Hey All,
I'm looking to add a porch to my detached house in the south-east. It's pretty standard stuff: 3m2, footing to be dug and laid, dwarf wall built & rendered, double glazing on all three sides, door, double hipped roof & guttering.
I've got three quotes now (and four tradesman who just didn't bother to show up but that's another story) and they are coming in at between 8-10k. Perhaps I'm being terribly naive here but this seems quite high for what is, in my opinion at least, a fairly routine bit of home improvement that shouldn't take more than 8 or 9 days to complete.
I like to do a lot of DIY and have done some fairly big projects along with my dad so I'm tempted to just tackle this myself (minus building the wall and rendering it, I'll get a brickie in for that) and save a fair chunk money but I'm reluctant to go the DIY route on something as prominently on view, it should look professional.
So my question for the experts is is 8-10k the going rate these days for a standard porch build and I'm just behind the times or are the quotes on the high side?
Cheers,
Steve
I'm looking to add a porch to my detached house in the south-east. It's pretty standard stuff: 3m2, footing to be dug and laid, dwarf wall built & rendered, double glazing on all three sides, door, double hipped roof & guttering.
I've got three quotes now (and four tradesman who just didn't bother to show up but that's another story) and they are coming in at between 8-10k. Perhaps I'm being terribly naive here but this seems quite high for what is, in my opinion at least, a fairly routine bit of home improvement that shouldn't take more than 8 or 9 days to complete.
I like to do a lot of DIY and have done some fairly big projects along with my dad so I'm tempted to just tackle this myself (minus building the wall and rendering it, I'll get a brickie in for that) and save a fair chunk money but I'm reluctant to go the DIY route on something as prominently on view, it should look professional.
So my question for the experts is is 8-10k the going rate these days for a standard porch build and I'm just behind the times or are the quotes on the high side?
Cheers,
Steve