Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Jun 19, 2009 12:53 pm I am considering the idea of buying an older house and have it renovated to live in as opposed to a knock down rebuild. What I would like to do is to work out the costs involved in renovating. Since I am not building savvy. I was wondering if I am on the right track in budgeting. For a 4 bedroom 60-80 year-old house, I was thinking of the following work: Painting - $6k Timber flooring - $20k new kitchen $20k new bathroom + adding an ensuite $20k new windows throughout - ?? new doors - ?? I am also concerned about the age of the plumbing and electrical wiring in an old home. I heard that to re do the electrical wiring costs something like $45k! I am trying to see if it's feasible to do an old house up and essentially make it new again. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Re: Cost of renovations 2Jun 19, 2009 1:10 pm I don't know if you are referring to doing the painting yourself, but we recently had a quote to paint internal and external of a 3 bed post-war house -quotes were about $10 000. Hope this helps! Renovating a post-war house in Brisbane | On the first rung of the property ladder Re: Cost of renovations 3Jun 19, 2009 1:21 pm We rewired a 1940's home about 18mths ago and I think that our bill was only around $5-6k. We also installed a new bathroom - the old bathroom was completely demolished right back to bearers and joists - all up cost us $10k for labour / fixtures. Our new kitchen was only $8k including appliances but it was a kit kitchen and we installed it ourselves. Painting completely through the house internally only cost us $2k but we personally know the painter and he does good "deals". Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Cost of renovations 4Jul 19, 2009 8:54 pm Hi There I have recently renovated a 50 year old home....'What a headache, but def worth it after.. This is what I approx spent.. Kitchen $15k Bathroom $10k We were going to get floor boards and just found it took up so much of our budget so we went for tiles through out the house $5k - Huge saving... Painting we did our self...but for a three bedroom small house we were quoted $6k, it was a pain in the bum but saved us alot of cash again... New windows $6k Door $1k We had to alot of wiring and electrical work done as well and spent about $5k on that.. Hope this helps... Re: Cost of renovations 5Jul 19, 2009 9:33 pm Cheeky, if your house is 60 - 80 years old then it's very likely that any internal doors are going to be far, far superior to anything you'll be buying now (unless you spend $250+ per door). I'd be very sure about what you chuck out. Unless you have a feel for renovating an old house you could end up totally destroying the character (and a lot of the value) of an old home. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie 7 12028 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37160 Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 29759 |