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We're currently debating what to do with our living situation while we get our house done up.
Pretty much everything needs doing - its habitable, just very out of date.
Original plan was to tackle jobs one at a time, and stay living in the property while the jobs take place, spreading out the disruption (and costs!), but the amount of extra cost going this way is going to be pretty high, and we both WFH at the moment (even post Covid it's unlikely we will go back to office more than 2 days a week). I'm also worried that certain jobs could end up needing attention a couple of times - for example we need a full rewire (it's largely original, with some surface mounted additions), major works to bathrooms and kitchen will need further electrical work - so makes sense to do all at once...
House is an ex council 3 bed semi built in late 50's of brick construction and is structurally sound. It has never had any work done to it other than the addition of a small UPVC conservatory, and double glazing.
So now we're thinking about going with the big bang approach and moving out to rented, we have a budget of about 100K and are looking to do:
- Ground floor rear extension full width (2 - 3 metres deep), will remove conservatory.
- New kitchen at back of house, open plan to lounge/dining
- Existing kitchen to become utility room + downstairs bathroom
- New upstairs main bathroom
Other bits:
- Rewire
- New internal and external doors, and frames
- New flooring for all of downstairs, plus stairs, landing and main bathroom.
- Strip and plaster everything but the 3 bedrooms
- Boilers new - but the pipes and radiators need attention, not sure of the scope of this yet.
So what would you do / have you done in this situation? (other than increase the budget?! )
Our budget is tight for our scope, moving out for 6 months is going to cost us about 1500 pcm + deposit and all the other costs that come with moving house (and paying 2 sets of bills in some cases) - alternatively we can stay in and just try and live upstairs and be "camping" for as long as it takes in the bedrooms, I'd probably go to office to avoid the disruption - but my other half wouldn't have that option. This frees up about 10% of our budget but we may well end up spending more on trades as they will have to return multiple times as we need to spread out the works...
Pretty much everything needs doing - its habitable, just very out of date.
Original plan was to tackle jobs one at a time, and stay living in the property while the jobs take place, spreading out the disruption (and costs!), but the amount of extra cost going this way is going to be pretty high, and we both WFH at the moment (even post Covid it's unlikely we will go back to office more than 2 days a week). I'm also worried that certain jobs could end up needing attention a couple of times - for example we need a full rewire (it's largely original, with some surface mounted additions), major works to bathrooms and kitchen will need further electrical work - so makes sense to do all at once...
House is an ex council 3 bed semi built in late 50's of brick construction and is structurally sound. It has never had any work done to it other than the addition of a small UPVC conservatory, and double glazing.
So now we're thinking about going with the big bang approach and moving out to rented, we have a budget of about 100K and are looking to do:
- Ground floor rear extension full width (2 - 3 metres deep), will remove conservatory.
- New kitchen at back of house, open plan to lounge/dining
- Existing kitchen to become utility room + downstairs bathroom
- New upstairs main bathroom
Other bits:
- Rewire
- New internal and external doors, and frames
- New flooring for all of downstairs, plus stairs, landing and main bathroom.
- Strip and plaster everything but the 3 bedrooms
- Boilers new - but the pipes and radiators need attention, not sure of the scope of this yet.
So what would you do / have you done in this situation? (other than increase the budget?! )
Our budget is tight for our scope, moving out for 6 months is going to cost us about 1500 pcm + deposit and all the other costs that come with moving house (and paying 2 sets of bills in some cases) - alternatively we can stay in and just try and live upstairs and be "camping" for as long as it takes in the bedrooms, I'd probably go to office to avoid the disruption - but my other half wouldn't have that option. This frees up about 10% of our budget but we may well end up spending more on trades as they will have to return multiple times as we need to spread out the works...