How much did you spend on renovations?

[wherethecityis]

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.

I would say way more than £100k.

We are in €, but started renovating around 5 years ago, so spread out. It’s had a fair bit done, but still hve loads of old windows to replace, insulation hasn’t been done yet, cellar needs damp proof work and lots of other bits ie most bathrooms haven’t been touched.
We are on around €150k, but probably need another €50k. And the main demo work and structural fixes were done 2018-20 ie before materials increased a lot.

Roughly:
€65k - fixed east side of house which was an extension about 40 years ago. Upstairs x2 bedrooms and bathroom were gutted, new floor beams, new walls, new staircase up, bathroom, all new electrics that side and plumbing. One old patio door blocked up, new window. old shower room demo to become new hall and landing.

€20k - new 5m sliding doors and 3m front doors glass either side.

€17k - new communal heating system. Old oil demo etc. that’s new boiler and water tank and piping.

€20k - new kitchen ( plus all new plumbing, plastering and appliances) its a small kitchen, mid range

€15k - the rest of the house all rewired, replastered and painted

€5k oak flooring - fitted ourselves and sourced reduced ( was going to be triple otherwise)

Then there’s been other smaller projects and fixes over the last few years and still stuff to do. We couldn’t afford to do it all in one go. There’s been no extension in that either. It’s approximately 200m2

Oh and we added an electric car charger but that was mostly covered by government funding so didn’t cost much

The house is on the market for 475k.
But even if it was finished amazingly with top quality everything it would be worth 600k tops I reckon. So if we spent 200k we’d lose quite a lot of money if we sold. But if we only spent 100k I don’t think it would be worth 600k.

We spent £120k doing up a 1920s house that sounds similar in size, in 2020. I think materials have gone up, and there was a small amount of structural work in there, but essentially it was kitchen, bathrooms x2, wc x2, full rewire and replumb, new heating system, flooring and decorating throughout, and 2x wood burners installed.

@wherethecityis I think you have just answered your question, the house needs to be reduced for you to be happy you have not overspent. The vendors may of course refuse to which is up to them. Most thinking £100k sounds like a slim budget. Its also hugely time consuming and disruptive over quite some time. That said I am currently doing it so I think it can be worth it if you really want the end result and couldn’t get it another way. If you try to do it for less than it costs it will be even more stressful

I think we’ve probably spent between £55-£60k on renovating our 3 bed semi and that’s with DIY and shopping mainly in clearances, outlets, etc.

For that we’ve had a new: bathroom, roof, kitchen, boiler and heating system, doors downstairs and externally, reclaimed floorboards throughout downstairs plus a rewire, a lot of structural work and plastering (a lot had to go back to brick).

I would never do it again. Despite spending all that we’re still living upstairs because the builder has taken on too many jobs and I’m coming to the end of two weeks off work with the stress. The builder was meant to turn up today despite the bank holiday but he’s nowhere to be seen!

Looks doable provided you do the fiddly cosmetics like decorating yourself and are sensible about not wanting overpriced 'top of the rage' fittings- and shop around- e.g., we got some rads recently at 40% less than RRP due to Stelrad doing a special offer. Though with your budget, there's not a lot of wiggle room if you uncover any problems as you work thorough it (you usually do in older houses, but maybe not in your case).
My only reservation would be that the modern fuse box doesn't mean that the wiring is modern. And there is zero point decorating if you'll need to rewire un til you have done it. Also, do you have enough power points? That is in indication of when it might have been done too. But only an electrician can tell you what's really going on.
Rewiring a house that age may not be too awful, as in some cases in modern houses wiring can be drawn through existing trunking- though for any extra points you will have some patching to do; with modern kitchens with their induction hobs etc. you may need some heftier cabling in the kitchen. Older houses it means digging all the cables out and replastering, which really makes it job #1. Rewiring you might want to add 10-15K if it's a big house and the cables are all plastered in.