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Rewiring. 3 bed 1st floor flat. Ancient fuse box (only 4 circuits, just fuses, no RCD) so it'll need a load of rewiring to get things split up onto many more circuits.
From memory the existing fuse box has two white fuses, one blue, one red (and one other red master fuse). I would assume that's something like: two lighting circuits (white 5A), one ring main (blue 15A), kitchen (red 30A).
If everything in the kitchen is on a 30A circuit then we'd get quite close to that (or exceed it) if the oven (12A), kettle (12A), microwave (4A), dishwasher (?), washing machine (?), toaster (4A) and fridge (?) were all on at the same time. I wouldn't ever have all of that on at the same time, and it would only likely have that load of 90s max (given how long the toaster and kettle will take).
There's no real heavy electrical usage in our flat. We never need electrical heaters (combi boiler for water and central heating). The TV/computer/BT-TV box draws <1A. Almost all lights are low energy bulbs (<10W each). Over the winter we sometimes run a dehumidifier but that's <1A.
I know it's a piece of string but if the rewiring was £4k how much is a typical redecoration afterwards be relative to this, the same? I'd hope there would be minimal new chasing outside of the kitchen as they can lift the carpets and floorboards for the bulk of the wiring.
Also, I'd look at getting Cat 5/6 into all 3 bedrooms, sitting room (two locations) and the hall with all of the cables going back to a patch panel and I can handle the network switch stuff. I'd also have TV coax back to the same central place so I can distribute TV to the three rooms at a later date if required.
Anything else to consider if I ever get this done? I'd have multiple network ports for each room so I can use those adapters to smash HDMI/IR over that if I wanted to push that between room at a later date. Can't see the point in laying specific HDMI cables. Boxy trunking with string for pulling through future things?
It's coming up mortgage renegotiation time so I'd be looking to borrow an extra £10k or so to fund this work. LTV is ~30% so there's a fair bit of equity there to borrow against.