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andyfallsoff

Any recommendations/experience on costs for an electrician in London?

We're building a garden office and to set it up with power they're talking £2.5k total (including running armoured cable down the garden). Seems a lot to me and the estimate doesn't help as there aren't numbers on each item, but wondered if I was missing something. What should an electrician day rate be?

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Kurai in reply to @andyfallsoff

Buried armoured cable? How far is the run?
I was charged £300 a day to finish my house rewire. Expensive maybe, but at least they to did a full day at that price.
If you are having it on a separate breaker, they'll also need to run cable from the consumer unit to a suitable point to exit house.

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andyfallsoff in reply to @Kurai

Run is reasonably long (25m) but they say it doesn't need to be buried and will fix to the fence.

£300 a day would make it hard to see how we get to the c.£2.5k total. If they'd said "this is the day rate and I estimate X days + Y for labour" I'd be happier as I'd be able to judge

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