Is 100e/sq ft not a bit expensive the way things are at the moment, I recently got a quote for my house which worked out at 63e/sq ft
I would be a bit concerned if I got a quotation in that was that good, Feardorcha.
I have separately costed three 4,000 sq.ft. houses both working with a QS and separately - later, to get keener prices - with a project manager .
Taking out preliminaries and contingincies the former's costing was down to €600,000 per house = €150 a square foot while the latter's was down around €500,000 a house.
The first price vaguely included for local authority contributions, significant landscaping, a 15 Cubic Metre surface water attenuation chamber, a short access road,
80 M of a new drain and 60 M of a new 1.8M footpath.
The second price nailed all the figures for these and went into specific details of the houses - the first was only a per square foot estimate with an outline specification.
On the first the QS we used was put to the pin of his collar on the cost estimate, and he agreed that you might get better prices on the spread of tenders, but he could stand over such pricing and would advise us ot be careful if any such proces came in to get this down to a turnkey contract, ensure good professional oversight during the works and avoid substitutions.
On the second, more accurate, costing, excluding the extras above and our fees, the houses proper, with a basic finish worked out at under €350K each, but even a bit of stone in the hall and a halfway decent kitchen would put that up to €400K.
So you can take it that estimates much under €100 a square foot might need to be taken with a pinch of salt - around Dublin anyway - whatever you may achieve elsewhere.
If you don't have professional oversight on the job and you're not a building professional yourself, you will likely get fleeced on something to justify sich tight pricing, or else one of the sub-contractors may get burnt.
Such is the building game - you get what you pay for.
But even with a decent price, yet without professional oversight, you can still be taken for a ride, even in a recession.
ONQ.
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