Doors and Windows

[OnTheMove2022]

We are considering offering on a property that is a complete "doer upper". It's currently empty (think the elderly owner has passed away) and it obviously hasn't been touched in YEARS! However, it has bags of potential.

At the back of the house is the livingroom and a utility room with the door that leads to the garden. If we bought the property we'd like to change the utility room into a bathroom which would mean partially bricking up the door and creating a window. We'd then change the large living room window into patio doors.

Is there anyone who has done either of these things and could give me a rough idea of the cost involved? We wouldn't be widening the current openings.

Thanks in advance.

We're doing this at the moment. We are knocking out a dining room window and changing to doors, and blocking up the back door to fit a window instead. No change to the widths so lintels already in place will work.

We bought a (brand new) set of French doors via FB marketplace for £150. The new window is coming from a local glazing firm and the cost for that plus fitting both for us for just over £700 incl VAT. My husband will knock the wall out ready for the doors to be fitted and we have a brickie friend who will block up the doorway for us.

Thanks very much for that! I hadn't considered the likes of FB marketplace for the doors 👍🏼