Home DIY

Every time I start to think about a rewire of our place it always escalates:

• Many of the cables are below the floorboards (it's a first floor flat) so that means all carpets up and probably time to get new carpets in most rooms (a couple would survive though) and/or discuss having bare floorboards in the bedrooms (assuming downstairs are ok with this)
  
• If the floorboards are coming up it's a good time to put in better sound insulation between us and the flat below (they said they'll pay part of this)
  
• Also a good time to rip out the old alarm system that we have never used. PIR sensors in several rooms and wires that trace around door frames, etc. Cheap/easy to do but adds to redecoration burden.
  
• May as well get some network cables put in to make life a bit easier/faster - nothing crazy but silly not to if the floorboards are coming up
  
• Oven would need to be on its own circuit, which probably means ripping out much of the splashback tiling - so probably leaning towards a new kitchen (existing one is 2005 MFI and showing its age - we've also been living with its impracticalities for too long - a single fucking drawer in the whole thing!).
  
• Also a good time to get an extractor fan fitted to the bathroom - forgot to do this last time round, requires minor rewiring
  
• Much chasing in the walls = lots of redecoration / painting
  
• If the carpet in the main bedroom is coming up probably need to do something about the built in cupboards along one wall that have been built on top of the existing carpet. Cue at least £10k bespoke joinery to get something reasonable to replace the existing thing (~5.5m x 2.5m x 1m deep) that also has a built in vanity unit.
  
  

So it starts to become a £40k+ refresh project. Happy to do that once the timing/money is right, but trying to get away with a minimal rewiring would be a false economy.