Any ideas of rough cost for total refurb??

Doozergirl

Skilled labour that works for £10-15 an hour isn't declaring income. I can find subcontractors to work for that, but I've never found one who works for that and is happy for me to declare it to HMRC and subtract CIS tax as I'm obliged to.

Dannytyler

doozergirl, is bang on..... defiantly wouldn't be declared,once CIS tax, overheads ... i.e. , van insurance,van maintenance,fuel, tools, training,and so on is taken out of that £10-15ph.....and the average day being 8 hours there really is very little left

ds1980

Update - £10k agreed. one company to sort it all out. started today.

new floor throughout, kitchen, damp work, new wet room (down), bathroom (up), full redecoration, new electrical sockets with hard wired smokes. fireboarding of electrical cupboard, new doors throughout. plus other odds and sods but you catch the drift.

System

ds1980 wrote: »

Update - £10k agreed. one company to sort it all out. started today.

new floor throughout, kitchen, damp work, new wet room (down), bathroom (up), full redecoration, new electrical sockets with hard wired smokes. fireboarding of electrical cupboard, new doors throughout. plus other odds and sods but you catch the drift.

Any breakdown on those items?
I've just had a refurb priced and the flooring and rewire are the best part of 10k!

martin1959

I can only dream about these figures being quoted....lol


We have bought a bungalow for our 'forever retirement' and we know it has been finished to a very high spec with all rooms being refurbished (only one bathroom), new roof, and a 5m x 5m extension with vaulted roof and loads of glass....


By the time we finish with rear garden and front garden landscaped, we will have hit about £120k.......


£700 for a kitchen? Our appliances cost over £5k although we have gone for Miele as we hope they will see us out!

benson1980

I'd also be interested in a breakdown of costs on how all of that is possible for 10k as I'm refurbishing a house at the moment. For a bathroom, wetroom and new kitchen included that sounds incredible value for money on both parts and labour

ds1980

update refurb all finished. no breakdown as i gave him a list as described and he just said he'll sort.

Included everything listed except new bath upstairs as he ran out of money! The job wasn't how id have exactly wanted it if id have been there throughout but it was more than adequate. I didn't have hardly any hassle and the new tenants are in and all finished. He was paid £10k in installments over the course of the project. We both know it has probably cost him money (time) to do it but thats not my probs. I bought him a drink at the end.

Ill try and get pics but live 200 miles away!

TheCyclingProgrammer

Very optimistic for that amount of money.

For some idea of costs, we bought our house back in March. Since then, we've done the following:

* Various general maintenance tasks, had some guttering fixed, sorted out some damp issues, minor repairs, electrical work (moved light switches, some sockets fitted), had bathroom fan installed.
* Completely refurbished our downstairs entrance hall, living room and dining room: installed fixed network cabling, 5.1 speaker cabling in the lounge, had all walls skimmed, new window cill in living room, false wall constructed around chimney to house TV cabling and wall mount, built-in alcove cabinets (made these myself), decorated (including re-painting ceilings), new decent quality laminate flooring (QuickStep) throughout, plantation shutters on living room bay window, new skirting boards and architraves, replaced internal doors with new oak veneer doors.
* Had a new composite front door fitted.
* Completely gutted and re-did the downstairs toilet/shower room.
* New combi boiler fitted, upgraded heating controls (new wireless room stat, changed most TRVs for new ones), replaced 3 of the oldest radiators.
* Had upstairs landing and stairwell plastered (skim only), walls and ceilings, and re-decorated, new skirting boards and replaced some architraves.
* Second bedroom: new loft hatch fitted, old lath and plaster ceiling boarded over and whole room skimmed, decorated, new carpet, skirting boards.
* Cleared out and boarded loft for light storage, some proper lighting installed.

All in all, I'd say we've spent approximately £25k - about 2.5x our original budget (fortunately we were given some money by relatives). This is our first house so that price does include furniture too - new oak dining table, chairs, sideboard, sofas, soft furnishings, bedroom furniture for my daughter, finishing touches throughout etc.

We tried to do as much as we could ourselves but even though I'm handy when it comes to DIY, we still needed to pay plasterers, plumbers, electricians and a carpenter.

Just to pick out some individual things for context - the shower room alone was about £4k. The new boiler, rads, Nest room stat and heating controls probably came to about £2500-3000 including labour (the guy who did our shower room did the plumbing modifications for the new rads and TRVs).

I'd estimate we spent about £1500-2000 on plastering, £1k on decorating (including labour - we did a lot ourselves but paid a decorator to do the hall, stairs, landing and downstairs woodwork), £1k on new doors, skirting, architraves and carpenter labour, maybe close to £1k on miscellaneous electrician/plumber/builder labour costs. Flooring (downstairs laminate and carpet in bedroom) around £2.5k including labour.

Hopefully this should give you an idea that things are usually a lot more expensive than you expect. For the things you want to do, I'd double your budget.

TheCyclingProgrammer

Well that will teach me to reply before reading the whole thread.

Well done on getting it all done for £10k.