Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 67Aug 17, 2008 10:36 am wyld Hi David, did you build a new traditional type home or a modern home? Finalising structural drawings atm. Traditional house 2 storey weatherboard similar to what was on the site - theres something wrong with putting a single story brick house in a street with highset weatherboard houses. External weaterboards using fibre-cement Sycon Linea instead of traditional timber. http://www.scyon.com.au/linea.html Looks really good on the house I've seen. Hopefully get a few decent prices - the original design was fine but there were some parts of the build that were going to blow the budget such as the complex roof layout to suit the existing house which would have taken 2 weeks to frame which was $$$. In regards to house raising, go for it if the existing house is large and you plan on building in under the existing house. If you need to extend the existing house for anything other than a deck, then you may reach a point where it's cheaper to start again - I reached that point. I'm sure I've read on here the costs of house building; new house, owner-builder and reno which go up in that order. I'm not going to have time to do owner-builder due to lifestyle changes, even though I would have loved to. So will get a builder to build new and look after some parts of the work myself such as painting. I'd love to take 24 weeks annual leave at half-pay which I have owing but I don't think I'll have a job when I get back! Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 68Dec 10, 2008 1:27 pm We are looking at doing the same..lifting a 100yearold plus Queenslander and building 3 bedrooms, laundry and bathroom downstairs as well as car accomodation, putting in a plunge pool and and ensuite upstairs. We will also need a huge new fence at the front as we are on a busy street.
The upstairs part has been fully renovated. The floorboards are lovely, kitchen new with all top of the range appliances and the bathroom is fairly recent too. We have 2 large bedrooms, study, family room, dining, lounge, kitchen deck upstairs and we already have a laundry and bathroom downstairs (which is very, very average and in need of a complete overhaul). This will incease our house to 5 bedrooms, study, rumpus,lounge, dining, family, kitchen 2 bathrooms, ensuite, deck,and laundry. Even though the block is only 455sqm, the house will be large. I am expecting it to be 300k if not more. We are getting a quote Monday! I have read through some of the posts and have learnt lots. Any photos to share? Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 69Jan 01, 2009 7:50 pm Hi Wyld and others
Just joined the thread. We are about to raise and renovate a post war home in Brissy so thanks for all of your tips and advice. I'm sure they will come in handy. Would love to bounce any ideas off you along the way if that's okay? Thanks Rich Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 70Jan 02, 2009 10:26 am Leila, how did you go with your quote? Your reno sounds similar to ours.
r1ch, we are about to embark on a similar project, raising our post war house and building under. Our house raisers come on 12 January - getting nervous now! What stage are you up to? It has taken us ages (around 6 months) to get to this stage, the longest period was trying to get quotes from builders! Currently the house is 3 bedrooms (one quite small) 2 bathrooms. We are turning the small bedroom into the internal stairs and building another 3 beds, bathroom, laundry and rumpus room downstairs. Also adding rear deck to the upstairs and carport out the front. Aside from the stairs and deck the rest of the upstairs won't be altered, although I would love a new kitchen! Look forward to hearing about everyone's works! Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 71Jan 04, 2009 8:03 am Hi Wertyq, would be interested to know the current price per sq metre the builders are charging now? would expect materials have gone up considerably in last 2 years but maybe labour costs are lower now building has cooled? cheers wyld Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 72Jan 04, 2009 8:10 am Hi Wertyq, just noted in your post you are having internal stairs, trick for the punters out there if you do not want to lose upstairs and downstairs space to internal stairs AND you would like to keep the downstairs separate entry (perhaps nana might visit etc) the rather than call the downstairs rooms bedrooms maybe call them rumpus room etc and that kitchen downstairs could be called a wet bar, if this is the case you do not need internal stairs, hope this helps wyld Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 73Jan 05, 2009 10:54 am Hi Wyld,
Our guy is doing it for around $1600 sqm. This price does not include painting as the painting quote was astronomical, we'll look at that later (and see if we have any money left). Happy to do it ourselves but with two little kids its hard getting the time (and keeping them out of it). We also paid the certifiers and draftsman separately to this. We had wildly varying quotes, some $150K more than the others for the same thing! Here's hoping it all goes to plan. Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 74Jan 05, 2009 12:26 pm Hi Wertyq, $1600 per m2 sounds pretty fair, if you need a painter and your in bris try Sally at Lick of Paint on Ph 32657385 she managed to match the paint on the lower level to the upper level which had not been painted for a few years perfectly and was vey reasonable in the cost, good luck with your project, we are sitting back and enjoying ours now! Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 75Jan 05, 2009 1:51 pm Hey Wyld, that is exactly what we were hoping to do with the paint - ie not paint the top half. That's for the tip, we'll give her a call, we are in Brisbane on the northside.
Good to hear you are sitting back and enjoying yours. Most of our conversations at home consist of "imagine when we have our [insert deck, laundry, rumpus room, carport, etc] ..." Its going to be GREAT! Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 76Jan 14, 2009 10:36 am So the builder started on Monday 12th Jan... and by lunchtime Tuesday 13th Jan the house was already raised sitting up on the stacker blocks! Today (wed) they are finishing off the excavation. All the slab underneath was removed by the excavators (bobcat and mini excavator) yesterday too. Next they will start on digging the footings for a retaining wall. Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 77Jan 27, 2009 4:08 pm We are planning to owner build and raise in Brisbane... have just got the preliminary plans drawn up by the architect... this site has been a great help so far - very interesting to hear what others have done
I am wondering if anyone has any insurance suggestions. We currently have home and contents with RACQ but they have advised me that as we are doing renovations >$50K that we will not be covered for legal liability for the entire time our raise and build in takes to complete (could be a couple of years!). Has anyone got any suggestions? I am assuming that the various subcontractors that we will use will have their own insurance??? But what about people that come to visit our house etc? Would appreciate any suggestions! Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 78Jan 28, 2009 8:01 am I'm not sure about an OB but as a Principal Contractor I need to have in effect a policy with Workcover to cover Subbies as well. This is for possible injury and not Product Liability.
Regards Paul Re: Quote for raising house and building underneath 80Jan 29, 2009 11:58 am Hi Wetyq
I didn't realise it would take 6 months before we even got to the raising part We have only just begun really. We are attending a course on Building & Renovating through the QBSA in a few weeks and were planning on booking in the draftsman after that. We're definitely prepared for a 12 month process after reading everyone's experiences. Great to hear that things are now moving relativelt quickly for you. Rich : The most likely cause of your timber swelling (parquetry?) is either a plumbing leak or carelessly leaving water on floors after use or both. Without seeing, i am ignoring… 1 3436 Currently renovating, and our main lounge is 5m x 10m, with a cathedral roof peaking at 6.5m high. Currently have tiles on concrete slab. Room is very hard to heat. I am… 0 5226 hey there! 😊 so, it’s kinda common for standard drawer depths to be around 500mm since most cabinets use this size to fit the usual runners… 3 21240 |