Cost to remove conservatory

cascaid

Hi,

Just looking for a rough idea of what it would cost to remove a conservatory. We bought our house 3 months ago and it has a poorly built second-hand conservatory that we would like to get rid of, any ideas?? Would prefer the space in the garden!

Just looking for the cost of removing the conservatory, we can deal with the base at a later date.

Thanks!

PasturesNew

Depending on how it's attached to your house - and the potential for "damage by careless idiots", you could try putting it on sites like gumtree/freecycle as a "take it down, take it away, for free" conservatory.... there might just be somebody with a van/trailer who thinks they have the skills to erect it on their own house.

cascaid

PasturesNew wrote: »

Depending on how it's attached to your house - and the potential for "damage by careless idiots", you could try putting it on sites like gumtree/freecycle as a "take it down, take it away, for free" conservatory.... there might just be somebody with a van/trailer who thinks they have the skills to erect it on their own house.

Not attached very well by the looks of it, when we get bad rain it comes in to the conservatory via a hole between conservatory and back wall of the house!!

Dan-Dan

Well , i did the same , some manky old lean to ran the width of the house , me and my brothers took it down , broke it up as much as we could and hired a skip to get rid


hard work , and you have to be careful in what order you take it down to avoid getting killed by falling glass windows but for the price of a few beers and a skip - £250

So look along those lines if you get a local handyman in.....(assuming you cant DIY)

Dan-Dan

Oh , and you dont realise how much work ripping the base up could turn out

a week or so later and i had the jackhammer out , breaking up a 4 x 3 concrete slab , and carting that 100 foot to another skip , gave me a light work out

Ebe_Scrooge

20 quid for one of these :
http://www.diy.com/hand-tools/mac-allister-forged-steel-sledge-sledge-hammer-7lb/677187_BQ.prd


Say something in the order of 100 quid or so for one of these :
http://www.skiphirenetwork.org/


A few pints to bribe a couple of fit young lads from the neighbourhood (if you don't want/aren't able to do it yourself) - can't be more than a day's work

Furts

I have arranged a conservatory removal through a conservatory company who manufacture and also install if the consumer wants that. I wanted the installation so asked them to also price up removing an existing asbestos conservatory. Unbelievably this was quoted at a nominal sum - around £100 or so. I said yes please!

paulpud

I put my conservatory on ebay, for sale on a 'take it down & take it away' basis. It was a few years old, in ok condition but the roof wasn't very good. It made over £400 and the conservatory was gone in a week.

macman

To state the obvious, what are you going to place along the division line between the house and conservatory. If that's open, you'll need to rebuild the wall or doors to the garden, which may cost much more than demolishing a conservatory.
You haven't given nearly enough info for even a guesstimate. Size of conservatory, type of construction, does it have dwarf masonry walls etc?

Dan-Dan

macman wrote: »

To state the obvious, what are you going to place along the division line between the house and conservatory. If that's open, you'll need to rebuild the wall or doors to the garden, which may cost much more than demolishing a conservatory.
You haven't given nearly enough info for even a guesstimate. Size of conservatory, type of construction, does it have dwarf masonry walls etc?

I think possibly the OP might have taken this into consideration before deciding to arrange removal of the `conservatory`

WobblyDog

It does raise the question of what the side of the house will look like when the conservatory is gone. I've got an extremely shoddy conservatory on the side of my quite nice house, which I'd like to have either removed or replaced (including the shoddy foundations). Some people I've talked to say removal would be a bad idea, because the bricks inside the conservatory will have weathered differently to those outside.