house renovation costs

elliemet23

I'm glad we aren't paying them prices jesus!!!

In my experience it depends wholly on the postcode. Tradesmen don't need to see the job to price it; they just need to know where it is. There is also a minimum for any job which is also area dependent - in mine it is £4 to £5,000.

Replaster and redecorate an average bedroom: £5,000
Relocate a water tank: £5,000
New boiler: £7,000
Level and relay the lawn: £9,000
Gut and replace a bathroom: £20,000
Replace two windows (casements only, not frames): £5,000
Build a plinth for a shed, supply and fit shed: £4,000
etc

westernpromise

Surrey_EA wrote: »

£5000 to redecorate and re-plaster a bathroom??

£20,000 to replace a bathroom???

:rotfl:

Yep. £5000 a room. For that they take the walls back to brick, replaster, repaint, refit the electrics and fit a new wooden floor. Doors are excluded. £5,000. This in the N6/N2/NW11 area.

The bathroom fittings were £11,000, the construction £19,000, and the odds and ends - relocation of burglar alarm, tile supply, etc, made up the rest.

Anyone who imagines we overpay needs to try living around where I do. I am literally stating the exact truth when I say they do not need to know what the job is, only where it is. And if anyone thinks "get someone in from a cheaper area", no, that doesn't work. The charge is based on where the job is and nobody's going to commute to London to do the job at Wolverhampton rates.

LEJC

Well that pails my £2000 for 7 internal doors into insignificance....but even with those I haggled hard and still love them!

Mojisola

westernpromise wrote: »

Level and relay the lawn: £9,000

How huge is this lawn?

westernpromise

I had 11 internal doors supplied and fitted with new door furniture and guess how much they cost? That's right - five grand. Nothing spectacular, just oak veneer on solid wood, routered to look like tongue and groove.

Some friends liked them so much they asked where we got them, and had six similar doors fitted in their own house. Go on, have a guess how much they were charged for six doors.

westernpromise

Mojisola wrote: »

How huge is this lawn?

85 feet long by about 30 wide. But you're asking the wrong question. It's not how huge is it, it's where is it?

Doozergirl

westernpromise wrote: »

Yep. £5000 a room. For that they take the walls back to brick, replaster, repaint, refit the electrics and fit a new wooden floor. Doors are excluded. £5,000. This in the N6/N2/NW11 area.

The bathroom fittings were £11,000, the construction £19,000, and the odds and ends - relocation of burglar alarm, tile supply, etc, made up the rest.

Anyone who imagines we overpay needs to try living around where I do. I am literally stating the exact truth when I say they do not need to know what the job is, only where it is. And if anyone thinks "get someone in from a cheaper area", no, that doesn't work. The charge is based on where the job is and nobody's going to commute to London to do the job at Wolverhampton rates.

Makes more sense when you give a bit more detail!

It wasn't £5k for plastering and decorating, it was £5k for a fully renovated room with wood flooring. Perfectly Plausible.

£11,000 for bathroom fittings is a high end bathroom. Not suited to the average 2 bed terrace in the North West. Your expectations are also different to what the average plumber in Wolverhampton is used to.

We work in Central London where it costs over £40 a day to park on street. I have an idea of how much things cost!

armchaireconomist

It costs as much as you're prepared to pay and/or do.


Heating system - not much room on price, do this first as it can be destructive. £1-2k?
Damp proofing - ignore the sales pitch, go looking for the cause (99/100 it's something simple and cheap, if not free)
Bathroom - how much is salvageable? How much DIY are you prepared to do? Could cost £500-5000
Kitchen - reclamation? Offers? If you haven't expensive taste you could easily do this for £1000 and get a reasonable quality, clean look (presuming you haven't got a huge kitchen)
Windows - Usual terrace style about £200 a window and circa £500 a door plus fitting. Do them yourself, FENSA is nonsense.
Decoration throughout - come on...

chappers

westernpromise wrote: »

In my experience it depends wholly on the postcode. Tradesmen don't need to see the job to price it; they just need to know where it is. There is also a minimum for any job which is also area dependent - in mine it is £4 to £5,000.

Replaster and redecorate an average bedroom: £5,000
Relocate a water tank: £5,000
New boiler: £7,000
Level and relay the lawn: £9,000
Gut and replace a bathroom: £20,000
Replace two windows (casements only, not frames): £5,000
Build a plinth for a shed, supply and fit shed: £4,000
etc

No That's what you chose to pay, a couple of years ago I worked on a flat in Cadogan square, to give you an idea the flat cost £4.3m had a 20 year lease so not mortgagable and was a pied a terre for a rich guy in Guernsey.
Despite having £20k worth of marble installed in the bathroom and the lady of the house not liking it as it was too dark so it was all ripped out and replaced, so they had money, they weren't paying those sorts of figures. The whole heating system was completely ripped out and re-installed for that price.

elliemet23

No That's what you chose to pay, a couple of years ago I worked on a flat in Cadogan square, to give you an idea the flat cost £4.3m had a 20 year lease so not mortgagable and was a pied a terre for a rich guy in Guernsey.
Despite having £20k worth of marble installed in the bathroom and the lady of the house not liking it as it was too dark so it was all ripped out and replaced, so they had money, they weren't paying those sorts of figures. The whole heating system was completely ripped out and re-installed for that price.

Totally agree... Think someones trying to have you off with them prices!