the daydream fund challenge thread

Itismehonest

What's that for, choille? Blockwork?

choille

Complete build cost - work out the square metre of the internal floor area - that's how most builders will quote - per M2.

choille

Itismehonest wrote: »

What's that for, choille? Blockwork?

I'll be down tomorrow to do it if it was!

Itismehonest

:rotfl:

Yes, I understand that part but I meant what finish?
e.g. Our newbuilds were blockwork with stone face. The conversions were blockwork inside existing stone buildings.

choille

Timber kit with block work rendered - stone work is obviously much more expensive.

Itismehonest

Yes but then we are in a national park with all its' additional planning laws. Nothing comes cheap
Is rozee (rozee are you there?!) doing a newbuild or renovation or what? I can't make that out from previous posts

choille

Don't know if it's a thrush or not, but it appeared a couple of months back with a broken wing.

http://wildwritingfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2011/12/big-girls-new-wee-pal.html

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Yes but then we are in a national park with all its' additional planning laws. Nothing comes cheap
Is rozee (rozee are you there?!) doing a newbuild or renovation or what? I can't make that out from previous posts

Rozee will be putting a 'proper' upstairs in a chalet bungalow that already has floors & appropriate height roof, but no roof windows, probably building an extension and possibly converting an integral garage.

I would think costs will be lower than new build because of the existence of usable floors, walls etc.;)

It's Wales, so she'd best allow a fortune for skimming the Artex though! :rotfl:

lostinrates

I agree with budget fr double. In old houses you sort of expect it, but in modern houses it happens too. e.g. my parents house is 70s and had an integral oil tank, which obviously needed to be put outside and should have revealed enough floor space for a good sized utility room....but.....the raised plinth it was on...making the base of it about four feet up insie the house, turned out to be SOLID concreate...just about four-five metres square of floor space of solid concrete.....where even when the oil tank inside would have been a nice storage space.....cost a bit to remve....

then there were the collapsing draine pipes.....


here the first work has brought the first budget buster quickly.....the original flag floor in the kitchen to be....the only downstairs original floor, turns out not to be floor flags but rather more likel to be facing stone of a rather grander building....and about half a foot thick. We had to break one, an now will have to break another but what should have been a days job to lift the flags...once loosened off the earth floor, is now a big job with these big stones having welded them selfs to well prepped base (better then any of the hole we dug for the font of the house.)


this part of the house looked flimsy...its ironic that the one part of the house we are ''detsroying'' (albeit to better restore)is stuck fast!

Itismehonest

Oh, you have my sympathies, LIR.
We got away without having to lift any of the original kitchen flags but previous owners had to lift & relay the flags in one of the other rooms because of a culvert running under the floor. They knew nothing about until it collapsed. Ooops.
Sadly, nobody seems to be able to lay flags like they used to (nor cobbles either, we've found) so instead of butting right up to each other there's now a grout line.