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name: home-renovation-budget-planner
description: "Including the skip hire, the storage, and the six weeks of takeaways. Use when the user wants help with Home Renovation Budget Planner. Related topics: Home, Finance, Planning."
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# Home Renovation Budget Planner

Including the skip hire, the storage, and the six weeks of takeaways.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **What we are doing, room by room** (longer free text)
- **Structural work involved** (longer free text)
- **What is being replaced versus repaired** (longer free text)
- **Age, type, known issues** (longer free text)
- **Any listing or conservation constraints** (choose one: Yes, No)
- **Budget** (free text, e.g. "What you have")
- **What I would do myself** (longer free text)
- **Timeline** (longer free text)
- **Living there during the work** (choose one: Staying throughout, Moving out, Partly, Not decided)

## Prompt template

# Renovation budget

**The job**
- What we are doing, room by room: {{What we are doing, room by room}}
- Structural work involved: {{Structural work involved}}
- What is being replaced versus repaired: {{What is being replaced versus repaired}}

**The property**
- Age, type, known issues: {{Age, type, known issues}}
- Any listing or conservation constraints: {{Any listing or conservation constraints}}

**Us**
- Budget: {{Budget}}
- What I would do myself: {{What I would do myself}}
- Timeline: {{Timeline}}
- Living there during the work: {{Living there during the work}}

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.

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Source: [Home Renovation Budget Planner on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/X6AkNFkkkzqNyzvSZqTC/home-renovation-budget-planner)