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We purchased a house a few months back that although fine to live in, needs a lot of work doing to bring it up to scratch.
When viewing the house, the details stated it had a full working double garage...yet as you can see, to say it was pushing the boundaries of what they can claim in a house listing to the very limit! We managed to knock a large amount of money off the house for the garage alone, knowing the Father-in-law would be capable of bringing it back to life, and so the house was purchased.
It took a couple of months to clear the overgrown garden, plus all the work was to done by the Father-in-law, so on factory shut down three weeks ago, the work commenced. I'll apologise now for the picture quality, but we where away for the first two weeks on holiday so that task was given to another family member.
This is how it all looked on the moving in day, trees had been left to overgrow for the best part of 5-10 years, with the owners claiming the garage was fine apart from a needing new roof, his son had fallen through it fetching a football some years back.
We treated the roof as Asbestos and managed to do the removal ourselves with the correct equipment, the local recycling centre also has a free Asbestos bin. They checked it on arrival and it turned out to be a far less troublesome material, but they also treat it Asbestos in it's disposal. We had a very quick check with a Asbestos removal company, and the work was quoted at around £800, so that's around £750 saved from the word go!
The majority of the trees were removed by myself or a friend who used to be a tree surgeon, yet the ones around the garage needed to be done professionally as they had telephone wires very near and access for dropping was going to be an issue. £400 spend, but that did include removal of a large amount of the green left by the other trees once all the firewood was removed.
About 1/5 of the stuff we had left to remove from the previous owners belongings in the garage, we made him pay for 2 skips, with this lot being left from them. Hired a van for the day at £45 that also helped move all the roof and wood from the old garage build.
Stripping of the wood well under way.
All the roof and old garage now removed.
Wood delivered and the work began.
The doors where refreshed by buying all new moving parts to make it all as new as possible without spending silly money, sadly the paint sent was the wrong colour, we asked for 9001 (Cream) and they sent (9010) Pure White and it was too late when we got home to realise! I'm not sure if it's worth doing Cream or leave it as it is?
Now it's time to get the inside sorted, needs a good clean of all the old cobwebs, and some floor paint I think.
Sadly the garage has had a full sparky installation, but we can't figure out why there's no power. We're going to have to hire a mini digger to follow the cable as there's no power at all coming down from the house, which is a major pain!
Estimated cost at the moment for the work is around £1500, that's not including the beer and tea that we had to supply for two weeks
When viewing the house, the details stated it had a full working double garage...yet as you can see, to say it was pushing the boundaries of what they can claim in a house listing to the very limit! We managed to knock a large amount of money off the house for the garage alone, knowing the Father-in-law would be capable of bringing it back to life, and so the house was purchased.
It took a couple of months to clear the overgrown garden, plus all the work was to done by the Father-in-law, so on factory shut down three weeks ago, the work commenced. I'll apologise now for the picture quality, but we where away for the first two weeks on holiday so that task was given to another family member.
This is how it all looked on the moving in day, trees had been left to overgrow for the best part of 5-10 years, with the owners claiming the garage was fine apart from a needing new roof, his son had fallen through it fetching a football some years back.
We treated the roof as Asbestos and managed to do the removal ourselves with the correct equipment, the local recycling centre also has a free Asbestos bin. They checked it on arrival and it turned out to be a far less troublesome material, but they also treat it Asbestos in it's disposal. We had a very quick check with a Asbestos removal company, and the work was quoted at around £800, so that's around £750 saved from the word go!
The majority of the trees were removed by myself or a friend who used to be a tree surgeon, yet the ones around the garage needed to be done professionally as they had telephone wires very near and access for dropping was going to be an issue. £400 spend, but that did include removal of a large amount of the green left by the other trees once all the firewood was removed.
About 1/5 of the stuff we had left to remove from the previous owners belongings in the garage, we made him pay for 2 skips, with this lot being left from them. Hired a van for the day at £45 that also helped move all the roof and wood from the old garage build.
Stripping of the wood well under way.
All the roof and old garage now removed.
Wood delivered and the work began.
The doors where refreshed by buying all new moving parts to make it all as new as possible without spending silly money, sadly the paint sent was the wrong colour, we asked for 9001 (Cream) and they sent (9010) Pure White and it was too late when we got home to realise! I'm not sure if it's worth doing Cream or leave it as it is?
Now it's time to get the inside sorted, needs a good clean of all the old cobwebs, and some floor paint I think.
Sadly the garage has had a full sparky installation, but we can't figure out why there's no power. We're going to have to hire a mini digger to follow the cable as there's no power at all coming down from the house, which is a major pain!
Estimated cost at the moment for the work is around £1500, that's not including the beer and tea that we had to supply for two weeks
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