Thanks for all of the replies. I have took them all on board and been over at his new house most of today.
It needs totally modernizing throughout, even the C/H piping and boiler. I've turned that off because when the boiler was lit their is a smell of Gas. Nothing in and outside of the house has been touched for years.
I had to do the same for my daughter with her first house. Took the staircase out at her newly purchased home and rebuilt it in such a way it put another bedroom upstairs, and made the downstairs kitchen big enough to get 4 people in afterwards. Before all of that work it was a one bedroom cluster with a one person kitchen and the biggest spiral staircase I had ever seen.
God knows what the architects were thinking?
Anyway after I did the house up for not much cost to her whatsoever, and supply half of the building materials, she then sold it for £45k profit, purchased another house and waits for me to do the same again.
I said, 'hold your horses' I owe your brother the same first.
My old man did nothing for me ever, all except for serious unconscious beatings from the age of 3 upwards. I think I've mentioned before he was very high up in a Building company as well as the church, I guess I embarrassed him because I would not follow in his footsteps, and be the big successful man
that he was, and rip off people to provide the lavish lifestyle that I grew up in myself as a kid.
Luckily though my mum was from the roughest area I have ever seen even to this day, and she grew up with absolutely zilch. Heating bricks up on an open fire, wrapping them in a towel and using it as a hot water bottle when she was growing up. I guess I carry her genes more.
It's had its price though, because for the last good few years I am classed as homeless, I don't have an address, this can and does make things difficult.
I could live with the kids, but that wouldn't be fair on them as they are just starting out in life, and having me there wouldn't exactly be easy for them. Neither of them can cook for a start off, let alone me going completely Gaga staring at cartoon like characters on a TV that they are controlling with a controller. I'd much rather just go live in the woods. Or climb Everest in a pair of Speedo's come to think of it. Anything but those computer games.
But their mum has been as good as gold since I did our daughters house up so where it all goes from here is anybody's guess.
Again thanks for all of the replies, their really are some decent people on this website and I know I go off topic every now and then, but the advice from here is solid. All of the Electricians I have met on site when younger were the only type of people that would ever talk to me.
I guess they saw the rock and the hard place I was between, because every trade and sub contractor was working for my Dad. And most of the trades could not stick me, and that's understandable now I'm older and can work it out.
But at the time it was a living hell.
SO, my son will not be touching the electrics, I've told him I had written about all of this on an electrical forum and the electricians on the forum do have the power to turn the whole house off from the main grid, therefore not only will he not be able to play his silly computer games, but he also wont be able to watch TV, have a shower, or use the outside light to see where to put his key in the door when it is dark.
I believe he has listened to me, otherwise I will have to go and locate that magic fairy main fuse puller.
I don't think it will go that far, but just in case, that's my plan....
Thanks again for all of the replies everybody!
If the mods want to close this thread because it doesn't really fit in with the main page topics then I fully understand, thanks for leaving it up this long!