesting.
Idk the cost of labor over there, but in the US if I were asked to Rewire an entire house that required me to move furniture, demo drywall, repair drywall, repaint, pull the electrical permit, and be held liable for all rebuild- 30k is not unreasonable at all. Now if I were just walking into a house to ONLY Rewire and the property owner pulls their own permit then that’ll be pennies on the dollar.
30k for a rewire? My mom got her row house upgraded from singe-phase to three-phase, ready for multiple meters and a heat pump for roughly 10k. Including the power company gigging a trench, laying the new underground power cable and closing everything up behind them. And installing a bunch of additional sockets in the kitchen, as well as a three-phase connection for a new cooktop.
Famous old story.....contractor s work exceptionally hard no one sees what goes on behind the scenes.....and also all the issues that happen on site along with snags everywhere which only get found out once in the job...Keep up the good work
I'm self employed & the amount of people who go with a cheaper quote then 60% of them get back in touch to ask if I can either go & repair the other person's faults or rewire the rewire,even now people don't realise there's sti so many clowns calling themselves electricians
£30K is clearly a rip off. If the other guy did it for £10K, ok there were some faults in it, but the fact is that £10K covered all the cabling, all the breakers and parts which would have cost Artisan the same. And that £10K included the labour. So that means the extra £20K in Artisan's pricing was for labour plus profit margin. And that electrician that did it for £10K, will have been properly trained just as the electricians at Artisan are. So he could potentially have done just as good as job as Artisan. There is one inescapable conclusion: Artisan are a rip-off.
Don’t believe him, it’s all a show for RUclips and to make out he’s the best. No doubt the work they do is good and tidy, but it’s not 3x better than anyone else. He charges £800 per day per man plus vat. Absolutely ridiculous.
Exactly. There is only so "good" you can be, especially when all he does is domestic. £500 a day for a good electrician is fair and what I class proper money, £600 if in london at absolute max.
I grew up in the Cotswolds and most are elderly home owners who are scared of anything happening to their homes because they have been passed down from generations and they want to continue to pass them down to their own children one day. I bet they're able to do this because they're doing it to the elderly. Scare them into thinking they're so high because everyone else is a cowboy, and then charge WHATEVER you want... While telling them it's for their good service. And justifying it to yourself as just doing it because that's "fair." No. No it's NOT. This is greed. This is manipulating customers. This is exploiting the fears of the elderly... If you go with someone else granny you'll end up sat in the cold and dark. OHH NO granny anyone charging less than our extortionate prices is just going to rip you off and bodge it. That's just inflation granny. No. No it's not. It's straight up exploitation.. And to see him just laughing about it is disgusting.
I live for the moment when people you’ve quoted for coke back to you after a year or 2 and say can you fix the work of the people they decided to go for because they were cheaper…. I remember one customer I quoted 170k for an extension he decided to go for someone charging 98k… let’s just say 6 months later I got the call and now instead of being 170k it went to 210k because all the work the other guys done needed to be completely pulled down because instead of digging footings they just put their columns on the patio…. I love when that happens
I had a company come out to ground and wire my pool...the first quote came back at 2200 bucks, I found a local guy who did excellent neat/clean work for 700 don't be fooled by someone doing a "proper job", the more they talk the more they charge. This looks like an apartment complex, so the "general contractor" figured he could get that years rent profit.
A lot of the time it's not just a matter of being cheap. A lot of people just don't HAVE the money, period! They're forced to take the lower bid because it's all they can afford. If my house suddenly needed a rewire, I would be screwed.
Hvac is the same way. Can't tell you how many times me/my company will quote somone a new unit, they go with somone else and then 3 months later I'm back to fix it.
Ok for those who r questioning the 30k cost re wiring a house takes a hell of alot of time essepcilly a multi story house doing it without damaging the walls and celling even more time what you see is just the switch bored sure that has been upgraded but what your forgetting it most of the wiring in the house has been pulled out and replaced. You have three options but can only choose 2 you can have it fast good or cheap cheap and fast its not good cheap and good its not fast you get the point
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Nearly every single comment is questioning your 30k quote.
You are proud of your work and stand by your price.
Are you going to reply and explain what every sparky on here deems extortionate?
Size of property etc? Time, bodies on job, anything?
Any reason for 30k ?
It would look better if you answered, you are being accused of extortion by some......
Totally agree @@cocksure8430 . Some idea of the scale of the job could actually validate what he is saying.
Give a bad name to electricians, it's never that expensive, pure greed!
Please tell us how that a 30grand rewire and how your getting any work
All I can hear is the wind and tumbleweed ………
For $30 grand I would just put a down payment on a house that doesn’t need a rewire.
And this is English Pounds, so about $37,000
If the house is in London it probably costs 1m plus so good luck
I think you will find he is 'quoting' British Pounds, not Dollars!
@@BigT.Grizzly Because the houses cost so much dose not justify 30 k for a rewire . The cost of materials would be well under 5 k . Robbers
@@Interdiction dreaming
£30k for a rewire?? Mate, that’s daylight robbery. Even £10k is a joke, unless you’re talking a really big 5/6 bedroom house in London.
Judging by the consumer unit. Its a 2 bed 😧, absolute rip off merchant.
how many typical 3 bed homes have 18 circuits? it is a massive house, quite possibly one of those 5/6 floor georgian houses in and around central London.. thats a lot of work, especially if you are having to go in and pull up flooring and chasing out brick walls...
He is based near Cambridge so this makes sense doesn't it . Don't act like we are all wiring council houses for 3 grand 😂😂
@@TewkesburyBear18 circuits in a 2 bed? Do you put each light on its own circuit?
@@TewkesburyBeara 2 bed house doesn’t have 18 circuits 😂
As of 2023 - The average cost to rewire a 3-bedroom house is in the region of £4,450 - £8,000. Depending on the size and layout of the property, it should take 6-10 days to carry out the rewiring work. If you're looking to remove and replace wiring, the average cost to rewire a 4-bed house is somewhere between £6,080 - £9,380.
Most people in the UK don't even earn 30k per year, and you are wanting to charge 30k for about ten days of work. Insane.
How much would the materials, the wiring itself, cost?
the average 3 bed house uses 5/6 circuits, the consumer unit shown here has 17/18 circuits...it clearly is not an average 3 bed home... as it has 3-4 times the amount of circuits, then the price would generally be 3-4 time more, and if its a much bigger house, the length of cable and labour to fit will also be greater, so the cost of that will also be factored in.. and if there are outbuildings with buried cables...even greater still..
@@S.Trades a 100m spool of wire is £71 lets call it a quid per meter to give them some leeway
a grand of the stuff would be 1000 meters
so unless this house somehow ends up needing 10,000 meters ive no god damn clue how they drummed up 30k
googles saying a 3 bed has 300m of wire on average so not even a grand is going on the wire and im looking at mortal prices not trade rates and hes a electrician he buys this stuff all the time so hes probably getting something for a discount
but like others have say 30k? thats a decent ways towards a whole new house
@@iainansell5930 ok so lets assume half the rate is pureley in cable
its 70p per meter on average
where in christs name is this guy putting fifteen thousand meteres of cable
average 3 bed is 300m lets assume they have the fanciest house with all the bells and whistles and it uses 8x the cable most do thats still only 2400 meters of cable which is between £1700 and £2400 in cable where is he pulling the other 25k+ from
im leaving him some huuuuge margins for pricing here and i still cant make his numbers add up to anything other than 5 k in materials 10k in labour and 15k in renting a huge horse cock dildo to fuck me up the arse with
Not a lot
'We're not really that expensive' ...... £30,000 for a rewire, taking the piss.
Yes for like 2 weeks work. Charging that is criminal and most likely targeting people that don’t know better. Probably old people.
Tell me you don't know shit about work without telling me 🤦
@@troysills425 just finished second fixing a Rewire today.
@@troysills425 I've been a General Builder for nearly 30 years. I know the trade inside out, unlike you dickhead.
@West London general builder 🤣🤣🤣 says everything about you I need to know really. And I'm a plasterer/render who works in London have done for 17years. Any proper builder would see where the fuse board is and the door it's next and could tell its probably a block of flats
"It shouldn't be tripping". At £30k you're the one that's tripping.
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Pay peanuts get monkeys 🐒
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It's really hard work, me and my ex's dad rewired my ex's house and it was the hardest weeks work I've ever done... The wire alone without the boxes etc was around £3000... I think the equipment altogether came up to around £5000 and that was just a 3 bedroom terrace house.... £10000 is way too cheap for that kind of job and they seem to have got what they paid for.
@@samuelwoods164a rewire is tough..if he's leaving the house as it was...it could easily cost 30k making everything good again...I advised someone to do reddo tye heating system too..they ended up gutting the place, completed rewire and re plumbing, and new insulation, kitchen etc. They were right....costly...but the house is good now
Literally just had an Edwardian mansion rewired for under 10k including a 3 phase by our local electricians. They weren't even the cheapest quote.
This dude is as fake as they get. I worked as an electrician, and that cost goes normal in like industrial buildings or office buildings or similar projects... Not a house or an apartment building. Maybe if it was 50 floors of 20 rooms each, then I could see it as 100 euros per room plus installing any light fixtures or other elements in a room. But this was a single rack he showed..... Anything over 2000 euros is a joke for that work. Hell even 2k is too much, but you have to pay your worker a fair wage no matter what, any fool with patience and a will to read can rewire a house tho.
@@leomahmet7555 I do agree it should be a little cheaper but if you aren't trained messing with the pixies in the wall without an apprenticeship or otherwise is a quick way to a small box.
120-240v mains is a fearful thing, I've seen people get badly hurt shockingly quick.
@@mikew735 well, that can go for everything, swing an axe wrong while chopping wood once bad enough and the potential worst outcome is the same, electricity just kills faster and cleaner than most things so the room for error is smaller. But to claim its not easily learnable is a joke. If Gypsies can make bootleg electrical grids with exposed wires... Any sane and mentally capable person can atleast rewire their own house, high voltage/triple phase is scary tho, that I'd agree on nobody should touch without years of training
And u were these guys?
@@leomahmet7555 proof?
30 Grand? I would rather run some extension cables, and risk tripping over them.
that's not why most people rewire , it's more likely for substandard wiring and equipment
@@skylarkesosright 😂
If you have an old house, at least in the US, you have aluminum wire. Adding extension cords will just create more heat. Aluminum is a great conductor, but it's not as flexible, it can end up with small gaps which produce arcing, and over decades you end up with a fire hazard.
Extension chords??. Really.. I bet you buy the 16 gauge chords and run them 50ft connected to another 16 gauge 50 footer..look cheap labor is not skilled and skilled labor isnt cheap..
Your house is not insured for sure.
30k is theft Jordan you’re not the only firm doing 5 star jobs but definitely the only one charging 30k for a domestic rewire
Not theft by any stretch.
What most people forget is that your business needs to make a profit, not just pay you your day's wage.
People aren't being forced to pay, so if someone chooses to pay whatever is offered, then that is part and parcel of a free-market economy.
@@xenomorph6961 but it could be that people are paying because they don't know any better, they are trusting the trade that its a reasonable price. Some customers could be easily roped in and unscrupulous trades out there would happily exploit a customers vulnerability.
the house i live in was 20k in 1998 when it was bought so to rewire this house you’re going to tell me it’s more than what the house was purchased for ridiculous
£30k is a Thomas Nagy level quote.
@@YANANSPETCAT
£20k in 1998, what did you buy, a derelict shoe box?
Even my parents small 3 bedroom semi was £57k in 1998 😂.
And no he’s not saying it would cost more than your house, because that was 1998 prices, £30k in 1998 would have been about £13,350.
Also depends on the size of your house, how old is the house, and plenty of other variables that factor into cost.
For 30k I hope your re plastering, re wall papering and re carpeting the place aswell as full rewire and a life time guarantee. Absolute liberty, you give sparks a bad name. If the customers watching, I see how many circuits you need, I tell you now between 10k and 15k max.
giving major tory vibes “£30,000 isn’t that much😂🤑”
Lol do you think there are no rich labour voters?
@@cs4723yeah, and most of them seem to be in government!
Soooo many wealthy or especially the middle classes vote labour these days. Not sure what you're talking about here.
He means in terms of electrical work. Rewiring a whole house is expensive and you really can't cut it down to 10k.
for this particular house, for 10k, many corners would have been cut, and it seems, were cut.. the size of the consumer unit is the clue, its about 4 times larger than your typical 2 storey 3 bed house... you would generally have an upstairs ring, downstairs ring, upstair light and downstair light circuit, and a kitchen radial circuit.. you miight have a circuit for an electrical shower, and maybe a circuit for the boiler(we don't, our boiler runs of the kitchen radial...)so thats 5-7 circuits..so yah, the vid shows from 17 to 19 circuits there...
My rewire was 6G . . .4 years ago. Never had a problem. Really nice guys. Even 10 grand I laughed at never mind 30!!
30 k for rewire... In my country I C a get brand new car for 30k. That's such a BS. Idk but always when I have seen UK handyman videos they charge uncalled numbers. "I think I am best so I charge 30k"
So she paid 10k for a rewire and then paid you 500 quid for the fault finding. Clever lady
Actually she refused to pay for the fault finding as well in the end... Never going back there
@@artisanelectrics if you wanna mug people off with prices, prepare to get mugged off
@@artisanelectricsthere's no "mechanics lien" in the UK?
@@James27Simkonah. If its a big house and it needs a full rewire its actually not a bad price honestly. But the other company probably isnt picking up because she never paid them
@@EnglishDrifts69GTxRED mines 2 bed and got quoted 5k for full rewire top end, this gaff is meant to be 5 bed so 25 grand for an extra 3 rooms, stupid money. The kid claims loads of expensive art has to be moved but that ain't a sparkies job to account in to their price so they're mugging people off with them prices
My electrician friends say 30k for a home rewire is literally worst highway robbery they've ever heard of in the residential electrician industry
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
I’m curious how big is “massive 5 bedroom house” ?
Mentions of the massive house, expensive paintings and furniture tells you exactly why such a high price was quoted. But with a name like “artisanelectrics” I’m not surprised they’re overcharging 😂
@@RenM908It’s been over 2 months, so I’m sure you’ve completely forgotten about this. But I’m happy to say, after some long calculations, I finally have you an answer!
To put it bluntly mate, the “massive 5 bedroom house” in question, is fucking massive. In fact, it’s so big, that big isn’t even an accurate word to describe such a structure. No! The correct and accurate term would indeed be “massive”, as implied by it being a “massive 5 bedroom house”.
I hope this helped👍🏼
@@artisanelectrics If that's true, which I doubt it is, £1875 per person per week? I get you have materials etc but it still feels like a lot. You should be bloody ashamed of yourself
British electricians running this racketeering scheme. Yall are vocal with it too and no fear of consequences! Very nice.
Stand and deliver muggs
Been out of the game for 20-odd years but 30 grand for rewire how big was the property?
This guys prices are ridiculous mate. I know a proper electrician does a 5 star job and still comes in at half the price. Artisan knows they can take advantage of favourable market conditions, but it’s only a matter of time before we get more tradesman and they’re forced to lower the price due to not getting jobs due to extortionate prices.
Tbf, we have Inflation and COVID. In the last 2 years everything became atleast 200% more expensive, and business has to cover these expenses.
The shard apparently 😂😂
I used to do a terraced house for £600 20 years ago, 30 grand is rediculous unless it's a mansion
@@paulhancock3844 you used to do an entire house for £600 back in 2003?? Mate you need to get back in the game you could make a killing now. But I think you were undercharging because that sounds too cheap to be true.
Everyone in construction will constantly let you know they are better than everyone else claiming they are the best.
Had a plumber drop by recently and it was all "why have they done it this way ... this is not normal etc".
Quoting £30k for a domestic rewire and getting upset by not being hired?! Who’s the rogue here?!
5 bedroom house, 50yrs old. They would be paying for brand new wiring. Let alone atleast 4 to 5 weeks work. Labor cost. You do the math😂
@@JDMz £2-3k absolute max on wiring, panels, switchboards and materials. Even charging £50 an hour on larger assignments in London is taking the Mickey, but let’s go with £60. Various trade comparison sites that I cannot link here advise that a five bedroom house would require 10-15 days for an electrician to rewire and multiple sites suggest £7k to £10k for the job, allowing for a generous pay and VAT. £7-10k at £60 an hour works.
Assuming that electricians often use help to maximise their input, we can assume that some of the work will be carried out by a lower paid labourer, so even the £7k quote is more than generous.
So: £30k - £3k = £27k
£27k divided by a very generous 100 hour allowance gives us £270 per hour. Only a greedy scum electrician would think that they are worth as much as a barrister.
What’s your math?
@@ComeJesusChristthey can charge what they want. People will pay it
@@JDMz no you do the math cause ive been sat here tryna figure this out and im leaving HUGE margins in the numbers and im still not finding the part in the numbers that says a 4 weeks of work cost THE ENTIRE YEARLY SALLERY of the average joe
Even the 10k sounded steep.
And don't forget, that's British pounds. That's like 15k in US money.
I watched full episode on his channel and i kinda get why he was asking 30k.however it has highlighted to me that older houses really are money pits.
@@apocalypticpioneers2116 £10 is $12
I agree lol no wonder sparkies wipe there nose s with £50 notes lol
@Stephen Toby i got a bungalow rewired during summer .8 rooms and garage and a couple of security lights.just under 6k by a top local highly certified spark.this house must have been huge.
30k for a domestic property is utterly disgraceful. The wiring for one of our 11 floor, 2000 capacity offices came to £40k.
what a load of crap 40k
@@gordoncrouch7766 ok grandpa
The fire and access system would cost that alone.
That is total bs, don’t make crap up, companies iv worked for doing 5-7 floors office spaces materials alone worked out £80-£100k stop waffling
Try £40k per floor .
200 ppl per floor
200 socket points
200 lighting points
£100 per point
£40k per floor plus
30k that's ridiculous! Would love to see a complete itemized bill of that job !
I bet it not exist
Wire £100, where to connect them £29900
@@AJ-K1ng Almost... i would say that how to connect that according to law and standards.
you have absolutely no idea how big the property is.. are you an electrician? since you think the price is too high go on and explain to everyone where you trained and gained qualifications ?
@@AJ-K1ng if you think wire for a full house rewire would cost £100 then youre an idiot. a proper muppet lad
I was a mechanic. I told my customers you can pay me some now or pay me much more later. I prefered the pay more later option. I used to advocate maintenence. Later in my career I told them to drive the nuts off of it, I'll fix it. Job security and all that.
£30K!!! That’s more than an NHS physiotherapist’s earns in a whole year! (Band 5 wage)
Thats about what i make a year before taxes. Im not going to spend that much on a rewire unless i absolutely have to.
@@zipp4everyone263yeah until you don’t find someone who’s willing to do it cheaper
Lets be honest…most electricians could walk you through physical therapy its not rocket science lol a physical therapist couldnt do an electricians job
A physio 😂 that’s about all they deserve.
The middle classes raging over blue collar workers earning more never gets old
Only 30k? Hang on I'll fire up my money printer.
Which will ironically drop the buying power of the money 😭📉📉
@@jeffsorrowsspend it before it drops lol
30k is theft plain and simple regardless of how many paintings you had to move, 10k is still pretty steep. I guarantee they’re elderly as well, I’m glad they didn’t pay you for the work you did the second time around you deserved it with a price like that. People like you give all of us electricians a bad name stop robbing those who don’t know better.
I know the business and you could safely and reliably rewire the average primary school for 30k. It isn’t rocket science. The margin this company must be making is insane. Apple couldn’t compete!!
30k for that.
Happy to live in the US, my recent panel replacement was 2500.
They offered to do my entire house for 15 including the service to the pole.
£30k for a rewire? How big was the palace?😂
4 bedroom house seriously I looked it up. This guy on this chanel is a pure pirate, preys on the elderly
Must be huge or it's a ripoff
Must be Buckingham palace
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
@@artisanelectrics canned reply. I have a four bedroom house that had been lived in since 1931, and it didn't cost even close to the low figure. There was only one electrician. We moved the furniture, although very little had to be moved. I still don't know why paintings had to be removed. All the outlets in my house are near the baseboards, and the light switches are near the doors. So there would be no reason to get near any paintings or pictures. Most of hard work was under the house where the original wires were located. They all had to be removed as they were knob and tube wiring. Look it up if you don't know. We had an old time fuse box, and that was replaced with a modern breaker box, and things were divided up into a lot more circuits as the original wiring was in just three main circuits, one for overhead lights, one for outlets, and one for the electric water heater (220V). I think the people were screwed by both prices.
30k you must be having a laugh😂😂 that’s just pure greed I know you are based in Cambridge but that price to me seems ridiculous, I work in the midlands and the average round here is around 4.5k to 6k for a 3 bed rewire. Unless that house was extremely big I suppose😂
Rewire for empty 3 bed with chasing out you are talking around 1k materials then let’s say you allow 1 week first fix with an apprentice which is generous at £400 a day for the pair of you, then 3 days second fix, that’s £4200 and that is plenty of time. Work fast and organised with good tools first fix in an empty house 2 days 1 day second and give yourself another for testing plus fucking around
@@tombruton completely agree 30k just seems bananas to me😂 30k is like venturing into commercial outfits
@@tombruton 3 days for a 2nd fix how slow are you? Me and my mate 1st fix 3 bed semi re wire in a day and I’ll 2nd fix and power it up on my own in a day
@@mattmartin953 I was being generous and assuming lots of fittings? Like my place has over 100 light fittings
@@tombruton I would say that’s about right with a old boy and his apprentice, for £30k I would expect a single story extension lol
Give over. 30k for a rewire is a rip off. That's just pure greed.
Depends on what the variables are. Do you know what they are?
@@escfxp Yeah. Variables are buying fancy tool and vans and ripping people off under the pretence of doing it properly. I had a rewire done last year for 8k and that was on a 7 bed house. Too many of these tradesmen coming on RUclips trying to justify their bonkers prices. They all want rich clients, that's the be all and end all of it.
@@abskan4015 Was the property occupied or not? How many points were involved? Was any level of making good included? Were there any cavity spaces in floors/walls?What was the earthing arrangment? What level of protection did you have on the CU? What brands were used? How many circuits were created? Is the property listed? Which part of the UK is the property in? Has the penny dropped yet?
@@escfxp what nonsense. All those variables do not equate to 30k. You might be an employee trying to justify these prices but there is no excuse trying to rob people blindly with artisan prices.
@@abskan4015 You're right. The variables can exceed even 30k. Even checkatrade estimate up to 12.5k on a basic rewire (5 bed).
Thank you for sharing this totally real story which isn't just marketing to force already desperate homeowners who can't afford their mortgage 30k for a rewire. Great job lads! 👍
Had a full rewire done on a 7 bedroom Victorian house for just over 8k in 2019. Perfect job and not a single issue so far.. I know there's inflation and all that but 30k is an outrageous price unless this was a hotel.
What part of the country was that? Recently a company in london won a rewire of a 2 bed flat for £220k - everything is relative and specs are an important part as well as the location
@@artisanelectricsbro getting called out and is in full deflection mode.
@@chadodell4887 People are pulling numbers out their arses to try and say Artisan's price is ridiculous. Sure a rewire could be done 6-10k, easy to do if it's empty and not lived in and you're in a dirt cheap part of the country..
@@artisanelectrics so if the location is well heeled you rip them off ?
@@chadodell4887 im his defense and i won't call anyone out.
Material prices went thru the roof.
For steel piping what i use its 4.3x the price from 2 years ago.
As well living costs went up.
A new van is almost 5k more expensive.
Tools are rising in price.
And well gasoline is batshit crazy and i think the good sir wants to hold over from that 30k a bit for himself
A lot of things are different in the electrical trade in the UK, but some things remain the same. There's one company where I live that is so bad every time we see one of their vans my coworkers and I joke about following them and offering to repair what they just worked on.
Bet the fixes won't cost £20k, so the customer still saves money
Na but they will make sure the repairs do cost that much cause they don't like fixing other peoples f**k ups
Should just hire a good fault finder
I'm a good fault finder and I would quite happily go to that house 5 days a week for 4 months for 20 grand. After the first few days I'd just wash up and do some dusting because the faults would all be done
Thats a ton of breakers, so more like a very big house with several flats.
Think of the hassle tho...
30 grand to get your house rewired... jeez I need to stop selling weed amd.need to get into a trade 🤣
Na bro I’m a spark and I wouldn’t charge that , I work on commercial jobs not domestic but still know 30k is expensive , depending on how big the house is and how many rooms
@@luluboxingtv2880 I only do a few bits and pieces for myself nowadays, so I’m not exactly up to date with pricing up jobs but how big does a house need to be for it to be a 30k rewire
If you're the most expensive in your area by 10s of thousands, you have to know that your WAY above market rate for the area and your NOT charging what it should cost.
Not everyone has the money! Only the lucky few do! Still well-done for helping and fixing the problem 😊
For people's reference. My cousins boy is 23 & has just bought his 1st house in Ramsgate, a really run-down 3 bed semi, but it's a good 1st house. Needed a rewire, so I suggested he got a local guy to quote it so he had an idea of the going rate, I said I'd do it cheap. I'm more of a commercial, industrial sparx, but I have done a lot of domestic in my time & thought a quote of 5-6k felt right. The guy said 5k & I did for 3200. It was completely empty & took me 6 days with the help of my 79 year old dad helping with chasing & making good for 3 days bless him. Kitchen was super basic & pendants, no d.l's. I think I had about 1800 out of it once I gave my dad a bit & materials.
If anyone tells you their work is worth 2-3x as much as anyone else because it’s done right is lying to you
Let's rephrase that. If someone tells you they are willing to do work at 30% the cost of the labor, maybe they are cutting the fking corners off your house to shave pennies that will kill you later
but if someone tells you they can do the same for 1/3 the price they aren't?
@@snooks5607 no, and dude the woman paid 500 quid for the fix of the thing they wanted 30k for, they just set some fuses, lmfao. the ppl probably didnt replace a done fuse and that caused tripping.
For 30k I’d want gold plated sockets, Dordy pure greed
Gold plate is fucking worthless
30 grand to rewire a house… give me a fucking break. Glad my sparky doesn’t charge those kind of prices.
That was alot of breakers, probably several flats in that house.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
@@artisanelectrics still seems excessive to me but I don’t know the extent of the work carried out. I’ve done some pretty big renovations myself as a jobbing builder and I don’t think I’ve had a sparky top 30k yet…. However, working around clients can add time and complications to a job, and if it was me I wouldn’t want to touch any of the paintings… I would ask for the house to be prepped before I got there. Put them in storage till I’m done. If you can charge that kind of money and still get the work then fair play to you.
In the US, homeowners are litigious about things that can be dangerous, and sometimes things that are just cosmetic. Don't know what kind of recourse the home owner has where you are, but I'd be contacting them by lawyer if they didn't answer the phone after an expensive job.
£30,000...oh man. My nephew charged a grand...moral of the story...know someone to not get ripped off.
Please, please, PLEASE hire your nephew. Then at least the insurance money will stay in the family when you burn the fk to death because you didn't get professional electrical work
@Dirminxia my nephew is a professional, so wind your neck in you sausage.
@@DirminxiiaWhy would you assume the nephew is not a professional qualified electrician just because he charged £1k instead of a disgusting £30k?
a grand? thats just labour right you covered materials?
for the massive favour your newphew did for you you better have sent him on his way with atleast 1-2 grand for his troubles in proffit
@@Sarge92 yeah just labour.
No rewire in an average sized property should cost more than materials plus three days labour - A couple of thousand quid at the most.
I could do an even crappier job for £60k if you want.
I can do an even worse job for 90k
Is a bottle of lube included in your 5 star customer service.
I can just rip all the wires out. £20 million please.
I feel like you ought to give some indication as to how big this house is. 30 grand.. are you sure this place isn’t a hotel?
We had two large Victorian mansions turned into a hotel and we paid less than that. In 07 it was like 5/6 grand. Yea thing's have gone up but not THAT much. This is exploiting the elderly.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
£30k for a rewire?? You need to wear a mask for that daylight robbery
posh robbery
Fair play if you priced yourself out of it cos it's a nightmare job and/or client. If not, then that's a disgusting price. I heard you guys weren't cheap before, but come on, that's robbery
Don't like the price get someone else, simple as.
Good work isn’t cheap
Cheap work isn’t good !!
10 grand isn’t cheap in a lot of people world
@@johnnybartlett7967 you get what you pay for
Ive had cheap work done that was bad and cheap work that was faultless. I've also had expensive work done that was bad and expensive work done that was faultless. There is no guarantee that more money equals a better job.
@@Oli-Johnson my point is that grand shouldn’t be cheap work not everyone can call 10,000 cheap
@@johnnybartlett7967 my comment was to Neil. I agree with you.
I'm a plumber but the same applies to all tradesmen. I tell people that if they think hiring a good plumbers is expensive, try hiring a bad one!
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So glad I went to college and can do it myself 😂 30k what a load of bullshit
My electrician ,who’s a polish guy, rewired our three bedder for £8.5k. Arrived on time every day,did a decent days work,only two quick food breaks,no sitting around chatting or reading a rag. Perfect job no issues. Comming over here ,fixing stuff,taking our jobs.
How long did it take? Did that include the cost of the items ?
Fair play to him
Polish are very good quality workers as well
The price can be both the 'right' price and also too expensive.
It's not the right price. It's just straight up greed. No average homeowner can afford a 30 grand rewire. This isn't about good work. This is mainly exploitation of the elderly. This is theft.
What.. 30k there was a time when people did an honest days work for an honest days pay. We’ve got to appoint now where even an electrician expects to become a millionaire.
I learned this lesson the hard way... It with electric work but a tree cutting. Went with the lowest bidder. They damaged my air-conditioning unit, never repaired it or paid for it... Had to get someone else to finish the job.
Do you give a new car with the rewire?
Was this bundys 15 grand job he quoted for? 😂
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It’s the same thing for me, I charge car owners $1000 (US) for an oil change, but they’re getting 5-star personalized service from someone who takes pride in their work, and can concoct horror stories about people who’ve used Jiffy Lube.
This is ah underrated comment.
Yeah 1k for a fucking oil change .... I own a mustang and I do my oil change for around 150-200 euros(i live in germany) and before you start screaming I get the premium.filter and premium oil not some cheap shit
If anybody is stupid enough to pay you 1k for an oil change, good for you. What's involved in your 5 star premium service? Diamond sockets? Golden oil pan? Custom made carbon fibre oil funnels that they can keep?
I rewired my ex's house with her dad, one of the hardest weeks work I've ever done... The wire alone cost around £3000 so I can totally understand why it would cost that much.... Did a great job too.
The number of times I've paid for a 5 star service and still ended up with mess that needed a lot of remedial work means I sympathize with her.
30k for a rewire!!! Is it Buckingham Palace?
They probably told the other company you charge $30k and they pulled the 10k number out their ass realizing they're dealing with someone whos desperate. I bet this wud be $5k total normally
I got a rewire done on a 4 bedroom house 3 years ago. No issues, big firm, 6.5K. 30k is ludicrous and basically printing money if people are paying it.
I think people should watch the full video to see it's a 50 year old 5 bedroom house that would be lived in whilst getting the work done. It wasn't a small job.
I'm a general contractor in the US. I deal with the exact same scenario all the time.
£30k !!!
What’s the world come to…I’m unsubscribing
Lol
Are you guy that did it for 10k?
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Even £10k is too much
@@munirshafi2647 If you don’t pay tax I guess
Not a chance I’m paying 30k for that. That lady made the right choice
Ive seen alot of your guys work, and id admit you do a fantastic job very polite, but i have a sparky mate similar to yourselves in skill and workmanship, he said even to rewire an entire house 4 bedroom 2 bathroom and a downstairs should be 10-15k max depending on if occupied. At 30k you would make all houses so expensive. And a quick google puts average uk price for a 6 bedroom property at 15k plus vat of course.
@William Tell yeah id imagine not wrong there, in all honesty they should, in my opinion, discount a job if being used for YT as it also benefits them more than me as the customer.
Is that really what a 4 bed rewire should cost? 10-15 grand? Where about are you doing jobs for that price, if you don’t mind my asking?
@@lewiscoates1691 outskirts of london my friend, it makes it worse i know. Smh.
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price.
@@artisanelectrics can you explain that more? Why wouldnt the customer remove their possesions for you? If you have 4 on the job doing it room by room, why 4 weeks, with existing wiring as "fish" cable shouldnt it be 2 weeks for 4 guys? Can you also explain why having to move goods would mean you can double the suggested price on check a trade or any other reputable website? Please dont think im slating you, genuinely curious behind the thinking!
I work for a place that provides welding and steel structures for construction industry. We lost a bid for parts for a project we were already part of otherwise, because we were few euros more expensive per part. Now the total cost of us fixing the shitty parts + installing the fixed parts has doubled what it would cost to take our bid + whatever they already paid for the parts.
This shit is common for me to deal with as part of my dayjob.
From the very short bit you can see of the house.....its massive....two wings of rooms around a central building.....looks like stone so you are probably looking at 5+ rooms and upstairs downstairs.....30k sounds like a great quote for a brand new wiring system espescially if they have great reviews
£30k is mental I don't know what the spec was but better be super high for that price. I am just finishing 4-bed house for a friend who does property development, and will be around £15-£17K ish maybe a tad more all in. It is to a high spec all mk, dimmable downlights led strip, over £3000 in leds and profile all rgbww which takes time to install properly in every room, data and tv in every room HDMI ready for main tv room tv sockets in every room, a 15m garage outside lighting garage and lighting power. 3 pir light's 2 outside sockets way more stuff too much to list. All done to a very high standard, 2 rcbo cu's neatly done a massive spec, just don't get your prices. I could do that cu, in around 4-6h and I am not super fast, and would be very neat. I know your work is good but not worth the prices you charge and you fit fusebox at those prices as well mad really mad.
2 rcbo mains for a 4 bed? Christ you must have pub some curcuits in that
This was a massive 5 bedroom house, it had been lived in for over 50 years by the owners and was full of expensive furniture and paintings which would have to be carefully removed from each room and then the house would have to be rewired a room at a time while the client still lived there. I allowed 4 weeks for 4 electricians for this job. Hence the price. House valued at around £2million
@@artisanelectrics what the property cost is irrelevant...the materials used and time it takes is still the same.
Just because a property is worth 2 million...it doesn't mean the cost of the parts and time it takes goes up.
You're just a greedy guy...admit it.
@@NGT4LIFEwondering this myself just because the home is worth 2m doesn't mean these people have that sort of money lying around to rewire the house.
Exactly why I keep learning how to do everything myself.
I really wanted these guys to do a Solar install but they were 2.5x a reputable national company. I truly think that their work is top notch but taking the time to make a consumer unit pretty does not come free and arguably does not make it perform any better. I hope that they continue to thrive though as I find the content really interesting.
What would a 20 grand retire look like ?
Idk the cost of labor over there, but in the US if I were asked to Rewire an entire house that required me to move furniture, demo drywall, repair drywall, repaint, pull the electrical permit, and be held liable for all rebuild- 30k is not unreasonable at all.
Now if I were just walking into a house to ONLY Rewire and the property owner pulls their own permit then that’ll be pennies on the dollar.
30k for a rewire?
My mom got her row house upgraded from singe-phase to three-phase, ready for multiple meters and a heat pump for roughly 10k. Including the power company gigging a trench, laying the new underground power cable and closing everything up behind them. And installing a bunch of additional sockets in the kitchen, as well as a three-phase connection for a new cooktop.
Part of hiring the cheaper guy is knowing they won’t answer the phone after you pay them
Is he visiting Dracula's mansion? 10k seems eye wateringly expansive but 30k? That's lunacy. No wonder she ditched them.
He claims someone charged 220k just to rewire a 2 bedroom flat in London.....these people are extremely greedy.
@@NGT4LIFEI seen that has to be taking the piss
This "man" is a crook
Famous old story.....contractor s work exceptionally hard no one sees what goes on behind the scenes.....and also all the issues that happen on site along with snags everywhere which only get found out once in the job...Keep up the good work
I realized early on that I can’t work for nothing - I expect a fair wage , so how can I deny another for market value services ?
30k? Wtf
Dreaming
Jordan's got teslas and wanky electric vans to pay for 😂
My nan always used to say you get what you pay for.
Your nan knew her stuff
I'm self employed & the amount of people who go with a cheaper quote then 60% of them get back in touch to ask if I can either go & repair the other person's faults or rewire the rewire,even now people don't realise there's sti so many clowns calling themselves electricians
£30K is clearly a rip off. If the other guy did it for £10K, ok there were some faults in it, but the fact is that £10K covered all the cabling, all the breakers and parts which would have cost Artisan the same.
And that £10K included the labour.
So that means the extra £20K in Artisan's pricing was for labour plus profit margin.
And that electrician that did it for £10K, will have been properly trained just as the electricians at Artisan are. So he could potentially have done just as good as job as Artisan.
There is one inescapable conclusion: Artisan are a rip-off.
it doesn't help if I only have 10 grand 😂 or less for that matter 😂
Don’t believe him, it’s all a show for RUclips and to make out he’s the best. No doubt the work they do is good and tidy, but it’s not 3x better than anyone else. He charges £800 per day per man plus vat. Absolutely ridiculous.
Exactly. There is only so "good" you can be, especially when all he does is domestic. £500 a day for a good electrician is fair and what I class proper money, £600 if in london at absolute max.
@@Walktheline1991 £500 / day? You're kidding? I pay £220 in Nottm day rate.
@@ChrisLee-yr7tz I pay good lads 250-280 a day and I work my prices out to earn between 350-300.
350-500
I grew up in the Cotswolds and most are elderly home owners who are scared of anything happening to their homes because they have been passed down from generations and they want to continue to pass them down to their own children one day. I bet they're able to do this because they're doing it to the elderly. Scare them into thinking they're so high because everyone else is a cowboy, and then charge WHATEVER you want... While telling them it's for their good service. And justifying it to yourself as just doing it because that's "fair." No. No it's NOT. This is greed. This is manipulating customers. This is exploiting the fears of the elderly... If you go with someone else granny you'll end up sat in the cold and dark. OHH NO granny anyone charging less than our extortionate prices is just going to rip you off and bodge it. That's just inflation granny. No. No it's not. It's straight up exploitation.. And to see him just laughing about it is disgusting.
30k 😂 fml
I live for the moment when people you’ve quoted for coke back to you after a year or 2 and say can you fix the work of the people they decided to go for because they were cheaper…. I remember one customer I quoted 170k for an extension he decided to go for someone charging 98k… let’s just say 6 months later I got the call and now instead of being 170k it went to 210k because all the work the other guys done needed to be completely pulled down because instead of digging footings they just put their columns on the patio…. I love when that happens
I had a company come out to ground and wire my pool...the first quote came back at 2200 bucks, I found a local guy who did excellent neat/clean work for 700 don't be fooled by someone doing a "proper job", the more they talk the more they charge. This looks like an apartment complex, so the "general contractor" figured he could get that years rent profit.
A lot of the time it's not just a matter of being cheap. A lot of people just don't HAVE the money, period! They're forced to take the lower bid because it's all they can afford. If my house suddenly needed a rewire, I would be screwed.
The vibe boom was hilarious
Just a gave a $39,000 rewire price on a similar situation here in the states. Glad too see our prices are close together even a pond away
Totally agree good work doesn’t come cheap
Hvac is the same way. Can't tell you how many times me/my company will quote somone a new unit, they go with somone else and then 3 months later I'm back to fix it.
Ok for those who r questioning the 30k cost re wiring a house takes a hell of alot of time essepcilly a multi story house doing it without damaging the walls and celling even more time what you see is just the switch bored sure that has been upgraded but what your forgetting it most of the wiring in the house has been pulled out and replaced. You have three options but can only choose 2 you can have it fast good or cheap cheap and fast its not good cheap and good its not fast you get the point
This guy should be an actor he's very good at the drama