What exactly are you interested in? Is it internal layout and design ideas or are you looking for info in relation to planning/council issues?Does anyone know about websites that offer help and information on house extensions.
We are thinking about doing an extension but would want to do our research before consulting an architect or builder.
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Also looking to extend my house (single storey), convert my loft and refurbish the existing house (rewire, install heating, skim walls and new doors) and have spoken to both builders and architects. The architects suggested a budget of €250k would be tight. The builder suggested around €100k would be plenty. Now I'm confused! The architects say a man-in-van will butcher my house, while the builder shook his head sorrowfully at the architect's quoted 10%-14% fee.
Can anyone tell me where the €150k difference in price goes or suggest where to go from here?
Get an architect to do up plans and spec , give them to a QS to get a full bill of quatities and send that out to a builder. People will gladly pay an Arch 10-15% of the build cost but wont pay QS a grand to do up a bill. The QS qould be better placed to cost control the job rather then have a Arch go mad on design.