Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement Re: Renovating Old House Vs Knockdown 3Feb 22, 2022 6:49 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Renovating Old House Vs Knockdown 5Feb 23, 2022 1:41 pm Hello_world Thanks for the reply Simeon Interesting regarding the prices you list - I do have a question on the big disparity between the prices you list and what the Meadowbank (sales person I assume) told me? looking at a difference of 600k-ish? quite a significant difference which would be made up somewhere quality wise surely (waffle pods vs solid slab, cladding upper floor vs brick veneer, single vs double glazing, ceramic tiles vs concrete tiles, 40mm stone bench tops vs laminate, 2.4 ceilings vs 3.0m, etc) Hello_world No it's simply the north shore tax and clever business practices Meadowbank build a nice home but in my opinion, ours are at an equal or higher standard. As I have mentioned in other posts, both Meadowbank and Homestead have the reputation for being premium builders and the Chinese buyers in particular love them and pay a premium, therefore I think they are able to charge more for their builds. But like for like, same design same materials our costs will be much lower than both of them. We use a lot of suppliers out west so we get lower prices and our clients get the benefit. For instance we use Amber Liverpool for our tiles and the price difference between Liverpool and chatswood is incredible. Same with most of our other suppliers, we bring western suburbs prices to the North Shore. We also run really low overheads so we pass those savings on. The home we are building in St Ives, the clients had a design and quote from Oppidan, home was 450sqm and the quote was $1.7m, we have increased the size to 511 sqm and several hundred thousand dollars cheaper and we included the concrete pool. We are currently doing a renovation in Turramurra, the client had the Kitchen quoted at $69,000 and timber flooring at $28,000, we are doing the kitchen, TV room cabinets, and a massive custom study for $71,000, flooring for $14,000. North Shore prices are ridiculous, we get penalised because the suppliers think we are all super rich. Anyhow, I would be really happy to own a Meadowbank home, you cant fault them quality wise, you just have to pay a bit extra. Cheers Simeon Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Renovating Old House Vs Knockdown 7Apr 25, 2024 9:56 am G'day! Just stumbled into your post whilst doing my own research, and wanted to connect with you as our situation is almost identical! If you are still active on this forum, would really appreciate knowing what you ended up doing! Thanks Re: Renovating Old House Vs Knockdown 8Apr 25, 2024 11:12 am Santojds G'day! Just stumbled into your post whilst doing my own research, and wanted to connect with you as our situation is almost identical! If you are still active on this forum, would really appreciate knowing what you ended up doing! Thanks Hello there, we ended up going for an architectural renovation. Building new was A: too expensive and B: the quality of a standard new build vs the price they want for the quality we want wasn't achievable We, like most, had delays with the council and excessive waiting over the Christmas period so we have only heard back in the last month. Had some minor drafting changes that were required, now we are waiting for the final approvals Anticipate now starting to build in June now The existing bottom story is full double brick, we are extending on the bottom floor in full double brick then putting a second floor on using Hebel power floor instead of a concrete slab and Hebel wall panels on a 90mm timber frame instead of other cladding or brick veneer (that was a choice in thermal efficiency not cost). Steel standing seam roof instead of terracotta/concrete tile (again thermal efficiency). Double glazed everything. Not even Meadowbank vanilla tier houses build to that spec but want about 40% more dollarydoos. We are building for a long term live-in not quick build and flip. Re: Renovating Old House Vs Knockdown 10Apr 25, 2024 11:35 am Santojds Thanks so much for replying. I can honestly resonate with everything you're saying.. it's almost freakish. Can I ask, are you working to the same budget 1-1.2M ? Yep 1.2 plus a contingency of 15% Hi We have finally decided to complete a KDR on our corner plot in NE Melbourne suburbs. Given its a corner plot approx. 400 sqm just a standard design may not fit the… 0 9212 if the original house is in good condition most of what you listed could be added in stages without the need for KDR and costs and disruption of having to live elsewhere… 1 14017 multiple occ properties are always billed by trades at a premium, rarely per sqm for the lot. 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