Ideas to add value to this house

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

What's wrong with the advertised layout?
Unless we see a floorplan, to scale, it's difficult to make reasonable suggestions.

A bedroom with a shower in it that is too small for a bed; current owners have a cot in there.

truman_sparks

So the markets in a mess and an amatuer invester wants to have a play in it. or have i got the wrong end of the stick?

wear your armbands.

Doozergirl

Bet you're really glad you asked! :rolleyes:

I need to get my head around the layout but it's devalued by the sheer number of bedrooms. Knocking walls might help regardless of your layout. It looks like it should be a three/four bed to me, one ensuite.

EDIT: My vote is to turn small bathroom into ensuite for small bedroom; ripping out the silly ensuite to make the room bigger. (if space allows knock an alcove/study area through from existing big room/bathroom). Turn box room upstairs into family bathroom if the position of the soil stack will allow. Makes it flexible space, 3 or 4 bedrooms; 2 or 3 of which are doubles. Most people would have ensuite than study and it will suit the possible 4 bed layout better.

Have a look for layouts of new build three storey town houses. The possibilities are infininite

Kez100

You could turn it into a corner shop!

truman_sparks

Doozergirl wrote: »

Bet you're really glad you asked! :rolleyes:

just remind me, has the name of this website been changed to;

"money draining expert".

Personally, i dont see how not questioning the op at this time is in any way helpfull. Nice and pleasant maybe, but not helpfull.


Lets be honest, only the serious and experienced players are still investing. If you need to ask for help, your not one of them!

If the op chooses to ignore my posts so be it. But i wont egg them on when i think they could lose their shirt and more.

TS

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Bet you're really glad you asked! :rolleyes:

I need to get my head around the layout but it's devalued by the sheer number of bedrooms. Knocking walls might help regardless of your layout. It looks like it should be a three/four bed to me, one ensuite.

EDIT: My vote is to turn small bathroom into ensuite for small bedroom; ripping out the silly ensuite to make the room bigger. (if space allows knock an alcove/study area through from existing big room/bathroom). Turn box room upstairs into family bathroom if the position of the soil stack will allow. Makes it flexible space, 3 or 4 bedrooms; 2 or 3 of which are doubles. Most people would have ensuite than study and it will suit the possible 4 bed layout better.

Have a look for layouts of new build three storey town houses. The possibilities are infininite

Originally the house had garage and kitchen downstairs, lounge, bathroom and small bed on middle floor and 3 beds on top floor.

Now the downstairs works as kitchen/diner + lounge, decent kitchen as well. The middle floor has the main bedroom on one side of the hall and the too small bathroom and too small ensuite cot room on the other. The top floor has the large bed, small bed and study. The study is on top of the bathroom so the soil stack is in the right place but I don't know the costs of bringing water upto the top floor.

If it is possible to put a second bathroom in on the top floor then the middle and top floors could both be large bed, small bed & a bathroom, which would work.

Thanks doozergirl.

Doozergirl

We've just moved soil stack stuff around and moved the boiler which involved new pipes etc being moved around, floorboards up etc and it cost £750 in labour plus about £300 in materials. Just simply plumbing in a bathroom suite I'd hope to pay about £500. You may need to add a bit more for your location and the fact that our plumber does seem to come out cheap

Doozergirl

truman_sparks wrote: »

So the markets in a mess and an amatuer invester wants to have a play in it. or have i got the wrong end of the stick?

wear your armbands.

I think you'll find she's an amateur who knows an awful lot about buying sand selling property and also appears level headed from her many, many posts on the board. She asked for advice on layout, not what you thought of her buying a house. If she thinks it might be worth the price in her head then I'm sure she's thought about it and is obviously still thinking it through.

I can give her the credit of calculating her own risks. Go and judge someone else. Somewhere else.

silvercar

Are there no extra problems by adding a bathroom a whole floor higher than the current one?

truman_sparks

doozer,

She knows an awfull lot but needs to ask advise on layout, ok. :rolleyes:
Fine, good luck to her, not my beef.

And i dont need to judge, op's posts give the information on which i form my opinion before posting.

You keep "helping her". :rotfl:

p.s I suggest if its a private thread and only ar5e licking allowed, say so at the top.