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Originally Posted by GEaston
Suzie - I got a great job for that money. Building was structurally sound and internally dry. Was thus only cosmetic. Property had the following done to it:
- New Locks
- A few tiles replaced on the roof, gutters fixed
- External rendering and painting to rear
- New double glazing and bars at rear
- All carpets removed and replaced
- New bathroom, all old removed, tiles out, ceiling out. Was replaced with new lighting, new bath, new sink, new toilet, tiled to ceiling, new floor.
- All wallpaper removed (whole property was covered in the padded type, that was originally white but brownish with smoke and age), entire house repainted internally.
- New heaters installed in all rooms
- Boiler replaced
- Electricity supply and wiring upgraded
- Certs for Electric, Water, and Gas obtained as required by law.
Job was entirely outsourced to local contractors in the town. These are skilled honest tradesman and yes it also amazes me how reasonable the quotes were. Take the bathroom for example, total cost of stripout, new units, tiling, and a week's labour to do it - all in cost of that was 2.2k
Local lad, born in and still living in Accrington, highly skilled and very reasonable.
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Well if you got all that for £12000 you did very well. You were lucky that not much in the way of wet trades were involved - plastering can come expensive. Mind you if you find a good plasterer they are worth their weight in gold.
We are not in Accrington (it's my home town or was 50 years ago) but moved to Morecambe for work (40 miles from Accy on the coast) and are renovating our house, slowly. It's our fourth refurb as we have lived in different parts of he country, done most of the work ourselves previously but age and time take their toll so this one involves more tradesmen who are hard to find when you are new to a place. The plasterer mentioned above came via contacts of my partner at work and others followed from similar sources. We have been very lucky in those we have found but costing us more than your lads! Mind you this is a slow piecemeal job so bound to be more than a one-off blast. But we're getting a nice house from it all, eventually except I am now unwell so a temporary halt has had to be called.
Enough about me - if the traders in Accy are in good supply, property is reasonable and labour relatively inexpensive (I won't say cheap) - then crack on. I suspect your hardest job may be moving the properties on once finished may be your toughest job in the current climate in the town. Good luck with that.