Surplus costs on New Home

masterboy123

I know it's difficult to answer this question, however I am looking for approx additional costs involved before moving into a new home. It's a 3 bedroom home.

My rough guess is :

Kitchen 4500
Dinning room 1000
3 Bedrooms 4000
Living room 2000
2 Bathrooms 1000

Flooring is included, but getting a higher spec so may need to pay 500e extra.

Any other costs that I maybe missing?

And these are for moderately priced items.

line_of_fire

Is tiling included? If not you will need to increase amount for bathrooms. Can always go as cheap or expensive as you want.

GingerLily

Our kitchen was all incuded (fitting and white goods) and our bathrooms were pretty much finished.

Bedrooms had built in wardrobes so we only needed beds to get started.

Main expenses:
Flooring (4-8k)
Dining room 1k
Sitting room 1k
Three beds and mattresses 2k
Washing machine and dryer 1k

You can do it quite cheap or quite slowly if your on a budget - we're going for slowly so we can make sure to get the right items. You don't need that much furniture to begin with.

masterboy123

Allowances which are included: (although homes are not ready yet)

Fitted Wardrobe in bedrooms
Fitted kitchen
Tiled kitchen
Tiled bathrooms
Painting
Carpets

Furnished interior:
Fitted kitchen
Timber first floor
Carpet to ground floor
Solar panels

Are these good specs?

awec

If your kitchen is fitted and included then what do you plan on spending 4500 on in the kitchen?

Aaron15

masterboy123 wrote: »

Allowances which are included: (although homes are not ready yet)

Fitted Wardrobe in bedrooms
Fitted kitchen
Tiled kitchen
Tiled bathrooms
Painting
Carpets

Furnished interior:
Fitted kitchen
Timber first floor
Carpet to ground floor
Solar panels

Are these good specs?

What are you spending 4500 on if you are getting a fitted kitchen included ?

masterboy123

Looking to get a bigger fridge, 7 hob cooker, washing machine, kitchen island with high chairs. The builder said he's going to adjust the money as to what he's supplying and what we are looking at.

awec wrote: »

If your kitchen is fitted and included then what do you plan on spending 4500 on in the kitchen?

GingerLily

masterboy123 wrote: »

Looking to get a bigger fridge, 7 hob cooker, washing machine, kitchen island with high chairs. The builder said he's going to adjust the money as to what he's supplying and what we are looking at.

awec wrote: »

If your kitchen is fitted and included then what do you plan on spending 4500 on in the kitchen?

I guess it's hard to advise on what you should budget if your also including upgrades like this!

masterboy123

I am basically looking for any other hidden costs, and not budget advice per se.

GingerLily wrote: »

I guess it's hard to advise on what you should budget if your also including upgrades like this!

GingerLily

You'll need about a grand for a new alarm.

PhoenixParker

Curtains and blinds
Light fittings

GingerLily

What’s the 2k for the living room needing to cover? It looks a very low amount, you could exceed that in the tv alone if going for a big fairly high end one.

GingerLily wrote: »

You'll need about a grand for a new alarm.

Or keep the money in your pocket and save your neighbors ears from false alarms. They are a waste of money imo nothing but noise pollution, be better to put the money into stuff like ring surveillance systems etc that alert you and show you live feeds etc.

masterboy123

Thanks GingerLily and Phoenix.

2k only the sofa and table. We got a nice fancy TV + music system already.

How does this ring surveillance system work? And cost involved?

Markus Mysterious Visitation wrote: »

What’s the 2k for the living room needing to cover? It looks a very low amount, you could exceed that in the tv alone if going for a big fairly high end one.



Or keep the money in your pocket and your neighbors ears from false alarms. They are a waste of money imo nothing but noise pollution, be better to but the money into stuff like ring surveillance systems etc that alert you and show you live feeds etc.

masterboy123

masterboy123 wrote: »

Thanks GingerLily and Phoenix.

2k only the sofa and table. We got a nice fancy TV + music system already.

How does this ring surveillance system work? And cost involved?

Have a look on their website here at the different options: https://eu.ring.com/

They aren’t the only option but just an example.

LirW

Markus Mysterious Visitation wrote: »

Have a look on their website here at the different options: https://eu.ring.com/

They aren’t the only option but just an example.

Thanks nox, they're having some really reasonable good motion sensor cameras with light, I imagine them being a hell of a lot better than a classic wired alarm in an estate with the smart alarm that sends a message to your phone.
And two, which is usually sufficient for a house in an estate are not even half the price of a wired alarm.

I see wired alarms as outdated fad to bring home insurance down a few pennies. CCTV all the way, baby.

Now I just need to figure out if a cat activates the alarm signal....

masterboy123

I had a look now, it appears to be part of amazon services and it says it's not available in Ireland (no service provider in your country).
Correct me if I am wrong.

Markus Mysterious Visitation wrote: »

Have a look on their website here at the different options: https://eu.ring.com/

They aren’t the only option but just an example.

masterboy123

masterboy123 wrote: »

I had a look now, it appears to be part of amazon services and it says it's not available in Ireland (no service provider in your country).
Correct me if I am wrong.

Ring products definitely work in Ireland you can even buy them in currys etc. Not sure exactly what services you are referring to not having a provider?

masterboy123

Well, I was talking to customer representative on eu.ring.com and they sent me a link where it said "Service not available in your country"

But I have checked it on amazon, currys, etc and they all seem to be working well here.

How's their motion detector?

Markus Mysterious Visitation wrote: »

Ring products definitely work in Ireland you can even buy them in currys etc. Not sure exactly what services you are referring to not having a provider?

masterboy123

masterboy123 wrote: »

Well, I was talking to customer representative on eu.ring.com and they sent me a link where it said "Service not available in your country"

But I have checked it on amazon, currys, etc and they all seem to be working well here.

How's their motion detector?

I'm don't actually have any at the moment but I am planning to get some of the products.

masterboy123

Cool, please let me know how you get on. I still have 3 months or so before moving into the new home.

Markus Mysterious Visitation wrote: »

I'm don't actually have any at the moment but I am planning to get some of the products.

DublinDilbert

masterboy123 wrote: »

Well, I was talking to customer representative on eu.ring.com and they sent me a link where it said "Service not available in your country"

But I have checked it on amazon, currys, etc and they all seem to be working well here.

How's their motion detector?

Motion detection is quite good, even in the dark and using battery power.

masterboy123

Overall how much is it going to cost with cameras?

DublinDilbert wrote: »

Motion detection is quite good, even in the dark and using battery power.