Ball park estimate please - renovating 3 bedroom house

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Hi,

Going to look at a house on Monday which is in our dream location. It's a 3 bedroom semi and judging by the photos on the brochure it does need a complete revamp, i.e.

• new kitchen
• new bathroom
• new carpets throughout
• complete redecoration
• plumbing for a dishwasher put in
• a wall knocked down for open plan kitchen and living room
• new doors which are currently a bit dated

Any idea how much that would cost? I am utterly clueless as have only bought new build before. Thanks!

Watching with interested!! Would need to do the same & have no idea how you go about costing this.

I've just moved into 4 bedroom house we've done kitchen ( ikea and fitted by my husband ) luxury vinyl all downstairs , carpets upstairs . Paintwork throughout and some electrics fixed and we've spent 7k so far still got bathroom and en suite to do though . You could probably do it on 10-15 I think done to a good standard .

Its kind of a how long is a piece of string though really.

Kitchens can be a couple of thousand to much much more

Bathrooms again can be a couple of thousand although chatted to a colleague yesterday who is currently spending £75K on 5 bathrooms - eek (and yes he is loaded)

if the wall is supporting you will need joists etc which will be much more costly than perhaps a £500 knock through

Would you decorate yourselves ?

Doors can be £200 each although we found some lovely ones on ebay

You could do all that for under 10k depending on what kind of finish you want. By doors do you mean internally only?

Internal damn auto correct!

Thanks all, very helpful.

We renovated a 3 bed flat (kitchen, bathrooms, floors stripped, carpets) for 20K.

Very surprised at the cheap estimates here! We are just finishing renovating a 3 bed house. We did a lot of work ourselves and the final costs come to around 35k. This included partial rewiring, brand new heating and plumbing (from the sound of it you may have to take this into consideration), complete redecorating, bathroom, kitchen, knocking through an outside wall so required rsj, sanding floors downstairs, new carpets upstairs. We built half of the kitchen ourselves until we got someone in to help, did all the initial clear out of the house and most of the decorating so saved a lot in labour costs. We did not go overboard with material costs and went for decent quality but not too fancy. We are in London. If we had not done so much work ourselves and not shopped around so much we could have easily spent double..

• new kitchen £4k to 25k
• new bathroom £1k to 5k
• new carpets throughout £2k to £5k
• complete redecoration £500 per room ish
• plumbing for DW included above
• wall knocked down £500 - £1k
• new doors £75 - £200 each

As a rough estimate ! Dependant on how luxurious you want it ! Also consider electrics - to rewire a house £2k - £5k
New heating - £3k - £5k

Unless this is your absolute forever home - don't spend more than you would get back in a selling price IYSWIM !

.... Have fun ! :-)

If you were installing budget range goods and doing a lot of work yourself you could aim for the low estimates given.

I think what you describe, all cosmetic and nothing structural done by professionals (such as my company!) could be comfortably managed with a budget of £30-£40k

What quality of stuff you install will make a huge difference to the price.
Granite work tops in the kitchen or tiles on the floor of bathroom alone could add thousands to the costs.

I can give you some idea though, very rough figures for the work to be completely done by professionals with reasonable quality fitting - not top of range but not budget:
I much agree with OnePlanOnHouzz
£4k central heating & Boiler install (if house is empty).
£8k new bathroom
£10-12k kitchen
£500p room redecoration
£100 per door supplied & hung
Rewire £4k
Remove interior wall: about £1,000 (building regulations, structural engineer & builder to pay).
Flooring - easy to get a quote based on the quality you want and the square metres of your house - could be anything.

Other possible costs:
Do you need new skirting boards as well, new light fitting? New Windows?
New front door?
Don't forget to budget for all locks to be changed.
Do invest in really good loft insulation (it's cheap) get cavity wall insulation if applicble.