Kitchen extension/orangery

[Poi23]

I’m trying to figure out the cost of a kitchen extension as a house I’ve put an offer on is going to final bids on Monday and I only want buy it if I have the money for a kitchen extension.

I like the orangery style extensions and it’s looking to be around 16m2.

Anybody the idea of costs of this in the North of England? Google searching is suggesting around 25k for the build, but if anybody has had this done and could share the costs I’d be very grateful!

I think you could probably double that quote, given what materials are costing the moment.

I don’t think you would get any change out of £50k for a basic build. Anything high spec will be more.

We had a small one finished end of 2020 that was £17k

That included

Build and foundations in clay soil with poor access to back of house which boosted labour costs

Bespoke windows and skylights made

Electric fitted abd walls plastered

Building control inspections etc

Honestly double it in my experience! We also bought our house knowing that for it to be 'right' for us we'd want a kitchen extension. We're in Wales, architect here said she thought we'd easily get our 18sqm plan done for £30-35k. In our experience Orangeries/Extension become semantic for a lot of companies as both involve digging out foundations, so our 3 quotes so far not including kitchen for 18sqm are £40k, £49k and £60k. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Safe to say we do still want the orangerie or extension (whichever is cheaper!) but will be waiting a few years and making do with the small kitchen we have! Would you be happy to temporarily live with the layout as it currently is OP? If not bear in mind kitchen costs + fitting + decorating + having a contingency fund for if something crops up that needs addressing.

We're in the West Midlands and about to start a kitchen extension with a study (25 sqm) and garage conversion to make two additional rooms (18 sqm). The build cost is around £55k, but that doesn't include the kitchen, flooring, French doors, doors and windows etc as we want something specific, so total cost is around £82k. Other quotes were between about £49k and £100k.

£63k for ours same size, recent

We're in West Mids and have just paid £65k for a 16sqm extension on our kitchen.

This included window and a bi fold door but that's it. I paid for flooring, decorations, lighting and the actual new kitchen all separately on top.

Prices are crazy at the moment but I can't imagine coming back down, waiting lists are mad for building work where we are

We live near the south coast 60 miles from London, so not the north - but the ever rising cost of materials affects all of the u.k surely? (Although labour rates may be less.)
As teethings post from the midlands has said, waiting list for builders is crazy - it’s taken 9 months to come to the top of the builders list, and to sort out PDR problems etc.

We are having a kitchen extension 16 sqm in an orangery style, lantern roof, 5 windows etc. It’s very difficult to separate costs as we are also having internal alterations to the existing layout, before the new kitchen is installed. In the region of 70 k (not including vat) - allowing for architect, and issues thrown up by PDR process (deeper foundations and a soak away due to TPO’s in the vicinity.)
Parting with so much financial outlay is not an easy decision to make. Work completed even just a few years ago, will have had a very different financial outlay to the current situation - and will be massively out date.
A pre built orangery would have been cheaper, but would also have thrown up the same PDR problems - and caused the hot/cold seasonal temperature fluctuation issues that such structures cause.
Good luck op, I hope that it is cheaper in the north, but in may depend exactly where you are.