Renovation costs - Help!

[Love_London]

I'm looking to buy a house and would ideally buy one without any work required...

However, it's proving difficult and I think I need to start thinking about how much it would cost to do some bits done (would like to avoid doing any huge project!)

Recently viewed a house which is about 1800 sq ft over 2 storey.

I think it needs;

- Downstairs new wooden floor

- Upstairs carpet

- Stairs carpet

- There is a WC on the ground floor next to an utility room but would like to convert this to a shower and a smaller utility room

- New paint all over

- New windows and doors

If I go for a modest range, very very roughly, how much do you think this will cost in total?

I'm so clueless...

Will it be roughly 5000-7000 pounds, 7000-10000, or over 10k?

Thanks for your help!

[giggirl]

Almost certainly over 10k

[jimmyraj]

It's the new windows and the plumbing for the bathroom etc that will cost you. I'd say 20k plus all in

[LondonMix]

* Cheap carpet starts at 15 psm and engineered wood floor can be 35 psm. Carpet installation is just a few hundred pounds but installing engineered wood flooring will be at least 1,500 for the space you need doing. Depending on if you need bathroom and kitchen floors doing, all in including underlays etc, 4-5k.

* Shower room including parts and installation will depend on the specifics but 1.5k wouldn't be unreasonable for adding in a shower to an existing W/C if no structural changes were needed.

* If you are willing to paint yourself, just a few hundred for materials. Hiring a professional painter to paint an entire house that size (including woodwork) would be 2-3k at least depending on if you needed ceilings done as well etc.

* Internal doors are cheap. ?100 per door plus installation costs. Reclaimed doors are even less. If you need an external door that can get expensive depending on how nice you want your door furniture to be. You can easily spend 1k on a new front door including installation but it could also be a lot more.

*Windows will be the most expensive thing. If you want double glazed timber sash windows, it will be very expensive, particularly for the bay windows. That alone could cost 15-20k for a large house if all windows need to be replaced and you have bay windows. PVC windows are much cheaper but still thousands. See if you can repair them rather than replace them which is much more cost effective (we paid 250 per window to repair our sashes) and had them draught proofed and installed shutters to improve heat retention. Unless the windows are terrible, if you love the house, you can replace these slowly over time.

Good luck!