We are wanting to kick-start some renovations on our 1970's house this year and are wanting to do some of the work ourselves to keep the cost down. To give you an indication of handiness(?) capabilities - my husband gutted, re jibbed, plastered and painted one of our bedrooms (along with a lot of help from his builder brother) and we have done wallpaper stripping, lots of sanding, filling and painting doorframes/doors and are now wanting to start on some bigger projects.
1. Bathroom - Want can we realistically do ourselves? And what should we get professionals in for?
- Gutting bathroom - what is involved? - If doing ourselves what would we have to consider apart from turning off power and water?
- Relining walls with Aquajib - If framing is all good is there any reason we cannot just stick up new aqualine? When would we waterproof and how?
- Getting more powerpoints put in - electrician will do this.
- Plumber in to fit new vanity, shower over bath (will have to move shower-head, going from seperate box shower to shower over bath to create more space) - Would builder assist in building/creating space for bath?
- We aren't going to tile in the bathroom (perhaps do a small splash-back around the bath) but rather will just do paint/acrylic.
I realise I sound like a complete novice here (which we kind of are) lol, but WHO could I look for to project manage this for me? A builder or a project manager specific type person? How do you know in what order to do things??? And with a one year old - how long are we realistically looking to NOT have a working bathroom for? (Note toilet is separate).
Thanks in advance for any advice/comments and words of encouragement :)