What's included
What a heritage rewire actually involves
A heritage rewire is not a normal rewire. Working in Georgian, Regency, Victorian, Edwardian and earlier stock means you can't chase walls, drill through original cornice, or bury cables under modern plasterboard tricks. Every cable route is planned through joist voids, behind original skirting, under floorboards or around chimney breasts. Lath-and-plaster walls are fished from above and below — never broken open. We never use surface trunking on heritage work, ever.
Brass plate accessories replace plastic throughout. Click Scolmore Definity (antique brass / aged brass screwless) is our value default. Forbes & Lomax (Invisible Lightswitch, Nickel Silver, Antique Bronze) and Hamilton (Hartland CFX, Sheer ranges) are our specifier-grade defaults — installed via specifier-led trade accounts. Dimming circuits run throughout for period lighting design. Full Listed Building Consent supporting documentation is provided as standard.
- Full-house rewire on Grade-II Listed and period properties
- Conservation-area planning constraints handled at survey stage
- Lath-and-plaster wall fishing — no chasing, no broken-open walls
- Cable routes via joist voids, behind skirting, under floorboards
- No surface trunking or visible plastic conduit anywhere
- Brass plate accessories — Click Definity, Forbes & Lomax, Hamilton (specifier-led)
- Dimming circuits throughout for period lighting design
- Hidden first-fix cable routing tailored to existing fabric
- Period-appropriate finishes — antique brass, polished brass, nickel, Bakelite-style
- Full conservation-officer liaison + Listed Building Consent supporting note
- Full BS 7671 18th edition Amendment 2 certification · Part P notified
- Final electrical installation certificate (EIC) issued on handover
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