Cost to build a house

[Lincs Lass]

The costs will also depend on your planning regs ,,they could insist on a certain type of brick ,roof color and material type,window styles ,if you are in a conservation area the list of cans and can'ts could be frightening

 

[hendrebc]

The costs will also depend on your planning regs ,,they could insist on a certain type of brick ,roof color and material type,window styles ,if you are in a conservation area the list of cans and can'ts could be frightening

I don't think we are in a conservation area but I know what you mean.
If they are going to be funny about it I'll offer to clad and roof it with blue tin sheets like the shed it will go next to

 

[spin cycle]

I don't think we are in a conservation area but I know what you mean.
If they are going to be funny about it I'll offer to clad and roof it with blue tin sheets like the shed it will go next to

why not convert the 'blue tin shed' under permitted development

 

[hendrebc]

why not convert the 'blue tin shed' under permitted development

If I wrapped my hay bales I could put a hell of a house inside the shed no need for planning or anything

 

[br jones]

The costs will also depend on your planning regs ,,they could insist on a certain type of brick ,roof color and material type,window styles ,if you are in a conservation area the list of cans and can'ts could be frightening

We are in a anob in wales ,never too much greif as long as you dont ask for daftness,water connection is 1500,electric is around 5000,gas we have a tank and a private sewerage system ,the only bother are bt

 

[br jones]

Oh i just realized you are in wales ,as of jan 7th 2019 you will have to have a suds .sustainable drainage system .quite costly .the house now needs to be designed with the drainage system in mind ,best read up on it and check your architect knows about it .25 grand fine if you start without suds planning approval

 

[goodevans]

We are in a anob in wales ,never too much greif as long as you dont ask for daftness,water connection is 1500,electric is around 5000,gas we have a tank and a private sewerage system ,the only bother are bt

Bt are the ones you can manage without at least.i am surprised at some of these quoted figures as it cost me those 12 years ago

 

[SilliamWhale]

And you need fecking sprinklers in Wales

 

[SilliamWhale]

Buy lot of breeze blocks for 20k.

Breeze blocks aren't where the costs are!

 

[Lincs Lass]

And you need fecking sprinklers in Wales

What ,,in a family house

 

[mo!]

If I wrapped my hay bales I could put a hell of a house inside the shed no need for planning or anything

You have to pay again when they make you pull it down!

We have built a big 4 bed, high spec for about 400k. Worth about 750k. All services very close, electric was 2600, gas 600, water was 1400 for 4 foot of pipe. Thieving barstewards.

 

[Farm buy]

Just thinking out loud really haven't really decided on anything but thinking about building a house. Can't get much sense off anything online and don't really know anyone who has done one recently to ask either.
Not thinking of anything fancy just a standard 2/3 bed house in the corner of a field. Made so you can live in it with water and electricity ready to go and decorate. Anyone have a ballpark idea what would it cost roughly? Not looking for exact quotes or anything just a number to mull over.

Saw this type type of construction on a new house near me. High insulated value. Very fast to build. Very light insulated blocks. Concrete poured in the centre. Up to 11ft high in one pour. No concrete blocks, no shuttering.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Guy in my village started building an eco house using hollow reconstituted blocks ,,choped wood mixed with a cement bond ,,very light and easy to lay as there was no need for a mortar joint ,,mass poured as above ,,the blocks were made in wales .
Then another one has been built with polystyrene Beco blocks ,,same thing ,just mass poured ,single brick exterior scin and dry lined internal ,,that one uses ground source with an air recirculation system to extract every bit of heat ,,its very efficient

 

[Kiwi Pete]

About $2k per m2 here, so halve that and it won't be far away.
Last house we had built was around $300k including connections, septic system etc and was just shy of 160m2, bricked.

If you can DIY a lot of the internal stuff then you can build a LOT cheaper than paying lads to snapchat each other.

 

[Still Farming]

Breeze blocks aren't where the costs are!

Don't think their free yet?

 

[Landrover]

I built my house for sub £800 m2 but I did slot of the work myself and didn't figure my time into the costs !

 

[Bullring]

Work on around 1200 to 1500 per sq metre, people have said 1000 sq m for years but in reality materials have gone up, depends if you get a builder to do the whole lot or manage it yourself and get trades in as and when you needs them and if your handy yourself you could save money. I managed mine and done quite a bit of work myself after getting quotes and realising how much the builders were making out of me, in the end I had a high spec house for the same price as builders were quoting for a basic one.

 

[br jones]

And you need fecking sprinklers in Wales

Because its the law

 

[bravheart]

A mate of mine who does this for a living says it roughly works in 'thirds'.
A third for the land
A third for the building (materials and labour)
A third for the developer (not all profit - cost of money, planning, cockups etc.)

Mind you, modern houses built by developers could probably do with having a bit more spent on the materials, IMHO.

This is how it used to be as a ballpark.
The three “S”s + 10%
30% site
30% structure
30% services
10% extras
That’s before councils got involved with all their ‘taxes’ don’t know how it adds up now but there’s a base to start you off with envelope calculations

 

[br jones]

Insulation alone has gone up 45 % in the last 2 years ,and in the last house i built it was 8 grand alone,without fitting it