Cost of fixing an old house

ETRY

Apologies if i posted this twice

So we recently went sale agreed on a house it needs some work, and after the survey was complete i was informed of what i would need to do, a good bit of work but nothing crazy mainly the roof. then i got a builder in and he gave me his quote, lets just say i got a bit of a fright, have a look, what do you reckon he seemed like he knew what he was on about and more or less said the surveyor didn't know what he was talking about which may be correct. see list below.

Any suggestions on how to cut costs cheers.

works

"prelims(skips, insurance, scaffold " 15000

new roof to top of main house 6500

new roof to back of extension area 7000

new concrete floors

"Break up existing to booth room, wk. and hall " 2,100.00 "

Reduced level excavation 2,500.00 "

Disposal - off site 3,250.00 "

Make up level in base, compacted in 150mm layers " 1,100.00 "

150 concrete ground floor slab 2,275.00 "

Isolation joint/perimeter insulation 112.00

A142 Mesh to slab 720.00

150mm insulation 2,604.00 "

Power floating 300.00

Radon Barrier 960.00

Radon sump and caps

underfloor screed 1,995.00

new bathroom downstairs 7000

"take off all plasterboard on ceilings, strip all paper and reskim all downstsirs " 6500

install wooden floor to downstairs 3000

new skirting architrive doors downstair 3800

full house rewire 16000

new plumbing heat pump 22000

grant deduction for heat pump -6500

exteral insualtion 14000

grant deduction for insulation -6000

kitchen cost 6000

painting and decoration 3500

budget allowance total 115716

vat 15621.66

131337.66

thanks for reading

Tagged: buildingconstructionretrofit

Rows Grower

I got as far as "skips, insurance and scaffold" 15,000 and stopped. I'd be ringing as many builders as I could find for quotes.

ETRY

thanks for responding Rows, yea i thought that was taking the piss some of the other works looks reasonable then he has budget allowance 115716 ,

heat pump 22000 etc.

fionni

Hi. Seeing your initial comment now. I don’t believe some of those costs listed are unreasonable, given current trends. I would get alternative quotes to measure against.

im in a similar situation to yourself with an old house and looking at option to renovate and retrofit. It can be messy. Any chance you are willing to share the details of that particular builder? I’m assuming you’re Dublin based?

Alkers

Have you a design or a schedule of works or are you just talking the builder through what you want?

Your thread starts like you're looking to address a few survey items but then evolves into an extension and retrofit. We can't really assess the quote without any details...

Atlantic Dawn

How big is the house before we can judge any quote. Is it a bungalow or multi storey?

Pinoy adventure

Heat pump -€22k

is that a brand new heating system??