James
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| posted on 19/8/14 at 10:35 PM |
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Building work- is this price ok?
Greetings all,
So we want to do some modifications to our house. I've had the structural engineer round and he's done the plans so the next stage is the
builders.
We want to modify 2 walls. One job is to widen the patio doors from 2m to 3m.
We also want to remove the wall between the kitchen and the dining room- this is a supporting wall.
To complicate matters a little the kitchen/dining wall 'connects up' to where we want to widen the patio doors. So the new beams will have
to be in a sort of ' T ' shape.
Patio door to widen from 2m to 3m.
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The patio door to wide and the wall between dining room/kitchen to remove:
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Dining/kitchen other side to remove:
 
DW4
The wider patio door will come 'past' this wall into the kitchen.
The builder has given me a 'rough quote' of £2100 for labour only. He says if we're interested he'll work out the rest of the
quote in detail.
What I want to know is what people thought of that- bearing in mind it's Surrey prices! lol
ETA: The £2100 is a *Labour only* price. Steels, block work, acro rental etc. etc. is on top of that!
Thanks!
James
[Edited on 20/8/14 by James]
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twybrow
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| posted on 19/8/14 at 11:13 PM |
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I had VERY similar work done when we moved into our house (Southampton area) 3 years ago; load bearing wall taken down, and RSJ inserted. Patio door
widened to around 2.8m including fitting a wider lintel to suit. We paid £2200 (cash) for the work including the steel and lintel, but excluding the
patio door (£300).
So yours looks pretty good to me!
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James
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| posted on 19/8/14 at 11:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by twybrow
I had VERY similar work done when we moved into our house (Southampton area) 3 years ago; load bearing wall taken down, and RSJ inserted. Patio door
widened to around 2.8m including fitting a wider lintel to suit. We paid £2200 (cash) for the work including the steel and lintel, but excluding the
patio door (£300).
So yours looks pretty good to me!
Mine is labour only... the steel (I've no idea how much they are) is extra.
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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twybrow
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| posted on 20/8/14 at 06:21 AM |
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The rsj will depend very much on what your engineer has specified. Ours spanned a 3.6m room and it cost around £200. The majority of the cost is the
labour.
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Slimy38
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| posted on 20/8/14 at 06:51 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
quote:
Originally posted by twybrow
I had VERY similar work done when we moved into our house (Southampton area) 3 years ago; load bearing wall taken down, and RSJ inserted. Patio door
widened to around 2.8m including fitting a wider lintel to suit. We paid £2200 (cash) for the work including the steel and lintel, but excluding the
patio door (£300).
So yours looks pretty good to me!
Mine is labour only... the steel (I've no idea how much they are) is extra.
The RSJ's aren't overly expensive. We had to have one custom made and welded up, something to do with reinforcing the bottom plate to
spread the load. Even then it was only just into three figures. I suspect your 'T' won't be anything special to the suppliers.
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James
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| posted on 29/8/14 at 04:48 PM |
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Well the quote for the beams is £911 inc. 
This includes £300inc for the 'Welding and Galvanizing' (fillet welding a plate onto the bottom of one beam to hold the soldier bricks-
maybe I should tell them I know how easy this is! lol and god knows why galvanizing- the CE said they only need primer!)
Then a mere £3000 for the bi-fold door!
Cheers,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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Slimy38
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| posted on 29/8/14 at 05:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
Well the quote for the beams is £911 inc.
This includes £300inc for the 'Welding and Galvanizing' (fillet welding a plate onto the bottom of one beam to hold the soldier bricks-
maybe I should tell them I know how easy this is! lol and god knows why galvanizing- the CE said they only need primer!)
Then a mere £3000 for the bi-fold door!
Cheers,
James
Galvanising? I'm pretty sure mine arrived already rusty!! It'll be embedded in concrete, I can't imagine galvanizing being that
important.
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Simon
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| posted on 29/8/14 at 07:47 PM |
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And our neighbour had a trifold! door supplied and fitted by another neighbour for £1200 ish
ATB
Simon
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iank
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| posted on 29/8/14 at 08:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
Well the quote for the beams is £911 inc.
This includes £300inc for the 'Welding and Galvanizing' (fillet welding a plate onto the bottom of one beam to hold the soldier bricks-
maybe I should tell them I know how easy this is! lol and god knows why galvanizing- the CE said they only need primer!)
Then a mere £3000 for the bi-fold door!
Cheers,
James
Wouldn't be this one would it?
http://www.screwfix.com/p/jeld-wen-wellington-slide-fold-patio-door-set-white-2994-x-2094mm/39524
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