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His guy charges for £550. Our builder suggests this is optional/doable if and when we sell the house.
£550 seems massively excessive for what should be an hours work max for any competent SE, although your builders man will no doubt say it takes longer.
A qualified engineer in a medium sized practice charges approx £60 p/h. To put it into perspective we've recently had 1,500sqft house designed and detailed for less than two grand.
Prole.
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As part of or building work, we need a steel lintel across where a set of French doors and an enlarged doorway to the kitchen. Our builder has said he can measure and make t no problem, but that to get it approved for building regs he should get it checked and have a plan drawn up by an architectural/structural engineer. His guy charges for £550. Our builder suggests this is optional/doable if and when we sell the house.
Is he right? What would the pitfalls of doing it like this be? Is this price normal?