I'm considering either extending a house or rebuilding it. If anyone
has demolished any buildings recently, could you estimate a ballpark
figure please for demolishing:
a) a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x
12ft (264 sq ft)
b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.

"yogi" wrote in message
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I'm considering either extending a house or rebuilding it. If anyone
has demolished any buildings recently, could you estimate a ballpark
figure please for demolishing:
a) a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x
12ft (264 sq ft)
b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.


How many floors to the house, also what's happening to the rubble in
each case?

On 6 Jul, 17:44, yogi wrote:
I'm considering either extending a house or rebuilding it. If anyone
has demolished any buildings recently, could you estimate a ballpark
figure please for demolishing:
a) a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x
12ft (264 sq ft)
b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.

The single floor you can do yourself.

yogi wrote:
I'm considering either extending a house or rebuilding it. If anyone
has demolished any buildings recently, could you estimate a ballpark
figure please for demolishing:
a) a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x
12ft (264 sq ft)

Probably about a grand..depends on whether you need to skip it/burn
it/use the stuff for hardcore..with care two skips and a digger for a
day will do it..

b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.


Bit more. Probably 5-7 grand..a lot depends on again the waste disposal,
odds and ends like disconnecting services, new foundations etc. etc.

In general, if the property is in seriously bad shape, demolish and be
damned.

The time saved by clearing the site and doing everything from new will
always repay the footling extra material costs..fettling 'new into old'
is always labour intensive, as is e.g. underpinning and the like.

With luck also, a lot of the old materials will be recycled into

- new driveway hardcore
- garden mound features
- floor slab hardcore.

Plus you know the state of the property if its built from new, and will
be able to arrange the electrics water and drainage the way YOU want
much easier.


Some downsides are that you will be subject to new building
regs..foundations will almost certainly need to be a lot bigger, and you
will have the costs of laying in new services..electricity water and
drains - and soakaways etc. However these are not huge problems once the
site is cleared and plans drawn up.

Also it will be uninhabitable..for some time.

As a general rule I'd say as a gut feel if the property needs new
plumbing, rewiring, better toilets and baths, and more than about 30%
major structural work, flatten it and start over.

Unless there is something intrinsically nice about it.

wrote:
On 6 Jul, 17:44, yogi wrote:
I'm considering either extending a house or rebuilding it. If anyone
has demolished any buildings recently, could you estimate a ballpark
figure please for demolishing:
a) a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x
12ft (264 sq ft)
b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.

The single floor you can do yourself.


Mate, you can do the lot yourself. It just takes hired machinery and time..

Its a bit satisfying pushing a whole wall over with a digger..

On Jul 6, 6:25 pm, ":Jerry:" wrote:
"yogi" wrote in message

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I'm considering either extending a house or rebuilding it. If anyone
has demolished any buildings recently, could you estimate a ballpark
figure please for demolishing:
a) a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x
12ft (264 sq ft)
b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.

How many floors to the house, also what's happening to the rubble in
each case?

Just 2. Rubble to be disposed off.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Its a bit satisfying pushing a whole wall over with a digger..

But not recommended if there are any other properties close by (unless
you like defending claims for damaged foundations / pipes / sewers etc)

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Cheers,

John.

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On Jul 6, 6:52 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
yogi wrote:
Could you estimate a ballpark figure please for demolishing:
a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x 12ft
(264 sq ft)

Probably about a grand..depends on whether you need to skip it/burn
it/use the stuff for hardcore..with care two skips and a digger for a
day will do it..

b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.

Bit more. Probably 5-7 grand..a lot depends on again the waste disposal,
odds and ends like disconnecting services, new foundations etc. etc.

In general, if the property is in seriously bad shape, demolish and be
damned.

The time saved by clearing the site and doing everything from new will
always repay the footling extra material costs..fettling 'new into old'
is always labour intensive, as is e.g. underpinning and the like.

With luck also, a lot of the old materials will be recycled into

- new driveway hardcore
- garden mound features
- floor slab hardcore.

As a general rule I'd say as a gut feel if the property needs new
plumbing, rewiring, better toilets and baths, and more than about 30%
major structural work, flatten it and start over.

Unless there is something intrinsically nice about it.

Landfill is getting so expensive these days that even inorganic spoil
is so costly that instead of disposing of it there companies are
employing machinery that grinds it up into hardcore that can either be
used onsite or sent on to other sites.

It can be incorporated into concrete.

If the answer is to tip then the best bet is to get it plonked in a
huge lorry. The larger the container the cheaper the transport costs.

yogi wrote :
I'm considering either extending a house or rebuilding it. If anyone
has demolished any buildings recently, could you estimate a ballpark
figure please for demolishing:
a) a single storey flat-roof extension (garage + utility) - 22ft x
12ft (264 sq ft)
b) a house - ground area 35ft x 20ft (700 sq ft)?
Property is standard brick build.

Depending on age check that there is no asbestos to be removed as this
will cost extra to remove.

--
Count Baldoni