My extension

[dirty boy]

You see plenty of people asking 'how much' for this etc.

Well, here's what i'm planning to do.....



A two story extension onto the side of the house measuring 2.7m wide by 6.6m long. (These drawings have been amended very slightly for a couple of reasons)

Anyway.

Costs....

Description	Cost
Architect	795.00
Planning app/sub/insp	610.00
Engineer (quote)	352.50
Drainage Pipes/Connectors	102.56
Footings Materials*	752.87
Labour to date	500.00

• Blocks/Bricks/Ballast/Sand/Cement/Cement Mixer (yes)/Lintels (over drains)/Delivery etc

Basically everything to get me up to DPC. I've been told another £250.00 for labour to get the blocks/bricks laid (22 blocks/260 bricks) so i've added that into my labour to date.


So, in theory, ready for the bricklayer, i'll have spent £3,112.93 scary isn't it!

I've just managed to secure 7N blocks £7.05 per square metre, which i'm told is pretty good, I hope so anyway, as it's my wife's cousin who's getting them for us.

Bricklayer working Sundays only for £80 a day. Suits me.

I'll try and keep it updated and add photos later.

[Slagathore]

I'd probably remove your address from the image. Assuming it's your address?

[B17NNS]

Just over £3k to get out of the ground is not expensive.

[Busamav]

I suspect you could get the engineers calcs for half that

[D14 AYS]

Have you actually dug the footings yet? No costs for muck away in your figures.

[herbialfa]

& here was me slated on here a few months back saying you couldn't do a job like that for that sort of price eh?????

:-(

[D14 AYS]

herbialfa said:

& here was me slated on here a few months back saying you couldn't do a job like that for that sort of price eh?????

:-(

He hasn't done it yet!

[Si 330]

I think he means architects fee's.

[Si 330]

Busamav said:

I suspect you could get the engineers calcs for half that

They do look quiet a bit for very little.

[Piglet]

D14 AYS said:

Have you actually dug the footings yet? No costs for muck away in your figures.

We had a stonking result with out muck out - bloke over the road was laying a new driveway in a field that he owned - he was very very happy to have our hardcore and muck

[Mattt]

Nice Mercedes

[DonnyMac]

Mattt said:

Nice Mercedes

What are you talking about? It’s clearly a Ford Ka

[finlo]

Thats exactly the sort of job i've just compleated and allthough i did'nt keep a fully accurate tally it came in somewhere between £15,000 and £20,000.

But and its a big but i did most of the work myself, quotes i had for the job ranged between £60,000 and £140,000

[dirty boy]

D14 AYS said:

Have you actually dug the footings yet? No costs for muck away in your figures.

All dug, drains moved (there were 3 convening right in the middle of where I started digging lol!

Soil is all on front drive, garden is about 100ft long and not level, so soil is going there.

[MuffDaddy]

@finlo

I'd be interested in hearing more. We have just had a bid on a house accepted and I'm looking to almost double the floorspace with a two floor extension. Because I am mindful of costs I was looking to get the ground floor and first floor in place and maybe the structural part of the loft and then finish off myself. I'm a little nervous of the costs though.

[herbialfa]

Muff!

A friend of mine had roughly the same sort of job done, including an En Suite and converting the existing loft into a bedroom, all for £40K

Thats in Norfolk! & he had builders in, didn't do anything himself other than paint!

[dirty boy]

DonnyMac said:

Mattt said:

Nice Mercedes

What are you talking about? It’s clearly a Ford Ka

You'll note the 'for sale' sign.

That was taken just before we had our offer accepted.

[Si 330]

I did a ruff costing on the plans shown by the OP and came up with £38K + vat.

[MuffDaddy]

herbialfa, that is interesting. I've got all kinds of figures around the 80k in mind. I've done a knock up in MSPaint (the architects choice). Top is the original floorplan, bottom is the target:



I want a shell as I can do kitchens/bathrooms myself.


ETF image.

Edited by MuffDaddy on Friday 26th March 10:15

[dirty boy]

Si 330 said:

I did a ruff costing on the plans shown by the OP and came up with £38K + vat.

That's fair enough, but i'd fall over and die if I had to pay that. I've been quoted £24k (IIRC - was a while back) by a building company to do the lot.



I'd imagine i'll have it done for about £15k.