Extension quote- is this reasonable?

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  • 49IM
    49IM Posts: 42 Forumite
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    I had a quote last year for a slightly smaller footprint single-storey extension and without your complications such as a steel, velux windows, special foundations - and my best was £20,000.

    So it's not way off, I'd say.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    There are a couple of items in there that are "the sorts of things that tend to be pricey" - which I suspect are fixing the "lowest cost possible".

    Yours isn't a standard "dig a hole, pour concrete in, stick this new bit onto the old bit" type of extension .... and those big windows never come cheap.

    I'm shortly to get some quotes for a 2.5m x 6m extension .... I do hope mine's cheap :)
  • Jenmc85
    Jenmc85 Posts: 1 Newbie
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    Hi would you be able to give me the builders details who gave you this quote as I live in Liverpool and I'm looking for a similar sized extension.
    Thanks.
  • thriftylass
    thriftylass Posts: 3,981 Forumite
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    2 grand a square meter especially with specialist work sounds reasonable.
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  • anto164
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    Sounds reasonable to me too. If normal foundations and a mid-range finish, i would estimate £1,800 per square metre (excluding VAT), specialist foundations and other things like Velux windows will increase that.
  • fozzeh
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    somethingcorporate wrote: »
    We had a 3.6mx3m extension priced up on the back of the garage - it needed standard foundations but had a sloped roof. The basic building work came in at £15k+VAT without any of the internals, plastering, windows, door, plumbing, electrics or fancy foundations you need. In the end we converted the garage - twice the size for roughly the same cost.

    Your price does not sound unreasonable although I would certainly get a couple more to compare.

    Posting back late but ours sounds very similar to yours.

    We've had a couple more quotes; one of which was almost half the price and the other at 2/3 of the first (so £13k and £18k exc. VAT).

    It just shows what kind of variance you get.
  • somethingcorporate
    somethingcorporate Posts: 9,449 Forumite
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    fozzeh wrote: »
    Posting back late but ours sounds very similar to yours.

    We've had a couple more quotes; one of which was almost half the price and the other at 2/3 of the first (so £13k and £18k exc. VAT).

    It just shows what kind of variance you get.

    £13k sounds suspiciously cheap - esp given the specialist nature of your footings. I'd be really wary of going with that. £1k PSQM is the absolute minimum you would expect to pay for a very straightforward and basic extension.
    Good luck with your plans!
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