Buying A House To Do Up

tocra

Hi,
Looking for a bit of advice please found a nice house with a super garden nice and large but inside it needs a lot of work, I think its worth taking on as a project but i would like to verify with someone the costs to do what i sm thinking of before i proceed any further to see if its worthwhile.

So house i am buying has a separate kitchen utility room and garage attached into the back of the kitchen as an integrated room.

I want to merge all these into on one large kitchen and breakfast room, from what i can see the garage is of solid brick construction so i would hope there is not much to do there.

Anyway what is the best way to get a ball park figure for :
i) Knocking through an existing wall between the utility room
ii) Knocking through to the garage and re-plastering all.
iii) Installing new kitchen (Ikea design)

As we haven't purchased this house yet how is best to find out the amounts i am looking at to do this. Not exact quotes ballpark is good the moment.

Can you get an architect sent round to compile up a rough statement of works and tell u how much to get done.

I am also looking at a loft conversion for which i was going to put aside around circa 35k does that sound right ?

Thanks in advance for any information,

RAS

Depends on whether the garage is built and insulated to the standard required for residential accomodation?

have you spoken to the local Building Control?