Approx. how much will it cost to knock through?

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We would like to knock through our kitchen wall into the room on the other side to enlarge our kitchen. The wall in question with probably require a supporting beam (rsj?) and I was just wondering what this type of work could cost us?

Anyone? :-)

Depends totally on where you are, and the thickness of the wall knocking through. We've paid about £10k but our wall was 90cms thick so needed 4 or 5 steels, plus this price included pouring a new floor to get the levels the same, new ceilings to cater for lights, insulating and plastering throughout.

We're in the frozen north west.

Does this help?

Hi Daisy thanks for replying, I'm in the north west too so it's probably quite relevant to me however apart from the extras that you've had done so I'd say max £10k then. It's good to get a rough idea. Thank you.

No problem

The steels were 2.5k from memory but there were 4 or 5 of them. I suspect they could have been got cheaper too, but we're in a funny 'local' bubble where we are...

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We are also NW. Last house we knocked through between kitchen & dining room. It was a supporting wall so needed a steel - also involved taking radiator off wall and relocating it to a 'side' wall (and the plumbing associated with that). It was probably about 12' long. Included making good the plastering where the wall had gone. Didn't include any extras other than that. I think we paid £1k or thereabouts, certainly nowhere near £10k .

We've had a quote from a builder for similar thing in new house. This involves talking out a big chimney breast (chimney breast in bedrooms / loft has already gone but for some reason it remains downstairs). Will involve re-routing of plumbing again and some electrics (removal of an electric fire) and re-plastering only the parts immediately affected. Quote is £2k.

Sorry, I should have confirmed - the £10k included full internal insulation and complete replastering, and a further lintel to make an old fireplace safe. It probably is, on reflection, very expensive but as I said earlier there is a particular dynamic which goes with workmen up here.

Yes I think Daisy got a lot of extra work done so 1-2k is probably what I'm looking at (I hope!)

We had one steel put in.
We paid £3k for it and making good afterwards.
Live on south coast.