You've got the keys. Now where do you start?
The roof, the wiring, the damp, the kitchen — an old house needs everything doing at once. Generic to-do apps don't know that you rewire before you plaster, fix the gutters before you treat the "rising damp", or test for asbestos before you rip out the Artex. The Old House Renovation Planner does. It's built specifically for period properties, probate houses and "projects" in the UK.
Know what to do first
- Safety & priority triage — 18 yes/no questions (gas, wiring, asbestos, roof leaks, cracks, rot, mould, lead pipes and more) build a prioritised action plan and explain why each job comes first.
- Smart Order — ranks open tasks by safety, phase, deadlines and how many other jobs are waiting on each one. Tasks that depend on unfinished work are held back automatically.
- 12-phase roadmap — from Survey & Make Safe through to Exterior & Garden, with progress, estimates and spend for every phase. Load about 50 typical old-house tasks in the right order with one click.
- Warnings for your house — tell it the build era and wall type and it flags lime and breathability, asbestos, lead and wiring risks, listed building and conservation area rules, and the 5% VAT rate for long-empty homes.
Control the money
- Budget with contingency — set a budget per category. Accepted quotes count as committed before you've paid a penny, so you see trouble coming.
- Quote comparison — quotes for the same job side by side with VAT normalised, the spread, each quote against the median, and a "suspiciously cheap — check the scope" flag.
- Stage payments — the typical 10/40/40/10 split with retention, or your own. Marking a stage paid logs it as spending automatically.
- Spending log & materials list — VAT, receipts, room and phase for every payment, monthly charts and CSV export; materials tracked from needed to ordered to delivered.
Beat the damp
- Damp & mould log — humidity, temperature, wall-surface temperature and moisture readings with automatic dew point, condensation risk and trend charts.
- "What kind of damp?" diagnosis — works out whether a patch is condensation, penetrating damp, rising damp or a plumbing leak before someone sells you a chemical injection.
Stay organised
- Calendar — trades, deliveries and inspections, with deadlines, quote expiries, stage payments and certificate renewals pulled in automatically. Exports to Google, Apple or Outlook.
- 9 expert checklists — Day One Safety, Survey Review, Hiring a Tradesperson, Before Strip-out, Before Plastering, Before Decorating, Room Completion, Winterising and Paperwork to Keep for Resale.
- Rooms, trades & documents — room dimensions and original features, tradespeople with Gas Safe/NICEIC/FENSA and insurance checks, and certificates with expiry alerts.
- Before & after photos — a drag-to-compare slider, plus a "services" tag so you photograph cables and pipes before the plaster goes on.
- 9 calculators — paint, plaster, flooring, tiles, wallpaper, loft insulation, VAT, contingency and skip size. Plus a snagging list and a decisions log.
36-guide Advice Library
Plain-English, UK-specific guides on damp types, black mould, why old walls need to breathe, asbestos, lead, old wiring and EICRs, structural cracks, the order of works, quotes and contracts, Building Regs, listed buildings, the Party Wall Act, VAT savings, roofs, chimneys, sash windows, rot, heating, solid-wall insulation, lime plaster and living on a building site.
Private by design
Everything stays in your browser — no account, no subscription, nothing uploaded. Back up to a file (photos included), restore on another device, and print a full project report. A fully populated sample project (a Victorian terrace mid-renovation) lets you explore every feature straight away.
General guidance only — not a substitute for a professional survey or advice on site.
Like all Nexior Gray products, the Old House Renovation Planner is a single HTML file — open it in any browser and it works immediately. No installation, no account, no subscription. Buy once and it's yours.
Get the Old House Renovation Planner — £19.00 →
