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Agh! Wrote a long reply but deleted it by accident.
Tldr you don't have enough time to do what you want in the way you want to. You've basically got 8wks to get everything done - including buying.
To me your options are:
a) rent somewhere for 12m,
b) prioritise your wishlist and do what you can (eg is the kitchen dependent on the bathroom move? If not that + redecorating is theoretically achievable.), or
c) accept that you will have to crash somewhere else at times and live with work going on. Fwiw my parents house was semi-derelict/uninhabitable when they bought it. They stayed with a friend for a bit while they did a bathroom and a bedroom which they turned into a bedsit, then did the rest overtime. Admittedly mothers stayed in hospital longer than they do now, but it is definitely doable.
hugo7-
The kitchen can't really happen until the bathroom is moved, neither can the dining room as the bathroom is off the kitchen at the back, and the plan is to knock the dining room/kitchen into one large space. Things are useable as they are, although hardly ideal. My wife is very nervous/worried about doing it all with a small baby is the main thing, so I would at least like to have things scheduled in to re-assure her. I guess the other room s that won't be knocked about (the front room and master bedroom ) could be done 1st whilst the others are waiting as they can be shut off from the others and aren't required for access...
jeff80
Anybody in East London tried to get any building work done recently-I';ve heard there are long waits for builders....? We're buying a 3 bed house with a downstairs bathroom that we want to move upstairs by stealing a little from 2 bedrooms, so structural work iOS involved. Also wanting to put in a sliding patio door downstairs and knock out an internal wall that is load bearing so again more structural work...My wife is 6 months pregnant so there will be no time to do it for a while after moving in, but thinking if waiting times for builders are long it is best to get quotes and get on someones waiting list asap after buying so we at least know it will happen maybe next year? The house needs lots of redecorating and new kitchen etc ideally be bit loath to crack on with this if builders are coming in knocking the shite out of the place at some point.....BUt don't want to live in a non decorated house with a new baby (our first/only) for too long really....