I bought a 550 square foot flat in the Ma On Shan area in 2008. I've been living inside of it since.
There's two areas in my flat that have been developing water damage. The most severely water damaged area is in the kitchen which has quite a bit of piping. The other area is the living room wall. On the other side of the living room wall is the shower.
The water damage in the kitchen caused an electrical problem that caused all the wall sockets to stop working. However if I disabled the kitchen sockets in the circuit breaker, then the sockets in the rest of the flat would work fine.
The electrician my wife found can do a stop gap solution to fix the kitchen wiring in the kitchen for $3.2k HKD, but he says it's only a matter of time before the electric wiring in the flat will completely fail and will need to be ripped out and replaced. This also means ripping up the walls, floors, etc.
He says all of this work will cost about $210k HKD. That's not even the worst news; the most distressing part is that it's going to take 2 months.
I find the need of having to find short term accommodation extremely unappealing, and having to live there for 2 months is major downer.
And even worse is I imagine that I will have to move all my stuff out and find storage for it as well and then move it back in after the job is done. This all sounds very stressful to me. I'd love to hear some good news, like an electrician telling me this'll all cost 100k instead of 210k.
Does anyone know any English speaking electricians? I'll also take an electrician who speaks Mandarin, but my vocabulary is much more limited since I'm still learning it.
I want to gather as many opinions and price quotes from electricians as possible.