N. Thornton wrote:

Right. If youre truly unable to do the work you could buy a reel of
flex and a few sockets and get yourself electricity to the rooms that
way. Crude, but if it were me I would not want to be running mains
down that old stuff, not for a minute.

I think this is a very sensible idea. It wouldn't take much to rig up
temporary sockets and lights, with exposed cabling. We did this with our
current house, and lived with it for several months. RCD everything, and
tape down cables (hint - lots of gaffer tape and cable ties required).

Then you can take your time rewiring.


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Grunff