Which Renovation Should You Do First?

I built the scoring from the patterns I see across real jobs. Each answer you give nudges certain projects up the rankings. Tired kitchen plus a terraced house plus a £60k budget plus a medium garden tends to point at a kitchen or side return extension. No downstairs bathroom in a flat points at a bathroom fit-out. I weighted the questions the way I'd weight them sat across the table from you. The top result is what I'd suggest most often for your situation, not some generic tick-box answer. It's a starting point for a conversation, not a substitute for one.

It's tailored to the kind of property you told me about and the situation you described. It isn't a survey of your actual house. Two people with the same answers get the same recommendation. What it won't catch is a rotten joist, a subsidence crack you haven't noticed, or the fact that your loft's head height is too low for a conversion. For that I need to walk through the place with you. Use the tool to narrow the options, then let me see the property before you commit a budget to any of it.

No, and I'd be suspicious of any tool that tells you to. The top recommendation is usually right for the situation as described, but renovation is personal. If the second or third option is what you'd actually enjoy living with every day, that's more important than a scoring algorithm. A kitchen extension might win on paper, but if you're desperate to escape a cold, damp flat, the damp work wins because it's the thing keeping you up at night. Use the ranking to understand the options. Pick the one that makes sense for your life.