Registered with Safe Electric · Over 40 years' experience · Fully insured
087 253 0529
Over 40 years rewiring homes across Dublin, Meath and Kildare, including time with the ESB. One free survey, one clear written quote, and a Safe Electric Completion Certificate in your hand when the job is done.
Average response under 1 hour during working hours
A few questions about the house, then how to reach you. Takes about two minutes, no obligation.
Registered with Safe ElectricReg No. A12005Old wiring doesn't fail loudly. It fails quietly, behind the walls, long before anything trips. If you recognise a few of these, it's worth getting the house looked at.
Rubber and fabric-insulated cable from that era hardens, cracks and crumbles with age, and many of those installations have little or no proper earthing.
Rewireable fuses and boards without RCD protection can't isolate a fault fast enough to protect you. Both fall well short of the current rules.
Often visible in the attic or under floorboards. If the insulation looks perished or flakes when touched, the cabling is past its safe life.
Round-pin sockets and sockets mounted on or just above the skirting board are near-certain markers of 1950s to 1970s wiring.
The odd trip happens in any house. The same circuit going again and again means something is wrong and needs proper investigation.
Heat, discolouration, crackling or scorch marks around fittings are signs of loose or failing connections behind the wall.
Too few sockets is more than an annoyance. Daisy-chained leads and adaptors overload circuits that were never designed for modern living.
If a pre-purchase survey, periodic inspection or insurance renewal has raised the electrics, it needs a proper look from a registered contractor.
A burning smell, buzzing, or scorch marks around a socket are urgent. Switch off the affected circuit at the board, stop using it, and call us straight away on 087 253 0529.
Book a free survey and we'll tell you straight. Not every old house needs a full rewire: when a fuse board upgrade or a partial rewire will make your home safe, that's what we'll recommend, and nothing more.
A full rewire replaces all of the cabling, the consumer unit and every socket, switch and light fitting in the property. It's the right call when the whole installation is dated or unsafe, and it's the one time your home's wiring gets built for the next few decades.
A partial rewire updates only part of the house, perhaps a kitchen, an extension, or circuits altered over the years, while leaving sound modern wiring in place. The survey is what tells the two apart, and we always quote for the smallest job that makes your home safe.
Either way, the new installation is built for how we live now: showers, induction hobs, heat pumps and EV charging, with capacity to spare.
A rewire follows a well-worn sequence. Knowing the stages, including the messy one, means no surprises once the work starts.
Stage 1
We walk the house with you, look at the board, the cabling and the earthing, and agree where you want sockets, switches and lights, room by room. No obligation, no pressure.
Stage 2
You get a written quote covering the whole job: the cabling, the new consumer unit, testing and your certificate. No creeping extras. Happy with it? We lock in dates that suit you.
Stage 3
The most disruptive stage, and we're straight about that. We lift floorboards, chase cable routes into walls and run new cabling back to the board, with dust sheets down and floors protected throughout.
Stage 4
Chases are filled and plastered, then the tidy work starts: the new consumer unit goes in and every socket, switch and light fitting is fitted and connected.
Stage 5
The whole installation is tested to I.S. 10101 and you receive your Safe Electric Completion Certificate. We clean up and leave the house as we found it, only safer.
Avg. response time under 1 hour
Rewiring has a reputation for upheaval, so here's the truth of it from a crew that's done it for four decades.
We work room by room and plan the job so you keep power and lighting where you need them, with supply restored each evening. For bigger or empty properties we'll talk through whether it's easier done vacant.
First fix is dusty, there's no pretending otherwise. We protect floors and furniture, plaster over every chase, tidy as we go, and time the work so it's finished before you decorate, not after.
A smaller home takes a few days; a larger house takes longer, with drying time after plastering. Your quote comes with a day-by-day plan so you know exactly what happens when.
Under Irish law, rewiring a house is restricted electrical work. Only a Safe Electric Registered Electrical Contractor can carry it out and certify it, and the Completion Certificate isn't a nice-to-have: your insurer, your lender and any future buyer will ask for it.
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Reg No. A12005
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Everything a Dublin homeowner needs to know about rewiring in 2026, the warning signs, the I.S. 10101 wiring rules, what the work actually involves day by day, certification, and how to choose the right electrician.
Anything we haven't covered? Ring 087 253 0529 and ask. Advice costs nothing, and we'd rather you asked before a problem becomes an emergency.
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