How much does it cost to renovate a house?
House renovation covers many different aspects and hard to ballpark a price. Some renovations may just be décor and a small bit of building whilst others could involve new central heating system, building work, new kitchen, bathroom, roof, landscaping and decorating plus others things I’m sure. Hence, the prices provided below must all be looked at on an individual example by example basis to try and get an idea of what the total cost of a house renovation would be.
Renovation building trades
The other approach would be to use this site to examine the individual costs for a renovation by each trade e.g. How much will the central heating cost, windows, plastering etc.. Below are links to some of our most popular cost guides, we’ve also got some pretty handy calculators on WhatPrice which are also linked to below.
| Cost guides | Calculators |
|---|---|
| House extension costs | Extension calculator |
| Plastering cost guide | Plastering cost calculator |
| Floor & wall tiling costs | Wall tiling cost calculator |
User submitted prices
Below you’ll find prices from WhatPrice users who have renovated their homes, anything from knocking through two rooms all the way to a full house refurbishment, this will give you a good idea of the costs involved.
| Job type | Description | Price | Units | Region | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6+ Bedroom House Renovation | 6 bed 3 bath, plastered, electrics, plumbing, plastering, painting kitchen and bathrooms, 12 radiators, electrician. Building prices for total cost of project. | £66,900 | Total price | South East | 2023 |
| 2 Bedroom House Renovation | Central heating 5 rads , shower room, tiled shower room paint interior and exterior of building, new kitchen doors oven hob, carpets, landscape garden and fencing, paint shed. | £15,800 | Total price | South East | 2023 |
| 4 Bedroom House Renovation | New plaster back to brick, new wiring, new ceilings, new kitchen, bathroom, new down stairs toilet, oak flooring throughout, tiling bathrooms and kitchen, new drains, new roof, outside decorated, new PVC back doors, gallow bracket, RSJ, brick fireplace, new GAS fires, new Boiler, and Pump and internal water pipes, new copper throughout, render walls, point, internal decoration throughout, plastering every single wall, damp course repairs, clear house of 50 years of rubbish and clean (took 5 days), thermostatic controls, fire safety certs, electric certs, Gas Certs. | £80,000 | Total price | London | 2023 |
| 3 Bedroom House Renovation | Demolish a 4.5 metre wall that lay between dining room and lounge, remove fireplace and chimney. Insert steel. Box with plasterboard and make good. | £7,000 | Total price | East Midlands | 2023 |
| 5 Bedroom House Renovation | 5 bedroom house refurbishment, kitcen to be fitted, plaster the walls, ceilings, replacing wood floors in two rooms, tiling 30m(square), replace 4 doors, 1 in front door, new ceiling in bathroom, take off wallpaper in all the house, new electric installation. | £27,200 | Total price | London | 2023 |
| 5 Bedroom House Renovation | From roof to ground floor needed work including 19 windows, new kitchen and bathroom fitted, 12 new radiators and combi boiler. | £82,500 | Total price | Scotland | 2023 |
| 4 Bedroom House Renovation | 7 new windows, all walls skimmed, new bathroom, new kitchen, paint all doors ,skirting, remove wall, new ceiling in kitchen area and in bathroom area, new door handles and remove wall paper from two rooms. | £22,000 | Total price | Scotland | 2023 |
| 4 Bedroom House Renovation | Put in rsj and post in load bearing wall and cut wall to opening of 1800 by 2100 for patio doors. Put in lintel and fix brickwork around opening rsj replacing load bearing wall between kitchen and dining room. That’s it, no patio doors and no covering on beam, no electrics moved or gas pipes, no plaster on walls, yet still took 6 days. | £3,400 | Total price | Scotland | 2023 |
| 3 Bedroom House Renovation | Kitchen extension, new patio area and field drainage system. New en-suite, complete refit of master bathroom. Full kitchen supply and fit, 2 radiators, french doors, front door, plumbing and electrics, wood flooring etc. | £56,500 | Total price | North East | 2023 |
| 2 Bedroom House Renovation | Full refurbishment on 2 bed terrace – 6 new PVC windows, new central heating system (6rads), rewire & new box, new bathroom suite, new kitchen & appliances, skim & paint throughout. | £29,500 | Total price | North West | 2023 |
| 3 Bedroom Flat Renovation | 3 bed first floor flat total renovation. New kitchen, new bathroom, new carpet(hall stairs landing) New laminate floor elsewhere. Tiled bathroom, and kitchen. New sockets, switches, lights. Installed new shower, Main earth bond, RCD fuse board. New doors, latches; locks where needed. Painted and decorated all windows, skirts n walls. Skimmed ceilings in bathroom, kitchen and hall. Re-glazed window pane. | £26,500 | Total price | South East | 2023 |
| 3 Bedroom House Renovation | knock through lounge wall steel lintel all making good 2 walls reskimmed | £2,300 | Total price | North East | 2023 |
| 3 Bedroom House Renovation | Full refurbishment on 3bed terrace – Remove wall & insert RSJ, 8 new PVC windows, new central heating system(8rads), rewire & new box, new bathroom suite,new kitchen & appliances, skim & paint throughout, new floor 1 room, sand & seal 2 rooms, hack & render back wall. | £38,000 | Total price | London | 2023 |
| 3 Bedroom House Renovation | central heating, 10rad, new boiler, new pipes, new electric wiring, new plaster 3 beds new bath and cloak room, refelt flat roof and add to dormer window, new tile floor and wood floor, new skirting | £48,300 | Total price | London | 2023 |
| 5 Bedroom House Renovation | Knock through lounge into kitchen, build 6 x 2m pitched slate roof glass extension with full size glass ID Systems sliding doors, build new bedroom and bathroom above garage and remove old bathroom to make large landing. Reroof entire house in slate, new windows throughout and new unvented central heating system. | £165,000 | Total price | East Midlands | 2023 |
| 3 Bedroom House Renovation | Enlarge kitchen, new rsj, new kitchen, cloaks, bathroom with power shower, en-suite electric shower, new c/h & boiler, new gas supply, new incoming water main & new internal pipework, utility extension, part new d/g. decoration throughout. | £73,200 | Total price | South East | 2023 |