How much did you spend on renovations?

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I know there so many variables but I’m just after an idea of what you spent if you recently renovated a property.
For context - this is a 6 bedroom, 2 bathroom house. 3 reception rooms, large hallway and landings, big kitchen and utility. It needs new flooring and decoration throughout, new bathrooms and fitting, same with kitchen and utility. New boiler, new radiators, then a lot of smaller things like new internal doors (15 of them), new front door, staircase needs redoing (maybe replacing completely), new fence/gate.
Wiring seems to be ok. But I have no idea of the condition of the walls underneath the thick old paper, so there might be a huge chunk of plastering needed too.
Just trying to figure out roughly how much I might need and if it’s even affordable.

in the current market, you might just get it! fingers crossed!

I’m up to 250k and only about half done, I’ve so far had :- a 6 ft extension ( we had a weird 6 ft bit of land that was useless so turned it into a flat roof so we could have a balcony) new kitchen, new utility room, new down stairs loo, new bathroom suite, new en-suite and dressing room created, new electrics downstairs, plumbing, two sets of bi-fold doors , electric gate , new balcony, internal walls moved about to create new rooms, plaster and paint for those new rooms, new internal doors, a media wall, new ( temporary) carpets throughout, extended driveway ( but not dressed yet), new sash windows and a new front door created

still to do :- block up old front door, remove, replace and relocate staircase, upstairs electrics, change the wall layout upstairs and attic to make way for new staircase, replaster and decorate all upstairs rooms, dress the driveway and knock down current garage and build new, new internal doors upstairs, attic conversion and then redo the render and new roof! Phew!!!!!!

good luck! Our house is two cottages knocked into one which made it a 4 bed detached cottage (but it was done badly) so we are having to redo absolutely everything, and it will be 5 bed cottage afterwards ( if I’m still alive 😆)

Sorry if this has already been said, but if you're getting rid of old carpets, so long as they're just old and not actually damaged you can donate them to charities that help people leaving care etc furnish their first homes. Saves you the skip cost and helps out people that couldn't possibly afford new carpets on their own.

I had no idea about that @bloodyfootprint!
Though I’d probably have trouble even recarpeting in the first place as DD1 absolutely loves the ~50 year old green and orange floral print carpet

@Ineedwinenow I can see why you need wine! That does sound like so much more than this property needs. And when things are done badly it costs even more than if you’d just done them yourself in the first place! I’m sure it will be amazing when it’s finally done though

@tt9 this is what I’m hoping. The estate agent even said multiple times it’s a falling market and also let slip when we viewed that several people had cancelled their viewings

after realizing a couple of things about the property so I don’t think they have as much interest as they expected.

where in the country are you?

More than you think! DH just build a fence and gate himself for the garden and 6 foot cost £150 in wood! Materials have sky rocketed.

Can't understand these low costs. Ours will cost about £400k - we are going out the side return but other than that there isn't much building.

@PreferQuietlife The house is in Wales

@Sengah are you putting in the best of everything? I know things have gone up but the entire rebuild cost of my current 4 bed house is less than that!

@pompomdaisy Yeah, I know material costs have gone up so much and that has a knock on effect on so many things. It’s not really the best time to be doing something like this

Not London or big city here. Late 50s house. £100k is full cost for this inc vat and labor/fitting/ waste removal

Removal of a load bearing wall and stud wall
New kitchen and appliances
Refit main bathroom
Install new shower room ground floor
New staircase and banisters
New kitchen and bathroom windows
New internal doors (3)
New rads
Blinds
Stair carpet
Flooring downstairs
Electrics/lighting
Tiles
Plastering
Painting/decorating
Insulating outside walls
Move gas meter outside (older house)
And 10k contingency fund.

I think that's reasonable given the cost of labor and materials these days but I hope so!

Thanks! This is just a bit more work than we’d need so I do think 100k wouldn’t be far off.

We are renovating (Scotland) and have done a few of these jobs recently. Replaced kitchen and utility and new window put in (same size) this was £11k Wren kitchens, fitted by a local joiner. Painting and flooring was a further £1200.

New main bathroom £2k total- Cooke and Lewis suite with separate shower and bath fitted by local plumber. Tiling was about £800 on top.

Boiler replacement new Bosch boiler fitted by local plumber £2400 with Hive system added.

5 bedroom detached house.

Hope this helps 👍

That seems amazingly cheap!
I would have though a Wren kitchen/utility would cost way more than that.
I suppose if you shop around a lot you could potentially do some parts much cheaper, leaving more for those that inevitably go over budget.
Comparatively cheap labor would definitely help as well though!

Units with appliances £7800 from Wren this included an island with storage. Fitting was £2300 (electrics included) took 4 days and window was £900 including fitting. Our utility is small but the kitchen is 11ft by 12ft open to a family room. Just to give you an idea. We went to B&Q first for a quote and plan then took that to Wren for a comparison. B&Q was only £1k cheaper for the units/appliances. Good luck and shop around!

When we got our kitchen fitted in our current property, both B&Q and Wren were so expensive. But a lot will depend on things like style of cupboards you choose, and whether you have pull out parts, or more pan drawers instead of normal cupboards. We were a bit stupid with individual things we chose last time because we didn’t think we’d be moving and I just got everything I wanted without considering price or whether there was a cheaper option.
The kitchen in the reno house is ~15ft square and the utility is 14ft x 10ft so I think there would be the potential to spend a huge sum if you weren’t careful.

Whatever you think it will cost, double it. However long you think it will take, treble it

Just a guess, but 100 to 200K. That is a lot of work. I have a small kitchen 15 years ago it was 12K. A large kitchen in a large house could be 40K bathrooms 10K each. You could take your measurements to a shop and get a plan made to get a rough idea. Flooring whole house would be a fortune.

While the kitchen is big, there wouldn’t be masses more worktop or units than we have in our current one. Our current one was 13k for all units and appliances.
We’d need to do the utility as well, but then there are some expensive features in our current kitchen that we wouldn’t bother with in a new one.
It would also just be a case of removing things and putting new units in exactly the same place, no moving of plumbing or anything which will keep the cost a bit lower.

I think I’d quadruple both the cost and time to be fair

I've no pull out parts. Mid range units. We have a pan drawer and built in fridge freezer, wine cooler, oven with air fryer built in and dishwasher. I've added an image so you can see the standard. It's not luxury but it's nice and modern and everything still perfect 1 year on 👍

10 years ago we did up a 1920s 3 bed semi. It was vacant at the time. New roof, boiler and central heating. Kitchen extension, new kitchen, new bathrooms (3), walls skimmed, all decorated, decking built outside new kitchen. Rewired. Probably other stuff I have forgotten. Outside not touched. It was the best part of £180,000, and we didn't have top end everything, by any means!

I think that looks lovely!!!
From past experience we’d limit pull out parts. We have lots of pan drawers but honestly I don’t find them any better than a normal cupboard but they’re 4 times more expensive. We’ve got a corner pull out one too and things fall off and it just annoys me. We’ve got a normal corner one on the other side and I prefer that one.
We’ve got a pull out larder which I do love but for how much it cost I’m not sure it would be worth putting one in again.

And if it cost 180k 10 years ago the cost would be so much more now!
But without things like an extension and new roof, and with only 2 bathrooms, maybe the price translates roughly to what we were thinking.
I think we’d aim to do all decoration ourselves. Though then you have to accept it will take years to get it all complete and I don’t particularly want that either

We also didn't buy all the appliances from Wren-we compared online for similar amd saved hundreds. I still spent what I mentioned before but should have said at the time to check for cheaper alternatives and order separately! Some of their prices were good though for example we couldn't find a better oven cheaper but the dishwasher was half the price from AO.com for the same thing but cheaper brand. Something to consider. I definitely think your budget is do-able!

This is an impossible question to ask. What's the house worth, as that will reflect the quality of finish you're going for. I'd say £100k if you yo cheapnon kitchen and bathroom abd do a lot yourselves. £200k if you're paying for better quality workmanship and fittings