How much for new carpets and decorating throughout?

[Pepperwand]

I know this is one of those how long is a piece of string type questions but thought it worth an ask anyway.

We've seen a house we would like to offer on but it needs everything doing to it cosmetically. Would probably leave the kitchen and bathrooms as they'd all need ripping out and replacing eventually but the whole house needs new flooring, wallpaper stripping etc. In an ideal world we'd want to get tradesmen in to replace all the carpets , strip wallpaper and paint but it's a four bedroom house. I know it's going to be thousands but how many thousand do you reckon?

The house is on at 'offers in excess of' which I hate so trying to figure out what sort of price we could offer taking into account the amount of work. Worst case we could move in and do it up slowly but with two very young children there's great appeal in having it all done for us!

We need at least some indication of the size of the house? Do you have a floor plan? Type of house? Terraced ? Detached? No of rooms, floors etc?

Doing the stripping your self of carpets and wall paper will save a significant amount.
As above, more info needed.

Think it depends on where you live as well as the type of property and number of rooms: I was quoted £1400 for redecorating one room in our 3-bed mid-terrace (living/dining room), but friends living elsewhere in the country paid £2000 to redecorate their entire 4 bedroom semi-detached house.

Contact a local contractor and ask for a rough ballpark figure if I were you.

I had a quote for ripping up all old carpets, stripping all old wallpaper (walls and ceilings!!) and replastering all walls and ceilings for £2700. It's a three bed house in West Midlands.

We recarpeted a four bed, two reception house for £2,200, that included taking up and disposing of the old carpet, underlay and fitting. The company is local to us but works all over the country. I can dm you details if you like.

Decorating depends on who you choose and how long you’re prepared for it to take. A one man band will be cheaper but obviously take longer.

If it's wallpapered it might need reskimming or even replastering if the property 1930s or Victorian.
You'd need to budget for not living in it during the period of redecoration too, so alternative property / storage costs.
The house we bought needed this and we have done it ourselves room by room to save money.
Stripping, filling, lining, and painting a medium size room (inc wooden window frame) takes one of us 2 weeks and costs max £150 for paint and materials.
We are getting wool carpets in the bedrooms from roll ends, bought own underlay, total cost £500 including fitting.

That's 2 weeks of DIY around usual work etc, not full time. Could do it in several days if that is all you're doing.

We did exactly this with our house, also 4 bedroom.

We had paper stripped in lounge, dining room, hallway, up the stairway and upstairs landing. Walls in good condition underneath so no skimming required thankfully. We had it painted throughout. The stripping and decorating took 3 days. I was heavily pregnant so we probably paid a premium for the pressing timescale. We also ripped up all the flooring throughout, carpeted the stairs, 4 bedrooms and landing. Had hard flooring laid downstairs and LV tiles in kitchen and utility.

Cost us just over £9k.

Floorplan attached. We'd probably leave the dining room as want to open up the kitchen eventually.

One thing worth bearing in mind is that while it'll be great to move into a newly decorated house, you'll undoubtedly only know which colours/finishes suit the space and the light etc after being there for some time. If you want it all done first for ease then do it all very neutral, but you might want to change it again sooner than you think.
Are you sure no heating/plumbing or electrical work is required ?

And remember it will have been priced to reflect the work needed.

I'd budget £1k per room for additional plug sockets, stripping, skimming, painting/ wallpaper, new floors, curtain rails/ poles and new light fixtures. Could be cheaper especially if you do it yourself. Remember to count hall/ stairs landing.

I'm not positive no plumbing or electrics would be needed @TiddleTaddleTat but it's not an old house, built 1980s but very outdated decor..... terracotta stripy wallpaper, dark bottle green carpets that sort of thing.

@Pepperwand Ahh, hang on to the decor and it'll be back in fashion before you know it!
Hopefully it being a recent bill the electrics and plastering will be OK . Still... however much you budget, it'll always cost more than you expect... so try and leave a nice chunk spare if you can. Or move in and do it room by room yourselves (satisfying, but exhausting, boring, frustrating and slow!)

That sounds like our house when we moved in Pepperwand! I can’t help much because we did a lot ourselves, stripping the wallpaper and emulsioning. In fact, in two rooms I just painted the patterned wallpaper because even though it was absolutely not to my taste, the paper was very good quality. This was about 20 years ago. Money was very tight so we had carpets that were not super cheap but were decent off cuts - went to Carpetright and did the whole house that way - just spent more on the stairs and landing.
We are currently having lots of building work done and two bedroom carpets (rooms are about 3m x 4m) with underlay have cost just under £1000. These are replacing the carpets that went down nearly two decades ago so they have lasted pretty well.

@TiddleTaddleTat

That's 2 weeks of DIY around usual work etc, not full time. Could do it in several days if that is all you're doing.

A whole house? Not properly.

@PickAChew god no! That's per room for us. To be fair we are pretty slow, but that's around work.

Phew!

Have not yet had my house repainted (ex DP is a painter and decorator so will only cost me for paint) colours all neutral but needs doing. I bought 4 bed detached looks similar to above floor plan, 4 double bedrooms. Replaced all downstairs carpets with Kardean, hallway, lounge, big kitchen diner, utility room 2 years ago was £4700. Replaced upstairs bedrooms and stairs with carpet was £1800, downstairs loo, family bathroom and en-suite just had Lino type floor. All from local company far better quality than what I found from big chain stores and better value.