--- title: "Socket and switch installation in Kingswood | 5.0 Star · From £80" description: "Sockets in Kingswood are either a tested spur or a fresh circuit. Houses on Woodland Way and off Copthill Lane usually need the fresh circuit." canonical: "https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-kingswood/socket-switch-installation-domestic" --- # Socket and switch installation in Kingswood > Sockets in Kingswood are either a tested spur or a fresh circuit. Houses on Woodland Way and off Copthill Lane usually need the fresh circuit. A new socket in Kingswood is either a tested spur or a new circuit, and the test decides which. Houses off Copthill Lane often need the new circuit. ## How a Kingswood socket is costed Spur and fresh circuit are different figures, and the note says which the test allowed. Several sockets at Woodland Way are only the circuits that board can accept. A Costain rewire is not this job. - Socket installation: from £80 - A full board is recorded before another circuit is offered. - Plaster beyond the new opening stays out of this task. - A socket finish is included only if it was chosen ahead of arrival. ## Socket and switch installation across Kingswood We serve Kingswood from our base in Banstead. - Waterhouse Lane - Warren Drive - The Warren - Furze Hill - Woodland Way - Copthill Lane - Kingswood station - Lower Kingswood ## What happens on the day The test picks the method. A spur is offered only after the circuit shows it can accept another socket. On a Costain house the later additions sit on the original wiring, so a spur is not assumed. Newer houses on Woodland Way and off Copthill Lane generally want an extra circuit rather than a rewire, and that still depends on the board having room. A socket in the garage starts at the unit in that building when one is there. ### Test before adding a spur We test original wiring under a Costain addition before another socket goes on it. If a spur will not do, the note describes a fresh circuit. ### Count several sockets as circuits Several new sockets at Woodland Way are counted as whatever circuits the test will allow. That count is not written up as a rewire. ### Keep a garage socket on the garage unit A socket in the garage, annexe or outbuilding starts at the board in that building when one is there. The house board is not used as a shortcut. ## Questions about Kingswood sockets ### Why might a Woodland Way house need a new circuit? Those newer houses usually need extra circuits, not a rewire. Every socket is still tested. Age alone does not leave capacity on the board. ### Will you spur off original Costain wiring? Only if that circuit can take it. Later additions on the original wiring are not spare room. A socket that works is not a yes. ### Can a garage socket come off the house? Not as a shortcut. If the garage has its own board, the socket starts there. The house board is used only when that is the feed. ### Is a socket on Warren Drive a different test? No. We test the circuit in front of us and that result chooses a spur or a fresh circuit. Warren Drive does not add capacity. ### Does a new socket include a rewire? No. Replacing original wiring in a Costain house is a separate job. One socket, or a few of them off Copthill Lane, does not begin it. ## Other services in Kingswood - [Electrician in Kingswood](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/electrician-kingswood): Electrician in Kingswood, Surrey (KT20). EICRs, fuse boards, EV chargers and fault finding, with the price agreed before work starts. - [Socket and switch installation (all areas)](https://www.tmbelectrics.co.uk/services/socket-switch-installation-domestic): Socket and switch installation from TMB Electrics starts from £80. 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