How much does an architect cost? Do I need one? | What renovators need to know!

In this video, I want to help you budget correctly for architect costs if you're renovating a property and also prevent you from making the biggest renovation mistake we wish we knew about 😬
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ACESS THE FLOW CHART (to see if you need an architect for your project): fifimcgee.co.uk/blog/how-much...
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T START YOUR PROJECT WITH AN ARCHITECT: fifimcgee.co.uk/blog/why-you-...
DITCHING OUR 80K EXTENSION, DO WE REGRET IT 5 YEARS ON?: fifimcgee.co.uk/blog/ditching...
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[@xutinghuang4442]

Thank you so much to create this such a valuable content, that's definitely what first time renovators need to know. As a home owner of a very old 1930 house, we need to do quite a big project, you covered all the ideas in your video, including extensions etc, so it is quite daunting for us and we don't know where to start, architect, construction team, renovation insurance, planning permission... will definitely dig in your channel and blog, hopefully I will find more answers😊

[@bernardappiagyei9767]

Very useful. Thank you very much.

[@mg-uh7mi]

By the time an architect has spent 7 years at university to qualify, an architectural technologist has 7 years of practical real life architecture work experience in practice, I know who I would choose to design my house. In fact I have been doing this for 23 years and in my experience the architects I have met can talk the talk but rarely can walk the walk. But it all comes down to the individual, in the UK anyone can design a house, you do not need a qualification, but of course you need experience, and experience always wins. Unfortunately architecture is usually a team sport, so people often pass work off as their own, but most of the time the construction drawings that really get the house built are done by very experienced architectural technologists, but often the architect (boss or manager) takes the credit.

[@FuriousBOIAngel]

my question to you would be, of the best homes built in this country in the last 5 years. How many were designed by Architects and how many were designed by layman, or technicians. The answer is 0.