Hello all, good to meet you

We're a housing co-operative of 8 adults, called Random Camel. We're in the final stages of buying 3 terraced houses in Ipswich, Suffolk, 2 of them conjoined, all adjacent - the last 3 of what was a whole terraced street.

These properties have been under the same ownership for up to 70 years, having been gradually bought up by a couple who produced 9 children, who all grew up there. Theyre beautiful, but need lots of work.
A partial concrete raft has been installed to remediate subsidence - the vendors insurance company paid almost 30,000 for that (but it took them 2 years to agree grrr!)
We've had them DPC'ed with silicone injection, and the timber treated for wet rot/ beetle.
Roofing works are scheduled to do with replacing lead flashing etc.
We're assessing the chimneys and fireplaces (multiple) for suitability for woodburners, preferably with backboiler to feed into CH system and for hot water, with future options for solar thermal feed-in.
The houses have no insulation and are solid wall, with original lime horsehair plaster throughout. We're researching hemcrete for internal and external application via cast and shuttering. We costed out a few other breathable methods and this came out cheapest, though we're finalising specifics of its application and have questions to post up in another category on this forum...
All but one of the windows is single glazed timber frame some sash. We are going to make wooden double glazed windows to replace them.

We're currently in the midst of rewiring and removing dead plaster, scraping walls and repointing/ replastering.

It's all a bit much!! My head is spinning from the oftimes conflicting information about best options, and our budget is steadily dwindling from the original 30,000 dedicated to day 1 works.
This forum seems like a great space to get support.

I will be posting lots of questions about the various elements of our project, and hope to get help from your fine people. Having browsed through the forums i'm already confounded by technical language, so will ask people if they can set things out in layman's terms. Im really excited about learning all these new skills!

Here's our blog with pics of the houses and our work:
randomcamelcoop.blogspot.com

Gemma x