Electrical

Kitchen & bathroom may need rewiring - should we get it done before we get a new kitchen?

Anonymous user 16/03/2024 - 3.31 PM

We live in an upstairs flat, in London, in an old house that was converted into two flats. As you enter there's a staircase which leads to the first level, where our kitchen and bathroom are, and then there's 5-6 more stairs and the rest of the flat is on that level. The lights in the kitchen and bathroom have badly fitted spotlights and about half of them don't work. There's four spotlights in the bathroom and only two usually work - the other two bulbs blow out really quickly when we replace them. One of the two working bathroom lights recently started flickering and then tripped the trip switch so we're currently not using the bathroom lights at all. The kitchen has six spotlights and only three work (even when we've replaced the bulbs, some just never worked). The kitchen spotlights are really badly fitted - they are basically 6 large holes, about 7cm diameter on the inside where the bulb is and 11cm with the outer bezel ring - with normal (large) light bulbs in each of them, and a dimmer switch for the whole room. We are planning to get our kitchen done this year and are trying to budget for that so need a rough idea of the cost of sorting out the electrics. We think it makes sense to get the bathroom and kitchen lights all sorted at once as they have the same issue and we think it might just all need rewiring on that level. We're looking for advice on 1) rough cost, and 2) at what phase in having the kitchen done we should sort this out? Should the electrics be done first even though we don't know what lighting we'll have in the new kitchen yet (e.g we don't want spotlights but we might need accent lighting un the units etc). I am basically not sure if I should start getting quotes for sorting the electric issues out yet or not. Thanks, any advice would be greatly appreciated :)