Want to open living room into kitchen with doors

flowerific

Hi,
I'm looking to purchase a house. The kitchen and ajacent living room are accessed by separate doors via the hallway. I'd like to have double doors or a sliding door put in so that the living room and kitchen can open into the same room.
Do you know what sort of costs we are looking at. I'm in Cavan. Is it a builder I need to get.
I also like pocket doors
I'm not a DIY person.

Poor Uncle Tom

It's going to be very hard to put a price on this without more information and seeing the job, whether it's a partition or a wall, if the wall is loadbearing or not. etc.

flowerific

I dont have all the info yet, but it looks like it is not a loadbaring wall and there are other houses in the estate that do have double doors into the living room.
Problem now is that I see that there is a radiator up against the wall where I would want to put doors in. And the kitchen floor is tiled. Its looking like a no go or a very expensive change

james 17

I'd say your looking at a couple of thousand ,did you ask any of your neighbours who got it done how much it cost.?if it not loadbearing it would be a carpenter that can do it.

antiskeptic

flowerific wrote: »

I dont have all the info yet, but it looks like it is not a loadbaring wall and there are other houses in the estate that do have double doors into the living room.
Problem now is that I see that there is a radiator up against the wall where I would want to put doors in. And the kitchen floor is tiled. Its looking like a no go or a very expensive change

The pocket doors are going to need a pocket - ie another stud wall with pocket for the doors. If that pocket was placed on the kitchen side, then you could dig a track for the pipes under the run of the doors and out the end.

Carpentry/plastering/plumbing. Ya might even want downlighters in the pocket ope - electrician