HELP SELFBUILD Newry area

notaclueselfbuild

Sorry but you must have me mistaken with someone I only joined today so this is my first time on. Sorry if I've asked same question as someone else but my intention was just to see how other people who have had a similar experience have ended up. I didn't especially want to come on and offend anyone or get slated. I was only looking some help and advice from people. I do feel that some of these comments are harsh to be fair.

Doozergirl

So the other person that posted this weekend lives in Northern Ireland, has a similarly sized house, only needs to have living, bedroom & bathroom operational, has virtually the same user name as you, asks pretty much the same question and the same habit for posting the same question on different boards?

Okay.

System

notaclueselfbuild wrote: »

Sorry but you must have me mistaken with someone I only joined today so this is my first time on. Sorry if I've asked same question as someone else but my intention was just to see how other people who have had a similar experience have ended up. I didn't especially want to come on and offend anyone or get slated. I was only looking some help and advice from people. I do feel that some of these comments are harsh to be fair.

Have you spoken to your partner about this site? Very suspicious that the threads are very similar, similar area and similar usernames

That house is an absolute monster. If a qs has priced it, ask them what they've allowed for, easiest way to know what you can get for your money!
Managing a build this large with little or no experience is going to be a huge task. If you are building with a mortgage be very careful as providers usually want a formal contract in place and either an nhbc registered contractor and qs valuations of work on site or certificates from an architect who is overseeing the works for them to release funds...

notaclueselfbuild

Genuilly I only came across this site today as had done a google search for house prices etc and saw similar posts on here and boards.ie etc I have never posted on here before. I know lot don't believe that but it's the truth and I'm sorry if I have offended anyone but I literally joined today and got the email to activate the account before could publish etc.
I feel bad now that you all think I have done that but I genuilly havent. I must go and try see that thread and see what answers they got.

Le_Kirk

Notwithstanding that you feel "abused" about double posting, helpful, knowledgeable people have given you good advice about the scale of what you are about to attempt.
For an explanation as to why people think it is double posting see this thread.

notaclueselfbuild

Ok fair enough I've now seen that thread. Thanks for directing me to it. Most defiently isn't me in that one. I really do appreciate all the advice and help I just didn't like been literally only onto a site and people accusing me of things I haven't done. I am an honest person myself so just don't like others thinking that of me. They are very similar posts no doubt about it but I genuilly posted here for first time yesterday in this thread. Only joined mse yesterday when saw it on a google search. Anyway not to worry. I did get it priced out by professional I was just wanting to hear how others have found a self build as you hear of so many people saying they done it over/under budget so that was all I was doing. We are not really stupid like we have taken advice on it. In this area most people take on self builds themselves as contractors knock on easily 30-40k per job so if we can manage this way we will continue. We have it almost at wall plate now so we aren't doing too bad.

Furts

Getting to wall plate is the easy part of a build, and with competent bricklayers, plus tips and guidance from them, it is child's play. Your baptism of fire is coming soon, and that will test your site management abilities. As a heads up, remember many developers have a finishing foreman because once the roof is on all hell can break loose.

With costings my alarm bells are starting to ring. You should have a budget and stage payments so everything should be on course. To raise concerns when you have already, yet only, got to wallplate strikes me as worrying and odd. Worrying because you have a long way to go and there are considerable costs in trades and finishes. Odd because the substantial cost saving areas have already been passed by - these being design, materials, cost engineering and so on.

cluelessselfbuilder

I am the other person who posted from Northern Ireland and I am no relation to this person, so the comments posted are not fair. I also am new to this forum, hence posting on a few boards as I didn't know where was best to post!

notaclueselfbuild

Hey thanks for replying. I am new so was same not sure where to post. What part of Northern Ireland are you hoping to build. We are Newry.

Saw in your post your hoping to build 3300 sqft approx. Have you a figure in mind how much it will cost you? We are hoping that 190/200k will hopefully get us in at least to ours we are 2950sqft. Hoping to try and save a bit along the way as our groundwork has cost us a lot todate.

Furts

notaclueselfbuild wrote: »

Hey thanks for replying. I am new so was same not sure where to post. What part of Northern Ireland are you hoping to build. We are Newry.

Saw in your post your hoping to build 3300 sqft approx. Have you a figure in mind how much it will cost you? We are hoping that 190/200k will hopefully get us in at least to ours we are 2950sqft. Hoping to try and save a bit along the way as our groundwork has cost us a lot todate.

You posted yesterday saying you were approaching wallplate. In recent time I have self built so have an idea of costs. If you hope on £200k from wall plate onwards I would say no chance. If you expect this from design onwards then it becomes even more fanciful.