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Rough Cost of House Renovation?

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houserenov · 21/04/2025 18:34

Hi all, myself and my partner have lived in South Manchester (Stockport area) for a couple of years now and we’ve been putting off our renovation but would like to get cracking. We live in a 4 bedroom (2 large doubles, 1 double, 1 box room) Edwardian semi detached with 1 bathroom, downstairs toilet, large hallway, 2 reception rooms, kitchen. In total it’s about 1500sq ft.

Just wondering what people are expecting roughly on renovation costs?

We’d be looking to refresh everything, including full re-wire, new kitchen, new bathroom, new flooring throughout, some re-plastering, update heating system with new radiators (possibly new boiler etc.). Nothing structural nor any need to change the roof, just a full top to bottom renovation.

Thanks all for your help!

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HouseofDreams · 21/04/2025 21:41

You’d be better just making a list of everything you want to do and get some quotes in.

no one here will be able to know whether you want to spend 5k or 50k on a new kitchen, how large the rooms are for plastering/flooring etc.

MysteriousFalafel · 21/04/2025 21:48

I’m in the north west too and I’d think between £50,000 and £70,000 for a top to bottom job. Edwardian houses often have some surprises hidden beneath layers and years of work being done. We’ve done a top to bottom 1930s renovation and spent roughly the following:
Windows and new front door £6,500
New roof £6,000
New render £8,500
Rewire £5,500
New bathroom £4,000 but we’ve done it ourselves so more if you need to get someone in. More like £7,000.
Replastering - this has been done bit by bit so hard to put an overall price on. We did our own plaster boarding to save money. Around £500 a room for a bigger room.
We have an Ikea kitchen so it’s a lot cheaper but I’d budget around £10,000 - £15,000 for your kitchen depending on the spec you want.
New boiler £3,500
Garden stuff - patio, new fencing, turf £5,000

We have also put an extension on but that was before everything pretty much doubled in price. Ours is a 3 bed semi with a kitchen extension.

Ilikewinter · 21/04/2025 21:57

£100k and lifetime of stress.

GoldenAnnie · 07/06/2025 19:27

MysteriousFalafel · 21/04/2025 21:48

I’m in the north west too and I’d think between £50,000 and £70,000 for a top to bottom job. Edwardian houses often have some surprises hidden beneath layers and years of work being done. We’ve done a top to bottom 1930s renovation and spent roughly the following:
Windows and new front door £6,500
New roof £6,000
New render £8,500
Rewire £5,500
New bathroom £4,000 but we’ve done it ourselves so more if you need to get someone in. More like £7,000.
Replastering - this has been done bit by bit so hard to put an overall price on. We did our own plaster boarding to save money. Around £500 a room for a bigger room.
We have an Ikea kitchen so it’s a lot cheaper but I’d budget around £10,000 - £15,000 for your kitchen depending on the spec you want.
New boiler £3,500
Garden stuff - patio, new fencing, turf £5,000

We have also put an extension on but that was before everything pretty much doubled in price. Ours is a 3 bed semi with a kitchen extension.

We used the online calculator initially, then invited the team to provide a more accurate quote, it turned out to be very close to what was shown online: bathroom reno cost calculator As for Kitchen reno - it’s impossible to give you accurate pricing - our with island installation and solid wood fronts: supplied and fitted around 15k

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