Browse Forums Old Home Restoration / Renovation 1 Apr 04, 2020 11:08 am Hi All We are first time home buyers and have recently purchased a house in Sydney. This is a brick house built in 1970. The house has a lot of character with a nice front and backyard patio and bar. Current configuration of house is 3beds 1 bath and 2 garage. The internal built area is 120m. We are contemplating about renovating the house to renovate the current bathroom, add an extra room and bathroom. we want some idea about costs of making a reasonable extension to our house. We have not spoken with a professional architect yet but based on analysis of our own, it seems the budget could be in range of 100 to 150k These costs are based on our analysis; Structural - if any urgent fixes required due to age of home could be ~30k Renovate a bathroom - 20k Larger living room - 20k Add a room and bathroom - 50k Kitchen - add gas cooking and dish washer - 5k There is already a nice patio and backyard so not much work needed. Also kitchen is renovated. It seems that the budget for extension is close to building new home. Let me know if you need more information for us to get the best possible advise. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Advise for renovating a old home in Sydney 2Apr 04, 2020 11:33 am Hey globalcitizen welcome to the forum No offence, But one requires quants and data,etc to give proofs of concept & costs May I suggest you try thinking outside the conventional design/cost box Here's an example that's easy to follow Need Ideas to convert Alfresco into bedroom The 3D Bim model links to the quantities & Data in the build which links to material prices over the internet, along with scripting and automation-> "whola" You can access the prices from home even when all the hardware stores are shortly set to close down..... Bunnings, Big W, Havery Norman faces being closed down , online set to be the norm Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Advise for renovating a old home in Sydney 3Apr 04, 2020 12:59 pm Thanks for the welcome and your reply. Yes the current situation makes it even more difficult to get these renovations done. But we are ok to postpone this for few months until situation improves. I will go through the link you posted and around the forum and get more understanding on this. Re: Advise for renovating a old home in Sydney 4Apr 06, 2020 8:24 am Here are some tips for the covid19 and thereafter AEC design/construction workflow as things are rapidly changing In a nut shell improvements mean/require change my2c 1.Most consultants are ramping up online AEC Services 2.Material suppliers will be all going online..lol, Bunnings will have some real competition coming 3.Insist building consultants are using the same 3D Bim AEC software 4. Currently file translations between different 3D Bim software vendor Files are useless and costly. eg, Archicad ->Vectorworks->sketchup-> revit (worse -> Best) 5.The file and data is accessible to you for on site inspections during construction for compliance checks 6.There are Bim tools, automation and scripts to query online prices 7.Re Estimating, Some material suppliers are charging $400 for material (2D Plans) Takeoffs , that's $2k per house for OBs 8.'Safe guard your health by working from home'.. I'll also add 'safe guard your building costs by using data and proofs' 9.10.11 Please post back or PM if you have questions Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Advise for renovating a old home in Sydney 5Apr 13, 2020 1:18 pm it's a great plan and a good time to do the renovation now, if you got time, you can do a lot of works by yourself. Before you begin all of these, make sure you have a plan to your house at least how's it gonna looks after those works, then you can do your extension step by steps. Don't worry about the budget, it's never covers all things you want. Talk to those professional workers on things you'd like to do, then you will know which kind things you can do yourself and which you need those professionals.there are always something looks easy and make people regret when their hands on it, but don't worry, at least it will be fun. micwallpaper.com.au Picture your wall to a view What you are looking at is fibrous plaster, true gypsum, it is cast on horizontal beds with fibers included to give strength. I has no Asbestos in it. Houses before 1985… 2 7149 Hi, we live in an area where the black soil is prone to a lot of movement. We have an old 50's house with masonite everywhere and nails popping out, warping, rusted etc.… 0 4515 I am looking for someone who might have tackled a similar issue as me. I have a few rendered interior walls, the surface condition is hardly flat. I can see all the bumps… 0 7976 |