cavity brick, generous single-storey plan, easy loft access. Loft-run cabling makes rewires and CU upgrades genuinely easy — a bungalow is often the cheapest full house to rewire.
Consumer Unit Upgrades on a bungalow is shaped by cavity brick, generous single-storey plan, easy loft access. The scope is standard once the physical routing is planned around that construction.
If you own a bungalow in Cardiff and need consumer unit upgrades, the right spec is usually not the most expensive one. On this stock the sensible answer is metal-clad 18th Edition CU — matched to the wiring generation, not a lift-and-shift from a new-build brochure.
That is the standard we quote to. Fixed price, honest survey, SPD retrofit, and paperwork the next EICR won't question.
Bungalow properties are a distinctive part of the Cardiff housing mix — a mix of Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Cathays and Roath, 1930s semis around Whitchurch, and modern estates in Pontprennau and Pentwyn, particularly around Cardiff Bay & city centre. We work on this stock weekly.
Loft-run cabling makes rewires and CU upgrades genuinely easy — a bungalow is often the cheapest full house to rewire.
Wiring generation on this stock is typically rewired 1980s–2010s; loft cabling is easy but often overdue for a CU upgrade. On a bungalow you should expect us to flag: old CU in a hallway cupboard, still plastic split-load; no SPD, no per-circuit RCBOs; extension added over the years with a mixed-vintage sub-board.
Materials and methods we spec on bungalow work: metal-clad 18th Edition CU; SPD retrofit; outbuilding sub-board with a dedicated RCD. Everything is priced on the quote — nothing added on invoice.
Focus on the hall cupboard, the consumer unit location, and the intended cable route. Usually 15–30 minutes on-site or a short photo set.
Priced against your bungalow's specific construction, not a template. Route sketched, materials listed, no line-item surprises.
Diary planned for the access constraint that matters on this stock — loft-run cabling makes rewires and cu upgrades genuinely easy — a bungalow is often the cheapest full house to rewire.
NICEIC certificate, photo evidence of hidden work, Part P where applicable — all emailed the evening the job signs off.
"Quick, easy and clear with the process! Would definitely call out again for future work." — Lauren Filby, Sockets & Lights — Two Rooms
Loft-run cabling makes rewires and CU upgrades genuinely easy — a bungalow is often the cheapest full house to rewire. We mark the route at survey and price against it.
No — surveys for Cardiff bungalow enquiries are free. You only pay once the fixed-price scope is agreed.
For a bungalow usually yes — a 15-minute survey or a set of photos of the hall cupboard and the consumer unit is enough to write a fixed price.
metal-clad 18th Edition CU; SPD retrofit; outbuilding sub-board with a dedicated RCD. All on the written quote.
Beyond Cardiff itself, we regularly cover bungalow work across Penarth, Caerphilly, Pontypridd on the same fixed-price model — same materials, same certificate format.
Short version: consumer unit upgrades on a bungalow in Cardiff works best when the survey accounts for cavity brick, the quote is fixed, and the materials (metal-clad 18th Edition CU) are matched to the stock — not lifted from a new-build spec.
Bungalow owners in Cardiff usually want to know two things: will you know what you're looking at, and will the price be fixed. Yes to both — we work on this stock every week and price everything on paper.
