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I've rehabbed a few row houses, and some things are sort of standard...
Central A/C ~ 10-15K unless you go with Spacepak or ductless systems (more $$)
New Roof ~ 6K
Refinish existing floors ~ 5K
Windows ~400-800 / window
Insulation ~ fairly cheap (had sprayfoam on interior of shell for about $2500)
Kitchen - all over the map. You can roll your own Ikea cabinets + tile counters for <$8K (including appliances) or you can hire a designer, get custom cabinets, and spend $50K+
Electrical - had an entire house (shell) wired for $8K, but the electrician was a crackhead... count on spending twice that for good workmanship. But of course the whole house may not need to be wired, and fishing new Romex through existing walls might actually be more expensive. So $$ will vary.
Does anyone have any experience renovating a rowhouse in DC? I'm curious as to how much a project like this would cost. Assuming you decide to do a gut job and install:
1. HVAC
2. Brand new kitchen/top flight cabinets and appliances
3. Finished basement (bedroom, bathroom kitchen)
i've done about 5 of them. 4 of them total gut jobs.
hvac depends on how big the structure is currently. if there's no existing vents you are probably looking at 10k for vents, and 10k for an hvac unit. i had a 3500 sq ft home that i did 3 years ago and i used to two separate units. saves you more in energy cost rather than trying to heat and cool a house that large with one unit.
top flight kitchen can cost you anywhere from 25k to 250k. just depends on your budget, taste, and crew you hire.
finished basement. are you doing this as added space for you and your family to live in or do you want to make it into an income property? all of my basements have been converted into legal apartments. good source of income from an overlooked space. you have to get permits pulled, or pull them yourself, you need legal egress windows, and you need fire/carbon detectors. you can do a bare bones budget renovation for about 15k or you can do a more saucy reno for more value (put in dishwasher, washer/dryer, bamboo floors, lighting, updated baths, etc.).
This is my girlfriend's kitchen somewhere in Silver Spring. We're almost done with the renovation. All that's left is to hang up some paintings we're waiting for, and touch up on the paint job in some corners here and there. It took us about 2 months because we both have pretty demanding careers and have been busy.
The entire thing cost us roughly $2100 but that's because we were pretty frugal and did most of the work ourselves. Some things like getting the cabinets, counter-top and flooring installed, we outsourced to a local contractor who did the work under the table for cheap. Everything else like the backsplash tile and painting, we did together.
This is my girlfriend's kitchen somewhere in Silver Spring. We're almost done with the renovation. All that's left is to hang up some paintings we're waiting for, and touch up on the paint job in some corners here and there. It took us about 2 months because we both have pretty demanding careers and have been busy.
The entire thing cost us roughly $2100 but that's because we were pretty frugal and did most of the work ourselves. Some things like getting the cabinets, counter-top and flooring installed, we outsourced to a local contractor who did the work under the table for cheap. Everything else like the backsplash tile and painting, we did together.
pretty good work...i just have one small peeve...non matching appliances! lol, it's just one of those things that gets to me but, otherwise good job.
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lol, it's just one of those things that gets to me but, otherwise good job.
