Renovating Costs?????????

[Eveadel]

Hi

We have seen a bungalow we like but it does need alot of work on it.

I know this will differ from county to county but what do you expect to pay for:

Total rewiring
New boiler
New facsias & soffits
Double glazed front door, back door, french doors
Conservatory 13 x 10

I know if wont be exact but just need to know a rough idea before we put an offer in - thanks

 

[tracyM]

we had builders in last summer (we're moving elsewhere before they finish off this summer)

rewiring cost us £7k - it's a big house though and they also did the network cabling - slowly plastering / redecorating ourselves
central heating and boiler was £4k - dunno what the boiler was on it's own but again, it's a big house
not had fascias done yet, but I think the quote was £900
doors were £200 each unfitted (still got to fit the back door myself) - not sure about french doors
haven't a clue about conservatory, but don't forget planning permission if you'll need it

other big stuff we've had done / planning on which you might need to think about
damp proof course
roof
re-rendering / brickwork pointing

We're in North Lancashire - dirt cheap property / labour

 

[Eveadel]

Thanks for your reply TracyM.

Blimey, its expensive isnt it.

Its a 3 bed detached bungalow.

We have done a rough estimate and it comes to £32.5k to get this property up to a good standard.

Here is what we need to do:

French doors - 2000
Conservatory - 7000
Re-wiring - 4000
Facsias & soffits - 2000
Front door - 1000
Back Door - 750
Side windows - 500
Carpets - 1000
Kitchen - 7000
Bathroom - 3000
Plumbing - 1000
Plastering - 1400
Misc Building work - 1000
Boiler - 1200

How realistic do you think these estimates are?

 

[chellieboo]

Depends how much you plan to do yourselves and how much you want to pay people to do??

for example our new bathroom we want to get fitted - suite cost 1000, fitting estimates range around the 3000 mark so far...but this includes striping out old suite, plumbing, replastering and retiling walls + floor....so money could be saved by doing our own stripping out and retiling.

always budget on the high side and then you won't get any nasty surprises!

 

[tracyM]

Do you know any builders who could come with you for a second viewing? We took my uncle (retired joiner) to our new house and he gave us a rough price for materials and hours to fit out the granny flat - he also knew a bit of history about the house so we felt more confdent raising our offer if we needed to.

 

[glitzyglamgirl]

Do you know any builders who could come with you for a second viewing? We took my uncle (retired joiner) to our new house and he gave us a rough price for materials and hours to fit out the granny flat - he also knew a bit of history about the house so we felt more confdent raising our offer if we needed to.

I was going to suggest this!

We bought our house a year ago next month and so far we have refloored all of downstairs, knocked through the kitchen to create an open plan kitchen/diner, put in a completely new kitchen and decorated. So far its cost about 10k and we have upstairs to do yet including 2 new bathrooms, converting part of the front garden into a driveway and landscaping the back, but its well worth it if you can see the vision and you can afford it!!

 

[Nicky_Jones]

We have just had a new boiler, new switch thingy (which controls if the water goes to the radiators or the hot water tank) and thermostatic valves all around and that was a few pound over £2000.

Whats the plumbing quote to cover?

We had our house rewired in Malvern for ~£2500 but that was nearly 8 years ago and certainly before Part P came out which almost certainly will force the cost up. NB Ensure that whoever you get to do the wiring is certified for Part P regulation.

Other than that, they are good ROM costs to factor in when considering what to offer.

 

[KatysMummy]

We've just had a new combi boiler put in, it came to around £2500 in total. And our bathroom has just cost us about £2500 too. We are having a front door, french doors, & 3 windows for about £3000 including installation. We will probably budget around £3500 for the kitchen but we are getting a massive discount on it so you may need to look at up to double that depending on the size.

I have done a bit of research into these sort of costs as we bought this place to do up!! Feel free to PM me if you need to

 

[nicki]

We've just had an electrical survey done on the house e're buying & part of the house needs to be re-wired thye guide said to budget £4000 but I think it will be cheaper than that, hoping anyway. Bang goes my new furniture