Oh my word....found a doer upper, but what to do about THIS kitchen and ancient boiler?

[marthabear]

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44433392.html

The rest of the house is liveable and can be done up gradually. But the kitchen and the boiler need sorting. Thought about knocking through to half of the garage with french doors to the outside? Would it be a complete nightmare?

Loads of potential. Good luck

Estate Agents usually arent very discrete, they may tell you what offer would be accepted (offer less anyway!), but they should tell you what the 2 rejected offers were.

The other two offers haven't been properly rejected yet I don't think. The EA has hinted at an acceptable level for an offer. I'll go in a few thousand below then I guess.

Probably £15-20k for the building agree not exactly the cheap option! We are the other side of county but could not resist a wave.

My friend's house had a boiler like that when they moved in in 2001. It kept going strong till they had the kitchen replaced in 2010! Ok very inefficient in comparison to a modern boiler but it solidly did the job.

It's a lovely looking house. I'd def look at taking the conservatory across the whole of the back and put the kitchen into the dining room.

I'd put a combi aga style boiler/cooker in that space. Knock through the wall to make open plan dining room/kitchen.

Lovely

Actually since the WC/utility is already an extension, it's just a case of completing the square, might not be too expensive - worth talking to a builder anyway. If you don't get carried away with expensive fittings it need not blow the bank.

Offer accepted :-).
Fingers crossed for no gazumpers.

:-)

BTW doesn't look like a doer-upper to me, especially not with that bathroom which only looks to need a new floor.

Good luck!

We recently bought a house with a very similar looking boiler! A few months later we got a plumber to come round and replace it and he nearly had heart failure - wrote out a warning notice and wrapped a load of tape around the joints then told us to get a carbon monoxide alarm. I was surprised because the vendor had a lot of paperwork and a lodger so all checks had been done regularly.

Ours is turning into bit of a money pit with things like a septic tank that the estate agent had no idea about until the survey came back!

Oh no Naturalbaby. I guess old houses like this can easily be money pits.