Installing an RSJ

[HOUSER1980]

Hi All,

I am moving into a new house hopefully in the new year. I am planning to have a wall between the morning room and kitchen knocked through. It is a 1930s 3 bed semi design. The kitchen is an extension built onto the house so the wall that would need knocking down is a load bearing wall. The width of the wall is 3 metres so we would leave about hald a metre on each side. Does anybody have any ideas on how much this would cost fully fitted, plastered and skimmed. Also, how long would a decent builder take?

Thanks in advance.

 

[noseall]

Two days to do the work (building work), done for about a grand.

Probably!

Read here.

 

[^woody^]

That sounds cheap for an external wall and possible problems in getting the needles through or making good - extension roofspace external and rooms above

Calcs, b/regs and steels are going to be about £500

 

[noseall]

A 'typical' job, whereby the joists run onto said wall, so facilitating propping and where there are no electrics or plumbing to contend with or a great difference in floor heights or plaster difference thickness, THEN you could do it in two days for a K.

However the above scenario is more 'ideal' than 'typical'.

I also agree Woodstop that a twin skin external fella would be more of a challenge to both the builder and the wallet. I assumed it was a half brick internal fella.