Casa Covão

   

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We are having this property renovated and work is due to start soon, please be aware that as different jobs are completed the asking price will be increased, see below for more details. To see the most recent photos of the work please click here

Casa Covão is a small detached house for renovation. Only a few minutes drive to a train station and in walking distance of a bar and restaurant. The cottage is over 100 years old, west facing and has two floors overlooking a quiet valley. The garden is small but still very usable, it is flat and grassed, with more than enough room for a picnic bench, barbecue and flowerbeds etc, it catches the sun right through the day and has a plum tree and two peach trees. There is also a small part above the house which could be used for lying out in the sun, or just enjoying the view across the valley. The house stands above a quiet road to Serpins on a wooded hillside in an area called Pisão do Covão. The town of Serpins with a bank machine, Post Office, school mini-market and the train station are less than 5 minutes drive (or taxi ride) making the place and ideal holiday home. From Serpins trains to Coimbra (one hour) run every hour, from there trains can be taken to the nearest airport at Porto (two hours) Lisbon (three hours) and the Algarve. Coimbra is half an hour by car and has a number of new shopping centres, a large hospital, a university, a football stadium and many bars and restaurants.

 

Work will commence on this property on the 8th April.  As the work progresses the asking price will be increased accordingly, descriptions of the work which we intend to complete plus phases and corresponding price increases are listed below. The final price of 82,000€ is subject to valuation on completion and therefore may change.

 

The finished property will have three bedrooms, a large lounge, stairs between floors, new bathroom, fitted kitchen, balcony and small garden.  The house will have a brand-new internally boarded roof, be plastered and painted throughout, wood or tile floors laid in all rooms, double glazed windows and doors fitted, bread oven in the kitchen restored and wood burner fitted in lounge.

 

Phase 1

New roof throughout -

            New beams treated for rot and woodworm

            First quality boarding treated for rot and woodworm

            Roofmate installation

            New Telha-Sol tiles

New concrete block wall to enclose the new bathroom.

Application to the council for connection of water

 

Price for phase 1 - 49,000€

 

Phase 2

Replace floor joists and lay wood floors upstairs with treated first quality boards

Restore balcony

Wiring of electric throughout

 

Price for phase 2 - 58,000€

 

Phase 3

Build cesspit and plumb drainage

Lay concrete floors with cement additive and waterproof membrane

Concrete block walls built for downstairs hallway

Build staircase

 

Price for phase 3 - 64,000€

 

Phase 4

Plaster and paint inside and out

Lay floor tiles throughout

Restore breadoven

 

Price for phase 4 - 72,000€

 

Phase 5

New bathroom

New fitted kitchen

Doubleglazed windows and front door fitted

Internal doors fitted

Plumbing

Woodburner fitted

Gutters fitted

Plug sockets and light switches fitted

Price for phase 5 Completed project - 82,000€

 

The price for each phase will come into effect as soon as the work on that phase begins. Please note that the work detailed above and the prices are only projected and therefore may be subject to change.

 

Asking Price £26,000 (GBP) at present phase (see above)

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Please contact us for further details and please remember to take a look at the buyers guide for details of costs and procedures.