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Cost to knock down an internal wall and rebuild another?
GrumpyTeacher
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Hope this is the right place!
I know it varies but so I know what too look for when asking for quotes wondered what your opinions might be.
We want to knock through the kitchen into the lounge and build a new wall to create a smaller lounge and a kitchen diner where kitchen currently is. Wall running along conservatory is obv external.
Would we need any RSJs?
Thanks!
I know it varies but so I know what too look for when asking for quotes wondered what your opinions might be.
We want to knock through the kitchen into the lounge and build a new wall to create a smaller lounge and a kitchen diner where kitchen currently is. Wall running along conservatory is obv external.
Would we need any RSJs?
Thanks!
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If you are removing a load bearing wall, you will definitely need a RSJ.If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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We had a wall taken out between lounge and dining room, with rsj put in place and a wall reconstructed between what had been the kitchen and dining room.
Was part of larger project, the cost was something in the region of 2 to 2.5k including building regs sign off and the engineer calcs the council insisted on.
To keep costs down the reconstructed wall can be stud work and plasterboard rather than block.0 -
Thanks guys, we can knock the wall out and mum can do stud work so will just be for other labour and RSJ. Thanks!0
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emmajanekitchen wrote: »Thanks guys, we can knock the wall out:eek: and mum can do stud work so will just be for other labour and RSJ. Thanks!
Your initial post suggests that perhaps you shouldn't be the one knocking walls out
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Haha I get your point. By we I meant myself my partner and my mum... Mother has decades of renovation experience... I'm on my second refurb now but never changed anything structural. Either way I'll prob end up being the tea maker...0
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Milk and two sugars, please love."You did not pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You were lucky enough to come of age at a time when housing was cheap, welfare was generous, and inflation was high enough to wipe out any debts you acquired. I’m pleased for you, but please stop being so unbearably smug about it."0
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dont forget the calcs!Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.0
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oh , and the Hob-nobsNever, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.0
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emmajanekitchen wrote: »Haha I get your point. By we I meant myself my partner and my mum... Mother has decades of renovation experience... I'm on my second refurb now but never changed anything structural. Either way I'll prob end up being the tea maker...
But knocking down a load bearing wall is structural. Are you going to ask Newton to stop the laws of gravity working in the time between you removing the wall and the RSJ being in place?"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius0 -
I see what you mean. I dunno, I remember knocking a wall out at my mums to save costs, think they installed the joist and we then took down the wall.
It was just an idea... And an excuse to possibly vent some frustrations as I remember it being quite cathartic!0
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