help with rewiring

chris1973

I would imagine that any discretionary grants on offer by the Council would be allocated on a priority basis, i.e to make safe potentially dangerous emergency external repairs, such as preventing bricks and slates falling on the heads on passers by in the street below, or securing a chimney etc. I can't imagine they hand them out like sweeties.

Unfortunately, things like rewiring fall under the general remit and joy of running and maintaining your own property. Most professional rewires will last between 20 and 30 years, so how long have you been in the property?, and if you bought it in the last five years or so, did you factor in the age of the installation and the possibility of the pending requirement of a rewire when negotiating a price and saving for future house repairs and upkeep?

GreyQueen

You may be able to get some assistance from your local council via a grant. These have always been relatively-small pots of money given to the council to administer and in the current climate they are likely to be even smaller or maybe not there at all.

I would contact your local council and see what they say. Better to do it sooner rather than later as we are already in the second quarter of the financial year. Best of luck!

FBaby

I took picked up on the emergency that becomes so just as main earner loses his job....in any case are you sure it requires rewiring? I was told the same by a scrupulous electrician until I meet a qualified one through friends who told me it needed updating but not complete rewiring and charged 1/4 of the quoted price the other had given me.