DH and I have just bought a stone-built, Victorian (1885) house that needs total renovation. It's four bedrooms (3 doubles, 1 single), three reception rooms, kitchen, lean-to, and has a cellar under the "main body" of the house. This is its rightmove link - it has a floorplan and room sizes etc (www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-32341983.html)
It has a damp cellar (was ankle deep when we bought it, dried within a week of the rain stopping) which needs a membrane and pump fitting, wet rot to be treated, active woodworm, damp throughout (survey said that the walls needed all plaster stripping off, walls drying, and then replastering), inadequate/missing guttering (some are too shallow/full of moss, other bits are original and full of holes, there is none at all on the bay etc). The downstairs loo is green and the upstairs bathroom is pink with chicken tiles on the wall (all WHOLE tiles are the right way round though, which is unusual).
It needs a full rewire (with lots of sockets), and a replacement heating system (it has a back boiler and the super-thin 70s radiators), new windows (still single glazed) and doors. We are replacing the lean-to (2m x 4.20m) with a proper extension for a kitchen diner, extending the downstairs loo into the next room by about a metre to put in a wet room, building an internal utility room in the current "breakfast room" by removing a chimney breast and putting up a partition wall.
We've had one quote back so far (three building firms are quoting) and it's a frankly ridiculous figure that is nearly the same as we paid for the house!
Can people "in the know" give me a rough ball-park for the work - basically, we're taking everything off the walls, re-doing everything, treating timbers etc, rewire, re-do full heating and hot water system, putting the walls back on just so I know whether this quote is truly as ridiculous as it seems?
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emwithme · 21/04/2015 23:51
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