I have often wondered about this.
If a person needs a house rewiring and is without the means to pay for it and it is in such a dreadful state, do the electricity companies just cut them off or is there a system in place whereby they can get financial help in the form of grants etc.
Anything you need doing on your house, there are people who wil come along with money for you all for free.
NT
Dream on young man Joe
Methinks being an NTLworld customer has affected your train of thought!
It would have to be seriously bad wiring for the electricity companies to disconnect an existing supply on safety grounds, but yes, they could be disconnected.
If the electricity supply is disconnected, in most houses this would mean no fixed lighting installation (and often no working heating), and such a house would be deemed uninhabitable by the council. The occupants would therefore be eligible for priority rehousing (subject of course to what council housing is actually available). There are some grants for bringing properties up to an inhabitable standard, but these may be restricted to the elderly or people on benefits.
Owain
No, it's a fact of life in the UK.
As a full time employed 40 yr old married heterosexual father of two I get nothing. No help at all with anything at home.
However, my chav layabout step niece as a sixteen year old "unable to work because she's a single mum" scum bag basically gets her house, furniture, DIY etc etc etc supplied free or at least at a very cut price.
Guess who pays for that? yup people like you and me, through taxes!
So no, I believe the train of though was correct.
Al
It might have been the case in the old days that the meter reader might have reported something that was really old, but I doubt it. Nowadays there is noway that the the supply company would have any clue as to what is in your house.
I have no idea about grants for home improvement.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Al" saying something like:
Daily Mail reader, are you?
|We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the |drugs began to take hold. I remember "Al" |saying something like: | |>As a full time employed 40 yr old married heterosexual father of two I get |>nothing. No help at all with anything at home. |>
|>However, my chav layabout step niece as a sixteen year old "unable to work |>because she's a single mum" scum bag basically gets her house, furniture, |>DIY etc etc etc supplied free or at least at a very cut price. |>
|>Guess who pays for that? yup people like you and me, through taxes! | |Daily Mail reader, are you?
Buy definition all Daily Mail readers are scum bags.
Spelling indicates a Guardian reader.
Mike
No - the word 'buy' isn't in their lexicon - they expect hand outs
AWEM
so much easier just to shout 'ooooh nazi, nazi!' than actually engage in any argument eh?
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