When to rewire

[StillTryingtoBuy]

We are due to move into our house in early February. It a fixer upper but livable - well, we’re going to live in it anyway!

We’re having central heating put in before we move in and later this year we’ll be moving the bathroom upstairs and fitting a new kitchen. Should we rewire now while the house is empty and central heating is going in? Or wait until we are renovating? We’ve had an electrician in and he’s said we could do some essential bits now (new fuse board and a few small jobs) but we’ll need to rewire at some point in the next 5 years. He’s also said it would be about £7k to rewire (London, small 3 bed Victorian terrace) which is more than we expected.

Advise welcome!

When we renovated a couple of bungalows for resale the estate agent joked that you could tell that it was an electrician doing it by the sheer number of sockets! We put sockets in the hall, in built in cupboards, everywhere someone could possibly want to plug something in there was a socket. It is far cheaper and far less fuss to do them before decorating is done.