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Cheers for all of this!
Was going to change the two locks this weekend to start. But maybe a new door is a better shout...
Previous owners fitted a new boiler 2-3 years ago and cored out (I think without permission). Kitchen think I can get a self circulating extractor. Bathroom no idea - the bit in the middle of the stained window it the current extractor fan, so the frame is all rusted.
Neighbours all good! Did my DD before getting it.
Would you sand old wallpaper down or just remove it properly?
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Drop Stevo a line to give you a hand. He's free most weekends.
> remove itBuy a 2nd hand steamer and one of these
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As Stevo_com says, be wary of steaming any potential lathe and plaster! Also, just do the locks until you can afford the door, and once the danger of bashing a nice new door with any materials has passed.
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If its thick crazy old nasty stuff sometimes it actually comes off quite easy.
Have a thing thats yellow, trianglular with 3 spiked balls on it, you run that around over the old paper, then squirt it with water/dish soap/can get wallpaper stripping compound if you want, the best one is sold by 'B.I.N' can't remember the product name, its pricey but it will save you your sanity.
Then get a cheap steamer, as others say, don't go crazy on the steamer, once it starts coming off it'll be easy, then use a quality scraper and thicker gloves as you'll slice yourself with old paper a lot.
Door yes, maybe later on, number of times I've bashed finished surfaces at the last minute, soul destroying.If your keeping carpets but want them to feel a bit better hire out a proper floor cleaner machine or get someone in to do them, and replace the underlay. Find most underlay looses its rubbery ness long before the carpet gives out.
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New door and two new locks, sited a lot further apart than the two you have there. London bar.
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That front door/entrance way from outside would be my 1st job, make it secure from previous tenants getting back in (happens way more than you think, had it only happen to me once personally, but numerous mates numerous times) and just looks like a cheap modern bedroom door type affair, not really up to 'securing you from outside' in either warmth/sound/assholes.
Bathroom/kitchen. Unless you have to live in it immediately would tackle those 1st and just chase out where all the services come and go from, got to be some re jig worth doing as both look pretty terribly laid out (looks like former terraced house/home thats been quickly made into flats in the 70's).. Think about extraction too, many older/conversions don't have adequate ventilation in bathroom kitchen for steam + smoke + cooking grease so the whole place gets disgusting quickly. Access to outside walls and ability to core drill them is harder than you think.
In our current project gonna have to hire a lift just to put a few vents in roof, cheaper than scaff, but still hundreds just to get on the roof, then install as many vents/boiler vent pipe/aerials/dish/gutter repairs as possible in the 4 hours we've got it for. I'm sweating just thinking about it.
Rest of rooms look OK, would just walk aroud each one with a cup of tea, clipboard and a screwdriver and poke EVERYTHING.
Get an electrician in, pay and do a test on what you've got, so you know if you'll need a partial rewire or just a new consumer before you do much else (no point plastering a wall only to find your gonna have to run new cables in it a month later, done that one about 5 times now FML).
Check with upstairs and downstairs neighbours for general arsehole'ness (if they are, just sell it and move, as the new guy, you won't win any arguments), leaks and noise. Most often there will be a noisey floorboard (yours or their's!) that you'll only discover when you've finished the place, and you can hear them moving around.
Consider insulated plasterboard/other options around party walls and exterior walls, energy prices gonna keep rising, worth doing something while your at it.
Just bought another new tool, milwaukee RO battery sander. Why the hell haven't I owned one for the last decade, makes life so much easier, and much more gentle than other sander types while still actually removing material. Total lifesaver.