HELP! Reconfiguration to open up space in period property - advice please!

[bishbashbosh78]

Hi

Would be grateful for any advice. Looking for a rough idea on prices as we're not extending but reconfiguring our space internally, knocking through walls etc.

To give a bit of background info, the house is a period property, and we are looking to do the following:

• Relocate the kitchen to the back of the house (where there is already a sizeable boot/utility space - so there is already plumbing etc existing in this space)
• Knock through from one room to the other (including chimney stacks) so will need 2 large steels
• Knock through into pantry and raising the ceiling in this space (2.5 x 3m, further steels needed)
• Moving gas and maybe an electrics meter
• Opening up where the window is and install glazed doors

The total floor area would be in the region of 40 sqm but this is not an extension, so no foundation, external walls etc are needed

We can get the electrics sorted but would need everything else done.

What do you think would be a reasonable quote for this? I have heard it can be up to £3k per sqm, but this is not an extension but an internal rejig?

Southeast England.

Thanks much!

Don't know about prices but do tread very carefully for structural reasons. Our house was all opened up before we owned it and there have been so many problems ever since, knock-ons which I'm sure the owner who did the work didn't ever consider. Make sure you get a very good and fully qualified and insured structural engineer to look over your plans; don't trust a builder to tell you "it'll be fine". I personally wouldn't touch a heavily altered house ever again.

Thanks, that's helpful. Agree, you do have to be careful. We would use a reputable architect and structural engineer, for sure.

What sort of problems are you seeing?

We reconfigured our previous house, Victorian, on a smaller scale and it worked really well and had not problems.