DIY (plumbing, electrics) and selling your home?

Mentox

I bought with my partner our first property. We did a lot of DIY:
1. We repainted all the walls and replaced all the sockets as they where damaged, dirty or painted.
2. We replaced the old storage heaters for electric heaters
3. Replaced the whole kitchen and installed a electric oven and induction hob.
4. Tiled the bathroom and added an ventilation system.
5. Removed the boiler as it broke down and flooded the boiler room with 200L water. (thank god we live on the ground floor). We replaced it with a direct water heater (3.5Kwh).

Everything is done properly, is working fine and I learned a lot from it (and saved heaps of money) but do I get in trouble when I re-mortgage or sell the house? I live in London UK.

Dukesy

Plumbing is not a problem. However, any electrical work really should be carried out and signed off by a professional. We had to provide certification of the electrical work we'd had done on our old house when we sold it.

Mentox

Dukesy wrote: »

Plumbing is not a problem. However, any electrical work really should be carried out and signed off by a professional. We had to provide certification of the electrical work we'd had done on our old house when we sold it.

Thanks for your reply.

Did you do the electrical work yourself and later on got it certified?

jbainbridge

For any electrical work done since Feb 2005 you will need to produce paperwork. Google 'part p'.

If you do sell your solicitor may suggest offering your buyers an indemnity - for a small cost (~ £50). Or you could get the wiring inspected.

That said - I think it's all wrong. If I DIY electrics I'm very careful (like I'm sure you were).

Dukesy

jbainbridge wrote: »

That said - I think it's all wrong. If I DIY electrics I'm very careful (like I'm sure you were).

However, something has to be in place to guard against the DIY-ing attempts of some of the utter monkeys in this world... When we were having out current place rewired, our sparky (who we know very well and who is very competant) nearly killed himself on the old wiring, which both he and we were convinced he had shut off, but due to the DIY nature of the wiring, turned out not to be (it turned out that the wire which ACTUALLY powered the room was not the one marked on the fuseboard and in fact was one which had been bodged in to a different one, and ran through the external wall, along the outside the house under the render, coming back in through the wall in the bathroom. It was just bizarre.

DevCoder

I assume he didnt get a shock as any proper electrician would test for dead before work and not just assume the circuit matches the one on the breaker.

Dukesy

It went bang quite almightily. Destroyed a pair of snips and frankly could have been awful. He had been testing for dead when he'd been carrying out the work, not just relying on the breaker, but the wiring was just so bizarre in there, and what was worse was that there was obviously powe going into the room, but nothing - not the lights nor the sockets worked. Some of the power came from one fuse, some had been bodged into another and it was impossible to see this... I can understand completely how he managed it, having seen the wiring myself.

Mentox

Some do make a huge mess and cause dangerous situations. Unfortunately most of the time they are not the only ones affected by it. If it causes a fire the neighbours are effected.

So I understand and agree with things needing to be certified. I did a good job as it is part of my profession to work with electricity. The cables I used are thick and don't carry more amps then what the manufacture says.

About this "indemnity" does that allow the sale to proceed without certifications?

Mr_Ted

:rotfl:DiY???

:rotfl:Safe???

;)Have you all seen some of the posts on here :eek:

:rotfl::beer:

Leif

Mr_Ted wrote: »

:rotfl:DiY???

:rotfl:Safe???

;)Have you all seen some of the posts on here :eek:

:rotfl::beer:

You could say the same about some so called professionals.
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new_owner

jbainbridge wrote: »

For any electrical work done since Feb 2005 you will need to produce paperwork. Google 'part p'.

If you do sell your solicitor may suggest offering your buyers an indemnity - for a small cost (~ £50). Or you could get the wiring inspected.

That said - I think it's all wrong. If I DIY electrics I'm very careful (like I'm sure you were).

Thats not true.

Only some of the electrics qualify for part p i.e. New ring, bathroom, kitchen etc. Replacing a damaged socket, replacing damaged cable, fitting and connecting a storage heater does not require part p. +jan 2005