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Our situation was very similar with our architect, in that the stated budget that we were assured would be enough was no where near enough. I think this has been covered in this thread but i was astounded how little our architect knew about the cost of things
However, we got eight quotes, one turned out to be just affordable and with a brilliant builder. So I’d advise to figure out what you can really afford, get more quotes, work out what you can do yourself and be prepared to walk away to get a good deal. Don’t be afraid to push back, you are the client after all.
It’s a horrible situation, and it sounds like our architect was much nicer than yours so I feel for you
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It's a relatively simple and small extension. We told him we had a budget of £110,000 inclusive of everything. It's hard to say exactly what the quote is because there's not a lot of clarity on the contractor's quote. But even with several large parts of the work definitely being omitted, and maybe others that we don't know about, it's already reached £165,000. Despite claiming to manage costs at the start he's never given us a budget estimate - I've had to cobble it together from various bits of baffling contractor emails and random bits of quotes from material suppliers.