I just refurb my entire house

STOCKWIRE

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

Me too.Having read some of the replies I can't believe some people think £62k is a lot for a refurb though. We spent £50k on 2 new bathrooms, new boiler and new windows.

I do !. You can buy a whole house and refurbish it for that price in Wales. But that's another story and I'm not getting involved in this tiff !.

The_Blue_Hatter

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

Me too.Having read some of the replies I can't believe some people think £62k is a lot for a refurb though. We spent £50k on 2 new bathrooms, new boiler and new windows.

Cant believe you spent £50k on 2 bathrooms, new boiler and new windows!

Doozergirl

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

Me too.Having read some of the replies I can't believe some people think £62k is a lot for a refurb though. We spent £50k on 2 new bathrooms, new boiler and new windows.

I'm not sure you believe that what you paid was cheap, either?

leveller2911

The_Blue_Hatter wrote: »

Cant believe you spent £50k on 2 bathrooms, new boiler and new windows!

I guess it depends on area and quality of materials.Ive just made new hardwood boxframe windows for a house and they alone came to £20k so I'm sure it can be done..

Leif

I've paid about £11K for a kitchen (3m x 3.5m) including appliances and about £1.5K for the plastering and electrics. That is a fair whack, and would probably be luxury in estate agent speak, but you can easily pay £50K for a kitchen e.g. Smallbone.

Still, £62K to refurbish a terraced house ... It might be nice, it might be worth it but it is a lot of money. I'm still curious to know details of the work, and the cost breakdown.

tesago

Leif wrote: »

I've paid about £11K for a kitchen (3m x 3.5m) including appliances and about £1.5K for the plastering and electrics. That is a fair whack, and would probably be luxury in estate agent speak, but you can easily pay £50K for a kitchen e.g. Smallbone.

Still, £62K to refurbish a terraced house ... It might be nice, it might be worth it but it is a lot of money. I'm still curious to know details of the work, and the cost breakdown.

For me was a little bit expensive, it is the first time when I spent a lot of money for a single project in a short time, another thing which I've seen it in a previous post here, about to post some links or to do advertising for the contractor I've use it, no way, from my point of view,I think they have enough publicity and they don't need my help to advertise them:rotfl:. Let me tell some details about my old house, in my all rooms I had wallpaper, so it was necessary to remove and to repair all cracks,new plaster on ceiling and walls, new coving, skirting, all doors replaced with fire doors,most of the pipes couldn't carry the new boiler so was necessary new plumbing in all the house,they change the old fuse board and changed some wires,they rewired the kitchen,for floor I've used laminate and porcelain tiles, and about the kitchen suite or the bathroom suites, it was nothing fancy, basic things because the old ones was very old. From my calculations now the price for the house increased with triple value that I invested for renovation, and yes, I intend to sell it:D. I could easily spent 15k for a kitchen suite if I wanted that or more, but I can't stay and explain each aspect of this subject,I think that here are many builders that write here on this forum and they probably be feel offended if I speak of other builders, I don't know, maybe they don't...never know.;)

Leif

Thanks for the details, although I do not believe your house has tripled in value. Generally run down houses, in need of modernisation but sound, sell at a discount, but not 66%, probably more like 15% taking the Alton and Farnham area as an example. I've been following sales for about 3 years, and I know what houses actually sell for as opposed to the estate agents price, so I am confident in my figures. I'm told that Petersfield is similar. No dount this is because there are a lot of people who want to buy a house, and do it up how they want it, and perhaps save a bit.

If your house has tripled in value, then you bought it at a remarkable price. I wish you luck.

In my earlier post I quoted: "Kitchen £15K including units, bathroom £5K, skirting £1K, architraves £1K, overboarding and skimming ceilings and skimming all walls in rooms, £5K, carpets £2K, doors £600, new central heating £6K. "

Those figures come from my own house apart from the architraves and skimming all rooms as I only had a few walls done, although I stripped the carpets, vinyl floor tiles, parquet floor, wallpaper and old kitchen, and I have filled small holes in the walls. I have a luxury kitchen with quartz work tops.

golfergirl28

Three short comments.......£62,000 doesn't seem excessive to me.
Secondly, though the post looks as though it could be spam the OP doesn't name the company so..........
Lastly, I do feel some people were rather harsh with comments about the poster's grammar, punctuation etc. I would imagine that the poster is not a native English speaker.
Most of us who finished reading the post understood it all despite the poor grammar.

shirlgirl2004

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm not sure you believe that what you paid was cheap, either?

Cheap? No I never said it was cheap but new wooden windows are expensive. Certified gas engineers aren't cheap either. I could have bought a cheap bath etc I didn't but I did shop around though. We put in fittings to suit the house.