[Misc] Building advice needed please

[Biancazzurro]

We're planning to take a wall down between the lounge and dining room and after getting a few quotes I wanted to turn to the wisdom of NSC to see if they are good / fair or awful. How much should this cost?

• Remove non load bearing chimey breast from 1st floor bedroom
• Remove non load bearing chimney breast from ground floor dining room and lounge
• Knock through wall and insert a steel to create an archway (steel not hidden in ceiling)
• Plastering
• Make good floor (to be covered)

Any advice is welcome, thanks in advance

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

We're planning to take a wall down between the lounge and dining room and after getting a few quotes I wanted to turn to the wisdom of NSC to see if they are good / fair or awful. How much should this cost?

• Remove non load bearing chimey breast from 1st floor bedroom
• Remove non load bearing chimney breast from ground floor dining room and lounge
• Knock through wall and insert a steel to create an archway (steel not hidden in ceiling)
• Plastering
• Make good floor (to be covered)

Any advice is welcome, thanks in advance

looking at about £2,800 happy to give you a quote cheers steve

 

[Albion my Albion]

What's the difference between a chimey breast and a chimney breast? I'm hoping it's a huge one.

EDIT: Of course not the breast. Average size is fine.

 

[skipper734]

What about the chimney? You can't leave that up if the breasts (snigger) are being removed.

 

[Bold Seagull]

We're planning to take a wall down between the lounge and dining room and after getting a few quotes I wanted to turn to the wisdom of NSC to see if they are good / fair or awful. How much should this cost?

• Remove non load bearing chimey breast from 1st floor bedroom
• Remove non load bearing chimney breast from ground floor dining room and lounge
• Knock through wall and insert a steel to create an archway (steel not hidden in ceiling)
• Plastering
• Make good floor (to be covered)

Any advice is welcome, thanks in advance

Can recommend [MENTION=15348]CAPTAIN GREALISH[/MENTION] who has done work at mine and at a friends. Having not seen CG's post, I would have said you were looking close to £5k - quite a lot of demolitions there, carting away, making good etc.

 

[KingstonSeagull]

I'll do it for £50 and some paella...

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

Can recommend [MENTION=15348]CAPTAIN GREALISH[/MENTION] who has done work at mine and at a friends. Having not seen CG's post, I would have said you were looking close to £5k - quite a lot of demolitions there, carting away, making good etc.

think I must be to cheap scott

 

[Bold Seagull]

think I must be to cheap scott

I reckon you could be! Then again, I always err on the side of caution, clients much happier with me if it turns out cheaper rather than more expensive...

 

[ofco8]

We're planning to take a wall down between the lounge and dining room and after getting a few quotes I wanted to turn to the wisdom of NSC to see if they are good / fair or awful. How much should this cost?

• Remove non load bearing chimey breast from 1st floor bedroom
• Remove non load bearing chimney breast from ground floor dining room and lounge
• Knock through wall and insert a steel to create an archway (steel not hidden in ceiling)
• Plastering
• Make good floor (to be covered)

Any advice is welcome, thanks in advance

You'll probably need to speak to Building Control if you are forming an opening requiring a steel.

 

[portslade seagull]

I'll also keep you in mind CG

 

[sully]

How is a chimney breast not load bearing? What's holding the chimney up, or has that already been demolished?

 

[surrey jim]

No idea on prices, however can also recommend @CAPTAIN GREALISHs building work

 

[mwrpoole]

We're planning to take a wall down between the lounge and dining room and after getting a few quotes I wanted to turn to the wisdom of NSC to see if they are good / fair or awful. How much should this cost?

• Remove non load bearing chimey breast from 1st floor bedroom
• Remove non load bearing chimney breast from ground floor dining room and lounge
• Knock through wall and insert a steel to create an archway (steel not hidden in ceiling)
• Plastering
• Make good floor (to be covered)

Any advice is welcome, thanks in advance

I did something similar a few years back, as part of a bigger project though so the cost is no help. But for taking down the wall and inserting a steel, we had to apply for Building Regs and get a structural engineer involved to work out the size of the steel required and do the drawings etc. If my memory serves me correctly, there was also padstones involved in the supporting walls that the steel sat on, which again the structural engineer had to size up.

 

[dazzer6666]

Can recommend [MENTION=15348]CAPTAIN GREALISH[/MENTION] who has done work at mine and at a friends. Having not seen CG's post, I would have said you were looking close to £5k - quite a lot of demolitions there, carting away, making good etc.

I thought £5k was 'about £2800' when it's an estimate in the building trade ??

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Be cheaper to move

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

instead of a RSJ you could insert some 4x4

I know just the man,what's his name, O'Reilly

 

[Merdalfthewizard]

Sounds like you need some calculations done for steel and pads, especially if the steel is to support wall or floor/ceiling joists. I'm assuming the rest of the chimney has already been removed? I must admit I have seen a few left hanging in the roof space by other builders or propped up by a length of 4x2.

 

[Merdalfthewizard]

instead of a RSJ you could insert some 4x4

I know just the man,what's his name, O'Reilly

Shirley that would be an Irish J?

 

[Doctor Crawley]

What about the chimney? You can't leave that up if the breasts (snigger) are being removed.

I had this exact work done two years ago.
The builders 'braced' the chimney up in the loft.The brace had to be made especially for the job.A very messy job it was too but the results are superb, giving a larger living room and bedroom space.
My work cost me about 3k I think, but that also included another wall(hallway) being removed and an RSJ inserted, with quite a bit of plastering.

 

[Biancazzurro]

We had the chimney taken off the roof and out of the loft space when the loft was converted, we just ran out of money to take it out of all the rooms. Wish we'd found the cash for the rest of the chimneys at the time as it would have been much cheaper.

Our friends had similar done with a bit less demolition for £1500 a few years ago so £2800 is much more what I expected / hoped for.

Would I save much money by doing the demolition and rubble removal of the chimney breasts myself? It would leave the knock through, steel and plastering.