Wills...is this normal practise?

[Badvoc]

Hi.
Hoping someone clever can advise me...
My dh and I had our wills done 2 years ago. Cost £80 each.
We now have sme amendments to make to the wills - an address change and a change if guardian for our dc - and the person who did the original will she's quoted £125 each to amend them.
This doesn't seem right to me.
We don't want to totally change them, just amend 2 things on both.
Is this normal practise or are we being shafted?
(Also can't figure out why it's gone up so much in 2 years!)
Could dh and I use the current will and amend it ourselves!
Wwyd!?

No, I wouldn't advise you to make any amendments on the wills, that could invalidate them.

I normally charge £40 to change a single will, £60 to change mirrors, (if it's just those two amendments you mentioned) because they're kept on the system indefinitely so it's not a huge time cost to make the amendments.

The other lawyer may be quoting a high figure because, for whatever reason, they don't keep them on their system for long so would have to start from scratch.

Ok, I think she is pulling a fast one :(
If I type up our wills and make the changes and get them signed by 2 Independant witnesses would that be ok?

I wouldn't mind paying that...but £250 is just ridiculous!

I want to just delete a few gifts and change the addresses on ours but am terrified of just doing this myself and getting it witnessed. What I cock it up somehow and the kids end up in the care of the state?