Re: Getting vendors to do work/reduce price

ess0two

NickDurham wrote: »

Good advice. Maybe it's better just to get it done post-completion and use our savings to do that rather than redecorate straight away.

How did you find the redecorating by the way? I'm hoping that, whilst ther walls will look pretty rough, at least it is 'safe'/liveable and we can then go slowly room by room.

The walls will be chased out upto 3" tops to fit new cable then plastered over.

NickDurham

ess0two wrote: »

The walls will be chased out upto 3" tops to fit new cable then plastered over.

Sounds liveable with to me. Cheers.

LandyAndy

ess0two wrote: »

The walls will be chased out upto 3" tops to fit new cable then plastered over.

In 1980 I had a 1930's house rewired. It was the original wiring. Some of it had melted in the conduit. This meant that the plaster had to be chased out for a long way to remove the wire/conduit.

LandyAndy

NickDurham wrote: »

I'm always bemused as how being a couple of thousand short in savings to do a bit of work means you can't afford a house when you've got the deposit, and the payments are comfortable.

Because, on here, not everyone is entirely truthful about their finances and there are plenty of people who do stretch themselves to the last penny with no contingency. Glad to hear you aren't among them.:T

cattie

niklam wrote: »

As for how long it would take - we recently extended and remodelled our house (3 bed semi) and it took our electrician 2 days to do the actual rewire (whole house) and add in some additional sockets in selected rooms.
Niki

This is superfast! My 3 bed house was completely rewired last year & took over a week. This was with all floorboards lifted & properly relaid, walls properly chased & made good, ceilings made good etc. Lights provided front & back of house.

Other electricians I had in for quotes all estimated at least a week, but up to 10 days.

niklam

LOL Redecorating is a whole different ball game. I think there weas only 1 wall that wasnt mucked around with - so whole house to decorate. So far have done the kids bedrooms and the bathroom. about 80% of the rest of the house was new plaster all through so have miss coated that - just to keep down the dust. Will probably be finished just about when the youngest kid has moved out - and she is only 3 next month - PMSL.

Hope everything goes well for you!

Niki

NickDurham

LandyAndy wrote: »

Because, on here, not everyone is entirely truthful about their finances and there are plenty of people who do stretch themselves to the last penny with no contingency. Glad to hear you aren't among them.:T

Cheers Andy - sorry if I came across as a bit short back there. I guess it's just that I've always considered myself quite a careful person with respect to money. We've overspent by about 1k on extra surveys, etc to be sure there were no surprises (plus pulling out of 1 house post-survey), otherwise we'd have 3k left. As I say, although the house needs a fair amount of cosmetic stuff, this doesn't require immediate doing, so not having 5k for that isn't a big problem. I've factored in things like a wage rise of 100 quid a month post-tax from September, 150 per month from June 2010, and in 30 months an end to student loan payments, so things should get easier still as time goes on, allowing us to do more of the cosmetic upgrading.

The main thing apart from the wiring is getting a disabled loo/shower unit shifted and the pipes capped - but we've been quoted 500 quid, which could come out of a month's salary without too much of a problem.

NickDurham

cattie wrote: »

This is superfast! My 3 bed house was completely rewired last year & took over a week. This was with all floorboards lifted & properly relaid, walls properly chased & made good, ceilings made good etc. Lights provided front & back of house.

Other electricians I had in for quotes all estimated at least a week, but up to 10 days.

Talking about quotes, we had one horrendously high quote of 5k... this was laughed at by other electricians... you've got to be careful of people taking you for a ride!

niklam

cattie wrote: »

This is superfast! My 3 bed house was completely rewired last year & took over a week. This was with all floorboards lifted & properly relaid, walls properly chased & made good, ceilings made good etc. Lights provided front & back of house.

Other electricians I had in for quotes all estimated at least a week, but up to 10 days.

It could be - Have to say - house was half demolished during remodel so that probably allowed the electrician to work faster. Existing wiring didnt need any chasing - just pulling through. I spose it all depends in the age of the house and how old the wiring is. The existing stuff wasnt aincient - just with all the new work - (including moving of consumer unit) it worked out cheaper to do the rewire rather than extending existing wires to new consumer unit.

Niki

LandyAndy

NickDurham wrote: »

Cheers Andy - sorry if I came across as a bit short back there.

:rotfl:No prob. It's hard enough buying a house without someone questioning your carefully thought through plan.:rolleyes: