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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When you do your viewing pay close attention to the windows, electrics, boiler as that will give you a starting point for the cost. In terms of the other stuff it really is how long is a piece of string. If you're doing it on a budget you can make use of things like getting the same carpet throughout the house when it's on half price and free fitting. In terms of things like the kitchen you'll pay more by going with big known kitchen brands, look to buy the kitchen somewhere like wickes and pay someone to come in and fit it. I think you could do this on £50k providing it is just cosmetic and you shop around for others it could cost 100k plus. I'm quite jealous, I love this style house but they never have parking where I live and that's a non negotiable.

Hi I'm not too far away from that property (the other side of the arboretum 👋🏻). We brought a 5 bed in need of modernisation and by god has it needed it, whilst I agree with others you can do work for less you never know what you will find when you start to renovate. To give you an idea our renovation which included total rewire/ new central heating system, boiler, hot water tank, underfloor heating / replaster/ new windows and doors throughout / extension for the kitchen / three bathrooms and unforeseen additional costs (damp proof course / sulphur floor attack) we were up in the region of 130k. The best advice I can give you is get a good surveyor not the normal mortgage one get your own independent one and go with builders over this side of town - our costs increased due to the builders being from Birmingham - sounds mad I know but the daily rate for their labourers was around 140 over Walsall way you can pay from 80 upwards - trust me it all increases the final sum! Good luck!

Perhaps if you’re only doing the pretties. No chance if you’re doing it properly and have to pay someone to do it for you.

BentNeckLady I know, and the girls could get up at 7.45 instead of 6.30 and walk to school in less than ten minutes.

Cheddar gorgeous you are right of course. I have a 22 yr D's and an almost 17 yr D's, they' ve 2 arms and can wield a paintbrush.

OK, @BentNeckLady, clearly I’m a fuckwit who knows nothing. A fuckwit, what’s more, who’s so stupid she didn’t do a stroke herself and still made £33k on that renovation.

Not sure why it all has to be done straight away?
It only has part central heating so fixing that would take priority over cosmetic work. If other work needs doing, like rewiring, you’d do that before redecorating.

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I've just done a similar project.

Bathroom was £7k including a bit of structural stuff.

Kitchen was £40k including knocking a load bearing wall down. I could have done it for 30.

New flooring everywhere using high end carpets was £3k. But I bought remnants.

Having hall stairs and landing decorated £2k

3 bedrooms stripped and wallpapered £2.5k

3 skips £800

Electrics £1.5k

Garden £3k and counting....

We still have one bathroom to go.

mommybear1 that's a good point about locals. Thank you.

Oh, new(oil) boiler £6k. New radiators (posh ones) incl fitting £2k.

Movinghouseatlast just wanted to say I love your user name. Weve wanted to move for a long time.

I would say around 20,000 for the kitchen and £6-10,000 each bathroom. Carpets can vary enormously depending on quality. It’s a beautiful house and would be a fantastic project to take on.

I'm quite excited to look around it tomorrow. Thanks for all your input.

Wiring! New boiler? Gas pipes?

It’s a really nice house though. I’d focus on the ‘safe’ stuff first and work on the cosmetic later.

I don't know how much you need to spend but that's a stunning house!

I'd agree with others, focus on the 'big, important' jobs first like wiring, boiler. Check the plaster quality if possible. This fucked up on our house, it looked fine until we started stripping the walls then we realised every bastard room needed stripping back to the bricks and re-plastered.
"revolting" bathrooms aren't a priority if the fixtures and fittings are safe and working .

We had to dig everything back to behind the sodding plaster. It way beyond grim and rented out to the bloody zoo since the 70s (so it seemed). Oh, I still remember having to rip up the carpet up - it was stuck to the floor with what looked like beetroot juice (I hope).

Good luck @itsrainingcatsanddogs DM me if you need details of a decorator he's from Rushall and is amazing 😉

Make sure you check out the area fully, there's a council run property opposite which has a lot of antisocial behaviour. (Friends live in house for sale opposite this linked property so are close neighbours with antisocial property - they've had massive trouble selling their beautiful property).

You're lucky you're not in Dublin.
Renovation costs are astronomical apparently.
I've heard of a couple who bought a house in my locality, they wanted to do a refurb but the quotes they got from builders were so off the scale, that they've put it back on the market.
It's cheaper to move

My house is that size but a more expensive house. 15 years ago
Rewiring £15,000
Plastering- cheaper than wallpaper- about £6k
Windows £100k- not all done yet!
bathrooms x 1 about £15k- fired earth fittings and tiles
kitchen £35,000 including aga
light fittings and sockets about £1000
Bolier is 37 years old- that will be £10k each to replace x 2
Carpets etc - a fee thousand- cant remember

It is MUCH more expensive to refurb a period property than to build an extension.

We spent £50k when we moved in and probably another £70k since then and it still isn't done.

standingovulation I know your friends house. It's stunning. Been on the market for a year, we viewed it in December but weren't in a position to make an offer until a couple of weeks ago. It was literally sold the day before I was able to offer. I was gutted. Can I pm you?

mommybear1 that's brilliant. Thank you.

It says part central heated- that with th downstairs bathrooms suggest that it may have been subdivided at some point?

id guess around 90k roughly just from the listing for a medium to good standard (I refurb / build for a living so usually around not that far off the ballpark)