Renovation of mid-terrace house - Built in 1980 - Original condition

Hello everyone,

in the meantime, the first offers are coming in. So far, everything is within the range we estimated.

We have commissioned energy consultants. In two weeks, the individual renovation roadmap will be provided, which also contains estimated costs for the individual measures. I am curious to see if the values roughly match.

So far, we have

Heating
Conversion to pellet heating, replacement of all radiators, installation of 2 radiators, disposal of old system
45K

Main bathroom
including tiling work and demolition of the old bathroom
19K

Replacement of water pipes in bathrooms and kitchen
5K

Windows
Triple-glazed windows, plastic, aluminum front door, plastic side door (cellar entrance)
22K

Electricity
Replacement of all wiring, new meter cabinet, more outlets, individual circuit protection for large kitchen appliances
23K

Roof
new tiles and new insulation (wood), 3 skylights
32K

For electricity and windows, I am currently waiting for comparison offers.

Bathroom and heating are confirmed, as we know the craftsman and we are "in trust." He could still carry out the renovation for us this year. That is actually the general problem we have. The craftsmen all have lead times of 6-12 months. Let's see what other offers come in.

Aluminium front door, plastic side door (cellar entrance)

A side door is only for authorized users, so plastic might be sufficient here. However, for unauthorized users it is a popular main entrance, so I would prefer to err on the side of higher break-in security here if in doubt. Since appearance matters less here, it can also be a crossbar with an additional lock.

Thank you for the hint. True, since beauty is not so important for the door, a crossbar would be easy to implement.

The last few weeks have been back and forth. There were still problems with a lost mortgage deed and the sale stalled due to the vacations of the sellers and the notary. But this afternoon it is finally time. We have our long-awaited notary appointment. With that, we can finally commission the craftsmen as well. We will probably receive the keys next week to at least work on the garden (or trim it back :D) and prepare smaller things. The actual work will, of course, only start with the payment of the purchase price (which will probably still take 3-6 weeks).

Great!

Congratulations :)

We also took over our mid-terrace house last week and therefore I look forward to pictures. We want (not have to) to "just" renovate, as it was built in 2000.
But that's enough work for us already ;)

I’ve been wanting to give an update for a while now. I also always find it very interesting to read how things progressed for others :-)

Three weeks ago, the first real construction work began. The plan was to start with the heating and water pipes. They worked well for 2 days, then the whole crew was knocked out by Corona... That was really tough for us. Especially mentally. We were so happy that it finally started and then immediately stopped again. But well, they’re back at work since this week.

We have filled the time from October until now well with demolition and deconstruction. We did:
- removed all water pipes
- removed screed in 2 rooms (this was unplanned, but the screed was beyond repair)
- where the screed was removed, we also took out the heating pipes
- completely gutted the bathroom including tiles up to the ceiling, here we also removed screed because it was cracked multiple times and we will have the 3sqm area redone with screed on the ground floor
- removed all wallpaper, floors, carpet adhesive (annoying work!)
- pruned the garden, cut down 3 trees
- removed ceiling panels and styrofoam ceilings
- removed radiators
- made all slots for the new electrical installation
- built the foundation for the pellet storage from concrete
Through a specialist company, we had the asbestos-containing floor in the basement removed.

In the meantime, the new heating pipes have been laid, the pellet heating system has been delivered (not yet connected), and the pellet storage constructed. We had the dimensions of the pellet storage, but wow, it’s quite big when you stand in front of it. In the next few days, all the water pipes will be newly installed.

At the beginning of March, the new windows and doors will be installed. I am most looking forward to our 4m-wide sliding door which will bring a lot of light into the living area. A construction company will have to start work here at the same time. The door opening for the front door needs to be raised and the lintel has to be reset. The old door is too low and since the lintel lies directly above the door frame, the wall has to be broken open here and a new lintel set. But we are both tall and couldn’t have lived with a door that has a passage height of only 1.90m :D For the sliding door, the old concrete roller shutter box has to be removed. We will also have this done by the construction company. We are lucky that the lintel lies above the concrete roller shutter box. So the lintel does not need to be reset and we can achieve a height of almost 2.20m with the sliding door.

We also finalized the bathroom planning this week. We underestimated the bathroom aspect. So much coordination is involved because every trade (some multiple times) has to work on it. I think the bathroom will also be the last thing to be finished :D

We increased the budget for some craftsmen because quite a few “wishes” came up that maybe weren’t quite planned. But all in all, it still fits. I’ll be happy to give an overview when we’re done.