So we are considering buying a house that needs complete modernisation. Its only a 60s/70s thing but the previous owners seemed to be fans of textured wall paper and shit layouts.
So it needs some walls knocking through, every room probably needs replastering, new kitchen, bathroom, etc, but its all doable if we get the house for the right price. We’ve done it before on our current house so we aren’t afraid of the work/cost.
But then the niggles start..
such as the wall that needs removing change a separate toilet and bathroom into a modern family bathroom was an original external wall, and that wall had the soil pipe on it, but when the extension was built, instead of moving the pipe they left it where it was, put in an awkward connection to the new toilet and boxed in the soil pipe in the extension downstairs…
or that to make the change to fit the bigger bathroom the hot water tank needs to be moved/removed…
or that the fuse box and electricity meter is located on an internal wall nowhere near an external wall (following the extension going up) and that internal wall would need to come down to make a modern large(ish) kitchen.
So am I just being paranoid and everyhting is fixable at a price or are these issues symptomatic of a house that has been bodged together and its just going to be a money pit? Worth the hassle for a house that is never going to be “perfect”?