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Self build North co Dublin.

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  • 18-03-2018 9:09am
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    Alwayse30
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    I'm am planning a self build in North County Dublin in the next 12 months or so. I am planning on project managing it myself employing direct labour etc. My question is what fees have I in store for me and a rough costing on them ? Any help would be great.


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    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,140 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    So, this is a straight forward question. What you need to be ready for is the poster & lad in the pub jumping in saying they built their house for peanuts and they beat their Engineer into submission paying them less than the price of a takeaway coffee

    Professional Fees for design, planning, tender, construction (FULL service) could be anywhere from ~6-12% of the build costs depending on type of build & where in the country you are..
    If you don’t want to pay that, just remember YOU are self-building, YOU are ultimately responsible or H&S, planning, building control and building regulation compliance.


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    Alwayse30
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Alwayse30


    BryanF wrote: »
    So, this is a straight forward question. What you need to be ready for is the poster & lad in the pub jumping in saying they built their house for peanuts and they beat their Engineer into submission paying them less than the price of a takeaway coffee

    Professional Fees for design, planning, tender, construction (FULL service) could be anywhere from ~6-12% of the build costs depending on type of build & where in the country you are..
    If you don’t want to pay that, just remember YOU are self-building, YOU are ultimately responsible or H&S, planning, building control and building regulation compliance.

    Grest thanks.. Ha Yeah I've had a bit of that already. I have sourced an architect who'll also look after planning permission in his fee. I personally drew the house and passed it onto him to put in architect drawings for brickys carpenter etc..

    My list is as follows excluding the house and everything on the inside(I've a digger and will clear site bury septic tank etc)

    Esb main connection roughly 2k from what I've been reading on there site
    Septic tank and waste water treatment roughly 3.5k form what I can see
    Trench Foundation after I've dug it 6k
    I can't really find a figure online for council fees but believe this could be 15k pending size it'll be roughly 1300sq ft dormer bungalow.


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