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Here it is: as accurate as I can get it. No pretense of getting it done cheaper than anyone else. Just the raw numbers and a few words to explain context if necessary (why did I buy a chain-hoist for example). Yes, you'll probably get it cheaper. That's excellent. The point is openness and telling it like it is.
March 2014
Home Building and Renovation Show NEC: £100, including fuel and tickets
Phone calls about £15:00 extra, and about £70:00 fuel.
July 2014
Land: already owned
Planner: £1050, plus £70 initial consultation fee, (in cash).
LPA Outline Planning Application fee £770
Phone calls: about £15:00 extra, and about £50:00 fuel.
August 2014
Ecologist: £1390.15 (works out at about £1 per Great Crested Newt – a further £2000 budgeted for. But see below June 2016)
November 2014
Topographical Survey: £540
January 2015
Trips to Timber frame companies and various local suppliers : £50 fuel
Subscriptions to various magazines: £70(ish)
February 2015
Architect: £4000 (design plus all other matters up to and including submission for Full PP application)
QS: £630 – feasibility study
Legal: £360; altering title
LPA fees: £385
Structural Engineer: £1782; foundations calculations
Land registry Fee: £40
Contamination Desk Study and Geophysics : £1260 (plus possible indeterminate decontamination costs)
Phone calls: about £20:00 extra, and very little fuel.
March 2015
Discharge of Conditions Fee £97.00
Health and Safety Services are being handled for free by a colleague: I’m coding his website in exchange.
Notice: no site insurance yet……. :huh: I’m just too mean. Projected cost £568.65 (May 2015)
August 2015
Architects fees £2000; from award of Outline PP to Full PP (6th of August) and
£40 for bottle of champagne to thank our him: his judgement in relation to what would pass was exactly right. Read paragraph 9 of the Delegated Report (here)
Trip to Swindon to visit the NSBRC
Fuel £36, overnight stay £85
Strimmer: Polycut head, and set of knives for strimmer
£46.60. (No lawn for Salamander Cottage: at last, no mowing…… bliss)
September 2015
Legal Fees; alteration to title status £232
October
Purchase a four wheel trailer (new) £2500
Purchase a Mutts Nuts (Nick’s term, not mine) Bosch Laser Level £250
First Aid Course (ref. H+S policy) £80
Chainsaw Course £130
December
Off mains drainage legal agreement
Legal fees and £1000 for access to the land to discharge to stream (wayleave?): £1862
(£300 over budget)
Cladding
Preparation for processing the wood;
Serious Stihl saw (660) and ancillary equipment £2000
(resale value £1000)
Trips to open passivhauses
£50 +
Off – road parking (ground matz)
£2800 (resale value £2500)
January 2016
SPONS Architects and Builders’ Price Guide 2016. Can’t do without it. And there’s an App that goes with it. £150
Small shipping container (for tools) £300 (resale value £400)
Base for container: 4 tons of 20 mm to dust from my mate: £35, yep £35
New wheelbarrow £97 (French made Hammerlin: two flat tyres (in 2 weeks) and a stupidly forward C of G so the damn thing tips forward ON ITS OWN... sodding thing)
Local Oak trees (for the shakes and cladding) £1200 (1 square meter of oak shakes retails for £100!) T.K Knipe Allithwaite. £100s of pounds worth of free advice.
1 Sweet Chestnut tree (high tannin content) £140
5 local oak trees £100 (they were going to be cut up for fire wood - I kid you not)
Another container (you can't have too many): £1000 (resale value £1000)
February 2016
Small hand tools and boys toys £1500
May 2016
2.5 tonne Mini Digger = £14,000 (PV Dobsons, Levens)
EPS Licence £1200 (I still haven't paid the bill - because of some really unprofessional behaviour.)
Red Diesel £15
120 meters of Temporary Amphibian Fencing (TAF), 80 stakes (37 by 37 by 700) £267.37
Lifting gear: a 2 tonne chain block and tackle 2 shackles, and two beam clamps £181.03 (to run on the RSJs below)
2 RSJs, (6 meters long to span between the two containers) £230 +VAT
Filing frame to assist sharpening my chainsaw chains £97
Site signage (ebay) £10 for several (more needed)
Plastic Barrier Fencing Safety Mesh Fence Netting Net With Metal Pins £50.95 (for the edge of the car park and pedestrian walkway)
Three stillage cages to store material on the site (one cage fitted inside the container) £50
Another two stillage cages today. £25
And £80 worth of 2 inch wire mesh so I can weld it to the stillage cages: slows light fingers down
Two (full-on-big-boys) deck brooms £24
A grease gun for my digger and two cartridges of grease £22
Another High Security Digital padlock and hardened, sheathed, hardened chain to secure the buckets (that aren't hooked up) for my digger £55
A 2 Tonne x 1.5 meter Leverhoist £79.95
2 off 2 tonne Beam Clamps £25.98
4 off 2 Ton Alloy Bow Shackles, with Safety Pins £11.96
The above is initially for lifting trees and heavy objects safely off the trailer (on my own) Later the hoist and clamps will do the same job, but in a small purpose-built workshop.
100 meters of 16 amp electricity cable. £71.89
Building Control Fees £600
Red Diesel £18.21
June 2016
Two more stillage cages £25
A Douglas Fir tree and a Larch tree. £40 (Fir tree £10) Will produce stock worth about double that (conservative estimate)
20 8" coach screws £4.
4 sheets of reinforcing mesh £20 (16 by 8 foot for welding to the stillage cages to slow down thieves )
Structural Engineer £1774. And worth every penny (so far)
First Aid Kit (10 person HSE Approved) £7.57 (tried getting one locally, couldn't get one for love nor money)
Security marker pens £1.99 (a requirement of the Site Insurance: all scaffolding poles must be security marked - not the digger or the saws!) "Curiouser and curiouser"
Wood for lining my container £81
HERAS panels, feet, clips, struts, pins for the struts £200
Some steel stock to practise welding £12 (making a small tool table for my SuperJaws clamp: cost on the open market £30)
Four Point Lifting Chains ('shorten-able') £139. Fed up of worrying about the webbing strops - they are quite worn already
Site H+S sign. £24 ( and I begrudge every penny: it's expensive wallpaper... why do I say that - read on - last but one point)
2 tins of Hammerite for the rust spots on the container. £28
The ecologist had the good grace to halve his bill given the less than prompt approach to fulfilling his contract. £900
July
Builder's Merchant bill: £704 - bits and bobs, sand 25mm water pipe and stuff like that
August
Builder's Merchant bill: < £100 all sorts of tiny things
September
Builder's Merchants bill £1379.24, Ply wood for the stillage and to make some internal storage in the container, a DeWalt nailer (luxury beyond compare)
It starts to get serious now........... Piling will be about £6000, Groundwork price yet to come in, site clearance - I've hired a lumberjack who's coming from Canada - muscles coming out of his ears - off mains drainage and site drainage....
Off to Harrogate next week. (4th of November)
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