esme_rents
Property investor
I have outlined the rooms and systems to be renovated, but I am not yet confident that the preliminary allowance matches the actual scope. The current figure is €51,560 for a 235 m² detached home in Milan.
The plan includes work to the kitchen and bathrooms, new flooring and paint, checks to the electrics, and moderate improvements to energy performance. There is no planned extension. My concern is less about expensive finishes than concealed defects, access problems and trades having to repeat work because the sequence was wrong.
What contingency would be sensible before the surveys and quotations are complete? I also want each contractor to state exactly what is excluded, whether the electrical allowance covers testing only or remedial work, how plumbing and moisture issues will be investigated, and which materials have long ordering periods. Although structural alterations are not intended, what should the surveyor examine so that this does not remain an untested assumption in the contract price?
The plan includes work to the kitchen and bathrooms, new flooring and paint, checks to the electrics, and moderate improvements to energy performance. There is no planned extension. My concern is less about expensive finishes than concealed defects, access problems and trades having to repeat work because the sequence was wrong.
What contingency would be sensible before the surveys and quotations are complete? I also want each contractor to state exactly what is excluded, whether the electrical allowance covers testing only or remedial work, how plumbing and moisture issues will be investigated, and which materials have long ordering periods. Although structural alterations are not intended, what should the surveyor examine so that this does not remain an untested assumption in the contract price?