Knocking through to make kitchen diner, is this quote ok???

[Nicola90250]

Getting quotes from trades people is literally my worst nightmare. I have one quote so far for knocking down a wall and a list of various other bits to do with it, I've no idea really but it feels like a lot... does anyone have any ball park figures of what this might cost? Or costs of any other similar work you've had done? The quote I have is 10k +VAT

knocking down a load bearing wall approx 3.5m long, the finished room would then be approx 16m squared.

Existing kitchen window to be replaced and widened about 50cm, with patio doors, existing dining room window to be replaced with a smaller/shorter window to allow for height of new kitchen worktop underneath.

Chimney breast in dining room to be altered(?!) to allow for a range cooker to be place in it

2 new internal doors

Make good walls & ceiling/re-plaster whole thing

All Electrics included (plumbing not included and costed separately)

Yes plausible.

However that's why you get three quotes. So you can spot the chancers and the cowboys.

Sounds very reasonable , cost us around 3k about 18 months ago to have a similar sized steel put in and that was the price just for the steel / knock through no plastering etc .

We wanted to knock through the wall between the kitchen and dining room.
We were quoted between £15, 000 to £20,000 .
Load baring wall, re site of boiler, matching of floor heights, radical plumbing. , electricals, re-positioning of units. ( We actually want a brand new kitchen as ours is dated but that might add another £7000- 10,000.

We've said no. Next occupants can spend this.

Yes. There's a lot of shoring up there.

Doesn't sound out of range to me.

The problem with having what you think of as a 'smaller' job done is that some fixed costs are the same regardless of size of job so you disproportionately bear the brunt of these ie skip hire for eg.

Our friend who works in the building trade has recently commented how expensive some materials are due to covid supply issues and how a lot of self employed tradespeople have put day rates up too.

Ok, thank you!
It''s reassuring to know as a ball park figure it's potentially not way off the mark, but I know, I need to get some more quotes , I just find the whole process of getting them very daunting/overwhelming/uncomfortable etc etc!!! I'm amazed I've managed to get one!

Were just in the process of paying 16.5k for knocking through a wall, small extension of about 10sqm and reinforcing the space where the wall used to be, roof with a skylight and windows etc so seems about right?

@stillfeelingmad can I ask what kind of extension it is you’re doing? We’re thinking of doing a side return extension in our terraced kitchen (single story) and this sounds similar...

Were in a regular terrace and have a kitchen diner across the width of the back of the house. We're going out for half of the house width to make it an L shaped kitchen diner while retaining the existing back door if that makes sense?
Single story, solid roof with two roof lights, full wall on the boundary side and two walls that are mostly window over looking the garden. Includes flooring, plastering and lighting etc