Owning your own home

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lookitsluke
Sooo... hopelessly out of my depth and about to put an offer in on a place through sheer naivety...

It'll need serious love, on a pretty minor budget (given what cash I have). What order do I need to do these things in, and what can I expect to be able to do myself - beyond decorating? Any one got any experience or advice via DM or over a beer!?
- Rip out floors and ceilings, kitchen, bathroom and windows
- New windows
- Insulate everything (pending Surveyor)
- Move Boiler
- New floors and ceilings
- New Kitchen
- New Bathroom
- Decorate
And where do you start - Builder? Architect? Plumber? Just order a skip and tear it apart...?
- Build a Hovis style safety house 40ft from the actual house (in app. 15 years time)

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NickCJ in reply to @lookitsluke

Before you do any of that check whether it would make sense to do electrics at the same time rather than three years later... ask me how I know.

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lookitsluke in reply to @NickCJ

I suspect the answer is a slightly more costly version of how I learnt not to grease a seat post for a carbon frame...

Apart from the obvious checks like new fusebox, new fittings - how do you know if the electrics need to be updated?

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