There's a place in melbourne that have bosch & other well known brands that you may be interested in. Not sure if I'm allowed to mention a business name, so if you'd like to PM me & I'll be happy to give you their details. You can actually view their specials via their website - I love that ::

I feel your pain ::cry:: I honestly think that most of us would be more than happy if the builder kept his builders margin which would be anywhere from 15% - 25%, as long as they rebated the rest. After all he had to spent the time organising all quotes to begin with. The trick is to get all the cos...

I understand that not getting the full rebate for products you want to do yourself is common practice with some builders - especially all the big companies out there. This is one of the main reasons we opted to go with a smaller one. At the end of the day all comes back to karma :n: - it will certai...

Thanks for your reply, we do appreciate feedback, although it doesn't really help my situation. With the money that we save on our bench tops we would upgrade on our cabinets, so the builder would still be making money on us.

Hi all, We are in the process of organising our kitchen. Originally our builder quoted us $2800 as an upgrade for our Caesarstone bench top, this was on top of the price of standard laminate. We've decided to source the product ourselves and have been quoted a great price . Now we've asked the build...

Thanks Pinchy, I'm very new at this & still finding my feet.

Hi all, We are in the process of organising our kitchen. Originally our builder quoted us $2800 as an upgrade for our Caesarstone bench top, this was on top of the price of standard laminate. We've decided to source the product ourselves and have been quoted a great price . Now we've asked the build...

Hi Jess 40, I'd be very interested to know how your building process has been with Dean Homes, but as I'm a newbie, I have no idea how to PM you, although I'll give a try & hope for the best. Speak to u soon. ::smile::

Thanks Mrs B, we appreciate your reply :wink: . We're in the process of doing exactly what you've suggested, although not able to find anyone who has dealt with Dean Homes & I suppose this would be the case with most private builders. We did see their display home & they're in one of the Dis...

Mr smith & I are in the process of trying to find a builder in Melbourne at the moment...we're looking at a builder that would be happy to build our own design. At this moment we're looking at two main builders, Hotondo Homes & Dean Homes. We've received a quote for the same size home from b...