How much does it cost to renovate an entire house? Link to potential house insude

[Rainingdogsandcats]

We've just been gazumped. Greedy Bastards. We need a very specific house so have spotted this house.

Obviously it needs complete do up inside. It's in the area that we want and similar sizes go for around £375-395 done up nicely.

How much realistically do you think?

New bathroom, kitchens, all carpets up and flooring, there's probably Minton tiles under that awful carpet in the hall as in the other local houses.

Complete decorate. Garden can take place over time but everything else needs doing straight away.

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How much of the work can you do yourselves? You’ll need a plumber and an electrician, but can you fit the kitchen, tile, paint, fit carpets etc?

shockers let's say realistically very, very little.

10k per bathroom, 20k for kitchen. if you are lucky you will have change left.
1k per room for new floor & paint.
hopefully no structural issues, those would add £££££

a little less than that if you are able to do a lot yourself.

Going off what we spent on our house and obviously going off what spec you hope to achieve I’d say at least around £80-£100k. That would be mid range, high street type fixtures and fittings though. Kitchen from b&q that type of thing.
Can’t you get a builder to do a viewing with you and give an estimate?

I don’t see how you have to do anything straight away, it’s dated but perfectly liveable.
The carpet in the lounge is lovely.

To do it well, at least £50,000, I’d say. It’s a lovely house.

It’s a shame you can’t see a floor plan as how much you spend depends on how much building work you need to do. If you’ve got a daily so large you need six bedrooms I can’t see you being very happy with the size of that kitchen so would maybe want to knock though?

I don’t think I could get much change out of 80-100k. It looks like it needs completely gutting.

Oooh, looks like I under estimated!

tbh, looking at the house it not having central heating throughout needs looking at. that might mean 5k at least to install pipes, radiators and potentially a new boiler

Wow that could be such an incredible house and what a price! Bargain!

Unless you are really good at sourcing cheap bathroom fittings,kitchens etc you would need to be allowing a minimum if £50,000.
Having said that it depends on how you are intending to renovate it.
Are you going to be living in it which will be an enormous mess and stress or are you going to get one builder and do all works at one time.

Ive just spent around 30k on a 2 bed - 4 rooms replastered, rewiring, new heating, high quality laminate and 10k on a kitchen (about the same size as the one in this house) and external wall insulation.

I havent touched the hall, stairs and landing, bathroom or the garden

We have 6 DC, all at home currently although eldest DC just had a baby ( on Tuesday ) so she, her dp and baby will move out once they've bought their own house in around 3/4 months.

5 DC at home full time including an adult (22), teens and an under 8.

Definitely will need bigger kitchen. I'm going to view tomorrow so will get a better idea of layout, I hate that they don't do a floor plan.

I have a friend in the building trade, not so hopefully we can engage him to do some work and perhaps point us in the direction of other trusted trades.

I live reasonably close to that area. Completely depends on what you choose obviously but totally possible to do within £50k-70k if that's what you're asking. We've completely redone our house though I'd struggle to put a price on it as we've had 2 extensions, but for example I always choose a nice but cheap option for carpets, tiles etc as it's senseless paying more when you don't need to, so for example when we carpeted our stairs and landing, 1 bedroom, vinyl floor in playroom, hall and 2 bathrooms it was approx £1,200 including fitting. Our large kitchen was £12k including appliances and fitting, but we didn't have granite worktops or real wood for example. It's still a nice kitchen.

I'm assuming we would offer less than asking but would like a good quality finish.

Preferably get one firm to do the lot. Could potentially rent whilst it was being done. I can see it polishing up lovely.

What absolutely needs doing? Lots of people think they have to change everything immediately, but I would only do absolutely necessary (repairs, central heating, safety) and do the rest as and when you can afford it.

Tfoot75 definitely don't want solid wood worktops, they've been the bane of my life in our current house, not fussed about granite so long as it looks nice and is headwearing.

I don’t think you underestimated Shockers, I think other posters’ figures are ludicrous. I did a 3 bed semi, new kitchen and bathroom (including moving a loo), new windows, decoration and new flooring and carpets throughout for £29k.

Hipee I agree although DH prefers to get everything done in one go. I think it's nice to live somewhere for a while to get a bit of a feel for it too and see how the house works for us as a family.

You do not need £10k for a bathroom or £20k for a kitchen, these figures can be halved and still have excellent quality.

There’s hardly any plug sockets and it’s only got part central heating so those would be urgent. The bathrooms are both revolting so that would be urgent. The kitchen looks completely unworkable for a large family so that would be urgent. The chances are a Victorian property needs to be re plumbed, the windows, the roof, etc etc.

Still it is a gorgeous house and right by the arbo too!

If you are skint there is nothing wrong with that house. It's dated but no one died from bad 80s bathroom tiles.

You could spend £20k or £100k depending on what quality you want.

Are any of the 6 DC old enough to reliably paint a room?

Depends. Are you prepared to budget and go slow? We had a similar house and we spent I guess about £30,000 to replumb (lead pipes), new central heating, new kitchen, new bathroom (both required for mortgage) and replastering / recarpeting of some key rooms. 6 years on and we'll be finished everything this year. But we were niave and didn't consider things like new roof, broken drains, new Windows. We've been lucky, we found good builders and property prices have gone up a lot.

I think £50,000 under the standard asking price is a little tight BUT if you plan on being there long term and can afford it then it may still be worthwhile

@Alsohuman you do realise that this house has 3 receptions rooms, 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a utility rooms and a kitchen? That’s 13 rooms + a hall and 2 landings.

I guess your 3 bed semi could fit in it 3 or 4 times.

The 3 bed semi had two receptions (one fewer), one bathroom less and obviously three fewer bedrooms. The only cost for bedrooms is decoration and carpets. I reckon, provided its structurally sound, it could be done for £50k.