Kitchen/diner knock through - how much?

[rosybell]

We want to knock through our kitchen/diner, install new kitchen and large sliding doors. We are getting such a wide range of quotes I was wondering if anyone who has done similar would be happy to share how much it cost?
I appreciate there are lots of variables..

As an aside if you did do it do you recommend open plan living ir do you miss your dining room?

We knocked the wall out between our living room/dining area and kitchen. My dad is a builder so we got it done for pittance but he said if I was anyone else he would have quoted about £2000 (that just covers knocking the wall down and putting in a steel beam).

It has its pros and cons. It's nice that when one of us is cooking, we can still speak. Especially good when we have people over for dinner as we are all still involved. Cons for me is if you have noisy appliances this can be annoying. Also it somehow makes our downstairs feel smaller because there's less to it if that makes sense!

I’m interested in the answer to this. From memory (when we looked at this for our current house) £2-3k for the RSJ sounds about right. Then there is plastering, flooring, and supply and fit for a new kitchen (£15k ish depending on size and spec). I think £25k is a reasonable budget - I don’t have a cost for the bifolds

Thanks for the replies. I thought around 30k to knock through, install rsj, sliding doors & new kitchen. We have been quoted 50-70k which I thought was steep! Only live in an average sized house..

Where are you? We paid that in 2015 for a single storey rear extension (with handbuilt conservation windows) and new kitchen

We are in east Anglia, so I guess this could be a realistic quote. I think I thought it would be cheaper as we are not having any extension, just reconfiguring the inside.

Cheaper to get quotes for things separately. Builder to knock through. Plasterer to plaster. Window fitter or carpenter to do doors. Etc

Thanks for the tip WBWIFE - will try this.