What sort of costs should I expect for the following repairs

joe65

Can some one give me an idea, of how much it might cost me for the following work

Small 1 bedroom flat, on the ground floor
Front room, Bedroom, Hall, Kitchen, Bathroom

Treatment for dry rot, in Bathroom, and Kitchen
New Units for Bathroom, and Kitchen
New Boiler, and 5 radiators
Rewiring

evoke

I would guess at anywhere between £8.5K and £11.5K.

Dry rot treatment can be anything from a few hundred to thousands depending upon how much of the property's fabric has to be removed and then made good again. Let's go for £1500.

New units for bathroom and kitchen: £1K to £3K plus £1K labour.

New boiler + 5 radiators: £4K

Rewiring: £2K to £3K.

So, cheapest of the above is £8.5K, most expensive is £11.5K.

joe65

evoke wrote: »

I would guess at anywhere between £8.5K and £11.5K.

Dry rot treatment can be anything from a few hundred to thousands depending upon how much of the property's fabric has to be removed and then made good again. Let's go for £1500.

New units for bathroom and kitchen: £1K to £3K plus £1K labour.

New boiler + 5 radiators: £4K

Rewiring: £2K to £3K.

So, cheapest of the above is £8.5K, most expensive is £11.5K.

Thanks evoke, £15,000 was my top estimate, so I pleased that it at most might cost me £12,000+, and with say around £4000 which I can put towards the work, that just leaves £8000 which I hope will be covered by a 70% grant

Ebe_Scrooge

Just a quick word on rewiring. A lot of the cost is taken up with "donkey work", i.e. lifting floorboards, laying cables, knocking out walls, screwing in sockets, etc. You can do a lot of this yourself. Work out where you want sockets, get them sunk into the walls, run the cables from the fusebox in a ring to the sockets. Leave plenty of "spare ends" at each socket and at the fusebox, then get the electrician to make all the connections and run the necessary tests. The trouble with getting him / her to do the whole job is, you're paying a skilled tradesman to wield a hammer, chisel and crowbar, which anyone can do. It's hard work, but could save you a fair wedge of cash. Have a word with your electrician and see how much the difference in price would be.

< stands back and waits to be flamed >

evoke

^ You would fall foul of Building Control if you did the wiring yourself! Plus, any competent, registered electrician wouldn't issue a safety certificate for wiring that a non-qualified person had done.

Ebe_Scrooge

evoke wrote: »

^ You would fall foul of Building Control if you did the wiring yourself! Plus, any competent, registered electrician wouldn't issue a safety certificate for wiring that a non-qualified person had done.

Apologies, showing my age here. Many moons ago, when I rewired my house, this was the approach I took. The electricity board came round, put 10,000 volts through the circuits to test for leakage, then connected up the meter tails - apparently if the wiring could take 10KV, then 240v was going to be fine. This was *rather* a long time ago, though !!