Anyone had an extension built recently?

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We're trying to get an idea of how much it would cost to have an single storey extension built on the back of our garage - two outer walls needed plus flat roof. Having trouble getting any builders out to quote (all too busy ) - anyone got any idea?

If you calculate roughly £1000 per square metre that might give you some idea.

Gulp - that much?

We had a 16' x 10' extension built 2 years ago with flat roof (which I hate) by a friend's building company. He charged us £7k which was quite cheap as we had previously been quoted £10k

that was a 1st floor extension

depends where you live I think... not a garage but we had a quote for a porch NOT a room and the quotes were around £15-£20 thousand.

For a PORCH????

I know its not exactly what you want but we just had our single garage converted with a new roof and it cost around £7000. There wasn't much internal work, just blocking up a doorway and opening a new one somewhere else.

We're having all the ceilings lowered upstairs and a dormer put in. It will make another two bedrooms so you can imagine how big it is. We're also having two interior walls removed, others built and a chimmney dropped. It's costing between 17k and 20k.

A friend of mine is having work done on her house, a double extension (2 floors) and it's costing her 40k and that's up north. If you live down south x 2.

Thanks for all this. Have decided:

a) will not be having extension done for a while

b) will be retraining as a builder