Soldato
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We are looking at purchasing a new property (Georgian House) that has a large but basic 36m2 garage about 1m away from the side of the house.
To make an additional large open space, we are thinking about opening up what's labelled the Kitchen/Dinning room (moving the dinning room to one of the other sitting rooms) and then bridging into the detached double garage (which will mean we will need to knock down and connect the two buildings together) to make a large open plan kitchen/living space.
I've no idea how much this type of project should cost and no builders will estimate it as we don't own it yet. So was wondering what sort of costs I should plan for so if anyone could help it would be much appreciated!
Some things I do know the price off:
Is £50-60k for the building works (excluding fittings/furniture and the kitchen itself etc) realistic?
To make an additional large open space, we are thinking about opening up what's labelled the Kitchen/Dinning room (moving the dinning room to one of the other sitting rooms) and then bridging into the detached double garage (which will mean we will need to knock down and connect the two buildings together) to make a large open plan kitchen/living space.
I've no idea how much this type of project should cost and no builders will estimate it as we don't own it yet. So was wondering what sort of costs I should plan for so if anyone could help it would be much appreciated!
Some things I do know the price off:
- Large 5m wide patio aluminium sliding doors + some velux sky lights+ some front windows into the garage ~ £7000 inc ifitting
- The garage has power, water and drainage already.
- Roof is in good shape
- the garage has front and rear doors that will need bricking up/replaced by windows.
- a steel beam will be needed to extend the kitchen/dinning room
Is £50-60k for the building works (excluding fittings/furniture and the kitchen itself etc) realistic?
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