How much to knock down this wall?

[Sandrine1982]

Hello wise mumsnetters!!

So we're putting an offer on a house and it has a very small kitchen where you can only fit a tiny fridge and it leaves no space for other things that we want.

I'm trying to plan our budget in the medium term so I'd like to know how much it would cost to knock down this - presumably structural - wall between the kitchen and the dinning room?
Including all associated costs such as steel support, moving the electrics, replastering.
Probably a structural engineer too?
Btw, this is in London.

We haven't got the funds for a new kitchen yet so we'd use the old one with a bit if diy and moving around.

Can anyone give me a ballpark figure?

TIA

Can't comment on price but yes that'll be a structural wall just to answer that question for you as it's central within the house so will defo be load bearing x

Oh thanks that makes sense :)

Anyone know a rough cost? Xx

We paid around £1k for the steel and £1k for labour. This was pre covid so I expect it would be more now. You will need to add on the cost of new flooring, plastering, decorating and electrics and fees for a structural engineer.

Structural engineer was £150 per beam, flooring was a lot as we had to get the levels adjusted so they were the same plus we had underfloor heating. Electrics was £50 per socket. Plasterers are £200 ish per day.

We are SE London and did this last year. Was 4k in total for knocking wall down, beam, plastering, covering up door to old dining room, moving door to kitchen and moving up a chimney breast wall. We did it last summer so covid prices were high!

You'll also need building regs so add in costs for that.

That is super helpful thanks :-)