Cost of renovating this house?

RedXIII_2

Looking for a side project, but first time so tentative...

What would the realistic cost of renovating this house be?

http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=6120599

To make it liveable?

Sammy85_2

Depends what sort of standard you want.

Its got a kitchen and bathroom, so could be just the costs of a few pots of paint. However i would imagine you would want to do more, so could run into thousands.

What do you class as "liveable"?

Cannon_Fodder

£47.65.....

Doozergirl

It already has double glazing? £7000.

It's a repossession as well. Barter hard.

RedXIII_2

How do you know it's a repossession? Because it's vacant?

That 7 grand, is that a conservative estimate based on "knowing people in the trade"?

Doozergirl

It has tape all over the gas appliances. That's how I know it's a repossession.

It's not based on knowing people really but it is based on employing the people you need separately and a reasonable amount of DIY - decorating and wallpaper stripping, maybe a bit of tiling the kitchen etc. I spent about that on an almost identical house in another part of Lancashire and did have quite a lot of plastering and had to rebuild a stud wall, chase all the electrics into the walls plus hardwire in smoke alarms etc, install central heating, kitchen, new doors... I reused the existing bathroom suite but retiled. H laid laminate flooring through the whole thing and a carpenter helped him with the fiddly bits. You should have seen the state of it - we bought it from a family and it was like the husband would come home with a random piece of wood or laminate each night and they'd hammer it to a wall, the stairs or a ceiling. The house was so much bigger once we'd pulled all the wood off everything. Total lunatics.

You'll spend a fortune if you employ a 'builder' to do the lot. In my mind that house is liveable already - it isn't a major refurb. The house has central heating so it might just need the boiler upgrading maybe, might need some upgraded electrics but there's space in there for a full rewire if necessary. Strip the wallpaper yourself, cheap and cheerful bathroom and kitchen, bit of laminate or carpet and the house is done. You can get it insulated for next to nothing. Can't see the roof though but the house overall has been maintained to a half decent standard.

They're good solid houses and pretty easy to maintain. You have to keep the budget tight because at that price you always worry about spending more on it than it is worth.

poppysarah

A gas check.

It's presumable got a boiler and central heating in.

I would assume it's had people living in it recently and is safe.

Otherwise
rewire
£1500
Windows 1600 maybe
New boiler 1500
Decoration probably 1k for someone to wallpaper plus costs.
Flooring about 1000+ depending what you want.
Kitchen - at least 1200 excluding appliances.
Bathroom - probably a grand if you want nice suite and lots of tiling...

I have some good contacts if you like - I'm in Oldham too.

But it can be lived in now almost certainly. Just horrid living in a reno project.