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Builders will always push you to do it at once without you there because it makes their life easier and means you're not going to around as much to oversee and medle.
From what you've say it sounds like you can do it in phases. If you can time the radiators with the summer will give you more flexibility on timing and project drift.
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We've got plans for a downstairs extension, realistically next year. It will be a ground floor extension with new kitchen and a utility room/downstairs shower room added, possibly in the side return.
Meanwhile, we also need new electrics throughout and new and re-sited radiators (though not a new boiler, luckily). Everything in the house dates from 1940s - 1980s and no room is currently in acceptable condition.
Different builders who've come to look at the place have said different things about whether we could do it in stages.
Given that we could get the radiators moved, rewiring done, and then decorate the upstairs rooms and living room within the next couple of months, is there any reason not to do so other than the possible cost savings of doing it all together?
It seems like the disruption might be worse if every room was being attacked at the same time, whereas if we were to get some stuff done sooner, we could have nicer rooms to retreat to while the kitchen is getting smashed up, and feel like we were getting somewhere.