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If anybody has had exentions done on their homes, I would really appreciate if you can share some your experience (good or bad) & also provide some cost estimates (permits, architechts fees, construction costs, etc). I'm in the Town of Islip, looking to extend the lower section of a high ranch 10 ft x 20 ft to accomodate a kitchen/family rm/DR/LR, and converting the upper level LR/DR/Kit to a master BR w/attached Bth. Any advice you can provide will also be appreciated. Thanks.
If anybody has had exentions done on their homes, I would really appreciate if you can share some your experience (good or bad) & also provide some cost estimates (permits, architechts fees, construction costs, etc). I'm in the Town of Islip, looking to extend the lower section of a high ranch 10 ft x 20 ft to accomodate a kitchen/family rm/DR/LR, and converting the upper level LR/DR/Kit to a master BR w/attached Bth. Any advice you can provide will also be appreciated. Thanks.
Has anyone in your neighborhood done this? If so, they would be the first ones to ask.
What is the point of this forum if we can't ask questions like this without a smart aleck remark like that?
On the other hand, if you post on here looking for the time the train from Babylon to Hicksville leaves..........
Please explain how it is a smart aleck remark?
Not everyone stops to ask the guy three blocks away.
Sometimes people are too comfortable with getting answers online as opposed to doing the research. As I have come to learn, the OP did do some leg work.
If anybody has had exentions done on their homes, I would really appreciate if you can share some your experience (good or bad) & also provide some cost estimates (permits, architechts fees, construction costs, etc). I'm in the Town of Islip, looking to extend the lower section of a high ranch 10 ft x 20 ft to accomodate a kitchen/family rm/DR/LR, and converting the upper level LR/DR/Kit to a master BR w/attached Bth. Any advice you can provide will also be appreciated. Thanks.
I'd say $100-$120K minimum for everything. Never done that much but something similar. It all depends on how much moving pipes, utilities, etc.
Actually I would be converting the kitchen on the second level to a bathroom, hoping to use the same pipes, rerouted.
You'll need hot and cold feeds for a bathroom sink, tub or shower, as well as a cold feed to the toilet. You'll be looking at a couple of new lines for those feeds. You'll need waste lines for the sink, toilet and shower. If you have OHW, you'll need baseboard routed.
Depending upon where your walls wind up (according to the architect's plans) it might be more involved if anything has to be relocated.
If you're going to do a new master bath, consider using radiant heat. It's well worth it but will add to the expense.
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