You may have already come across an ad for the sale of a house “to refresh”. Once there, we realize that almost everything inside will have to be renovated . Redo the floor coverings , repaint the walls, the ceilings and change the kitchen and the bathroom . This is not insignificant. Except that during visits, we are rarely accompanied by companies that can do this work (we don’t even know yet if the house will please us!). So how can you estimate the budget for the work yourself before buying a house?

Go all the way because at the end I offer you a summary checklist to take with you during visits so as not to forget anything and to help you estimate the work to be planned yourself!

Make a decision quickly and without help

The problem when you visit a house to buy it is that you generally have little time to decide.

However, these few minutes will determine our future living space for the months and years to come!

You would have to spend hours there to fully understand the space itself, and this at different times of the day: sun, light, noise, neighborhood…

And even more time to take stock of the existing state , identify the strong and weak points, find out how to renovate the house, rearrange it and finally calculate (or at least estimate) the cost of the work that this represents!

Also, to make the most of this precious time, it is better to have prepared your visit well to collect as many elements as possible that will help us on our journey.

How to estimate the budget for work yourself before buying a house?

When you visit a house for the first time there are a lot of things to look at. To facilitate this observation work, we can nevertheless try to prioritize them. To do this, I advise organizing our work in descending order according to the amount of work relating to the element concerned. This is logical, the more expensive the work, the more attentive we must be.

It’s relatively simple: the most expensive work is usually that which meets the primary function of the house . That is to say, to provide us with shelter to protect ourselves from bad weather and external nuisances. Then come the elements providing comfort and finally those which are aesthetic.

In the last paragraph we will see a list of questions and boxes to check to give yourself every chance of correctly estimating the work that awaits you.

The price of renovation work in France

When it comes to work, there is obviously something for every budget. And many factors come into play to determine the precise amount of work to be done. But we can nevertheless outline some major trends, with macro figures (which I was able to confirm on my construction sites). We will then see some more detailed examples of prices per work item.