Renovating a 50s Bungalow...

drummerboy10

Hello,

I'm after some help if anyone could spare a few minutes.

My girlfriend and I have recently purchased a 2 Bedroom Bunglaow (1950s) in the Brighton area. All very lovely, but needs a fair amount of work to make it look nice and liveable! I'm after some help with pricing the work and also help with regards to the Gas. the propert currently has NO gas connected. Properties within the road do have gas, so there are pipes within the road (I hope) but we need our bungalow hooked up. Does anyone know the best people to speak to with regards to doing this? I did look on the Southern Gas website which looked a possiblity. Price wise was looking at about £800 - does this sound reasonable?

Also can anyone give me rough prices for the below based on a 2 bed bungalow;

• Re-wire for the whole house
• Plastering for the whole property
• Hooking the property up with gas (as per the above)
• Building 2 rooms in the roof
• knocking down (with a structual engineer i guess) a wall - connecting the kitchen and dinning room.

Any help with the above would be great. I have a fair few mates in the trade, but like the thought of getting outsiders perspective.

Thank you in advance
Adam

smudger1964

I too live in a bungalow in the BN postcode .I have just had mine fully rewired with the addition of a extractor fan in the shower room and a small amount of work in the garage.Total cost of rewire £3500... hope this gives you some idea

Barneysmom

You're going to need a good structural engineer if you are knocking down a downstairs wall then adding the weight of upstairs rooms, so ask him to give an overall quote for his work.

GlynD

I think £800 to be hooked up to the gas main is very reasonable. I've seen quotes which are a lot higher, up to £7,000 in fact, and that was for quite a short distance. I'd break their arm off to pay £800.

phill99

• Re-wire for the whole house as above in post #2
• Plastering for the whole property Depends on what actually needs doing is it back to brick, or just a skim? Pulling down lath and plaster ceilings, or overboarding? allow from £3k
• Hooking the property up with gas (as per the above) probably more than you think and a lot more than they advertise
• Building 2 rooms in the roof its a piece of string but say £15k
• knocking down (with a structual engineer i guess) a wall - connecting the kitchen and dining room. poss £2k

jay1181

drummerboy10 wrote: »

Hello,

I'm after some help if anyone could spare a few minutes.

My girlfriend and I have recently purchased a 2 Bedroom Bunglaow (1950s) in the Brighton area. All very lovely, but needs a fair amount of work to make it look nice and liveable! I'm after some help with pricing the work and also help with regards to the Gas. the propert currently has NO gas connected. Properties within the road do have gas, so there are pipes within the road (I hope) but we need our bungalow hooked up. Does anyone know the best people to speak to with regards to doing this? I did look on the Southern Gas website which looked a possiblity. Price wise was looking at about £800 - does this sound reasonable?

Also can anyone give me rough prices for the below based on a 2 bed bungalow;

• Re-wire for the whole house
• Plastering for the whole property
• Hooking the property up with gas (as per the above)
• Building 2 rooms in the roof
• knocking down (with a structual engineer i guess) a wall - connecting the kitchen and dinning room.

Any help with the above would be great. I have a fair few mates in the trade, but like the thought of getting outsiders perspective.

Thank you in advance
Adam

Hi for £800 i would be snapping their arm off when we replaced our pipe to our current property last year it cost us over £2000 for a pipe that was 30 meters and new gas box and piping ect to back of the house and we are in the ml area in scotland :eek:

drummerboy10

Happy 2012,

Seems ages ago since i posted with my original questions and a lot has gone on since then. My girlfriend and I are all moved in the downstairs has been completed - Apart from door handles!

Firstly let me update you on the actual costs we paid for the jobs above;

Gas Installed by Gas Networks - £430 - Total bargain in the end but we did dig our own trench which saved us £300. Saving money where we can

Full Re-wire with about 18 sockets, spot lights in the kithchen and bathroom, plus tail rail and under house lighting - £2500 ish

Plastering the whole downstairs - £1350

Kithchen - £5k

Bathroom (plus showe) & Central Heating - £2500

Plumbers to install the above - £1900

Then about £1500 in other bits - Lights, Carpet, flooring etc

Then next part of the job will be to build 2 rooms upstairs with a small bathroom. Can anyone give me a rough pricing? We already have the staircase in place (made and installed by family) and we already have the beams installed.

Thanks for all your help and advice through the process.

Regards

drummerboy10

Can anyone help with the above query;

'Then next part of the job will be to build 2 rooms upstairs with a small bathroom. Can anyone give me a rough pricing? We already have the staircase in place (made and installed by family) and we already have the beams installed. Anyone provide a rough breakdown of a loft conversion.