• Buffalox@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

    For us using metric who are not used to freedom units:

    1000 square ft = 93 m2 (92,9 m2 to be exact)

    So I guess you can divide by 10 to get a rough estimate in m2 that is 7% off.

    • Dass93@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Fore 3 years ago we bought a house in a decent size city at £103K at 133m2 in Denmark, and the houses prices is still pretty much the same the prices have gone up £11k on our house but mostly because I have renovated over the time.

      But here in Denmark if you buy a house you pretty much need to could renovate by our self, because the professional is extremely expensiv, if I needed to hire a professional to replace my roof it would cost us £100k and I can do it by my self for £10k.

      Edited: with symbols for pound on all now

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        in Denmark

        Yes I figured as much from the “for 3 years ago”, which is totally Danglish, “3 years ago” is enough.

        Sorry, I just found it funny, that I figured a Dane wrote that from the first 3 words.😀

        And yes professionals are really expensive, USD 100k to replace an entire roof doesn’t even sound expensive, if it includes materials, it’s sounds dirt cheap.

        Edit I just checked prices, and apparently you can get a new roof for a 100m2 house approximately 1000 ft2, for about USD 10000.

      • DarthBueller@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        1 Krone is $0.14 USD. Holy shit. $14k for a roof? I just got mine done for $6k by a pro here in the US - I thought about doing it myself but realized that I’m a father now, have zero safety equipment or roof replacing skills (lack of experience never usually stops me) and knees that now randomly dislocate for no reason, and I’d probably die. That said, it would still have cost me more than $1.5k in materials. How can folks afford such prices? How can the market sustain such prices?