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[Misc] Building advice needed please



Biancazzurro

Biancazzurro

Active member
Aug 9, 2011
216
Hassocks
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
 




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CAPTAIN GREALISH

Well-known member
Jan 6, 2010
2,600
Biancazzurro said:
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
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looking at about £2,800 happy to give you a quote cheers steve
 


Albion my Albion

Albion my Albion

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NSC Patron
Feb 6, 2016
17,834
Indiana, USA
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

skipper734

Registered ruffian
Aug 9, 2008
9,189
Curdridge
What about the chimney? You can't leave that up if the breasts (snigger) are being removed.
 


Bold Seagull

Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
29,789
Hove
Biancazzurro said:
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
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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.
 






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CAPTAIN GREALISH

Well-known member
Jan 6, 2010
2,600
Bold Seagull said:
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.
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think I must be to cheap scott ???
 






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ofco8

Well-known member
May 18, 2007
2,387
Brighton
Biancazzurro said:
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
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You'll probably need to speak to Building Control if you are forming an opening requiring a steel.
 










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mwrpoole

Well-known member
Sep 10, 2010
1,506
Sevenoaks
Biancazzurro said:
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
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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

dazzer6666

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Mar 27, 2013
52,399
Burgess Hill
Bold Seagull said:
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.
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I thought £5k was 'about £2800' when it's an estimate in the building trade ??
 






Gregory2Smith1

Gregory2Smith1

J'les aurai!
Sep 21, 2011
5,476
Auch
instead of a RSJ you could insert some 4x4

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


Merdalfthewizard

Merdalfthewizard

once more unto the breach
Dec 25, 2014
181
265 miles from home games
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.
 






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Doctor Crawley

Active member
Jun 5, 2012
160
Crawley
skipper734 said:
What about the chimney? You can't leave that up if the breasts (snigger) are being removed.
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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

Biancazzurro

Active member
Aug 9, 2011
216
Hassocks
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.
 


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