Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 2Aug 31, 2016 7:09 am The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 3Aug 31, 2016 2:06 pm We werent allowed to. So my partner said he can upgrade things himself for cheaper i.e fixtures etc Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 4Sep 01, 2016 4:04 am Some things can't be done after the handover like the hydronic system, as you have to run pipework behind the walls, no way I am having pipes everywhere on the walls inside so will have to wait and see what we can come up with. Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 5Sep 01, 2016 5:57 am The difficulty of having your own trades coming on building site is that you become second builder on the job and that can cause disruption delays and blur lines of responsibility and warranty. Its asking for trouble. As a builder I would not allow it but would instead be transparent with the price charged. Builder is making margin on the work he does and bringing owners trades is a way of taking that away from him. No deal! Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 6Sep 03, 2016 7:16 pm Hi , we have now got an email from the builder saying they have found some to do the quote, who just happens to be the guy hubby was wanting to use so just waiting to see what cost they will quote us on it. Should be interesting to see what markup they add on. Will post when we receive the quote. Cheers Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 7Sep 04, 2016 8:51 am Just ask for them to Pc it. As there shouldn't be a mark up on pc items. If it's something big and complex I would prefer it to fall under the Builders warranty. I don't see a problem with you supplying your own ceiling fans etc. As long as they are on site when they are needed to be installed it shouldn't be an issue. There is usually a clause in your contract in regards to this. Atm we are still deciding if we'd rather supply our own vanities or have the kitchen guys make them but we are supplying the tops either way. Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 8Sep 04, 2016 9:05 am Hi what do you mean PC it? They said that they could not use own fans as if there was a fault they wouldn't know if it was the fan or the wiring lol hubby is a sparky and nearly fell off his chair laughing! So he told them don't bother about the fans, it's bad enough they will charge us big bucks to put power points in hubby could do them after but he said it's better to do them before they put the walls on, rather than trying to get though studs etc. They even told us we couldn't use the vanities we had already as they needed certification papers! Anyway still waiting to hear back from them on Monday I hope, Cheers Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 9Sep 04, 2016 10:06 am Craigasaurus Just ask for them to Pc it. As there shouldn't be a mark up on pc items. If it's something big and complex I would prefer it to fall under the Builders warranty. I don't see a problem with you supplying your own ceiling fans etc. As long as they are on site when they are needed to be installed it shouldn't be an issue. There is usually a clause in your contract in regards to this. Atm we are still deciding if we'd rather supply our own vanities or have the kitchen guys make them but we are supplying the tops either way. If the cost of Pc item exceeds Pc allowance owner pays the difference and yes there is builders margin on top of the difference. Re: Supplying your own goods or trades. 10Sep 04, 2016 10:51 am Pc or ps is like an allowance for certain items. We pc'd a few things like airconditioning, carpets, lighting and tapware, concrete and turf. That way there is an allowance in the Builders budget but we can pick what we want and get the builder to use the funds to pay for it. In regards to the bank it better to have the extras pc'd/ included in the Builders contract then separately. I heard of some Builders charging an admin fee on pc items. But there shouldn't be a margin on the costs as written in the hia contracts. And like stated above if the item cost more than the pc allowance you are liable for the extra. It is ridiculous that they wouldn't let you supply your own fans. Fair enough if they are second hand. Ask if you can waive liability from the builder on the fans. Always get multiple quotes, no matter how reasonable/cheap you think it is. I remember getting a few quotes for a pool fence, roughly around the same price, thinking the… 5 9985 "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 25249 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 22124 |