Three Ways You Can Add Value To Your Home In Sheffield

House prices are remaining somewhat stagnant in recent years due to the current economic situation. All the while, inflation is devaluing your money so any cash you have in your savings account is decreasing in value and slowly burning away. Now is a great time to invest that cash into home improvement. There are many ways to re-invest your cash back into your house and even if you don’t have the skills to do it yourself, it is most likely going to be worth hiring a professional plumber in Sheffield and builder to aid you as the value added will be more than the cash invested.
Three great ways you can increase the value of your home and make the most of your money are:-

Renovating the bathroom or adding a second bathroom
If you have an old, grubby bathroom, it will have a detrimental effect on the value of your home. Estate agents will know it will effect buyer’s decisions and they will go in with a lower price to clinch the sale. To resolve this you can spend as little as £1000 replacing all the fittings with sparkly new ones, then perhaps re-tiling the floor and re-painting the walls. This will give your bathroom a vibrant new look and will make a huge difference in the value of your home (as much as 3%). Even when you don’t have the skills to do it all yourself, hire the right professionals in to aid you with the renovation and you will still see good return on investment. Just make sure you have a professional Sheffield plumber to oversee or complete any reworking of the plumbing systems; the last thing you would want is to have a leaky new bathroom.

Central Heating
Homes without central heating are much harder to sell than homes that do have central heating. It is a luxury that buyers want and expect when buying a new home. You can spend as little as £1000 on central heating but can add over four times that amount to the value of your home. Just be sure to use plumber in Sheffield that is qualified to work with central heating.

A new Kitchen
People spend a lot of their time in the kitchen, cooking, washing and cleaning. A new kitchen with modern features can add up to 5% on the value of the house. Kitchens are often a big deciding factor in buying a house so a house with a good kitchen can get a higher price than an equivalent house with a bad kitchen. There is no need to spend excessive amounts; the amount you spend on the new kitchen should be proportional to the current value of the home. You should also make sure you hire the right people to fit and install the kitchen, a lot of money can be lost from DIY disasters and it’s often a good idea to just spend that little bit extra to get it professionally installed by a qualified Sheffield Plumber.

By: Keith Butcher

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