DIY- order of jobs!

diydove · 9 September 2008 at 3:10PM

Hi

I have just a bought a 3bed house in London and have to get the following jobs done:

rewiring whole house
central heating installed (possibly skirting heating, any suggetions?) in whole house
get rid of damp in various areas downstairs
repair natural slate roof (possibly adding dorma for later conversion) and replace guttering
replace wall ties in gable wall

I am new to all this, ftb etc and have no idea what order these jobs should be done in - i'm guessing some can be done in parallel but can anyone give me some advice please?...also rough estimates would be handy...have some quotes but just wanna see if they are along the right prices...

Thanks

diydove

Thanks

27col · 9 September 2008 at 8:05PM

I hope that you got the house cheap. To get that lot done will cost a fortune.Can we assume that you are not intending to live there in the near future. I would have thought that the structural stuff needs to be done first. Central heating and electrics can be done close together as they require the floors up. I doubt whether the two trades could work at the same time inside, as they would be in each others way. Can't really help with costs, all jobs are different. Just prepare to take some deep breaths when you get the quotes for that lot!!

diydove · 10 September 2008 at 12:57PM

hi 27col,

Thanks for reply. Yes we got it fairly cheap and know its going to be quite pricey to get everything done but we have an OK budget to work with...

I was just making sure that we do things with correctly, with minimal disruption and that we don't do things twice if we dont have to ie lifting the floors once then tidying up then having to lift them again as you said!

We are lucky that we dont have to move in straight away so have time to do it all so its not as bad as it seems (I hope!)

Mutton_Geoff · 10 September 2008 at 1:57PM

1. Fix roof, this elimates worsening of any damp issues inside. Dormer may cause substantial delay for planning application/approval.
2. Fix damp (could be major removal of plaster/floorboards). Leave floor up.
3. Replace wall ties.
4. Rewire (lots of chasing/drilling, harder to do if sparky has to work around new pipework). Leave floor up.
5. Install CH.

If you don't have the experience to project manage this, you may need to get someone to help rather than just get 5 quotes and have different trades tripping over each other or having to redo something already just done (at added cost).

27col · 10 September 2008 at 4:23PM

You should leave any boards loose that have been lifted for which ever job has been done first, i.e. electrics or central heating. But it does not follow that the next trade will require exactly the same boards lifting.
Perhaps you should get the heating done first and then the electrics. The electrician will probably have a bit more flexibility about where the wires go, than the heating engineer. It is probably six of one and half a dozen of the other. Both trades will attempt to go where boards have already been lifted if they can.
Best of luck with it all.

DIY- order of jobs!

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