How Much Of A Nightmare Is It Having Your House Rewired?

Are you sure you really want to know?

All joking aside; it really can be a messy and disruptive thing to have done.

Below you'll find some experiences from other people who have had their houses rewired (not by us, I might add).

Perhaps you'll find their stories useful to help you see where things can get stressful and lan accordingly?

Before we get to that, though, here are some top tips to surviving your house rewire:

4 Top Tips To Surviving Your Newport House Rewire

1. Move Out!

Many people find that the stress of a house rewiring is too much, so opt to have it done when they're on holiday, or go and stay in a hotel or with relatives while the work gets done.

2. Move The Furniture

You can save a little time for the house rewire electrician (in Newport or wherever you live), by moving all the furniture out of the way.

If you're having new carpets get the old ones pulled up, before the rewire begins.

Speak with your local domestic electrician Newport about what to move first, but saving them time often means saving YOU money.

3. Get Any Decorating Done Afterwards

This is a great time to do any decorating.

A Newport house rewire costs you a little bit of time doing touch-ups on the decorating, so why not go the whole hog and decorate throughout? 

If you don't fancy doing it all yourself, speak with us and we can recommend a local Newport tradesman. 

4. Try To Future-Proof Now

If you're thinking of installing a security system, wired network or anything like that, mention it now so your Newport house rewire Electricians can add that in.

What else are you thinking of doing soon?

Some Handy House Rewire Ideas Include:

• Outside power for a hot-tub
• Power to a shed or outhouse
• Extra sockets for Christmas lights
• Power and aerial points for wall-mounted TVs
• What else can you think of?

As promised, here are some answers to the question of How Much Of A Nightmare Is It Having Your House Rewired?

Q: How Much Of A Nightmare Is It Having Your House Rewired?

TOP ANSWER: The sooner you get it done, the sooner you can clean up.

You'll be even less keen when you've had another ten years of new floors, decoration and kitchen fittings.

Buy a few dozen of those plastic storage crates, wrap your stuff, and put it in the crates with the lids taped shut. That'll keep the dust out, and you can hoover and sponge the crates before opening so no dust falls in off the lids.

A: It depends on the size & layout of your house, time since last retiring, number of fittings/sockets etc, whether it will be occupied or vacant during the work.

We live in an old 3 story town house that used to belong to my grandad, he rewired it about 30 to 40 years ago and it was at the point where our insurance was invalid due to the age of the wiring so we bit the bullet and got the electricians in. Quote was for estimated 3 weeks work assuming two of those weeks were vacant (we were on holiday). In the end it took just over 5 weeks, poor guy probably made a massive loss after encountering problem after problem. He said some of the setups we had were so old he'd only ever seen them in pictures before! 

Anyway for us it was a massive deal, even though our guy was fantastic & tried to keep mess to a minimum the dust was everywhere in thick layers and the whole house will now need redecorating (probably not as bad if it were a newer house but we can't just replaster the holes unfortunately).

Glad it's done now but it was stressful and will take us a long while to get the house back to normal again.

A: very dirty, very dusty. The electrician should not use a grit and dust generating machine wall chasing machine except in an empty house. Make sure he agrees this in advance. You will have to move a lot of furniture and carpets. The dust will get into everything. Buy a canister vac from a DIY supplier, with a spare cartidge filter and some accessory bags, and hide or dismantle your domestic hoover as the fine dust will clog or damage it. The dust will also damage PCs, TVs and other electronic devices unless they are sealed up until the work is finished and the house has been fully cleaned. It will get into clothes in drawers and wardrobes too.

You can expect to need to redecorate throughout.

Get used to the idea that some of your floors will have to come up, even if they have been newly tiled or laminated.

Go round the house with the electrician and a felt-tip pen and mark on the walls where you want all the switches and sockets to go before he starts work. It will be much easier and cheaper to do the plan before the work, rather than the other way round. Have more sockets than you think you could possibly need, especially in the kitchen. Ask what the price difference will be if you have RCBOs (they are worth having if money is not too tight) especially on the freezer circuit.

Be aware that there is no reason to suppose that a good electrician will also be a good plasterer, and make other arrangements.

A: Really dirty, dust that settles as quickly as you clean, every room needing furniture out and potentially floors up. Kitchen units off walls, kitchen tiles off walls. Did I mention the dust. Dust. More dust. And ours took weeks. And then more weeks cleaning up the dust.

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