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Renovating unused building

  • 17-01-2019 4:44pm
    #1
    DK3D
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭


    Hey how's things?

    Recently a property in a town near where I'm from went up for sale. From my knowledge it hasn't been used for approximately 7-10 years. As the price was relatively low i said that I'd take a quick look. It is a split property with half of it single story with a single leaf wall (not sure how old) the other is a two story.

    The place looked fairly clean but on closer inspection the floors in the two story side we're ride with woodorm and after pulling a floorboard the ceiling joists/second floor floor joists had been pretty badly rotten.

    My main question is is how expensive would it be to treat this, what is the best way to do it, presumably all the floor boards and celling joists will have to be removed.

    As a side query, what is the best way to insulate/damp proof the old stone/brick wall.

    Any help or knowledge would be appreciated.
    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Dudda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Dudda


    If the roof is also rotten in areas which is highly likely if the joists for the first floor are and you’re looking to fix damp, insulate and only have single skin blockwork in parts then you won’t be far off it being cheaper to knock and rebuild. Renovating something like this can be a bottomless pit for money.


  • #3
    DK3D
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭DK3D


    Dudda wrote: »
    If the roof is also rotten in areas which is highly likely if the joists for the first floor are and you’re looking to fix damp, insulate and only have single skin blockwork in parts then you won’t be far off it being cheaper to knock and rebuild. Renovating something like this can be a bottomless pit for money.

    I visually inspected the roof and 2nd floor ceiling joists, these both appear to be currently unaffected structurally but would surely need to be treated anyway. As far as knocking goes, it's a semi detached town house bang in the centre of the town so that would be more or less out of the question.

    Cheers for the reply.


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