Removal of internal load bearing wall, how much approximately?

Berni967

I have recently had a quote for removing an internal wall between my front room and dining room which I think is really steep. The job was to remove the wall, approx. 6 foot wide, put in RSJ and make good, plastering, skirting etc of area and small dining room. The quote was £7000, not knowing how much costs for building work I have no idea if this is taking the mick. How much should this work approx. cost, any ideas. I will be getting some more quotes and would like to know the round about cost.

macduf

No more than £2.500 without seeing it

Vomityspice

£7000!!:eek:

That is really outrageous.

I (with the help of a friend who is a builder), installed a 3m beam in my old house. The dividing wall had already been removed and the beam hidden under the plasterboard was a wooden one! It must have cost the idiot (who was a builder!) more to order a timber beam that size that to buy an RSJ!

It had to be swapped out, so after talking to a local civil engineer (for the load bearing calculation needed by the building control for the local Council - cost £320) ordered the RSJ (£80 - 5 years ago from a steal supplier in Daventry), hired 8 Acro props and then set about installing the new beam. Took two evenings (we both had real jobs). The only other cost was the Local Authority's building control fee of £100. Miffed that I had to pay £100 for the man to turn up at the house, read the load bearing calculations, grunt, look for no more than 30secs at the piers the beam was resting on, before !!!!!!ing off!

The beam then was plasterboarded up and skimmed (i think about £120??)

Whilst I realise you might not fancy doing it yourself, you might be better getting some more quotes as £7k is over the top

Doozergirl

You could build a small extension for £7000!

Really, get a few more quotes. Knocking it down, supporting it and then putting a steel in is not the most difficult job in the world.

retireby50

We had a wall (about 2.5M) removed and 4M RSJ put in for £800. You can add on to that the plasterbord/plastering and building regs/planning/calcs, but you'd struggle to get much above £1200.

ukwoody

I agree. That price seems well over the top. A customer of mine had a wall done last year and the cost was about £2500 and that included the cost of the structural engineer.

Woody

madeane

Hi I think that they must be over quoting because they do not want the job!! Totally over the top. Around about £1500 for the work but without looking is hard to tell. You really need to go through building regs (local council) and make sure that you have plans drawn up by a structural engineer and that should be around £350. This will be beneficial to you should you sell the property in future and will prove that it has all been carried out appropriately. £1850 total I think would be reasonable but depends where you live!!

nelly_2

I'll doo it for 6 grand

timtav

My friend had one done in 2009 for £700 total. Not sure if you even need building regs or planning for an internal wall.

bosseyed

timtav wrote: »

My friend had one done in 2009 for £700 total. Not sure if you even need building regs or planning for an internal wall.

You'll need building control sign off as its a structural wall. Either council or approved inspector.

And £7,000! Ho! Not in this lifetime. We had the wall between kitchen and dining room opened up, was just over £1,000 all in, that was to make a 6ft wide hole in the wall, put in new RSJ, board it all up and then replaster the entire thing.

Clive_Woody

bosseyed wrote: »

You'll need building control sign off as its a structural wall. Either council or approved inspector.

And £7,000! Ho! Not in this lifetime. We had the wall between kitchen and dining room opened up, was just over £1,000 all in, that was to make a 6ft wide hole in the wall, put in new RSJ, board it all up and then replaster the entire thing.

This thread is almost two years old, I suspect the OP has moved on a bit since then.