How much of a 'wreck' would you dare to buy?

Doozergirl

I can't resist with a thread like this. These photo weren't taken immediately, it was after we'd gotten a tree surgeon in to "find" the house for us and knocked down the outbuildings

Davesnave

moneywasternomore! wrote: »

On top of an old quarry....does look a lovely spot though (but there's bound to be a reason 16 acres is so cheap...)

It's cheap because it will be marginal land with a lot of rock & quarry waste, steep inclines etc, so difficult for anything except rough forestry, which doesn't have a quick or great payback. However it is super insulation from the neighbours and a source of free firewood!

I think the guide price is well under, but then it's Stags. Bought our house through them, though they'd rather have sold it to others. Enough said.

Beneath a strange exterior, our house isn't a wreck, but the previous owners did us a favour by adding the some hideous features, like a 25' home made conservatory and a utility/milking parlour, with plastic & tin roof sheets and windows probably rescued from a skip. Both leak, but I don't care, because we have over 5 acres of land and a 60' barn to play with, all for the price of our old semi-dee.

The land was another thing that 'needed work.' Put it this way, after several months with the brush-cutter, I hit something and discovered we had two 15' pig arks! :rotfl:

20 months on and the land is fenced, the fields are reasonably weed free, the garden is visibly productive and I have the foundations almost dug for a 42' polytunnel. In a year or two we'll tackle the house, but there's no shortage of space for the mobile home to live in while it's sorted.

newwen112

I'd hate to have a new build on an estate, might consider new if it was in the perfect location.

hazyjo

Doozergirl - do we get to see the afters?

Jx

Mazzawa

hazyjo wrote: »

Doozergirl - do we get to see the afters?

Jx

I second this!!!

Doozergirl

Go on then

EDIT: Trying to post pictures I can actually see without glasses on.

Mazzawa

That looks fantastic! If you don't mind me asking, roughly how much have the renovations cost you? I'm presuming that is a 4/5 bed house and the rest?

Doozergirl

Mazzawa wrote: »

That looks fantastic! If you don't mind me asking, roughly how much have the renovations cost you? I'm presuming that is a 4/5 bed house and the rest?

It was a 3, it's a 5 now. We added an extension which was over 100square metres (the size of a house in itself).

We managed it ourselves but to pay a builder to do it would cost comfortably in excess of £200,000. About half of that on the renovation bringing everything up to modern building regs, about half on the extension and a good five figure number just to landscape the gardens to grass and block paving:eek:

WelshNic

They both look great, nice work :beer:

Mazzawa

Still from the outside it looks fantastic, and assuming the inside is to an equally high standard it is money well spent!