Design for complete house rewire

If you are serious about doing some of the work yourself then you could consider engaging a Third Party Certifier. I have worked with folks who take this route and have had good outcomes. However, these jobs are fraught with problems as outlined above and will take much longer that initially envisaged. It is unlikely that you will get a fixed quote for labour only.

A rough estimate using your figures would be in the range £3k to £5k but could much more.

 

Domestic or as you call it residential rewires are harder to do than commercial rewires. Im not sure what makes you think you only need basic training to rewire your house.

 

Commercial environments are easier to wire for many reasons.
The domestic installer course will not provide enough detail to enable you to rewire your own house . That is what the course provider has told you but its not true.

 

4 week course doesn't tell you the best routes to take, how to channel boxes neatly, cutting floor boards, using multi tools, it took my apprentice over years to get competent, although he knew the basics of wiring it takes years to get good at it, as for buying your own materials any spark will charge you a call out fee if any fail, me personally I'm upfront with what I'm paying for materials I just prefer to buy them myself.

 

OK if its so easy to become an electrician answer this question, why are you a diy'er when you could just go on a domestic installer course and become an electrician and be rewiring houses???

 

Really

Obviously from different age groups. When I was on the tools you did
not get on a site without proof of qualifications. I am not saying getting a city & guilds as it was in my day makes you a good tradesman but it does mean that you had some training. I agree that experience does count of course. Don’t get your bit about type of person you are. I know some very nice guys who are **** tradesmen. Also know some D***heads who are very good tradesmen.

 

Well then you can earn your own money from your profession and then pay an electrician because that is his/her profession

 

Proven experience ? From where ? You are not just suddenly a plumber or a sparky. Are you telling me that they started installing pipe work or cables in peoples houses without having a knowledge of what they were doing. Otherwise where does the proven experience come from ? It amazed me when I first came to work in the south just how many people in construction where doing jobs that they had no formal training for, still amazes me to this day. Having said that it seems to be the norm and when I bring up lack of training I am seen as odd. It also seems to be acceptable that more people call themselves “builders”rather than a particular trade, plumber, sparky, brickie.

 

If you read the link it says the domestic installer course is step number 1 of 4 steps to become qualified. Even when you have done the 4 steps you would need to spend more money to join a competent person scheme and all this is going to take time and money.
Maybe 3 years and £5000
So after 4 weeks on your domestic installer course you will not be ready to rewire a house.
You might be able to rewire a plug

 

Indeed they will. And if the supplier is the electrical installer they will come and fix or replace it. If on the other hand it is another supplier (shop) the installer will charge to come and change it.