how much to build a house

[petemurphy]

i know piece of string and all that but what are ball park figures for 5 bed house on a field nothing too flash not including land? 200k?

[anonymous-user]

Try roughly £120-150 per square foot and you'll be in the right ballpark.

[anonymous-user]

Forgot to add...this is a useful online calculator

http://www.buildstore.co.uk/finance/build-cost-cal...

[ColinM50]

If I were building a five bed house from scratch I'd WANT flash.

Yes budget on £150 ft2 and a five bed house will be c2,000 ft. Plus a four car garage

[petemurphy]

cheers

[King Herald]

ColinM50 said:

If I were building a five bed house from scratch I'd WANT flash.

Yes budget on £150 ft2 and a five bed house will be c2,000 ft. Plus a four car garage

We're building a 3 bed house, 1500ft2, and people tell me it is small.

Mind you, the master bedroom/en suite is 1/4 of the whole house footage. SWMBO is responsible for that.....

It does have a four car garage/workshop though, but that is in the back yard.



And a roof garden.........

[98elise]

garyhun said:

Try roughly £120-150 per square foot and you'll be in the right ballpark.

Or £1k per sqm on new money, thats for an averarge spec

[blueg33]

A house builder will do a high spec house for £90-95 per sqft at that size. So if you think £100-105 per sqft you should be about right but you need to think about "abnormal costs" these can include:

extra depth founds due to tree influence
extra drainage costs due to pipe runs, distance from mains
topography - is the site level?
does it drain by gravity?
extra length drive
extra parking area
abonormal materials in some areas eg stone walls, slate roofs, heads, cills, metal rainwater goods etc
boundary treatments
diversion of services
lowering of services where site joins road
demolition of existing structures
oil or LPG fired heating
external lighting of parking areas
double or triple garage (above cost will include double garage)
Concrete first floor?
Block internal walls
Attic trusses (if you want to use the attic as a room in the future)

there is a long list.

The only real way is to do it the way a builder does it.

Decide full spec and design, look at site specific requirements then cost it properly. Then do not change spec!

[Mermaid]

98elise said:

Or £1k per sqm on new money, thats for an average spec

That's 1 floor I suppose, what if you have a 2 floor extension/house?

[blueg33]

Mermaid said:

That's 1 floor I suppose, what if you have a 2 floor extension/house?

Its gets slightly cheaper per sqm for 2 floors. Big cost is groundworks and roof, the bit in between is cheaper.

So 3 to 5 stories is cheaper per sqm of floor space (not footprint), once you get to 5 storeys the price goes up as you have to protect against progressive collapse.

All prices I have seen quoted on this thread are based on gross internal floor area, NOT footprint

[Mermaid]

blueg33 said:

Mermaid said:

That's 1 floor I suppose, what if you have a 2 floor extension/house?

Its gets slightly cheaper per sqm for 2 floors. Big cost is groundworks and roof, the bit in between is cheaper.

So of it's 2 floors, will an extra 50% be enough in addition to the 1 floor cost?

[anonymous-user]

Mermaid said:

So of it's 2 floors, will an extra 50% be enough in addition to the 1 floor cost?

Just take your overall sq ft (or metre) and multiply by £120 (£1000) and you'll be close all round.

[blueg33]

Mermaid said:

So of it's 2 floors, will an extra 50% be enough in addition to the 1 floor cost?

Roughly yes. But the only safe way is to get a drawing and get it costed, there are so many things that affect cost. Eg do walls line up, does plumbing line up.

But for a ball park yes you just measure the total sqm of floor space and multiply by your chosen rate, anything from £900-1500 per sqm