Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Site costs and the split level home. 15Jun 27, 2007 9:46 am Mark - Grab a stick and a level and walk on your block and work out how much drop you have.
It will help big time before you talk to the builders. My place has a 4 to 5 metre drop overall and I have a split level home with 3 stairs at the drop level inside my house but my neighbours are all single level which are further down the hill due to cut and fill needs. The big advantages of split level is there is less cut and fill obviously, but more important - you do not have such a cold house because the sun can actually get into the house long before it gets into my neighbours. Also the driveway is not as steep, you can easily put in celestial windows to let the sun in, and lots of other benefits. But work out how much fall you actually have first. then you know what your starting with. Steve Re: Site costs and the split level home. 16Jun 27, 2007 9:59 am Thanks for the advice Steve.
In 5 weeks I'll actually own the land (still in the settlement period). Well actually the bank will own most of it.. but yes, I'll do what you suggested. Current owner must run a nursery or something because at the moment the land is covered in pot plants.. so probably not a good idea to go trudging around on it yet. Re: Site costs and the split level home. 17Jun 27, 2007 10:19 am Just had another thought ? Did you hear the funny noises
If you have a friend with a handheld GPS, that will also give you elevation etc. Much easier too. And yes, stay off it if they have plants, there you don't want to introduce a disease on them. Cheers Steve Re: Site costs and the split level home. 18Jun 27, 2007 10:27 am I've got a GPS in the car.. Driving down the road from one end of the block to the other shows an elevation change of 1m on the GPS. However the GPS only has a resolution of 1m. So it's somewhere between 1m and 2m drop.. hence my averaged out assumption of about 1.5m. The blocks slops down a bit from the road as well, maybe a metre or so.. but I can't drive down there without squashing a few pot plants. Re: Site costs and the split level home. 19Jun 27, 2007 10:42 am Hi Mark,
My block has an almost 2m of fall, and as a result my slab will be on 3 levels and site costs are about $45,000. Jandson were the only builders out of the others I approached at Homeworld who would build on my block! Good luck and have patience! (I can highly reccomend Jandson by the way) Building a Jandson Espirit in Pennant Hills "What is the use of a home, if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"Henry Daniel Thereau Re: Site costs and the split level home. 20Jun 27, 2007 10:53 am lrhodes1 Hi Mark, My block has an almost 2m of fall, and as a result my slab will be on 3 levels and site costs are about $45,000. Jandson were the only builders out of the others I approached at Homeworld who would build on my block! Good luck and have patience! (I can highly reccomend Jandson by the way) Judging from others experiences it looks like $35,000 will be in the ballpark from me. Can I ask what home you are building with Jandson? Move your linen into laundry and access laundry from your present linen space 1 8294 Is anyone building with Mojo and have a recent site cost tender 0 16136 Henley should give you some indication of site costs. Too many variable to give you any reasonable accuracy 1 2106 |