Cost of house renovation ??

wifefaefife

Hi,

A family member is looking to buy a 2 bed semi bungalow (2 bedrooms, livingroom, kitchen and bathroom) which needs complete renovation. I think his guestimate costings are unrealistic. Can you help me work out a better rough costings for him?

I think it needs (only viewed online, actual viewing booked)

Gas supply installed ( currently storage heaters )
new boiler and radiators for 5 rooms
rewired
new kitchen (kitchen size 3.05m x 2.44m)
new bathroom (with bath and over bath shower)
new internal doors and skirtings
possible plastering
redecorating every room
new flooring in every room

I think that is everything but I've probably forgotten something

Tia

AlexMac

I did excactly that spec; rewire/new gas supply/replumb & new CH/create kitchen/create-relocate 2 new bathrooms/lino & carpet throughout... on a wreck/shell 3-bedder - minus the doors (but only £20-50 each) plus a couple of relocated/new internal stud partition walls for £20k. That was 4 years back, in a cheap part of Kent where builders' prices were v.low. Did quite a lot of decorating myself so add £2-3K. Get fixed price quotes

wifefaefife

AlexMac wrote: »

I did excactly that spec; rewire/new gas supply/replumb & new CH/create kitchen/create-relocate 2 new bathrooms/lino & carpet throughout... on a wreck/shell 3-bedder - minus the doors (but only £20-50 each) plus a couple of relocated/new internal stud partition walls for £20k. That was 4 years back, in a cheap part of Kent where builders' prices were v.low. Did quite a lot of decorating myself so add £2-3K. Get fixed price quotes

Thanks. £20k was the figure I was thinking. Hopefully get a better idea of what needs done at viewing, hopefully not more than the photos suggest.

srcandas

We did this over the last 2 years. We spent £34000 doing nothing ourselves.

We didn't penny pinch so solid wood kitchen surfaces, had downstairs celings replastered, partition walls replaced and retiled in bathroom, new combi in new location, bath replaced with shower, carpets everywhere except kitchen, wall removed, all new appliances, new electrics, etc

It was hard work getting the budget set up but in the end was swings and roundabouts and came in more or less as expected.

I think had we bought cheaper we could have reduced it by £7500.

So agreeing with AlecMac as a guide.

Out of interest we used: a builder, an electrician, a plumber to change rads upstairs, bathroom guy, door specialists to hang 5 all wood doors

HTH