Estimate Costs of a New Extension or Other Building Project

To Avoid Nasty Surprises in Your Building Budget…

When the back of a cigarette package just isn’t enough to calculate your building costs, you’re going to need to do some pretty accurate calculations if you’re not going to overspend on a project. You can use tools like this to find out if you can afford the project you have in mind.

This is not some fancy tool where you just add in your sizes but rather a worksheet or workbook that runs through everything you might need. The upshot of completing it is you’ll have all your material quantities worked out for when you start the project.

In conjunction to this workbook you’ll need a time plan or work schedule (coming soon) so you can book all your tradesmen in good time.

Hope it helps…

Here are the links to the downloadable workbooks….

MS WORD: Estimating Building Costs Workbook

MS EXCEL: Estimating Building Costs Workbook

PDF: Estimating Building Costs Workbook

If you need any extra help:

Back in the day when I was building houses, before I got more into the restoration side of things I used to use Mark Brinkley’s House building Bible as my go to reference…

Still as relevant today, the book is in it’s eleventh edition as I write this, take a look on amazon… Housebuilder’s Bible 11, by Mark Brinkley. I guarantee you’ll not miss a trick if you follow everything in this book!

and here is the workbook in the flesh if you want to have a look without downloading… (click the above links to download yours)