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sprite1275 said:
Materials are nuts prices these days. Someone wanted some kitchen doors replacing so I priced up 6 kitchen doors and a draw pack from Howdens ..... £640.
Fencing... I used to get 6" contract closeboard panels for under £30. Now there nearly £60.
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Don't worry, a good old recession will drop those prices back to where they should be. At the cost of millions of jobs of course and abject poverty and massive repossessions.

All worth it though, so the rich can get 5% on their savings.
 
sprite1275 said:
Materials are nuts prices these days. Someone wanted some kitchen doors replacing so I priced up 6 kitchen doors and a draw pack from Howdens ..... £640.
Fencing... I used to get 6" contract closeboard panels for under £30. Now there nearly £60.
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Honestly I had no idea… I was totally out of touch with this stuff, it’s just not my area of expertise.

I don’t regret it for a second though, I’ve loved every minute of it since it was done; particularly with the sunshine of the last two years.

But for what I paid, I reckon I’ve probably only added £25-30k to the house at most; and with the way I think the market is going when we come to upsizing ready for more kiddies in a couple of years, it will probably prove to be an even worse decision retrospectively,

But hey, not everything is about the bottom line, sometimes you can’t put a price on enjoyment.
 
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danlightbulb said:
Don't worry, a good old recession will drop those prices back to where they should be. At the cost of millions of jobs of course and abject poverty and massive repossessions.

All worth it though, so the rich can get 5% on their savings.
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Saving interest rates ain't going up though are they? Anyway just saying why tradesman prices have gone up.
 
GordyR said:
Honestly I had no idea… I was totally out of touch with this stuff, it’s just not my area of expertise.

I don’t regret it for a second though, I’ve loved every minute of it since it was done; particularly with the sunshine of the last two years.

But for what I paid, I reckon I’ve probably only added £25-30k to the house at most; and with the way I think the market is going when we come to upsizing ready for more kiddies in a couple of years, it will probably prove to be an even worse decision retrospectively,

But hey, not everything is about the bottom line, sometimes you can’t put a price on enjoyment.
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Totally. You wanted it, you could afford it. You got it and your enjoying it. Them pound signs mean diddly when your 6ft under.
 
dLockers said:
What is this glorified shed? Please pics
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Here you go, I found these frozen margaritas especially for you.

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It’s 100% a glorified shed though.
 
GordyR said:
Honestly I had no idea… I was totally out of touch with this stuff, it’s just not my area of expertise.

I don’t regret it for a second though, I’ve loved every minute of it since it was done; particularly with the sunshine of the last two years.

But for what I paid, I reckon I’ve probably only added £25-30k to the house at most; and with the way I think the market is going when we come to upsizing ready for more kiddies in a couple of years, it will probably prove to be an even worse decision retrospectively,

But hey, not everything is about the bottom line, sometimes you can’t put a price on enjoyment.
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If you live in it, you're getting value every day.

When I did my house (total gut to the brick), I was lucky enough to know some tradesmen who got me a trade account at the local builder's merchant. I saved a mint. The high point was getting a few hundred reclaimed slates for about £1 each, courtesy of our carpenter- a huge saving.

We got Howden's down to about 50% of their initial quote, from memory. Never take their first offer!

My entire budget for a 2,500sqft house (electrics/ gas lines/ boiler and rads/ plumbing/ replastering/ partial roof fix/ kitchen/ appliances/ many skips) was around £35k in 2012. Christ knows what that would be now.
 
potatolord said:
If you live in it, you're getting value every day.

When I did my house (total gut to the brick), I was lucky enough to know some tradesmen who got me a trade account at the local builder's merchant. I saved a mint. The high point was getting a few hundred reclaimed slates for about £1 each, courtesy of our carpenter- a huge saving.

We got Howden's down to about 50% of their initial quote, from memory. Never take their first offer!

My entire budget for a 2,500sqft house (electrics/ gas lines/ boiler and rads/ plumbing/ replastering/ partial roof fix/ kitchen/ appliances/ many skips) was around £35k in 2012. Christ knows what that would be now.
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wait what, 35k for 2500qft house?!?!?
 
jonneymendoza said:
Thats what i mean!!!
Nowadays, if u say wanna redo your roof tiles and add felt and underlay, thats over 12k alone.....
Full rewire for a 3 bedroom? talking 5-6k

new boiler and position of it? 4-5k.

Replaster from brick in one 20sqm ish room? 2-3k.........
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I’ve just done a full roof re-tile (Welsh slate) of a 2700sqft Victorian house and it was £7500 including repointing two of the chimney stacks. Took 3 weeks for one (older) guy to complete. He was honest with me after the job and said he’d made a good profit on the job..
 
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flibbage0 said:
This is getting ridiculous, if they actually gave this amount of support towards R&D and engineering in this country we would not be in the mess that we're in. Clear to see where their priorities lie first the stamp duty holiday which was not needed at all, now this.
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The UK is a landlord country everything else comes after.
 
Shoza said:
I’ve just done a full roof re-tile (Welsh slate) of a 2700sqft Victorian house and it was £7500 including repointing two of the chimney stacks. Took 3 weeks for one (older) guy to complete. He was honest with me after the job and said he’d made a good profit on the job..
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I hope you paid him by cheque or bank transfer.
 
Just as an aside - I wonder how close posters sentiment in this thread compares to the actual population.

If posts here + dailymaily + BBC comments were representative of the wider population surely we'd have had an uprising and civil war by now, and all the posh rich people would have been eaten...


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BongoHunter said:
Just as an aside - I wonder how close posters sentiment in this thread compares to the actual population.

If posts here + dailymaily + BBC comments were representative of the wider population surely we'd have had an uprising and civil war buy now, and all the posh rich people would have been eaten...


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