Advice on various house improvement projects

[gidrae]

Ooops put this in the wrong forum area....


Me and the missus are in the process of buying a house (well a bungalow that had the roof converted to bedrooms/bathrooms) that is also a bit of a project too.


We will have the following work that needs to be done and wondered if anyone had any experience of how much these would likely cost (won't be doing these ourselves!!!)

• Internal wall removing in the kitchen - this houses an old boiler and has a chimney flue/stack that will need removing and putting right. A new boiler will be fitted to the external wall in the kitchen or possibly moved up stairs (directly above where it is now) in a small office room.
• Brick single garage with pitched roof to be removed as the roof is sagging and the bricks have slipped making it dangerous
• Potential underpinning of the side of the house as we can see repointing has been done but the mortar has cracked a little again (no bricks cracked)

Any pointers would be helpful. We have a decent budget to get this work done (30k+)

 

[gidrae]

Hi, I've not got any pictures of the "potential underpinning" issue.
It's all in the right side of the house as you face it and it's all mortar cracking, none of the bricks are cracked
It looks like it was re-pointed at one time and has cracked again. Probably about 1.5 meters wide by 2 meters high at most affected (from memory) but could be a bit less. Water has definitely got into the house as the inside room has some damp.