Home renovation costs?

3 years ago

last modified: 3 years ago

Hi everyone,

We are looking at buying a house which is under our budget by about £30-£35k, but its quite old fashioned and needs some update, one of the biggest (yet smallest) jobs would be an extension to make the utility room the same length as the kitchen, its literally about 1m and that's it. Any one have any idea on cost?

I've attached the floor plans (current floor plan and the one we want to try and achieve) so if anyone has done anything similar please do let us know rough costs.

As a bullet point, this is what we want to do:

Extend utility room by 1m to make it same length as kitchen
Knock through wall between kitchen, utility room and dining room to make one big open plan kitchen diner (wall between kitchen and utility used to be an outer wall so not sure if its load bearing or not.
New kitchen with island (15-20 units) excluding appliances. (reasonable quality)
New stair bannisters.
New bathroom (flooring and tiling - bathroom appliance estimated to be about £1000)
New downstairs laminate flooring (estimated to be around £1500-£2000)
Bespoke under stairs storage turning it into a small utility room.
new electrics (we think they’re about 30 yrs old)

I know this may seem a bit hit and miss as there's big differences in quality / style of fittings etc... but we mainly would like to know the cost of the extension, as its a small one!

Thanks in advance!

New floorplan:

Current floorplan:

George.

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Ellie

3 years ago

Utility, knocked into kitchen and dining would create a huge space.

Why do you want an extension? Is it simply just to make room straight wall at end? Cost, well they always say allow up to £2k per sqm, so approx £3500. Given the may be supporting external walls to come down, this price would no doubt go up quite a bit (I have no actual knowledge, this is just me googling!)

As it's already a big space, I wouldn't extend. Draw on paper the outline of it, put all the measurements on it, then tell us what you want in it. Folk on here are very good at advising hoe it could work.

The fact that it's not a straight flat wall at back, should you not level it, will give it character and make it different to all the stuck on box extensions that are typical.

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George Power Finch
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3 years ago
@Ellie

I suppose you are right, it's always nice to keep character to the house.

The reason why we wanted an initial extension of just 1m it to increase that space and make the whole room a square. But I think you have a good point in saying keep it how it is just knock through the utility wall / dining room wall instead and live the extension, there's so many option we are going through at the moment.

I'll draw up some plans and post them :)
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mattweeksdj
3 years ago
I think the cost of going out by 1m just wouldn't be worth it but def knock through into the existing utility space. Make sure you factor in the cost of having design for any steel work , building control etc factored in. Sounds like a reasonable budget but amazing how quickly it goes.
tamp75
3 years ago
By opening the kitchen up to make an open plan space with the stairs within that, you may need to factor in extra fire safety measures.
Jonathan
3 years ago
Have you had any builders look at this yet? Personally I think your £30k will either update the kitchen and bathroom or it will build your extension but not both.
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Base 2 Roof Construction
3 years ago
i would say your budget can be reasonably enough but its very depends on the amount of electricity points to be installed. also you haven't mention it if you would like to have rewiring in a whole house or just on ground floor and if its any main meter or fuse box upgrade involved.

extension you planning to do cant be calculated by m2 as its to small its more likely the remodelling and steels installation would cost you further amount if its any involved.

same time good to know what type of built up you have in the existing area (floating or screeded floor) as if you would like to have a rewiring to be done and you have floating floor and you would like to lay new flooring all way through it might be a good idea to lift all floors up balance out flooring and relay with new t/g floor before you install all new floor finishes (thats give you space to rewire everything)

worth to check on the government website if you could use there scheme (for efficiency) to insulate your floor as the they would pay 80% of a cost up to 5k£.

i hope so thats helps
Emmanuelle
3 years ago
Hi! I would also not bother making the utility room longer... too pricey for not much gain. Instead, I would still knock the wall of utility room, and use it as the new dinning area: change the French door for a low window, with a window seat underneath , and plants coming right up to the window from the outside. In summer, you could open your window, eat next to greenery.... it would look stunning!
Check the extension project by ‘Architect your home’ here on Houzz - such a great extension!

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