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First-time house renovation

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  • Hi all,

    i'm very new to all of this but have come across this thread. I haven't got a house yet but have my eye on one which needs a lot of work doing on it, i'm just waiting for the seller to see that it wont in fact sell at the price they have it at because most people don't like a decor of a Swedish sauna/vera duckworth.

    How do i subscribe to the thread so i don't lose it??
  • SuzieSue
    SuzieSue Posts: 4,109 Forumite
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    Hi all,

    i'm very new to all of this but have come across this thread. I haven't got a house yet but have my eye on one which needs a lot of work doing on it, i'm just waiting for the seller to see that it wont in fact sell at the price they have it at because most people don't like a decor of a Swedish sauna/vera duckworth.

    How do i subscribe to the thread so i don't lose it??

    If you go to Thread Tools just down from the top of the page you can subscribe to it.
  • tea-bag
    tea-bag Posts: 548 Forumite
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  • SuzieSue wrote: »
    If you go to Thread Tools just down from the top of the page you can subscribe to it.

    Thanks so much :j
  • Snap @john175bramley! I couldn't agree more with all the advice you've given.

    I'd also add - try to make time for some 'down time' because the renovation project takes over your entire life, and even though you'll be strapped for cash, it's important to have some evenings off where you go out to the cinema or rent a film...i.e. remember to have a life too!

    Also* you won't agree on everything, so pick your battles wisely!

    And finally enjoy it! Not many people get the chance to experience such an awesome large scale renovation project! :) good luck!
  • When we sold our last house we agreed to buy an old bungalow that needed everything done to it. We hired a 20 foot container from a local container storage yard. They delivered it (for £100) on to the driveway of the house we had just sold. I used the next few weeks emptying the contents of our house into the container. I kept any really valuable stuff in the house until the day before the container was to be picked up. The container was then taken to the storage yard and placed in a safe area which had cctv and lighting. We started paying monthly rental for the storage space this included insurance. I had left a small amount of contents ( and all my tools ) in the house to enable us to live there until the sale went through. On the day of moving out I had hired a transit van for the day and moved the remaining contents to the Bungalow. We then sectioned off one part of the Bungalow and started work on the rest of it.
    After we had done all the renovation work, d!cor, carpets etc we had the container delivered to the driveway of the Bungalow (another £100 for this) and unloaded it over the next couple of weeks. Simple way of moving all your gear at your own pace. N.B. If we had not been living in the Bungalow we could have had council tax exemption on it. This would have more than paid for both deliveries and storage of the container.
  • suisidevw
    suisidevw Posts: 2,256 Forumite
    Just logged on for the first time in years, literally years to see the forum has gone back to how it was before all the changes! Wonderful and this thread was a blast from the past that really helped develop our house.

    Our renovation finished with a loft conversion adn we are now 'renovationless' other than the fact we now need to redecorate from the initial renovation!
  • spirit
    spirit Posts: 2,886 Forumite
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    Nice to hear from you Suisidevw!


    Glad to hear yours is all finished. since I did mine, I've moved a few times! Once to a place in the same town, then 2 years later to oop North where both kids had moved.


    Only stayed in W Yorks for 2 yrs and moved in April to be nearer to DD over the Pennines, to the South of Manchester.


    The last house was only 15 yrs old, but needed a new boiler on day 2, and the showers both leaked!


    this place is a1980s bungalow, very dated and the garden so overgrown that once I got the blokes in to clear, discovered it was 2/3rds bigger than I thought it was! Found allsorts in the garden from a mountain bike to an old treehouse! It took 5 big skips plus several bonfires to get rid of it all. Then I had new fencing to the left and rear.


    It had an old wooden (rotten) conservatory that I've just had replaced, new composite front door, new internal doors. kitchen revamp, some internal plastering. All new flooring/floorcoverings.


    I had vinyl put in the kitchen a few weeks ago but don't like it. Thinking of Karndean for in there. Had it put in the hallway here.


    What's everyone else been up to?
    Mortgage free as of 10/02/2015. Every brick and blade of grass belongs to meeeee. :j
  • Hi bit of advice needed. Oh and I are not strangers to general DIY, but we are about to fully renovate an old property.
    We need
    New roof.....rewire...wood burners...oil central heating...new bathroom...new kitchen..possible wooden floor replacement/ treatment etc etc...
    My question is which trades would you employ first...is there a right or wrong way I.e electrics before boiler...or boiler first....
    Really not sure in what order to employ trades
    TIA
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Hi bit of advice needed. Oh and I are not strangers to general DIY, but we are about to fully renovate an old property.
    We need
    New roof.....rewire...wood burners...oil central heating...new bathroom...new kitchen..possible wooden floor replacement/ treatment etc etc...
    My question is which trades would you employ first...is there a right or wrong way I.e electrics before boiler...or boiler first....
    Really not sure in what order to employ trades
    TIA
    Hi, welcome to the forum.

    It would be better to start your own thread, instead of hi-jacking this very old one.
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