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Lobster wrote:
The fact that rewiring appears to be one of the mortgage criteria would
I have thought make this idea pretty well impossible in the case of your
property though - hard to do a quick lash-up there. :-(

When I bought this place in the '70s (and mortgages were *far* more
difficult to get) the building society insisted on several works *before*
completion. Rewiring. Attention to a leaking gutter. Woodworm and rot
warranty. Electricity and gas supplies to be on single meters. One kitchen
removed. (It wasn't actually two self contained flats as it was a mother
and daughter that once shared the house, but had two kitchens and metering)
My solicitor arranged for two weeks of access to the by now empty house.
before completion and I took those two weeks off work. A specialist firm
attended to the wet rot and treated all the timber. Good job too. Another
did the guttering. Cowboys. I ripped out one kitchen and did a *very*
basic re-wire onto the one meter disconnecting and removing the other
myself, as the LEB couldn't give me an appointment within the time scale.
Got the gas board to cut and cap the pipe in the cellar going to the
second gas meter and remove it.

Got the mortgage ok. Their surveyor wasn't happy about the fact that I'd
removed the ground floor (original) kitchen and left the upstairs one in
what would have been a bedroom. I explained it was temporary as I wanted
to do a new decent kitchen downstairs and having a temp working one would
be handy - and that he should have specified *exactly* what he wanted. ;-)

It's amazing what can be done in a couple of weeks if you really have to.

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