can i see your extension pictures and rough cost please :)

[mklanch]

hi, i'm looking to do an extension on my bungalow.
ideally i need to add 1-2 bedrooms or a large kitchen diner.
its hard to get a rough idea of what it would look like and a rough cost.
if anyone has done an extension can you show the pictures and let me know a rough cost (also stating the size of extension if possible).
you dont have to show the pictures if your not comfortable with it but a rough cost and breakdown would be great.
thank you

anyone? ?

£110k for large extension, 2 sliding doors, 2 roof lanterns, £5k worth of steel (and also some interior remodelling which was probably £20K of that) plastered and painted.

Not included £5k of underpinning, the kitchen itself.

We could possibly have done it for £70k with a smaller footprint.

We also then spent £18k on getting the garden landscaped afterwards - so a patio round the extension etc

It's about 6 x 5 metres.

Prices are v high now. We're paying around 25% more than neighbours paid for a v similar extension 3 years ago.

No photos as not started yet but we're having a small side return infill (around 5x12ft), pitched slate roof, velux windows, reclaimed stocks, patio doors, moving a boiler, removing a chimney breast and moving an internal (non-load bearing wall).
£42k exc. vat, outskirts of London (to plaster finish; new kitchen & fitting, flooring etc will be extra).
Architect, structural engineer & planning application came to about £3.3k.

Prices are crazy at the moment. Cheaper to move to gain extra space

@User76745333

Prices are crazy at the moment. Cheaper to move to gain extra space

Depends where you are & how much you like your house - with SE prices we'd be looking at close to £25k for stamp duty, estate agents & solicitors costs to sell and buy (plus the difference between what our house is worth vs an already extended property) - and it'd be unlikely that we'd get exactly what we wanted without any compromises.

We like our location & the rest of the house, & we're planning to be here 5+ years, so its worth doing. I definitely wouldn't do it if we were planning to move soon though

It really really isn’t. I’m not even in the SE and it’d cost way way more to move than it will to extend. Not to mention that there are hardly any houses coming in to the market. It is, in the words of Monty Python, a dead parrot.

It really really isn’t. I’m not even in the SE and it’d cost way way more to move than it will to extend

Possibly. It depends on the house and what you want to do to it but the costs of extending have increased massively. It’s costing us probably 70% more in total than when we first started thinking about our development

@User76745333

Prices are crazy at the moment. Cheaper to move to gain extra space

Interesting point of view. We're currently looking to buy our first home and leaning towards a fixer upper which will require a good amount of extension work immediately. But there is almost literally nothing else on the market...

i'm in Lincolnshire so maybe slightly cheaper but not by much.
my house has land with it and is our forever home. we also need to put a new roof on so budget is tight, but im thinking more long term ideas

We are just in the middle of ours, we have had a conservatory removed, single story extension built, kitchen and dining room opened up to make open plan. Kitchen being moved, garage split into half to make a utility room and separate garden storage. All building works are 55K VAT incl, Kitchen and utility room is about 20k including flooring (we got 40% disc) its worth mentioning we had this quote done at the beginning of 2021 with a price guarantee. It has cost us about 3K on architect fees, planning permission, building regs etc

@Monkeybutt1

We are just in the middle of ours, we have had a conservatory removed, single story extension built, kitchen and dining room opened up to make open plan. Kitchen being moved, garage split into half to make a utility room and separate garden storage. All building works are 55K VAT incl, Kitchen and utility room is about 20k including flooring (we got 40% disc) its worth mentioning we had this quote done at the beginning of 2021 with a price guarantee. It has cost us about 3K on architect fees, planning permission, building regs etc

thank you for your detailed breakdown. i hadnt thought of the architect fee too.

When you said about the roof I thought I'd jump in! We haven't had an extension but have had lots of internal work that has cost around £100k. This has included removing a chimney through the house (basically reclaimed the same size as an extension!), loft conversion, layout vastly changed inc walls removed. As part of this we had the house reroofed. To have it done at the same time as the rest basically halved the cost as we didn't need to factor in scaffolding or preparation time as the builders were already on site.

There's also planning fees, structural survey fees if there's any steels, building control fees, we had to have a site survey too. That's all been about £20K.

@User76745333

It really really isn’t. I’m not even in the SE and it’d cost way way more to move than it will to extend

Possibly. It depends on the house and what you want to do to it but the costs of extending have increased massively. It’s costing us probably 70% more in total than when we first started thinking about our development

It absolutely is, at least where we are. I know because this is exactly what we’re doing. Of course it depends on the house but to give our example: to move from a large, extended semi to a large extended detached which we’ll further extend on the first level will cost around £70k less (after extending) than buying a house that had the same work done. This is based on current asking prices and prices sold on our street.

It’s house dependent. All I can say is don’t trust the prices you might have been given at the moment. Prices change on a weekly basis and material delays and supply issues are a massive problem. I would have said the same before we we started this project. Our development is very large but we probably would have been better off moving

@RhubarbCrumbled

When you said about the roof I thought I'd jump in! We haven't had an extension but have had lots of internal work that has cost around £100k. This has included removing a chimney through the house (basically reclaimed the same size as an extension!), loft conversion, layout vastly changed inc walls removed. As part of this we had the house reroofed. To have it done at the same time as the rest basically halved the cost as we didn't need to factor in scaffolding or preparation time as the builders were already on site.

we has thought about this, but i dont think we could afford to do everything at once :(

@JustJam4Tea I bet your house looks amazing

£210,000ish to extend double storey on both left and right sides. Added family room, utility room, downstairs toilet, study, 2 bedrooms, ensuite and dressing room, and rebuilt garage. Prices have gone up massively now sadly.

Ooops not sure why pic attached like that.
Also, we're SE hone counties

I don’t think it’s cheaper to move at all, once you take into account, ea fees, solicitor fees, surveys, removal cost etc, Everything that’s up for sale around us, is achieving offers wel over asking, sealed bids etc.