architect

vwcorrado

Hi All

Can anyone give me some advice? myself and my partner are looking into building a house, we are meeting with an architect next week for the first time. we are hoping to build 2200sq ft house, anybody know what price roughly we would be looking at? also what should i look for when talking to them, i.e what should their price include?

thanks

PaddyThai

Ask the Architect casually about recent works completed. Then ask for contact numbers for these clients.

If you ask directly for references s/he may only give you tel. numbers of happy clients.

I wouldn't limit myself to choosing an Architect to design my house. Many Technicians are very experienced, knowledgable and taleneted.

icbarros

Hi vwcorrado,

we are hoping to build 2200sq ft house, anybody know what price roughly we would be looking at?

I guess you are asking about construction costs
Check this article for useful references about construction costs in Ireland http://isabelbarros.blogs.ie/2009/10/02/construction-costs-in-recession-ireland/

stephentbb2000

Hi, payed €2000 (excluding vat) for my architect to design my house and to draw up the planning for the council and submit them. He earned his money as we had him draw up various options before we were finally happy.

He is also a qualified engineer so he carried out our site inspections and signed off on our mortgage for an extra fee off €1200 which included construction drawings which are a must.

Poor Uncle Tom

stephentbb2000 wrote: »

Hi, payed €2000 (excluding vat) for my architect to design my house and to draw up the planning for the council and submit them. He earned his money as we had him draw up various options before we were finally happy.

He is also a qualified engineer so he carried out our site inspections and signed off on our mortgage for an extra fee off €1200 which included construction drawings which are a must.

Thats very cheap, design, planning application, construction drawings and supervision for €3,200?

JuniorB

Very cheap is right ! I guess it depends on the type of house as much as the size. If standard type then the costs would be greatly reduced. If you have a tricky site then worth paying for someone that has good local knowledge of planning, what you'll get etc.

We paid the following for our AT (all prices excluding VAT):
Design house and planning application etc - €3,500
Perculation test: €750
Electronic survey: €1,000 (requested by council)
Detailed building drawings and tender process: €5,000
Sign off house (8 visits included): €2,000

Seems a fair bit but we spent well over a year on design and got planning at the first go.
Have spend over 6 months on the detailed drawings to ensure it was spot on before the tender process which we have just completed. He assures us that the price we have agreed with the contractor should not vary as it is priced in so much detail.
It seems like we're on the phone to him every day and must have met him 50 times by now !
We're very happy that we are getting good service and value for money anyway which I suppose is the main thing...

stephentbb2000

The €3200 was for a 2450 sq ft upstairs/downstairs bungalow. The percolation test was an extra which we organised ourselves for €480.

The architect we had was spot on, he visited the site 8 times officially but called an extra 4 times at our request at no extra cost as he lives relatively close.

We are aware that his prices are greatly reduced because of the recent slump in construction which may have aided our costings.

For the cost he also produced a 3D colour viewing of our final design which was a great help.

Wolfhound14

Just spent €5000 for architect, thats for design and lodgement of planning application.
Have been through multiple iterations over 5 months.
It included pre-planning, where he represented us.
We're very happy with the design and it will be well worth it if the planning is approved.

vwcorrado

Thanks everyone for your help. have an appointment next week so il know then!

4gun

JuniorB wrote: »

Very cheap is right ! I guess it depends on the type of house as much as the size. If standard type then the costs would be greatly reduced. If you have a tricky site then worth paying for someone that has good local knowledge of planning, what you'll get etc.

We paid the following for our AT (all prices excluding VAT):
Design house and planning application etc - €3,500
Perculation test: €750
Electronic survey: €1,000 (requested by council)
Detailed building drawings and tender process: €5,000
Sign off house (8 visits included): €2,000

Seems a fair bit but we spent well over a year on design and got planning at the first go.
Have spend over 6 months on the detailed drawings to ensure it was spot on before the tender process which we have just completed. He assures us that the price we have agreed with the contractor should not vary as it is priced in so much detail.
It seems like we're on the phone to him every day and must have met him 50 times by now !
We're very happy that we are getting good service and value for money anyway which I suppose is the main thing...

who did you have, duncan steward?
what reasons for electrical survey
excluding council levies and such I paid
1100 design to arch. tech/
450 perculation
1500 inc VAT to engineer for mortgage draw down
my house is 2250 sq ft self build, cost me aprox 140,000 to build on my own site