On Tuesday, 30 July 2019 09:40:41 UTC+1, wrote:
HI, I've been reading about single brick House difficulties. I'm thinking about buying an old cottage which is single brick. Nobody can get a mortgage on it- and the price hs obviously been reduced because of this.
I would be cash buying.
Questions are would professional good quality external wall insulation make it mortgageable in the future(I'm not planning on flipping, I'd like to live there for years) or does it always remain unmortgageable unless a second layer of brick and cavity is built? I think the cost would be about £15,000 for externally insulating a small 3-bed bungalow/cottage?
I haven't found information about building a second brick layer on an existing house-Is this never done/is it too prohibitively expensive, or too complex because of the problems of building around an existing house?
Thanks

Thanks for all your input everyone. Certainly, some things to think about, Cheers