Making a home more saleable

[Number29]

Hi all

Following on from a thread I made a few weeks ago, is there any merit as far as selling a house is concerned in moving a boiler from the bathroom to the kitchen?

At the moment, there's a combi boiler in a large bathroom cupboard. My house mate wants us to pay to have this moved downstairs to the kitchen and eliminate the large bathroom cupboard and replace this with a separate shower cubicle. We've been quoted £860 to move the boiler, and then there's the extra expense of building work to knock down the cupboard and relocate it to a small corner of the bathroom, and the added expense of a separate shower cubicle on top of the rest of the new bathroom suite.

Is there any value in spending north of £1k to move the boiler downstairs to get a separate shower cubicle? I can't image it'll add anything like that much to the value of the house, or that a boiler in the bathroom would deter anyone from buying the house.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

#29.

 

[Number29]

Personally I wouldn't want a boiler in the bathroom

That said, I wouldn't be fussed having a shower cubicle. A decent shower over a bath is good enough for me.

Go half way. Move the boiler, and just tidy the bathroom up a bit. Moving the boiler I would have thought would make the bathroom look bigger.

Moving the boiler and getting rid of the cupboard would definitely make the bathroom look and be bigger, but the house would also lose a very large storage cupboard and very useful airing cupboard.

 

[Number29]

Would the boiler be on show in the kitchen?

I'd personally prefer to have the boiler hidden away in the bathroom rather than taking up space in the kitchen.

I hadn't thought of that, so there'd be more expense to build a cupboard around it, and the fridge\freezer would have to be relocated (which would mean moving a set of drawers and cutting the kitchen worktop back a bit).

 

[Number29]

Our boiler was in the bathroom when we bought this house. When we had a new one fitted we kept it there. I can't see any reason why a buyer would be put off by it to be honest. Rather that than taking up valuable space in a kitchen.

I can't see your proposal adding much if anything to the value or saleability of the house, unless the bathroom is really tiny with the boiler in there, so not worth the effort.

The bathroom is actually still quite large even with the cupboard. The room in total is 2.4m x 2.55m