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Cost of extension seems too low

  • 18-03-2010 4:52pm
    #1
    ayeboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭


    Im currently planning an extension and am trying to do a cost estimate. I asked a builder for approximate quote to give me a ball park figure to work with.

    2 storey Extension (61 m2/657 sq feet).
    Upstairs just one bedroom (30.5m2).
    Downstairs... Dinning room and utility...One Straight parting wall (4.5m).

    I talked to the builder and he said it could be built for €35,000 (€574 /m2 or €53 sq ft).

    This sum is for block, founds and roof, insulation, rsj, plumbing and electrics. Excludes finishes and doors and windows.

    Location is letterkenny, donegal.

    This figure seems very very low to me! Does anyone think he's mad or is it me??


Comments

  • #2
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    So no doors or windows, just a roofed blockwork shell with Id say first fix plumbing & electrical. It is only from that stage onwards that you will start spending the cash.
    Why not get a very detailed quote from a few builders & then judge whether he is so very cheap. He may or may not be but my point is that he is only doing the cheap part of the works


  • #3
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Thats for a basic builders finish then

    As in no doors,skirting,plaster.
    Just basic blockwork.

    Cause theres no way in hell that any builder will do a turnkey finish for the stupidly low a price.

    Either that,or hes a not a builder at all.


  • #4
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Oh,and I would be asking for refs,and to view some very recent work the builder has done before i would commit to anything with any builder.


  • #5
    james finn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭james finn


    he dosnt know how to price a job, even for cash its far to cheap,

    your best bet is to let him start and keep a close eye plus have someone who knows about building keep an eye on the works,

    make sure you get the plumbing right cause your job sounds like a hit and run job


  • #6
    ayeboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭ayeboy


    He said thats what it will take to get founds, blockwork (incl. insulation), render, subfloor and screed (incl. insulation), plastering, upper timber floor, plumbing and electrics done and roofed.


    All finishes (skirting, architrave, internal and exernal doors, windows, floor finishes, guttering) will be extra.

    He gave me the figure as a sum to work to (for what is listed above in 1st paragraph). He will do the founds, ground floor and blockwork. I am going to get other trades in to do the upper floors, electrics, plastering, windows, roof and guttering. My brother in law will do the plumbing and ill have a go at the rest.

    Im just worried it isnt realistic and i run into trouble.


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