Warehouse partitioning cost

[nsa]

Does anybody have an idea how much it should cost to build two 10 ft high breeze block walls, one 40 foot and the other 45 foot? My landlord has a quote of £3,000 including materials. She wants half from me. Does £3,000 sound right or should I get my own builder in?

Floors and walls are level and the walls don't need to be painted and no doors or windows are needed. The warehouse is about 30 foot high but the walls are just to block, they don't need to join the ceiling.

The warehouse is in North London if anybody wants to quote. I would be happy to do half of the lifting but I'm no bricklayer. The work will be done in a week or two. I need a blind quote, but a rough figure should be OK and we can firm up as necessary. PM me if you like.

[skwdenyer]

nsa said:

Does anybody have an idea how much it should cost to build two 10 ft high breeze block walls, one 40 foot and the other 45 foot? My landlord has a quote of £3,000 including materials. She wants half from me. Does £3,000 sound right or should I get my own builder in?

Floors and walls are level and the walls don't need to be painted and no doors or windows are needed. The warehouse is about 30 foot high but the walls are just to block, they don't need to join the ceiling.

The warehouse is in North London if anybody wants to quote. I would be happy to do half of the lifting but I'm no bricklayer. The work will be done in a week or two. I need a blind quote, but a rough figure should be OK and we can firm up as necessary. PM me if you like.

Very rough ballpark based on 2007 prices out of London (sorry I've got nothing more recent): single-skin (3.5N 4 inch blocks) wall is 10 blocks per square metre. Blocks are £1 each. Labour is another £10 per square metre. Sand and cement extra. Delivery charges extra.

So you've got about 41 square metres. If those are free-standing walls (you've had an engineer work them out, have you?) then I'd imagine they'd need to be double-skin walls in order to not be a hazard by being at risk of faling over! In which case I'd guess around £2k all-in. That could easily get to £3k with VAT, inflation, etc.

The advantage of getting the landlord to do the work is that it isn't your responsibility if it all goes wrong or the wall falls over But, seriously, what is the spec?

[nsa]

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

[skwdenyer]

nsa said:

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

Out of interest, what is a 10-foot high wall going to actually achieve? If you can give me an idea of the purpose then I might be able to suggest a different and/or better and/or cheaper way of building it.

[PhilLL]

skwdenyer said:

nsa said:

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

Out of interest, what is a 10-foot high wall going to actually achieve? If you can give me an idea of the purpose then I might be able to suggest a different and/or better and/or cheaper way of building it.

+1

What is the partition for? For example a single skin steel partition might be cost effective depending on what you are trying to achieve.

[sider]

I'd have said £25 per m2 at moment for blockwork.

To put up a superstud wall would be just over double that - but would be a lot quicker to do.

[groomi]

PhilLL said:

skwdenyer said:

nsa said:

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

Out of interest, what is a 10-foot high wall going to actually achieve? If you can give me an idea of the purpose then I might be able to suggest a different and/or better and/or cheaper way of building it.

+1

What is the partition for? For example a single skin steel partition might be cost effective depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Or a jumbo stud partition.

[sider]

groomi said:

PhilLL said:

skwdenyer said:

nsa said:

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

Out of interest, what is a 10-foot high wall going to actually achieve? If you can give me an idea of the purpose then I might be able to suggest a different and/or better and/or cheaper way of building it.

+1

What is the partition for? For example a single skin steel partition might be cost effective depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Or a jumbo stud partition.

I think that's what i refer to with the superstud idea. I think superstud is a brand name that one of our sub-contractors uses a lot of.

[groomi]

sider said:

groomi said:

PhilLL said:

skwdenyer said:

nsa said:

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

Out of interest, what is a 10-foot high wall going to actually achieve? If you can give me an idea of the purpose then I might be able to suggest a different and/or better and/or cheaper way of building it.

+1

What is the partition for? For example a single skin steel partition might be cost effective depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Or a jumbo stud partition.

I think that's what i refer to with the superstud idea. I think superstud is a brand name that one of our sub-contractors uses a lot of.

Yeah, I was typing my post when you posted yours. Like you say, same thing.

[skwdenyer]

sider said:

groomi said:

PhilLL said:

skwdenyer said:

nsa said:

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

Out of interest, what is a 10-foot high wall going to actually achieve? If you can give me an idea of the purpose then I might be able to suggest a different and/or better and/or cheaper way of building it.

+1

What is the partition for? For example a single skin steel partition might be cost effective depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Or a jumbo stud partition.

I think that's what i refer to with the superstud idea. I think superstud is a brand name that one of our sub-contractors uses a lot of.

With respect guys, the OP asked for a wall 10 feet high, 40/45 feet long, where the 10' height is not the height of the building. I'm not aware of a SuperStud / jumbo stud solution which would work in that case as specified - how would it stand up to applied load?

OP where are you? What's the actual purpose of this wall?

[groomi]

skwdenyer said:

sider said:

groomi said:

PhilLL said:

skwdenyer said:

nsa said:

That's a great start and a good point about the landlord being liable for the works. Thanks. I'll work it out on a spreadsheet. Sorry I can't be clearer about the spec but I haven't had any work like this done before.

Out of interest, what is a 10-foot high wall going to actually achieve? If you can give me an idea of the purpose then I might be able to suggest a different and/or better and/or cheaper way of building it.

+1

What is the partition for? For example a single skin steel partition might be cost effective depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Or a jumbo stud partition.

I think that's what i refer to with the superstud idea. I think superstud is a brand name that one of our sub-contractors uses a lot of.

With respect guys, the OP asked for a wall 10 feet high, 40/45 feet long, where the 10' height is not the height of the building. I'm not aware of a SuperStud / jumbo stud solution which would work in that case as specified - how would it stand up to applied load?

OP where are you? What's the actual purpose of this wall?

We were also questioning what the purpose of the 10ft wall was and pointing out that there are other alternatives depending on what that purpose is. Obviously with any stud wall, the studs need fixing at the top and bottom - this would only be worthwhile for the OP if the purpose of the wall required no gaps (such as dusty work on one side, clean work on the other).

[nsa]

I've had a couple of quotes of £2,500 for a wood stud wall that is now going up about 4m high so it will be secured to horizontal beams that go across the building at that level.