We are in the process of having an extension built at the moment. 2
new bedrooms and a new bathroom upstairs, plus integrated garage,
utility room, toilet, small store room and sun room downstairs.
Basically we have doubled the size of the house. We got 3 quotes all
from FMB registered builders, which all came in at about £43,000 ex
vat. (This is in Chesterfield, Derbyshire).

However this is not what you will end up spending! The quotes only
allocate a few hundred pounds for the new bathroom (B&Q Warehouse
jobs), for example. True cost will be about £3,500 (Ambience Bain
level C price band)! Also, don't forget that you will need to "tidy
up" outside with some landscaping, and if you "get a little man in"
(to quote mr Titchmarsh), you can figure a few more thousand, then
there is the fact that the builders only quote for 1 double socket in
each room and you will want two or three, etc etc. The builders we had
said we ought to add on about 25% to the original quote to allow for
these sort of deviations, but I will have borrowed £90,000 to do all
the work, fitting and furnishing it, and to do the landscaping, so
doubling would seem to be more like it.

Having said that we have spec'd the fittings quite highly, and this
will include all carpets, curtains, new kitchen, new appliances new
wardrobes etc etc etc.

Hope this helps.

Dean.

chris French wrote in message ...
Ok another house buying related Q, I thought I could have Googled up the
answer but no go.

A couple of houses have had potential, but don't 'tick all the boxes' in
terms of rooms/space . Which has got us wondering about buying with a
view to extending if we found the right property - say extending a
kitchen and adding another bedroom sort of thing.

Never had to have any building work done, I've no idea really of the
costs of such things (ok an extension is going to cost thousands but how
many?). Now I realise that costs vary greatly depending on location,
standard of finish, fittings etc. but there surely are some guide
figures around of say costs per Sqm or whatever for house building
works.

All I'm looking for is enough of a figure to be able to cost it into the
house buying budget, any suggestions, or even just some rough costs of
extensions people have had built?