Help on Covered Porch (how much, new house, square footage)

[ITGuy7]

Hi Friends,

We are building a home with David Weekly in Silver Ranch, the builder is charging $15K+ to build an optional 5X10 covered porch for out door living. I'm unable to decide could anyone please suggest if it is reasonable or can we build it later for less?

Thanks in advance,
ITGuy7

[HookTheBrotherUp]

Originally Posted by ITGuy7

Hi Friends,

We are building a home with David Weekly in Silver Ranch, the builder is charging $15K+ to build an optional 5X10 covered porch for out door living. I'm unable to decide could anyone please suggest if it is reasonable or can we build it later for less?

Thanks in advance,
ITGuy7

Yes, you can build it later for much less. There is not even 5K worth of materials for that size of porch, including the labor. Just ask the builder to wire it and leave a covered junction box with the wires for lights, fans, etc.

[Schumacher713]

I think 2k tops later and that sounds even high.

[haudi]

How much of the porch concrete is standard? If none, is it poured as part of the slab or is it done as flatwork? I've seen builder flatwork go for $6-7 on average but as low as $5.00. That's an insane amount they are charging for 5x10. Did you mean 15x10?

[huma281]

5x10 is tiny. I would've asked them to throw the patio in as part of the deal. It probably costs them less than $1k-$2k to build it. Actually, that's what I did for my home. I asked them to throw in the covered backyard patio ($5k option) and they did.

[diggity101]

yeah, I doubt they would have an option for a 5x10 anything.

[ITGuy7]

Thank You very much for all of your reply,I just found out that it is a 385 sq.ft and it is poured as part of slab.
She also has another option - 155 sq.ft for 6K.

Thanks,
ITGuy7

[p0opstlnksal0t]

5x10 is a huge difference from a 385 sq feet porch.... having a slab/porch poured as part of the foundation is nice since you can frame it in and attach it to your roof without worry of an independent slab floating around or moving on you. to go back and have a 385 sq foot slab poured and tied into your existing slab would be quite costly. I am looking to add an addition to our house that will be roughly 15'x30' and tied back into the foundation... just the concrete work im looking at is going to be quite costly...

[haudi]

That's a much more reasonable square footage. As above poster said, slab is going to be expensive but well worth it and something obviously that can't be done after the fact. Does the price include anything other than the roof and the concrete? Fireplace, etc?

If given the choice to pour with the slab or flatwork later, I would always go the slab route. Just did it on my new house and I don't have to worry about it cracking/sliding like the flatwork at my previous house.