The main takeaway in this video is "rip it out". I'm taking this personally as I was born in 1958. Keep the good stuff. 1958 is now collectable. Like me.😄
I would dig off slope in the garden right up to the basement outside wall. That would open it up to get windows and doors for the basement facing inner garden. Before doing that I would inspect water flows around the house; structural stability; insulation. Should not be an issue but better to be safe than sorry. Also, Congratulations and... my condolences. Old houses will fight you.
Not as much of a flip on this one. But figures are VERY healthy. We have a celeb neighbour 4 doors down who bought for £1.5m in cash. We bought less than half that price.
Out the back you might be able to get a window into the basement to make a really useful space like an additional bedroom. Not sure I like modernising old houses that much as you will lose a lot of the charm, and do consider how you're going to keep all that glass clean.
It's sort of funny how people in different places view older properties. In England, a 1950's home probably seems pretty new compared to many other buildings. Where I am in Phoenix, a 1950's home practically qualifies for historic status and anything even 20 years older is located in neighborhoods designated as historic. I certainly understand the desire to modernize a 1950's layout, but I sort of like leaving interior walls where they were originally intended. Good luck with the renovation, Matt!
Hi Matt why do the kitchen tiles need changing because they've been up for over 30 years? Sounds to me like they are standing the test of time very well.
Looking on Sketchup I definitely prefer the second one. The first one looks like when it rains it would be very uncomfortable if you're upstairs, and I don't think it would be helpful to the EPC. Other than that, great work
Was that a thermostat on the basement wall? Maybe a timer for something, just playing house detectives for a second, could the old owner have had some sort of heater down there to stop the tobacco going damp?
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Sorry for the off-topic question, but I need to ask: in every cheap shared house in the UK I have lived in, every time someone turns on the water in the kitchen for example while you are taking a shower, or when you are washing dishes in the kitchen and someone else starts taking a a shower for that matter, the water pressure drops dramatically. It is quite annoying when you are showering and the water pressure suddenly drops to a light drizzle because someone else decides to use the kitchen sink. Why does this happen? Poor construction? This never happened when I lived in Germany.
The pressure to the house is too low. It may be an easy fix if it's just a stopcock that needs opening more fully. At the same time, having a partially closed stoptap is sometimes done to protect the pipes from hammering under high pressure.
Houses historically had tanks to store cold and hot water for filling the bath, nowadays at smaller properties combi boilers are fitted to heat the water on demand, it can remove a lot of maintenance costs and free space, often the mains pipe work is not upgraded so the pressure really isn’t up to the job.
If we let a builder do it, wouldn't be surprised to see 150k - 200k+ on today's rates. Hoping to be well under half that doing most ourselves and just paying materials. EG after measuring the entire ground floor, they are 2 x 4 joists and the spans are too big, so the whole thing needs replacing or strengthening - getting a joiner to do it would be minimum £6 - 7k, if I do it with materials, about £1k so that adds up across a whole refurb.
@@MattBrighton we’re doing a new construction project and materials+Labour will be 25% more expensive as planned over a year ago. But yeah, once you’re committed you’ll have to make it work. DIY is definitely the way to go.
That sketch up with the glass front is literally a house I’ve been to in the Romford/Hornschurch area👀 Looks cool but hugely impractical, people can peep in, so they coloured the glass only to reduce the amount of light coming in, not to mention it makes the house cold af in the winter and a literal greenhouse in the summer, but hey ho I guess someone who can afford a house like that can afford the cost of heating it and install aircon too.
Good luck! Looks like an interesting project. Ridge work required to add Dormer you may as well ditch the hip and go gable to gable to maximise the room in roof floor space.
Roof space is massive so might not need to, but we're exploring it with the architects on ridge height and also whether to gable the ends or not. Decisions decisions
