WHAT IT COSTS

What does an oak frame cost?

Every oak frame is different, and yours will need pricing properly. But you'll want a guide figure now, so you can start planning and judge whether we're the right fit. Put your size into the calculator below for a guide cost at each level of service. Every figure includes VAT and is correct at October 2026.

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How much would your oak frame building cost?

Choose a garage, porch, glazed room, gazebo, pavilion or veranda. Shape it, turn it round in 3D and see what it costs, three ways to buy. It takes about a minute.

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What would yours cost?

Choose a building and answer a few questions. Every figure comes from the same design tool we price real jobs with, at each of the three ways you can buy from us.

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Typical rates

What does each kind of oak frame typically cost?

Per square metre of external footprint, including VAT at 20% and before design and approvals, except porches, which are priced per porch with design and approvals included. Design and approvals are one figure for the job, set out on each product page. The lower figure in each range is the rate for our larger buildings, which spread fixed costs further; smaller buildings sit nearer the top. These are guide prices, not quotations.

Every price on this page includes VAT at 20%. Unless a row says per porch, it is a price per square metre of the building’s footprint, not a total.

What you are buildingDesigned and builtwe do all of itSupplied and installedwe make and raise itSupply onlythe frame, delivered
Buildings
Garages and outbuildings
£1,090–£1,750two to four bays
£570–£1,030
£330–£530
Extensions and garden rooms
£3,850–£5,800extensions under 20 m²£3,400–£4,50020–29 m²£2,550–£3,65030–60 m²; larger quoted per job
Quoted per job
Quoted per job
Pool houses and leisure buildings
Quoted per job
Porches, priced per porch
Open porches
£6,500–£12,000per porch
£4,000–£7,000per porch
£2,500–£5,000per porch
Glazed porches
Quoted per job
Quoted per job
Not offered
Garden structures
Gazebos
£880–£1,420
£650–£1,140
£480–£750
Garden pavilions
£850–£1,230
£630–£980
£500–£710
Verandas
£900–£1,440
£680–£1,130
£530–£800
Pergolas
£480–£810
£410–£670
£280–£440
Quoted per job
Balconies
Quoted per job
Homes and barns
Quoted per job
Wedding venues
Quoted per job

Rates at 9 October 2026. Gazebos, pavilions and verandas are priced with a plain slate roof on battens, without oak sarking boards; pergolas with five beams to a bay. Each product page sets out exactly what every level includes. Every rate assumes ordinary ground.

Worked examples

What did real jobs cost?

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What else should you know before you budget?

Do these prices include VAT?

On work to an existing home, yes: at 20%, with the figure before VAT shown alongside. A new house is normally zero-rated and a barn conversion normally 5%. A frame we supply without putting it up is charged at 20%.

What isn't included?

Four things, whatever you are building: planning and building control fees, which you pay to the council rather than to us; deeper or piled foundations where the ground needs them, as every rate assumes ordinary ground; getting services to the building, meaning power, water or drainage brought out from the house; and diverting drains and services already running where the building is going. Each product page lists anything else a price leaves out.

Why aren't we the cheapest?

The oak is expensive and the complex joints are still cut by hand. We use sap-free green oak, planed and chamfered, with every joint draw-pegged. If the lowest price decides it, softwood or steel will cost less.

Why do garage quotations differ so much? →

When do I pay?

Porches and garden structures

  1. 10%on signing
  2. 40%three weeks before the workshop
  3. 40%when the frame is installed
  4. 10%on completion

Everything else

  1. 10%on acceptance
  2. 40%at workshop start
  3. 30%when the frame is standing
  4. 10%when the roof is watertight
  5. 10%on completion

Supply only

  1. 25%on order
  2. 75%ten days before dispatch

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Can I see a frame being made?

An hour or two at our workshop near Abergavenny: the frame on the benches that week, the team cutting it, and a cup of tea.

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Tell us what you're planning

Send us a sketch, a photograph or a rough idea. We'll reply by the end of the next working day, and every enquiry starts with a phone or video call.

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