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Either have the money, or do it in stages.
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Yeah do it in stages and try and do bits yourself in between
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I know I often say this in jest, but have you run the numbers on moving instead of improving?
Quarter of a mil in cash is quite a lot of money and projects like these will eat all your spare time.
Even with interest rates as they are what does £250 + your current value + borrowing headroom - fees buy you?
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Must be fairly fancy if its 240k. I'm genuinely shocked at the prices folk are getting these days and the actual value it really adds on after this.
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I'm seriously at the point of selling our house because we just can't fucking work out how to actually make our build happen. It's fairly complex and involves a full rewire, replumb, reroof, new heating system, new kitchen and bathrooms, new windows, some internal rearrangement, plus a timber extension on top of the existing single-story garage. So we're looking at over £200k+VAT. We've been working with an architect who got us some preliminary drawings that were enough to get some builders on board, but he now appears to be unable to continue with the project so we're left with not enough detail to finalise a load of decisions or costings (which only ever seem to go up from the original estimate) and the only option appears to be to appoint an independent QS to administer the contract, which will cost us another £15k, which we can't afford.
Genuinely at my wits end with this, how do people actually get these projects going?