Building costs. Jan 2023

And me as well please .

Has anyone any ideas on what it would cost for an architect or engineer for a 1 room extension or renovation ?

Hey rs8, I'm hoping to make a start myself in next few months. When you say you "done it all your self" do you mean you dug foundations etc yourself or that you didn't go contractor route that would provide you with builders finish and you will be bringing in your own trades to do work along with doing any bit you can yourself? Not being smart or anything I have a bit of cash put aside and hoping to make a start with that so I'm wondering is the 28k you put into foundation because you did it yourself or thats price it cost you to bring someone in to do it? Also just wondering what size house you are building? I will be build approx 2000 square foot bungalow. I won't be going contractor route either myself and hoping to do as much as I can myself.

Yes have my own track machine, so far I dig foundations, put steel in foundations, poured them, block layer done footings, I done my pipes/ certified stone/ randon barrier and pored the sub floor. Got this far without touching the mortgage money yet so happy enough. Price quoted by builders was 46 plus vat to get it to that stage.I will be organising trades myself and doing certain things myself aswell. House is 1900 square foot. Again noone can tell me average cost per square foot/meter going self build and not getting a builder

Sorry, only saw your messages today.

Size is 3m, cost I am not sure exactly as I don't have a breakdown of cost per window and door from the supplier we went ahead with but based on a quote from a different provider that did break down costs I'd estimate in the region of 6 to 7k.

We briefly considered folding doors but one factor that immediately put us off them was we have young kids and any of the window suppliers we spoke with advised us to stay away from them as they are a major hazard for little fingers. Aside from that overall the slider looks better and has much more clear glass/less frame area especially as you need to go to 4 folds at our size. Folding is great open as it give you a bigger opening but looks busy closed and lets face it in Ireland it will be closed most of the time. I will PM the supplier we went with as I would prefer not to mention on the thread.

I'm reading this tread with interest, I agree with you 100% I recall when the Celtic Tiger was all the rage, prices were mad, builders dreaming up a number for a job and then doubling it - take it or leave it, banks were shoveling out 120% mortgage. We were on a roll, the good times were predicted to last forever and then suddenly and without warning we woke one morning ......to find the Tiger dead and all it's consequences that we're still paying for.

Timber has come down. Start of January got quotes around 18k for roof materials. Order materials last week for 17k.

All materials have come down with the exception of insulation. If the sh1tshow that we are currently living in continues on its current trajectory you can be sure that prices for an extension will be at a lower price point in 12 months time then today.

A lot of people cannot afford the prices so what do they do ? They get a loan and what has happened to interest rates so now loans are unaffordable, if was just the interest rates going up in a vacuum more people could afford but petrol ,heating oil, insurance, food, electricity - ye know the basics to live have flown up and construction costs were first out of the block to go up and the rest of the prices for everything were playing catch up. Now we also have the mess that the banking sector is in and there will be contagion all over the globe so builders not willing to cut the margins will have to look at the big banks hitting the wall if these behemoths can hit the wall so can any construction company or contractor in this country. Throw in the current turmoil of the tech sector that's 2 sectors - tech and banking which Ireland will have a lot of people working within those 2 and there is no way they will be forking out 70/80k for a small extension

Well the issue is if they keep at the current prices people will stop getting work done and that has been the case with regards to construction outputs over the last 9 months and basically there is 20% less construction work been done than this time 2 year ago and when you take that stat with the record amount of new houses being built then its not hard to see that the areas like work in doing extensions have fallen off a cliff

This site was updated in Sept of last year and prices of raw materials have come down since so any price above this or if they give you the cost of materials sad story as too why its so high then your builder is taking you for a fool.

Currently looking at a 217 sq metre two storey house, straighforward enough house square shape no bay windows or fancy angles on the roof or anything. A rated, air to water, fully insulated to requirements. It is builders finish plus a bit more in that the stairs are in, and an undercoat of paint is on all the interior, obviously there is no flooring, tiling, kitchen, white goods, doors skirting or architrave. Outside the exterior is painted the kerbing and lawns are in, the driveway is done with gravel and maintenance the front block wall is built capped and plastered, and a timber fence is up around one side and the back of the site (which is large approx .75 acre).

What would it cost if i was to build it to this stage? The asking price is 400k. House is in the country in the west, nice site about 2 miles from a town on the town sewerage scheme (would say to buy a site here without planning be about 60K)

Is this a fair price

We're building a 217m2 house in Mayo to builders finish for 380k (I already owned the site) so that price seems reasonable enough I'd say