Renovating.

rhysbowles

Hello,

I am looking to renovate a property before I move in and would welcome any guidance.

I am looking to get a new bathroom, kitchen, downstairs toilet and either folding doors or french doors installed on the back of the property.

Bathroom is small, would like to replace bath, toilet, sink, cover up any pipes showing and full re-tile, vinyl flooring and have a towel rail & shower installed.

Kitchen is medium size, whole lot needs replacing, ideally I would like integrated oven and microwave with a large ceramic hob, splash back, large cooker hood, flooring.

Downstairs toilet, is tiny and needs new toilet and sink then full re-tile and flooring.

the back of the property is around 4 meter's wide and I would like to get either folding doors installed or french doors.

I would also like to get 6 new interior doors hung.

Can anyone give average costs for the above for supply and fit or even just labour costs?

Any links to good products at a good price? e.g kitchen suites, bathroom suites, tiles, flooring.

Thanks

Doozergirl

Are you sure that's all that needs doing?

Did your survey give a clean bill of health.

It's unusual, but not unheard of to only have superficial things that have been neglected.

The price of all of these things are entirely dependent on the specification you choose. Why don't you tell us what you hope to spend - perhaps we can advise if it's realistic.

TheCyclingProgrammer

This is one of those "how long is a piece of string" type questions. As Doozergirl spends it depends what you can afford and what level of finish you want.

Full bathroom refit - probably going to cost more than you'd expect. We did a full strip out and refit of the leaking downstairs shower room when we bought out place. Gutted, pipe work changed, new shower plinth, thermostatic mixer shower, shower door, concealed cistern wall hung toilet, new basin and cupboard, towel rail, fittings, half tiled and decorated with underfloor heating. Went for mid range fittings mostly but spent extra on a good shower (Crosswater/Simpsons) and toilet (Grohe/RAK) with some cheaper fixtures and fittings elsewhere. Whole thing cost us about £4K and that was with mates rates for the plumber/fitter, a good discount on the tiles through a friend and my father in law tiling, plus some DIY decorating. For a small bathroom I'd budget for a similar amount, maybe £5k for contingency.

Kitchen - so many variables and places where you can buy cheaper and save some money and some areas you really want to spend a bit more on (appliances IMO). You could get a decent cheap kitchen fitted for around £4-6k, maybe IKEA, a midrange from about £10k all the way up to silly money for a fully hand made bespoke kitchen with premium materials and top of the range appliances (think £25-50k).

Downstairs toilet - see above, could end up being more than you think, or could just cost a grand depending on quality.

Folding or French doors - even upvc doors aren't cheap. A decent aluminium bifold of that size could easily set you back £4-5k.

Internal doors - some half decent engineered oak doors, allow for between £150-200 per door supplied and fitted with hardware, more for solid doors. Or you could get hollow core doors with cheap hardware supplied and fitted for about £100 a door.

Bottom line, assuming you went for mostly mid range throughout and tried to save money where it makes sense you might get most of the above done for around £15k, but you could easily spend twice that.

rhysbowles

The house is fine it is currently one of my grandparents buy to lets that I am going to buy off them, the tenant that lives there currently has been there for about 6 years and everything is a bit worn so I'm looking to spruce it up a bit.

We will be looking for deals and trying to save where we can. We have budgeted 15k and do one job at a time so we don't overspend.

I'm looking to design my own kitchen at wont be having many if any high cupboards on the wall so should save a bit on that in the kitchen.

brightontraveller

rhysbowles wrote: »

The house is fine it is currently one of my grandparents buy to lets that I am going to buy off them, the tenant that lives there currently has been there for about 6 years and everything is a bit worn so I'm looking to spruce it up a bit.

We will be looking for deals and trying to save where we can. We have budgeted 15k and do one job at a time so we don't overspend.

I'm looking to design my own kitchen at wont be having many if any high cupboards on the wall so should save a bit on that in the kitchen.

Source materials yourself ebay etc and do vast amount of donkey work yourself you’d be on your budget getting trades in doubtful unless materials are cheap and there desperate for work,,,, other wise 25 -35 k