Needs a lot of work!

louise_1981

Just in the middle of buying a house. Survey has brought up a lot of work which needs doing.

We already new it needed a new bathroom and kitchen

But now it needs...

The whole house needs new electrics quoted £2500

Builder quoted: -

needs re pointing

a lean to pulling down

the path way lowering 2 cm, so that it is below the damp course.

It needs the sarking felt replaced

a corner tiles replacing

moss removing from the tiles

replacing partition fence

Securing one double glazing window in the front room (a third screw has not been put in the middle of the window!)

replacing the cast iron guttering, as the bits holding it to the wall are rusting and coming away from the walls, which is causing cracks in the wall.

Fixing the cracks in the walls caused by above.

Builder has quoted around £8000 worth of work, which was highlighted in our survey, but has said that the price would be if each job was done individually and that certain jobs could be done by our selves or could be grouped together to save money.

certain bits I think we can do our selves E.g. pulling down the lean to. securing the window (builder actually told us how to do it!)

and quite a bit more which I can not remember off the top of my head, but I will update, when I have the quote in front of me.

We have asked that £5000 be knocked of the selling price and are waiting for a response.

But would like to know is these are reasonable prices for the jobs.

colkaz

£1600 is about the going price for the electrics.

louise_1981

thanks for that, I thought it was rather expensive, but.....

Pressleyno1

Electrics more like £1000 for materials alone, then maybe £2500 for labour !

roswell

the secret is do as much preporation work as you can and any jobs you can do yourself do them, eg lowering the path should be pretty easy take a day at the most, guttering can be done yourself as long as your ok with heights,

cracks in the wall and pointing should be done at the same time.

if the window is just a anchor fixing thsi should be a 10 min job (assuming you have a long drillbit.

baldelectrician

It really depends on what work you have done

A house with 1 light in every room will cost a lot less than a house with a bucket load of spot lights

I am starting a rewire next week and the materials will come in around the £400-£500 mark (i am not using crap materials)

1 weeks labour for me and apprentice , around £1200

so a standard rewire can be from £1500 upwards.

It depends on
1. location
2. hassle (lots of furniture, or not)
3. Flexability (timescale)
4. Amount of work (lots of stuff in kitchen etc)

Use a registered electician, and one that is busy. This is always a good sign.

andrew-b

louise_1981 wrote:

the path way lowering 2 cm, so that it is below the damp course.

It is advisable/necessary for the path to be lower than the damp proof course...but preferably much more than 2cm. Ideally there should be at least a couple of courses of brickwork showing below the damp proof course. The reason for this is that when it rains the rainwater may bounce back up the wall if it rains hard enough. If the path is above the damp proof course or there is dampness at the base of the walls internally or the path around the house is prone to flooding then yes i'd certainly get that done but if no problems exist now it may not strictly be necessary and is something you could leave until a later date - especially if your budget is limited.

Most of the path around our house (moved in this summer) is level with the damp proof course but the two courses of brickwork above the damp proof course have been painted with black bitumous paint to act as a second line of defence against damp. When my Dad did a full structural survey of the house he found no damp problems associated with this. So we're only going to lower our paths if/when we replace them or if any problems arise in the future. If my Dad saw this as a problem we would have sorted it by now. As i have mobility problems, having the paths level with the damp proof course was actually a selling point for me as it means no steps to negotiate at the doorways!

roswell wrote:

the path should be pretty easy take a day at the most

that depends alot on what sort of path it is...ours is solid concrete (not paving slabs either) which would take much longer than a day for most DIYers and is another reason for us to leave our path at the height it is for now!

Andy

robby-01

colkaz wrote:

£1600 is about the going price for the electrics.

How can you say that ?
The op gives no info about what type of house it is or what the quote is for.
£1600 might get you a very basic rewire on a 2 up 2 down terrace but you would get nothing for your money.