How much to completely renovate?

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I am so sick of our house. We have lived here for over 20 years and it needs so much done to it. We are building a new house but it won’t be complete for at least 18 months, at which point we will sell this one.

Am I mad to think we should just move out for a month or two and get this one done up?

It needs:

• Plumbing for radiators replaced in half the house
• New windows and doors (14 windows and 2 doors)
• Velux windows replaced (4 medium sized)
• timber cladding either painted or replaced (about 15 square meters on 1st floor)
• several smaller areas replastered/skimmed (but plumbing replacement means there will be a lot more)
• new clicklock flooring in 2 rooms
• new carpets in 4 rooms, landing and stairs
• kitchen replaced
• staircase banister replaced
• everything painted/decorated (10 rooms plus hallways)

And we would need to move out while it was done.

Am I mad in thinking we should do it? Is it likely to be something that would improve the value of the house?

I can’t even begin to think what the budget should be. There is very little scope for doing things ourself apart from the kitchen.

I think you need to get an estate agent round and get their advice. We are renovating our house and won’t make back the money we are spending - unless we sell in more than 5 years.

But your house might sell more quickly if it was freshly done up.

Wow, it sounds intense to be building a house and then contemplating doing yours up. I think you are crackers to even be thinking of it!

I think live with it and then sell up as a project. That list of jobs is huge and includes big ticket items such as the kitchen.

We're in the process of similar but we also converted the loft and made a small side return extension. All in it's looking like £250k. Would have been about £70k less I think without the extension / lc with another £10k or so on architect, party wall and planning which you may not need. Our kitchen was pretty high spec.
Impossible to live in - our architect said most builders would charge a premium if you wanted to as it makes the work less efficient for them - so prob very little cost difference in renting.

The estate agent is a good idea.

I suspect there is some work that we will have to do (plumbing and windows), but also some that probably wouldn’t recoup the money spent.

I am just sick of living in a broken house.