Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: Finished per sqm costs for OB 8Jun 20, 2016 11:07 am Looks like a beautiful house. You must have a very wide block! Comparing your plans to mine it appears we do have a very similar amount of rooms and spaces. I don't feel you will get away any cheaper than what we have done as OB/ sqm. You can cut costs by choosing cheaper bricks, tiles, flooring etc but you do have more site costs. My price/ sqm did not include all the things we never paid for. This included all plumbing and electrical. The other thing with doing OB over engaging a builder is availability of trades. There is a serious lack of trades atm in Sydney. Our build took 19 months. 4 months of this was spent waiting for the bricklayer where nothing else got done. I suggest you give your plans to a concretor, bricklayer, tiler and carpenter and see if you can actually get trades first. Not trying to be a downer, just realistic. Those were the trades we spent the most time waiting on. It seems due to the availability of work all trades are picking and choosing jobs, the easy ones! Noone wanted to lay our bricks or our tiles so we waited and paid a premium. Good luck and hope to be able to follow along whichever way you go. Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=75302 Re: Finished per sqm costs for OB 9Jun 20, 2016 2:03 pm You guys are obviously fans of the Georgian Revival style ( as I am ). We don't see many of those on H1. If you are looking at doing this as an OB I'd suggest you may run into trouble doing it all under one licence. An OB licence in NSW will permit you to build only one dwelling on any given property. I know what you are proposing is all basically one building, however knowing how the dept of FT looks at it they will regard it as two structures ( unless they have relaxed this rule of course ). The other thing to do is download " The Gyprock Red Book " which to quote " is the most widely recognised and respected technical fire and acoustic wall and ceiling design guide in the plasterboard industry." Some good info there regarding separation of dwellings for the aforementioned reasons. Stewie 1) I had requested R6 ceiling insualtion batts, however I noticed that on some areas there are huge gaps which will allow hot air to sweep in, and also noticed black/grey… 0 923 interesting situation what happened after builder issued final invoice? did you list as defect or not does the building surveyor have any responsibility? ie. issuing… 13 39303 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi all, My neighbour has built his 15m long garage on our boundary. It was agreed as part of the planning permit that the wall must be in exposed recycled brick. For some… 0 7226 |