Knocking down walls

little_lass

Hi
We have a highly recommended builder who has quoted for knocking down lots of load bearing internal walls in our new house.
Quote includes all plumbing, elecs and making good.

Do you think it looks fair?

Thanks

[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]- knock through the archway to widen between living room and dining room £1500[/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]
- flatten wall to chimney in living room, inse[/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]rt flue ready for [/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]woodburner (woodburner not inc) £1500[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]- remove wall between dining room and alleyway - adding [/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]lintel £1500[/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]
- remove wall between kitchen and staircase - adding lintel £2000[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]- remove wall between dining room and alleyway £1500[/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]
- knock a door from kitchen into garage £500[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]- knock a hole for french doors in kitchen £2000 (including doors)[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]- remove decorative bricking from dining room and back bedroom £500[/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]
- feed electrics back into walls where required £500[/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]
- skim walls where required £1500[/FONT][FONT=Calibri,sans-serif]
[/FONT] Replace cylinders with new non vented cylinder and possibly move boiler to garage. £2250 estimated (dependent on fittings required)
Create WC under stairs £1250


£16500 + VAT

Dan-Dan

Christ , your house will be rattling , i hope your detached.....

Where are you?

I`m in home counties, i paid £650 + vat for a load bearing wall of 3 meters to be removed and steel inserted

little_lass

Thanks Dan Dan. I'm in the Midlands.

Hmm, so my individual costs look higher than what you paid for one wall.
Was that inc making good and elecs if needed?

Dan-Dan

It included making good (skirting, plastering) but it had no electric work requried

HaydenB

I had six RSJ's installed of varying sizes and two concrete lintels. Cost was around £5k.

Doozergirl

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Christ , your house will be rattling , i hope your detached.....

Where are you?

I`m in home counties, i paid £650 + vat for a load bearing wall of 3 meters to be removed and steel inserted

And skimmed and woodwork finished? Skip provided by builders? Building control and structural engineer involved?

OP, has a structural engineer calculated all of that for you? That's frightening number of walls to remove in one go.

The prices look pretty fair to me except you seem to have counted the wall between the dining room and alleyway twice?

Dan-Dan

Doozergirl wrote: »

And skimmed and woodwork finished? Skip provided by builders? Building control and structural engineer involved?

I had lots going on , it was an easy job for the builder to do at the same time

I paid for the calcs and building control to come out

dermonte

Ok we got 3 rsj for a wall and 1 rsj for the wall adjacent to the other wall. 3 rsj connected to 1 rsj to support half of my house. Then built a little bathroom on the corner and install a kitchen (kitchen and installing kitchen not included) on rest of space. Cost £14000.

JamesFenway

Fairly quote or not, whatever.... I suggest you get quote from other contractors as well to compare. Above all, you should consider your budget.