It's EXPENSIVE to expand. We are building 60 sqm over two floors (a bit cheaper than building on one floor), doing some interior renovation, and completely renovating one bathroom while adding another in the extension, and this runs up to 1 million! Some friends are planning to expand one floor with a wet room (combined toilet/laundry room) about 10 sqm, and it costs 300,000. It's definitely much cheaper to choose a house as big as you need from the start rather than buying one too small and expanding it!
Do you mean that your friends only built a bathroom addition of 10m2 for 300,000?
I'm planning to do an extension for laundry/bath of about 25m2 myself.
I've roughly estimated the material cost and come up to 115,000.
Brief description: crawl space, wood joists, wood facade, metal roof, tiles, floor tiles, toilet, sink, shower, bathtub.
White goods for the laundry room are not included.
I will be doing most of the work myself to keep labor costs down.
Can anyone guess how many hours a carpenter would need to build the frame/roof?
I assume two professional carpenters could put up walls and roof fairly quickly, but it will probably still be quite expensive.
What does a carpenter cost per hour?
I'm planning to do an extension for laundry/bath of about 25m2 myself.
I've roughly estimated the material cost and come up to 115,000.
Brief description: crawl space, wood joists, wood facade, metal roof, tiles, floor tiles, toilet, sink, shower, bathtub.
White goods for the laundry room are not included.
I will be doing most of the work myself to keep labor costs down.
Can anyone guess how many hours a carpenter would need to build the frame/roof?
I assume two professional carpenters could put up walls and roof fairly quickly, but it will probably still be quite expensive.
What does a carpenter cost per hour?
If you have a lot of time and are handy, there is a lot of money to save because craftsmen are not exactly cheap.co said:
Has anyone calculated the craftsman cost and how much you can save by taking time off work and doing the carpentry yourself?
Sure, you can save money by doing the job yourself, but it requires at least two things;
1. That you CAN do the job yourself and are not all thumbs!
2. That you HAVE TIME to do the job yourself! Personally, I have three children, and IF I could build and COULD take time off work to do all the work myself, daycare would immediately demand that I keep the children at home, and with three small children in the house who constantly need food, diaper changes, or supervision, not many nails would get driven. Furthermore, my job means I can barely take time off for vacation, let alone construction leave!
So for us overworked parents of young children with stressful jobs, unfortunately, the only option left is to shell out the money and pay for others to do what we ourselves can't or don't have time for :
1. That you CAN do the job yourself and are not all thumbs!
2. That you HAVE TIME to do the job yourself! Personally, I have three children, and IF I could build and COULD take time off work to do all the work myself, daycare would immediately demand that I keep the children at home, and with three small children in the house who constantly need food, diaper changes, or supervision, not many nails would get driven. Furthermore, my job means I can barely take time off for vacation, let alone construction leave!
So for us overworked parents of young children with stressful jobs, unfortunately, the only option left is to shell out the money and pay for others to do what we ourselves can't or don't have time for :