How much to lower the kerb to enable parking? Also how much to move upstairs bathroom back downstarirs?

[allgonebellyup]

Am still in love with the house that backs on to the station!

but as there is no parking, and the other houses on the road have done it, how much would it cost to have the kerb lowered and walls knocked down from the tiny front garden?

Also, the bathroom has been moved from downstairs to upstairs, but they have used a really good size bedroom for this. i would need to turn bathroom back into a bedroom, and move bathrm back downstairs where the new utility area & cloakroom are.
How much, do you reckon?

(havent offered on house but need to know how much costs would be)

lots of councils are no longer giving consent to drop curbs as well so I'd check this out as well

oh god, i cant even buy the house if i cant drop the kerb/curb .

we were quoted between £100 & £200 for the council to widen our dropped kerb (couldn't swing car into it!). They did it and left it messy so we complained and they never cashed our cheque

apparently my council insists you use one particularly company that charges best part of a grand.

do you live where i live Hatrick?

are you a spy??

I think friends paid £800 to use council approved workman to lower kerb (kent) she said they were there 7 hours and actually worked about 3 hours of that

Mine was the same as singing bear

plus planning permission fees

5 years ago we paid £500 to have our kerb lowered. The council insisted we use one of their approved contractors and gave us a list with contractors to phone for quotes. They all came in pretty much for muchness costwise so we chose the one that could do the job soonest.

what is a "single width" kerb drop?
i need it the width of the house, goddammit!

Also what about my "moving the bathroom" question? Hmmm?

are there any garages to rent nearby? (sorry don't know your situation)

we also paid £500 to lower the kerb that was about 4 years ago, the council done it themselves and we didnt have to have planning permission or anything.

gutted 2 years ago as they took up all the paths and tarmaced them and lowered everybodies kerbs on the side opposite. typical just after we paid for it to be done specially!!!!

dont really need a garage, but already rent one down the road. Just need to park outside house, thats 1 reason i am moving!

About 2 years ago we paid 1500 for our 3 metre wide drop down kerb.
A neighbour 5 doors down had paid 1100 just 2 years before us for the same thing!

We were also told we needed to apply for planning permission, so we paid 120 for that. Another neighbour who was having her kerb lowered told me that planning permission wasn't required, so i called up and got my 120 back.

AGBU: DON'T BUY THE HOUSE NEXT TO THE STATION.

dont tell me that!!!!!!!

My gran just uses 2 planks of wood rather than pay to have the kerb dropped. . So when you get to her house you have to hop out the car, retrieve the planks from under the hedge, lay them in the gutter, drive in and then remove the wood.

oh good lord..

Are you sure you want to move a bathroom downstairs? Can you not just put a loo downstairs and keep a bathroom upstairs too?

The bathroom question all depends on how the origonal removal was done. We did something similar a year ago and it only cost us the normal price it would have cost to fit a bathroom like for like (cannot be sure actual cost but was def a lot under £1000)
The reason it only cost us the like for like cost was that when the origonal bathroom was taken out they had left all the old fixtures and fittings, ie large waste pipe for loo and bath etc under the floor and had blocked them off rather than have them removed altogether. It would be worth seeing if you can find out what is under the floor first.

The previous owners hers needed planning permission to lower the kerb that was free and the council contractors here do it for a fee not sure what that was though.