Bad News From the Electrician (by sarah)
Well the Electrician came along today and said that he can't just do the extra bits down stairs that I wanted - ie more power points etc... the lighting and everything is in a right mess as it is the old rubber insulated wires from the 50-60's so thats all the lighting and the upstairs of the house that have to be done 🙁 The whole lot obviously isnt covered by the insurance and comes too £2100 which I obviously dont have plus I'm not happy as I have no why of really varyfying all of this - he also said that the house isn't earthed properlly which is something had been suspected previously.
I only have £700 as well so if it does all need doing I'm not sure where I'm going to find the rest. The bedroom definatly needs doing though as the light has stopped working and kills any lightbulb thats put into it :/
Also upstairs is obviously pretty packed as it has all the things that where on shelves and stuff downstairs that where whisked upstairs and have since been turned over several times to find things - this all has to shift along with half the furniture :/ Not entirely sure how I'm going to organise all of this now.
edit: upon Als return home the electrician changed his mind about the office having to be touched as it was converted in the 1980's and so is sort of fine - this dropped the price by about half.
Building Maintenance | sarah | 
Mon 4th Feb 2008 1:54 pm
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By @ndy Macolleague, Tue 12th Feb 2008 @ 5:55 pm
If you cannot add this to the existing claim then you should be able to do a seperate insurance claim on the landlord's insurance for this. My reasoning would be as follows... All new work requires that the existing infrastructure be up to spec. If you don't touch it then you don't need to change it. Given that you have to touch it then you must change it. Given that the first part of the work is on the insurance then the second should be as well. This is work that you can do yourself (or friends): you just need it to be inspected and OK'd by a qualified electrician and they would probably charge a fee for that. Not sure how different the labour and inspection fees would be for a job of that size.
By sarah, Wed 13th Feb 2008 @ 12:09 pm
oooo - interesting - thanks Andy