Water & electricity

The house is a 4 bedroom semi detached built in the 50's and as you can see from the decor and fuse box some things hadn't been touched since the early 70s at least. The delicious wooden clad kitchen and fuse box being perfect examples. The electrics were one of the first things we needed to replace, the whole upstairs had to be cut off due to corroding old world electrical cable and the fuse box was a hazard. We also massively needed to crack on with the plumbing if we were ever going to have running water. We moved in pretty much in the dead of winter, and no boiler, no water, no electrics don't really bode well for this season in the UK! It was bloody freezing to say the least. It also came as a not so pleasant surprise to know that the house had been completely cut off from gas in the road and British Gas wouldn't be able to send an engineer out until late Jan. Very sad times.

So we set about removing the old 15ml copper pipes and replacing with 22ml plastic pipes. We sold the copper to the local scrap metal yard which pretty much paid for our new materials - winner.

The house needed a total rewire so we got a new fuse box fitted and routed new cabling into the attic for the boiler and bedrooms that weren't going to be affected by any planning works.