27 July 2026
Renovating an Older Flat: What to Touch First, and What to Leave Alone
The difficulty in renovating an older flat is not aesthetic but a question of priority. A building past twenty years old comes with an invisible infrastructure debt: plumbing near the end of its life, electrics never designed for today's loads, insulation that was never resolved. This article covers how to identify that debt, in what order the budget should be spent, and what can safely wait.