John Williamson wrote:
Just out of interest, like, does anyone know how much it costs to build
a house on a plot that you own in England, or anywhere I can find
something like a guesstimated cost per square whatever for building a
bungalow?

There are plenty of references to costs in Leftpondia, but nowt I can
find for this side of the herring pond.

I'm in the market for somewhere to live, and there are a couple of empty
plots nearby.

If it comes up almost as cheap as buying somwehere older and doing it
up, I'd maybe prefer it.

Two places which helped when I was disputing the bill and quotes our
Architect[1] sent us a few years ago for our extension:

http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/self-b...ost-calculator

this seems to have changed rather from when I was hfrvat it in about
2002-3, but is quite detailed.

We also sent a copy of the architect's plans to:

http://www.estimators-online.co.uk/howto.jsp

and, for a very reasonable fee, got a quote broken down virtually to the
last masonary nail, and significantly less than the quotes obtained by
said architect. ISTR that they do need proper plans to work from, but
may be worth contacting them anyway with a less- advanced scheme.

Information from those sources helped me to get the architect's bill
reduced by 90% plus the VAT, but whether that was due to the quality of
the estimates, or my threat to complain to RIBA and elsewhere if he did
not accept my reduced offer, I shall never know!

I would still recommend the architect for production of plans [2] and
dealing with planning permission [3] unless you have the requisite
skills, as it appears to be a Very steep learning curve. I strongly
suspect that builders are likely to give better quotes for a project
with professional plans than one with Q-V-L ones.


[1] I hfr the term loosely, at least when it comes to professionalism.

[2] Which he did do well.

[3] Which he did, but Very slowly.

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JonG
"All things come to he who waits,
but these days most things suck."
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