Home Renovation Budget Planner
By maya42 · Published · Updated
Including the skip hire, the storage, and the six weeks of takeaways.
Tags: Home, Finance, Planning
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# Renovation budget **The job** - What we are doing, room by room: [textarea: Scope] - Structural work involved: [textarea: Walls, steels, extensions, or none] - What is being replaced versus repaired: [textarea: Both lists] **The property** - Age, type, known issues: [textarea: Especially anything found in a survey] - Any listing or conservation constraints: [toggle: Yes, No] **Us** - Budget: [text: What you have, and whether there is any give] - What I would do myself: [textarea: Honestly] - Timeline: [textarea: When you want it done and any fixed dates] - Living there during the work: [dropdown: Staying throughout, Moving out, Partly, Not decided] Break it down by trade and material, with a range rather than a single number. Then add the lines people leave out entirely: skips, permits, storage, temporary accommodation, eating out for six weeks, and making good afterwards. Set the contingency against the age of the property, since older buildings hide more behind the plaster. Sequence the work so nothing gets done twice. Finish by telling me which elements most often overrun, and where spending more actually pays versus where it disappears.