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Location: Whitefield, Gtr Manchester, Lancs
Date: May 2009
Description: The owners of this semi detached investment property had a simple request. Could we remove the small kitchen from the back of the property and relocate it to the large front bedroom and then turn the old kitchen into a bedroom. The short answer was yes. When you undertake to move a kitchen however there are many issues to sort out but the main ones are around access/egress, the electrical and the gas. We would have to remove the existing back door from the old kitchen and install a new one to the new kitchen. The electrics were also not up to the job and required an upgrade to the consumer unit and complete wiring of the new kitchen. The gas pipe work also had to be removed and re-routed.
Other considerations were the plumbing and drainage which had to be removed from one room and added to the new one as well as the boiler controls which were also present in the old kitchen. As with any job that involves a consumer unit upgrade we also had to upgrade the lighting in the bathroom area and the new kitchen lighting was also replaced with lighting of the proper type and the earth bonding had to be upgraded.
There was a lot of work involved but the finished result was a cozy bedroom facing a beautiful backyard that is quit and private and the new kitchen now has ample daylight from the large window space overlooking the front garden which is also well kept. It was a lot of work but the end result added a great deal to the property which was rented within a week.