County Roscommon
Outdoor and garden lighting in Roscommon
38.4% of households here are in dwellings built before 1981.
Whether this needs a licence in Ireland
Licence required
Registered Electrical Contractor (Safe Electric)
Registered Electrical Contractor (Safe Electric), issued or supervised by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities. Ask for the registration number before the work starts and check it on the public register. Check the register: www.safeelectric.ie
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Outdoor and garden lighting by town in Roscommon
The same trade, town by town. Somebody who searched for their own town should land on their own town.
Outdoor and garden lighting: what the job involves
Wired lighting for a garden, patio, driveway, path or front door, plus outdoor sockets and supplies to sheds and garden rooms, using weatherproof fittings and buried or protected cable. Outdoor electrics are a special location under the National Rules and are Restricted Electrical Works.
How long it takes: A few wall lights near the house usually take half a day; garden lighting with trenching or a supply to a garden room can take one to three days.
The full guide to outdoor and garden lighting — the steps, what is included, the Irish rules, paperwork and questions to ask.
What outdoor and garden lighting in Roscommon costs, and why
What jobs on Talqero came to
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What affects the price
- Number of lights and sockets and how far they are from the house
- Trenching through lawn, beds or paving
- Fittings: wall lights, bollards, uplighters, recessed deck lights
- Controls: timers, PIR sensors, photocells, smart switches
- Spare capacity and RCD protection at the fuse board
- VAT: work on a home is charged at the reduced 13.5% rate by a VAT-registered contractor, unless materials exceed two-thirds of the price; ask whether the quote includes it
- VAT: building work on a home is charged at the reduced rate of 13.5% by a VAT-registered business — unless the materials come to more than two-thirds of the price, when Revenue’s two-thirds rule applies the goods rate to the whole job. Ask whether a quote includes VAT.
County Roscommon: what the figures say
38.4% of households in County Roscommon live in homes built before 1981 — below the national figure of 40.7%, and the 14th highest share of the 26 counties.
Houses of that age were wired to older standards, so adding circuits there often starts with testing the existing installation and, frequently, a new fuse board with RCD protection.
Central Statistics Office, 2022County Roscommon has 25,975 households and 1,078 active construction businesses (2023) — about 24 homes for every firm, against about 23 across Ireland. The figure covers construction as a whole, not any one trade.
Central Statistics Office, 2023
Rules and grants for outdoor and garden lighting
The rules in Ireland
Most electrical work in a home is Restricted Electrical Works and must be done by a Registered Electrical Contractor, who gives you a Completion Certificate.
- Restricted Electrical Works include new installations, fuse-board (distribution board) changes, new or replacement circuits, and inspection and testing. Minor like-for-like work such as replacing a switch is excluded.
- The requirement comes from the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 and S.I. 264 of 2013, in force since 1 October 2013, and is run for the Commission for Regulation of Utilities by Safe Electric Ireland.
- A Registered Electrical Contractor must issue a Completion Certificate for all work except minor works. Ask for it as soon as the job is done; insurers and solicitors ask for it later.
- Check a contractor on the Safe Electric register before work starts.
What to ask before you choose
- What is your Safe Electric registration number?
- Will you issue a Completion Certificate for this work?
- Does the price include testing, making good and removing old fittings?
- Will the existing installation need work before you add to it?
- Is VAT included?
What the work usually involves
- New sockets, switches and light fittings
- Rewiring an older house, room by room or all at once
- Replacing a fuse board and adding RCD protection
- Finding a fault that keeps tripping the power
- EV charger points and outdoor lighting
What to put in your task
- What is wrong or what you want added, room by room
- Roughly how old the house and the wiring are
- Whether the power trips, and when it started
- Photos of the fuse board and the area where the work is
County Roscommon in figures
Construction as a whole. The CSO does not publish enterprise counts per trade at county level, so this figure is not a count of any one trade.
Outdoor and garden lighting · Roscommon
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