Help with kitchen rewire and heating costs estimate pls

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Hi all, Just looking a rough steer on costs pls..... in Northern Ireland btw....

So installing a new kitchen .... some of the sockets are in roughly the correct place so do not require moving but further along the same wall I may add sockets. I am installing a quooker tap so not sure what wiring this requires (ie if it is just a socket?) However need a fused socket for the oven in a different place.... Also adding a peninsula and at the end of it the wall there is no current electrical sockets anywhere near here so this will require chasing (I presume) and prob would like a double socket x 2 there. The same island will require wiring for an induction hob. Above the peninsula I will be installing an extractor fan so will require the wiring for this .... it is designed to fit between the joists the electrician will be doing the work to take this outside - tubing etc. Currently at one end of the kitchen there is a pendant light..... this will be replaced by 6 spotlights/downlighters..... The other end of the kitchen has a pendant light which might require moving slightly to a different position to be above a table. The main light switch for the kitchen requires to be moved slightly along the wall and the emersion heater switch needs moved.... probably to the other side of the wall in which it is currently located..... (It is on the kitchen wall and behind it is the utility room where the switch could go. There is a current time unit for the heating system which is being replaced by some form of a unit which links to an app. In the utility room there is already power supply for the washing machine but this may need moved. There are various switches which need removed/made safe such as the old double oven switch as they are no longer required.

The kitchen ceiling is currently down.


There is a new pressurised water system being put into the house so any and all wiring connected to this and the heating is also being completed.... not sure exactly what is involved in this.
The electrician will be supplying all materials (basic white fittings for sockets) except for the extractor fan which I will supply.
What sort of a quote might I expect for this work..... just looking a ball park as I have no idea at all .... Many thanks
PS photo of the way the electrician likes to do some of the work
 

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My crystal ball isn’t working so my advice to you is get eyes on site as they are far better than random internet advice
That is why I am asking for a ball park........ I dont know whether to expect £300 or £50000.... (obviously totally rediculous figures but just to make my point) .... hoping someone can give me something in a range that is allows me to set some sort of realistic expectation.......
 
It's ususally advised to get 3 estimates before starting a job. That seems to be getting increasingly difficult these days but who ever is doing the job should give you one.
 
Well there is often said a "supposedly" sort of scientific approach to comparing prices of such things (I am not favouring above any other way).

Get, say, 10 estimates.
Discard the most expensive and the least expensive.
From the remainder get an average.
from that average lookk first at those within plus or minus 10% and then consider which contractor you have most faith in.

Alternatively you could look a recommendations, if you have some trader (in any field) you might ask them to recommend someone they use or you might say ask a local council officer who they prefer for their own jobs.

I have mentioned many times that folk sometimes ask me in passing "What`s the price of an average house rewire these days?" my reply is "About the same as an average price of a second hand car!"

Of course I often get told that is a stupid answer. I then retort "Well you asked a stuid question" .
How long is a piece of string?
 

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