Owning your own home

Yesterday's bitching and moaning has prompted a flood of responses from trades. Knowing my luck they're "on here". Anyway, £160 to swap 3 TRVs and top up the inhibitor in the system, planned for this Thursday. I know I know, I could do that myself. But £160 to me is worth avoiding the half a day of stress that I'm about to flood the house or lock up my heating system.

Also, I knew we needed a load of electrical work done. Not quite a re-wire, but at the VERY least a new CU. So I was delighted to get the quote for remedial works back following a dire EICR survey ("um, mate, your house has no earth....."), £1500 all in. Which considering I had that number in mind for just the CU, is a touch, in my book.

Works to be carried out (code 2 and 3) from unsatisfactory EICR
• Upgrade Distribution board (working up to 18th edition BS7671 standard with RCBO fitted with an advance system )
• Renew meter tails to 25mm
• Install main in coming earth to D.B
• Install the bonding to the gas pipe and water pipe along with supplementary at the boiler.
• Remake all spot light fitting to find earth continuity
• Earth metallic class 1 fittings
• Over look all pendents so the exposed connections are covered.
• Renew pendent in living room
• Bathroom light fitting is not I.P rated
• Install metallic 4inch trunking lid
• Remake immersion pump and expose connections
• Secure front bedroom socket only
• Renew battern hold on top floor
• Renew or make good dinning room, hallways, bedroom switches
• Fault find low insulation resistant
• Renew or make good boiler light and under stairs
• Make good front porch light or Renew
• Fault find no sockets continuity or down grade MCB
• EICR Re – test after installation (no charge minus £150)