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p24296

pk83 wrote: »

That's very reasonable for a contractor nadnad - does that include kitchen & bathroom as well?

Hi p24296, is £65 per sq foot through a contractor? I'm trying to work out the difference in price between going with a contractor and getting a builder to do blockwork and roof and then getting the rest of the trades in myself.

Thanks,

PK

Yes that was a contractor, we have our plans with 2 other contractors and with a few tradesmen as well to see how it works out doing it totally ourselves. We had a quote of £11000 for labout for all blockwork and have a set of plans with a local builders merchants for calculation of how many blocks, slates, etc we would need.

nadnad

pk83 wrote: »

That's very reasonable for a contractor nadnad - does that include kitchen & bathroom as well?

Hi p24296, is £65 per sq foot through a contractor? I'm trying to work out the difference in price between going with a contractor and getting a builder to do blockwork and roof and then getting the rest of the trades in myself.

Thanks,

PK

no it didnt include kitchen and bathroom but we did have avery high standard of finish everywhere which was included. we used a local family firm with an excellant longstanding reputation.

i have to say that unless you know a bit about building and have good contacts I would never build a house myself without a contractor. It was stressful enough at times even with him. Its a full time job building a house or supervising the build and I know people who have nearly tipped over the edge with stress doing it themselves. Also lask of expereince can mean costly mistakes. Having been through it all and thinking back there is no way we could have organised the build.

nadnad

CL wrote: »

Great, we are having underfloor heating and have just asked for a quote for triple glazing.

Where did you get your windows Nadnad?

By the way we are in NI so yes the Leeds Building Society will lend here.

i could be wrong but think it was orchard windows in loughgall just down the road from us - i'll double check that - very very reasonable for triple glazing.

nadnad

p24296 wrote: »

Talking about underfloor heating, we had included that in the house but each of the builders that we have spoken to are totally against it saying that it's really hard on oil but I would have thought that if your house was really well insulated as ours will be, then there wouldn't be the need to have it on constantly and so it would be easier on oil.
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we have triple glazing, composite external doors and kingspan 100mm insulation in the wall cavity and the roofspace, so our house is really well insulated and we haven't used that much oil. I

n the beginning I think more oil is used until house is dried out and then it really settles down. Each room has a thermostat and the house holds the heat really well our heating didnt click itself on from mid April until just recently!! We have the oil heating the water fr an hour in the morning and evening and that was it.

Also underfloor heating is a much nicer warmth it never gets hot and stuffy the way radiators sometimes can, the house stays at roughly the same temp all day long.

Can I just advise though if you get it you really need to tile the flors - cos tiles conduct the heat much more effieciently than wood or carpet. We tiled our whole house, we bought tiles that look like wooden floor for the bedrooms (and its really good - EVERYONE has had to kneel down and tap the floor cos they haven't believed us!)

Also our builder has underfloor heating and he thinks its fantastic as well.

And just one more point - we have quite a big house with loads of windows and big rooms, now that the house is built we have realised if we had put radiators in they would have been everywhere we would have needed loads to keep house warm! (and also they are ugly!)

pk83

Thanks for the advice guys,

Kind regards,

PK

ciaran120

I'm being quoted between £45 and £50 per sq foot to have my 3,400 sq ft self-build home completed. Typically after the contractor completes his portion based on this pricing what exactly will still need to be done? and how much additional should I budget for this?

CL

ciaran120 wrote: »

I'm being quoted between £45 and £50 per sq foot to have my 3,400 sq ft self-build home completed. Typically after the contractor completes his portion based on this pricing what exactly will still need to be done? and how much additional should I budget for this?

It's pretty much impossible to say without knowing what is included in the builders quotes, Kitchen? bathroom? Flooring?

Have you specified all of your internal and external electrical points, most builders quote on the bare minimum, but with a house that size I'm presuming you would like to have a lot of sockets, telephone, data points, etc

ciaran120

Does anyone know what a guideline cost would be for a self-build these days?

Would prices have fallen from a peak of around £75 per sq foot in the summer of 2007 to around £45 per sq foot in the spring of 2011?

Would £45 per sq foot to have my 3,400 sq ft self-build home completed be a good guideline to work from?

This works out to be a total price of £150,000 using roof tiles (not slates). How accurate is this?

mofopants

we had a timber frame company out with us a few weeks ago and they told us that £75 is still a realistic figure. Quite scary when we know someone who built a few years ago (2 or so) for approx £50 per sq foot.