Flat Pack House - From Argos!

marc.faulkner

I'm suprised that this hasn't already been posted (I've searched...but found nothing).

Argos, the High Street Retailler, are offering "Flat Pack Houses" from £11,000.

Obviously you'd need land on which to build it, however it's 1/10 of the price of the cheapest, dingiest flat in my area!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1123761.ece

I may have to start browsing land for sale.

PasturesNew

There have been loads of these for sale before. Only difference this time is it's Argos. I looked at those last week and thought they looked awful.

I've been checking out log cabin type of places for a few years now. There are some really nice ones (and mingers).

Here is the full range from that supplier:
http://www.finnforest.co.uk/default.asp?path=200;256;410;791;13469

Trollfever

I want one under my bridge.

Designed for use as a summerhouse

What are the winter heating costs?:snow_grin

glen8

£11,000 + £4.95 delivery charge

That's a classic! :rotfl:

Phirefly

Mr P and I stayed in a log cabin type thing last week on holiday and I thought to myself I could happily live like that....

Kez100

We have been considering putting one in our garden as we don't want to move and whne my parents come down we need another bedroom really now the children are older. Do you need to pay separate Band A (or whatever)council tax on them?

kingkano

Kez100 wrote: »

We have been considering putting one in our garden as we don't want to move and whne my parents come down we need another bedroom really now the children are older. Do you need to pay separate Band A (or whatever)council tax on them?

Do you pay council tax for your shed, garage or conservatory??? (this is just a glorified shed remember)

I can actually believe the Sun being as thick as this but surely people on this forum are more clued up??

ken_and_dot

I grew up in something similar. In those days it was called a Prefab. They had an estimated life expectancy (the prefab that is, not me) of approximately 10 years. Some of them are still standing sixty years later.

trudiha

As someone who once put together a flatpac chest of draws from Argos, well I say 'put together' but it's very hard to put together a chest of draws with no draw fronts, I'd hesitate to recommend a house of a similar design. I'd be really miffed at having to wait in for a house, getting half way through its assembly and finding that it had no windows and then having to wait two weeks for them to arrive.

SquatNow

What this shows us is the Gordon Clown "Houses for £60k" is just a smokescreen.

Quality brick'n'tile homes can be built cheaply... for as little as £20k when built in bulk. Kitchen don't cost £20,000. Bathrooms don't cost £5,000. Pipes and Wire don't cost £20,000. Pick up a B&Q catalog. Look in the budget kitchens section. Compare to the MFI kitchens catalog. Is the "nice" branded kitchen really "worth" an extra £19,000??? Is a bathroom with a slightly-squarish toilet really "worth" more than one thats round-ish? Builders don't pay MFI prices, they pay B&Q prices... or less.

Houses don't cost huge amounts to build. they Cost £10-30k

The other £180,000 the pay is for the LAND.

HOUSES are cheap, LAND is expensive.

Kez100

kingkano wrote: »

Do you pay council tax for your shed, garage or conservatory??? (this is just a glorified shed remember)

I can actually believe the Sun being as thick as this but surely people on this forum are more clued up??

I'm not looking at one of those, in particular, although similar in size. I'm looking at the insulated lodges used now for residential living. The better ones which,I assume, Pastures and Phirefly were talking about in their posts.

Indeed I am more clued up. So much so, I don't even buy newspapers. In a similar vein, it costs nothing to be civil in reply.