estimated building costs for Building Control application
On 15/02/2011 20:26, Roger Mills wrote:
On 15/02/2011 16:00, RobertL wrote:
thank you for help people. I'll get beeny and see what she has to
say and also see how different it is from my guesstimate. As was
remarked I only have to get it roughly right as the bands are very
large.
Indeed. When I had my garage converted into a kitchen (not DIY) I
consulted a BCO before submitting a Building Notice, and he said "most
garage conversion come in (specified, forget which) band. I plucked a
figure out of the air, near the top of that band and paid the fee based
on that figure. In the event, the actual cost was considerably more -
but no-one questioned the original figure.
When I did a reasonably large DIY building project a few years back I
put in a costing which took it just into a low band - admittedly I was
trying it on a bit - and I did get it questioned. So I recosted it to a
random number into the next band, and that was that!
David
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