Expert lighting restoration is a unique and specialist process, our skilled professionals, repair, clean and refurbish antique and vintage light fixtures to return them to their original condition, and ensuring they are updated to meet modern safety standards. Our process typically includes cleaning, repairing or replacing damaged components, and rewiring for safety. For conservation projects, lighting restoration requires meticulous attention to detail and specialised knowledge of historical techniques and materials.
Restoration costs can vary depending on the piece you bring to us and the work that is needed – but we’ve pulled together a guide to give you a rough idea.
Click here to see our typical restoration pricing structure.
At Fritz Fryer, we have over 100 years of combined experience in lighting restoration and refurbishment. With our extensive network of artisan makers and suppliers, we can tackle a vast array of projects.
Whether you are working on a café fit-out with vintage pendants or working on a heritage project with original luminaires – we can help. Our restoration team all have the correct site safety certificates and qualifications for working on site, such as CSCS cards, Pasma and Ipaf, etc.
Please scroll through the images attached to see some of the projects we have worked on.
Do you have a cherished table lamp that needs some tlc? Why not send it to us for cleaning, repairing and rewiring? Our workshop has a steady flow of table lamps, standard lamps awaiting their moment in our workshop, before being delivered back to our many happy customers for another generation of illumination. Whether your lamp needs a simple rewire or a more extensive restoration, I’m sure we can help, so get in touch with our team.
Every antique lighting piece is unique, requiring individual assessment for precise quotation. Here’s a guide to our restoration costs:
Minimum Restoration Charge
– £150 minimum charge
– Typically covers a standard table lamp rewire
– Includes professional assessment and basic electrical work
Chandelier Restoration
– Starting from £500 for small, simple chandeliers
– Mid-range projects: £1000-£2,000
– Complex heritage restorations inc. glass repairs: up to £5,000
– Price varies based on size, complexity, and materials required
Lantern Restoration
– Starting from £500 for basic restoration
– Outdoor lanterns typically around £1,500
– Higher costs reflect weather damage remediation
– Includes thorough assessment and weatherproofing
What Influences the Cost?
– Size and complexity of the piece
– Current condition
– Required materials
– Specialised techniques needed
– Level of craftsmanship involved
For a personalised assessment and detailed quote, please Call us on 01989 567416
We will never complete cleaning alone on a chandelier or other light fitting, that we deem upon inspection to be unsafe, or which fails a PAT test (e.g. not earthed, not double insulated, degraded components, general poor electrical safety). We will insist upon rewiring the fitting to make it safe or that the fitting is collected without the work being done.
Upon receipt of either the light fitting or detailed photographs of it along with any additional information we request about it, we will supply an estimate for the restoration to which we add a 15% contingency charge.
If you wish to go ahead with the restoration, a deposit of 25% of the estimate total is required to confirm your instruction to complete the work.
Once the work is started, if there are any unexpected additional costs above this contingency, we will contact you to confirm how you would like us to proceed. Unfortunately, the nature of antique restoration means that unanticipated complications do occasionally occur.
Once the work is completed, if the 15% contingency has not been needed, it will be deducted from your final invoice.
We will advise you, using the contact information you provide to us and usually by email, once your item(s) are ready for collection.
Restoration must be paid for in full before items are collected.
If you can’t collect your item within 1 month of restoration, we can arrange short term storage at our premises (space permitting) for a small weekly charge based upon size. If any item is not collected within 1 month, without prior agreement from us regarding storage, we reserve the right to charge of £10 per week for fittings up to 1m x 1m and £25 a week for larger or multiple items.
For any items not collected after one year from the completion of the work, if we cannot contact the owner via email, post or telephone number given, Fritz Fryer reserve the right to dispose of or sell the item.
Whilst we have public liability insurance, it is a mandatory requirement that any item left with or collected by us for repair is covered by the customers own insurance, and left with us entirely at the customers own risk.
Please be advised: We take every possible care of all items left with us. However, rewiring, repairing and altering items (particularly when they are fragile, vintage/antique or damaged) is not risk free. No insurance policy is likely to cover any damage to an item that occurs during the normal restoration process (by way of example, where previous damage is exposed or worsened once a fitting is dismantled which renders it irreparable).
We appointed Fritz Fryer to undertake the restoration of some important examples of period lighting at the iconic The Grand Hotel, Birmingham. These luminaires needed to be sensitively restored and carefully modified to incorporate Dali dimmable drivers, emergency packs and reliable energy efficient LED illumination. The Fritz Fryer team completed this project on time, within budget and were professional throughout.
