What kind of price per sqm is project on course for?
Not sure; if I am honest because the house is being completely remodelled. Every room apart from 1 upstairs is not being touched.
It's costing £160,000 but we have a complete finished product, basically if we are moving into a new house. No doubt the developer will be making a
HUGE profit, but we have been able to pick exactly what we want without any real limitation.
- New Kitchen and Utility (20K budget allotted) - we actually went over this even with 40% discount from the builders account. He was fine with it as he refused to supply cheap appliances - he said something similar to Neff . We also went a little over the top with things like a huge larder, warming draws, wine fridge, self cleaning oven, hot water tap plus custom utility storage room fittings.
- Quartz and upstands; he introduced us to his supplier and we was able to pick whatever we wanted.
- 2x New Bathrooms fitted (including floor ceilings tiles); he again introduced us to his supplier and we was able to pick exactly we wanted. Again, we went all out but it was around 6-8K per bathroom even with his discounts.
- Flooring throughout. We wanted to match our existing flooring upstairs and down; so its over 100sqm just downstairs alone (£34.00 sqm)
- New Oak Veener doors throughout; 13 total and one huge barn door.
- All plumbing and electrics (spot-lights every room) apart from kitchen island and master bedroom (we would supply these fittings). Including Cat6 cable. Speaking with the electrician on weekend; he is basically doing a full rewire- as its easier for him.
- Underfloor heating downstairs across 3 zones
- New rads every room upstairs (including 2 designer column rads)
- Media Wall with inbuilt fire (we supply fire)
- All windows and doors per design (aluminum)
- Garage conversion; including two new composite doors (front and new entry old garage door).
- New stairs + glass balustrade
- Painting and decorating entire house
- New patio slabs laid outside and new garden entry with new brick work steps etc
Presumably that exising steel/new steel will have a nib in /structural column underneath? It looks like it has very little bearing/footings underneath it.
Are they rebuilding your previous timber framed extension too? A good bit of work done anyway and not too long till you're over the demolition negative progress and start to see some positive outcomes.
Re: damaging an untouched room - trust me you want the temporary acro props to be good when the old steel is taken out, you see plenty crap where people see issues under windows afterwards otherwise or doors not closing etc
Yes, there is a 300 column to be built bi-fold side then a column the other side that already exists from the ordinal house wall based on the previous end of the house. This will be around 400-600 but will be built into the kitchen as we are having a fake larder to hide it.
This should give an idea from the recent kitchen plan designs.
As for the old extension; yes more or less its a complete rebuild as they have to cut in a 3.5M new bi-fold so it was only a column of brick work left and the roof is going from vaulted to being a flat rubber roof with a 2x1 glass roof light.
Ours dragged on (mainly due to COVID, we literally started building just as it landed in the UK and was ramping up!), but my advice is roll with it, as long as it gets done, then don't sweat it, there is a sequence to proceedings that had to be, and sometimes you are waiting on key parts, but once you get to first fix stage, things absolutely fly as they say.
We started ours April 2021 with a Sept 2021 end date.. the builders packed up March 2022! and I finished the rooms Xmas Eve 2022!
We are 5 months in; 2 months living out of boxes in a friends empty house. Issue is we only have this house until Nov/Dec and in the next 3-5 weeks our new furniture starts turning up :X
