Architectural drawings for log cabins / timber frame houses.

[SteveA]

Have u seen the tv programe Building Alaska, on the travel channel, 46? on free view,

came across it while watching ray mears 1 nite.

Building proper log cabins in middle of no where, sometimes with just a chainsaw as only tool.

 

Is the 1000 a sq m not for a more traditionally built house,and even that could be low at times. Depending how the logs are built could easily be more expensive again

 

I've been watching Building Alaska.... interesting program but a lot of it looks like a bodge job, especially when it comes to the more detailed parts. Also looks like they don't need to build to any regulations.

cheers, steve

[daltontrees]

Building rates are usually given as £/m2 gross internal area. Nothing to do with the area of walls and impossible to convert to linear metre rates.

[harvey b davison]

I have been on the british log cabin website and come across this price list. Do you think i could take a comparative price from this http://www.britishlogcabins.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Price-Guide-29.09.15.pdf.

 

My idea is to take the price for the llangedwyn house and recalculate for my own design. Do you think this would be sufficient.

 

Thanks

H.

[daltontrees]

Looks like a good starting point. The bigger examples are coming in at well over £1700/m2 for turnkey. There could be an element of quantum saving for a larger building than the examples, and one of the spaces is a garage with little internal finishes so it would be at a lower rate. And you have to take maybe 15% off the rate for founds and services. I still think you're at around £1,500/m2 net of fees, founds, services, land purchase, fees and VAT (for newbuilds the VAT rate should be 0).

[drinksloe]

Wil depend how much detail and how accurate u need it to be. Until u actually built it u'd never ever know how accurate ur estimate was, so if just a project mibee be near enough.

I'd just phone that company and get the craic with them.

 

As dalton trees said prices tend to be m2 and generally will be to finished standard so all electrics, plumbing finishing done (so 100m2 house ur taking 100k) i'd imagine u might just have a bog standard kit inside 'log cabin' to get ur u values so possibly the only difference in price will be between brick/block/render finish and ur log style finish

 

If using a traditional kit inside as load bearing perhaps u could use something cheaper than whole logs, possibly T&G but more rustic looking

 

 

Steve a allegedely they do have some sort of building standards over there (not sure i believe it thou) allegedly house are built with earthquakes in mind so designed to withstand shear forces. But must admit looks like they make it up as go along.

Not an awful lot of H&S on the sites over there, bloody quite clever how they figure some things out and do things old school

 

If u google wallets marts and find the rural property section (on link) theres a log cabin for sale near me, only built a few years ago, took him ages to get it throu planning

Edited January 28, 2016 by drinksloe

[harvey b davison]

Thanks dalton. I'm going to work my price out from that price guide for a sealed shell and take it from there. It is only a project ( although an important one), so i think i will be close enough working it out from there and then getting prices for the interior fit outs.

 

cheers

[dirtybiker]

I said £1000 Psm as this a good ball Park figure.

I've just finished building my oak framed house, built to a very high standard.

110sm ground floor 110sm first floor and an attic room of 20ms. Total of 240sm

I built it for £240K after my vat reclaim. That was finished completely including bathrooms, kitchen, heating system landscaping etc.

It can be done but I did a hell of a lot of graft myself, only got trades in when I had too.

Jez

[sandspider]

Sounds nice. Any pics?

[dirtybiker]

Sounds nice. Any pics?

 

Yeah but struggling to get Piccys to load!

[dirtybiker]

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