£200 per sq metre build cost reasonable?

[SnowGlobes]

The architect has suggested it costs £200 per sq metre to do an extension (not including sanitary ware). Does this sound excessive to you? Huge thanks in advance!!

Are you sure you're not missing a zero there??

Ah meant to be square foot @ £200!
But a metre would be approx £2k
So you think that's about right overthehill

Or possibly per sq foot?

X post!

Not excessive, but I would expect decent quality finishes at the price.

I'd say that is towards the expensive end (but depends on area etc), not ridiculous though. And probably a good idea for budgets to start off high.

Of course it doesn't mean anything until you get an actual price....

That's good to know. Thank you!

Is that with or without VAT?

Our kitchen extension with high quality fittings /floor etc was £2k per square metre. It involves demolishing 5m of external wall and 2 steels

Ooh not sure about VAT break no included in that figure. Probably not though!

shadowboy when you say fittings did that include the actual kitchen & appliances?

Yes the total cost for our extension which was 5 x 3. Metres was £32,000 including limestone floors, kitchen with oak worktops, an island and intifrated sishwasher and belling range oven

I'd say £2000 per sqm is top end but would expect it to be plus VAT and that to be just to plastered walls / electrics / plumbing done. I wouldn't expect it to include kitchens / bathrooms / flooring etc.

That should say integrated dishwasher!

What makes a build top end if it's just plastering, electrics, plumbing and doesn't include flooring, bath/kitchen fittings etc pls? I'm struggling to see how plumbing etc can be top end - I get how flooring & bath/kitchen could be!
shadowboy Wow, that seem like a good deal!

Well my husband had to labour on the site every Friday for the two months it took to build it. We also used his cousin (carpenter) to build the wood doors/oak kitchen tops so we managed to get the costs down that way. We did have two quotes from builders who wouldn't permit him to help and that included the kitchen that came in at £40,500 and £39,000 so we saved about £8k