Colette Strachan

Oh dear, that sounds painful!! Sadly there’s bound to be things like you experienced unquantified in our costs/plans. My hope is to survive the process …. and love and enjoy the results. I hope you are ‘there’ now.

Yes I agree…. I did read somewhere that a charge of £750m2 was a high end price for a builder to purely erect the Kit. Certainly that’s more my thinking - the complete Kit, is a shell, an empty box with windows, doors, plasterboard rooms and a roof. Nothing else. I’m also told a kit is a jigsaw puzzle that can be put together in a few days. A HOME/newBUILD… takes much much longer

Hi. We are purchasing the kit which has all doors, windows, joust, insulation, internal walls etc etc. The kit basically includes every nut n bolt to erect s wind and watertight house. No electrics. water, sewage etc. I just thought £2.5k was a lot to build and then do all internal stuff

Hi Ralph. Yes it’s is Scotframe. When did you build and who did you use??

Hello!!! My name is Colette and I am a complete novice re self new builds. We have a plot in St Cyrus, Aberdeenshire and now have full planning permission, architect plans, building warrent etc. We have selected to use an adapted kit build and make it disabled friendly. It’s been an uphill struggle to get this far and we are now putting the job out to tender. My question here, of which I’m sure there will be more, is… we’ve had a quote of £2500 per m2, and on questioning the price, the contractor admitted he hadn’t taken into account the full list of kit contents….. such as all windows, doors, flooring, roofing, insulation etc etc etc. So, assuming he reverts back with £xxxm2. My question is, what is a reasonable/average price £xx m2 for a contractor to quote when all component of the build, are provided to make it wind and water tight??? Many thanks …. And if anyone knows of any disabled new build grants or benefits, please let me know. thanks!!