Scottish Elises

Need some ball park figures and as you know I'm useless with this sort of stuff!

New pad has a converted basement with light, power and heating and plumbing. Two rooms that are perfectly usable but the only entrance is via an external door. There is the space in main house to drop a staircase (probably spiral) into the cellar so it then becomes part of the main house.

What do you think i'd be looking at cost wise?

Cheers in advance to the SE massive

Spiral, whilst lovely take up way more room than you think...

Otherwise it's how long is a piece of string - depending on quality of finish etc.

I can do it for about 600 all in but all I'll be doing is cutting a rough hole and buying you a ladder. That is to say selling you my old ladder and buying myself a newer one.

It might not meet building code.

No expert at this but you will need a building warrant and maybe planning permission and you will need a structural engineer's drawings to get that. Say £1500 in fees. Difficult to say work wise but £4k in labour if there is some structural work and a couple in materials depending on what you end up putting in. My guess would be £7,500 but it will obviously depend on just how difficult the job ends up being.

Somebody more knowledgeable will probably turn up shortly to say I’m way out.

Titanium S1 111S (gla) wrote:
Somebody more knowledgeable will probably turn up shortly to say I’m way out.

You are way out

I can think of at least two friendly SE'rs who could do the drawings at mates rates / homer. I'm sure a few of us could help out with some cheap labour.

I'm not sure i want the house that SE built, regardless of how cheap it is

At least now i can go to mrs donkey and say "it's anywhere between £600 and £7500"

....im my head i was thinking it would be under £10k but had no idea other than that. Guess we just need to get the keys and then start speaking to some people.

And maybe selling a kidney.

Or a leg.

Dominic wrote:

Titanium S1 111S (gla) wrote:
Somebody more knowledgeable will probably turn up shortly to say I’m way out.

You are way out

Thanks Dom!

Dominic wrote:I can think of at least two friendly SE'rs who could do the drawings at mates rates / homer. I'm sure a few of us could help out with some cheap labour.

I'm with the Donkey on that. Structural alterations to a house are probably not a "give it a go" kind of thing although I can give Dom a reference as a labourer if required.

Fire mans pole

Titanium S1 111S (gla) wrote:

Dominic wrote:

Titanium S1 111S (gla) wrote:
Somebody more knowledgeable will probably turn up shortly to say I’m way out.

You are way out

Thanks Dom!

Dominic wrote:I can think of at least two friendly SE'rs who could do the drawings at mates rates / homer. I'm sure a few of us could help out with some cheap labour.

I'm with the Donkey on that. Structural alterations to a house are probably not a "give it a go" kind of thing although I can give Dom a reference as a labourer if required.

How are you going to learn if you don't just try?

I've used this bloke a few times after our previous joiner selfishly emigrated. Very professional, excellent quality finishing joiner. Had the inevitable snags for him to fix and he has always come straight back and dealt with them (which for me is always a big thing, everyone leaves snags but some builders never return once they've been paid).


www.ayrshirejoiner.co.uk

Helluva price tag for a fun-dungeon...

flyingscot68 wrote:Fire mans pole

Batcave.

Be careful while digging up your basement wasn't Peter Manual murdering people in that neck of the woods.

Give Iain a buzz and I am sure he could give you a quote - http://www.lindsayjoineryservices.co.uk

He did work for me a few years back and it was spot on, I will be giving him a call myself soon about some other work I am needing done.

Thanks Craig. Numbers being mentioned are a bit silly feel free to contact me always happy to help even if just a chat.

Never mind a tap, you could have a small scale brewery in there for not much.