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.
If you own a bungalow in Bridgend and need eicr — electrical safety checks, 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.
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.
In the Bridgend area, bungalow addresses cluster in specific streets — we know the layouts before we walk in, which shortens the survey and firms up the quote.
No — surveys for Bridgend 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.
Two things: old CU in a hallway cupboard, still plastic split-load, and the wiring generation — rewired 1980s–2010s. Both go on the quote, not the invoice.
Bungalow stock isn't confined to Bridgend — the same construction era shows up across Porthcawl and Maesteg. We consolidate diary days across the postcode.
If you take one thing from this page: the awkward part is the routing, not the install. On a bungalow, loft-run cabling makes rewires and cu upgrades genuinely easy — a bungalow is often the cheapest full house to rewire — that's what the quote should reflect.
Calling is faster than a form when the bungalow has quirks (old CU in a hallway cupboard). Two-minute triage, honest read on lead time, booked into the diary the same call.
