Re-aligning internal walls

last year

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for all the discussion, have learned a lot going through the discussion forum. It’s have been very informative.

Need your guidance on my renovation work- some basic info -

House is weatherboard house build in 1980. Has been Maintained in decent condition.

Recently, we have bought a property, looking at doing internal renovation. Summary as follows

In the below floor plan, thinking of removing the dining and bath in center of the house. Then extending the bedrooms and living to the center of the house, hence enlarging the bedroom size. One of the walls in the end of the bathroom is a load bearing wall, hence would require adding in a beam to support the structure. Please see the revised floor plan 2nd image.
Looking at extending my living area to include Deck area. Deck has existing roof and concrete stumps. I have been advised by architect that we could use the existing roof and stumps for the extension. Would need enclose the area.

Can someone please advise some rough estimate how much each of the renovation cost. If you have any contact of builder you have worked, please share the details. Thank you

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Pratheep Palanivel
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last year
Not sure previous image didn’t get uploaded
bigreader
last year
Is the family meals kitchen an extension? Are you sure there are no other load bearing walls?
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dreamer
last year
What state/city/country are you in?
Pratheep Palanivel
Original Author
last year
Meals kitchen we r not planning on renovating now. May be few years later. Thank u
Pratheep Palanivel
Original Author
last year
Based in melbourne australia
bigreader
last year
We can’t help you if you don’t answer our questions.
Pratheep Palanivel
Original Author
last year
Sorry didn’t realize missed the beam part of the question.
My apologies, load bearing walls that we would be moving in our renovation would be only 2 load bearing walls -
one on the master bedroom for fitting in en-suite. We would be taking some space from both bedroom (BIR and second bedroom)
Second on the bath area in the center of the house, to make it open space.
Rest all load bearing walls would not moved during renovation.
Sorry please advise if u need any further information thank u
Thank you.

Re-aligning internal walls

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