Owning your own home

Exciting night in my household.

My kitchen is badly installed, hence my wanting to replace it with a kitchen of much better quality and so forth. Problems with it: Boiler installation means it cannot be fully serviced, water filter inaccessible, kitchen power not isolated, some kitchen sockets were built behind units and are inaccessible, some sockets were placed under a sink!, plumbing is all a misfit jumble of pipes.

So that's the background, what happened?

Appliance grey water pipe attached to the twin sink trap popped out. Because it's the wrong height it's full of water that it proceeds to empty... over sockets that are under the sink... which power the boiler. Sockets go pop! Boiler is out, hot water out, sockets in kitchen out.

Then the house alarm... sheesh, whoever installed this thing has run it off... the kitchen socket circuit. So it starts beeping that the mains has been cut. It considers this an active fault, because I can't get the power back on because socket goes pop! So that's been doing a 100db alarm every hour all night, needing manual resets... so sleep has been fucked and I'm cranky.

What needs to happen today:

• Two sink waste and appliance trap needs replacing
  
• Dual socket under the sink needs replacing (an outdoor one given it's placement?!)
  
• 13A fuse needed
  
• 3A fuse needed
  
• Reset of house alarm after all is done
  
  

I'm tired and haven't begun anything.

Even after I do all of this, the kitchen is still a time bomb of costs if it's not ripped out and rebuilt properly.

And this... is why one shouldn't DIY a kitchen.