Rewiring but leaving kitchen for now?

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Hi

we have viewed a property today in Kent we think we would want to offer on however we believe it would need a full rewire

we are theoretically prepared to do this however ideally we would like to leave the kitchen as we would plan to fully remodel it in 5-10 years time… is this possible?
can you rewire a house but leave a room and approach this later?

or what is involved in rewiring a kitchen? In my head they would have to remove lots of tiles .. floor tiles etc ahh ovens etc? Or is it not as bad as I imagine…

any advice or insights would be appreciated

thanks

We did a full rewire and also plan to do a full revamp of the kitchen in a couple of years.
We have vinyl flooring in the kitchen and this did have to be lifted in order to pull the new wiring across under the floor. However for the wall sockets we chose to have surface mounted sockets and trunking as a temporary measure (rather than breaking out tiles). We covered the old sockets with blanking plates. Not the prettiest but we're prepared to live with it for a couple of years

We have done exactly this , rewired the whole house all except the kitchen ring ( sockets ) and cooker. We are still using the old kitchen and didn’t want to disrupt it. The new cables are in place to the consumer unit and just curled up under the floor and in the loft. All ready to go when the kitchen is finally ripped out. We just connected the old kitchen ring and cooker back up to the new consumer unit. Kitchen lights are done.

We had to do this when we found the kitchen wasn't plastered behind the units, only chipboarded. It was fine. Our sparkies laid a new supply to the kitchen with its own big fuse/switch and wired the old wiring into it. Then, when the kitchen was ready for first fix a year later, they could just throw that switch, isolate the kitchen, and do a complete rewire in there, then switch it back in after 2nd fix. It's actually quite useful to have the kitchen with its own main switch in the long term, too.
PS- consider having your white goods/ovens etc. wired back into a neat, labelled, panel of switches on the wall somewhere, rather than having them (idiotically IMO) wired to switch boxes inside units. Then you can move units if ever you need to, and can get at the switches for each one easily and fast if you need to, or if there is an emergency. The power is supplied to the right part of the room to little plastic boxes on cables, which the items (fridges, cookers, whatever) are wired directly into. More flexible than cupboard fittings as to where things go too, if you have to move them a bit.

Great thanks everyone

As long as the old cable around the kitchen tests out ok there's no problem whatsoever using it after a partial rewire of the house.

To be honest unless it's really ancient wiring IE pre 1970s then you are unlikely to need a full rewire, unless the changes you want to make are so significant that it's not worth keeping any, or you are going back to brick throughout anyway.
I would wait until you have it tested and inspected to decide a course of action.