Redecorating costs for 60s townhouse?

[Rooster2021]

Hi there

I have sent a few quotes to local companies but i'm awaiting site visits.

We are buying a 1960s townhouse (you know the kind, three story, garage on the ground floor). The house has been lived in by one owner its whole life since it was bought. The house is dated and needs a lot of love.

From what I can see, it needs walls (wall paper stripped, painted, re plastered), floors (carpet ripped up, replacement flooring or treating wooden floorboards underneath), ceilings (re plastering, painting), wardrobes ripped out, re tiling in some areas, general fixing of worn walls / cupboards.

The house is empty at the moment. It comprises:

ground floor - large entrance way, bedroom/study room, garage and storage room (both the garage and the store room can be left until future projects as they are derelict), staircase

first floor - kitchen, dining room, hallway, toilet, living room, stairwell

second floor - stairwell, hallway, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (one small en suite)

There is also a garden that will need a little love, trimming of trees and grass.

Can anyone help with an estimate? I understand it depends on quality - eg if we want good flooring ect, but what have people paid for a whole house before?

Note - the kitchens and bathrooms, and garage and store room will be set aside for 'future projects' as we know these will be expensive. But we still want to make it 'livable' and clean/nice before w ecan afford to do that.

We are also budgeting a rewire, which will be between 7 and 10k!

Thanks :)

What's the insulation like? If you are replastering it might be worth insulating the walls internally at the same time.
In terms of cost we need to know which bit of the country you are in roughly.

We had some largish rooms (5m by 5m by 3m) replastered about 2 years ago in the north and it was £800 per room.

Hi there, we are in Beckenham, Bromley (South East London, BR post code) - so London prices! Eeek!
How much extra was the insulation? We are doing a rewire too...

We didn't need to insulate in the end because the walls are crazy thick. Sounds like you are basically doing a full renovation except for the kitchen and bathroom. I would guess £100,000ish, near London, maybe more, unless you can do some of the work yourself. That includes the cost of the rewire too though.

I know what sounds a lot but when you add up the number of rooms and the cost of materials and then the cost of tradespeople then
We are up north so maybe £1000 per room for plastering in London, then the same again for painting and again for flooring.

Tall trees cost £1000 to trim up north so could be loads more in London then you will probably need skips for garden clearance or a wood chipper. Skips are really expensive now too like maybe £500 and you will need a few for the garden and house.