Anyone recently had Electric panel replaced?

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I’m partway through renovating an early 1970’s house. It still has a very old electrics panel that looks like it belongs in a museum, and it needs replaced before the kitchen is updated.

The electrician I’ve used for a few things has given me a price now to replace panel - £580

Does this seem reasonable?
Anyone else had this done recently?
Im in Scotland 😊

Assuming you mean the consumer unit is being replaced then It depends on what the replacement consists of? You’d need to give more details of what’s on the quote, all RCBO or RCD and MCB on a split board? What make/manufacturer? All existing circuits should be tested before work commences to identify any existing problems, if any are found does the price it include rectifying them?

We paid about £900 for ours. Quite a large house in Lothian. So £580 is quite good but yes needs all circuits checking so very time consuming

Thanks for replies.
The message with price reads:
”price for supplying and fitting a new RCBO consumer unit with all the standard met would be £580”

Littlestmoo - thanks for reply. I’ll ask if all circuits will be tested before installation.

It’s a fair price, it would worry me that such an old installation might turn up issues that would it bump the price up? Are they registered with an approved contractor scheme, NICEIC? Not sure of the situation in Scotland but in England a new CU needs Building Regs approval. Will this be organised by the electrician?

We had one replaced when we did our kitchen. It was about £750. South London.