Our builder was so fantastic in the beginning stages, but once we signed the contract they went dead silent and now we're chasing them down. It's starting to get exhausting. It has been 2 months since the contract was signed and they still haven't given us an official start date....however they hav...

Hi Everyone, We purchased a titled land in South East and started looking for houses to fit our block. We were looking at Porter Davis (PD) houses & Carlisle. Dec 2016 - Made Land offer Jan 2017 - Looked at PD & Carlisle Feb 2017 - Carlisle warned us PD house might not fit Feb 2017 - Starte...

At Mid March 2017 we signed a quotation with Mimosa to build a single storey house in Truganina. During the sales consultation period, we are quite satisfied with the sales consultant's knowledge and help then decided to proceed with them. But now, we are wondering whether we make the right decisio...

Hi All, I'm planning to build a 25-square double storey house. Can anybody suggest a base quote per square meter or per square ? Thanks You'd be looking easily at 300k as a minimum especially with a private builder then upgrades allow extra 20k. P class site costs can be costly to as you'll most li...

Hi everyone Wondering if anyone can tell me if the deposit paid to Clarendon is refundable? We have been asked to pay $2000 this weekend to Clarendon, which they say is for soil testing, building agreement, drawings and certifiers checks. We don't own the land yet, as its still being "develope...

Thank you Parabatzis :) So far Carlisle sales person is really good in taking care of us (we know, maybe it's one of the sales tactic, but we want to give Carlisle benefit of the doubt - of course we also wants everything is written in contract) Doreen is close to Wollert - we made a trip to Doreen...

Hi Parabatzis, Yeah, all the builders told us that we have to take pre-caution for the site cost regarding rocks in the land. We will be taking a site fixed cost Good to hear just be careful a lot of builders charge extra for rock blasting if needed We are in doreen and are building with Granvue ve...

Hi Parabatzis, Yeah, all the builders told us that we have to take pre-caution for the site cost regarding rocks in the land. We will be taking a site fixed cost Good to hear just be careful a lot of builders charge extra for rock blasting if needed

Hi all, Long time reader but never have the chance to create an account here, until me and my partner purchased a land in Mystique Wollert. We are wondering if anyone here is also purchasing in the same estate as we do? We've bought the land at stage 3, with the estimate land title around June 2018...

hi We have signed up with 8 Homes to build their Tempo 27. We have a good run so far. We have just completed our color appointment as well and looking to start construction in June/July. I have shopped around a lot and obtained about 10 formal quote for same size (25-27 sq) house and same inclusion...

Hi all, I've found reading everyone's build threads really helpful as we have started this process so I decided to write one myself. We started looking in about October at building a new house. We are now (finally) approved for our loan and have just (today) had formal appointments with Metricon ab...

Hi There! We are first homebuyers/builders and have a titled block of land in Greenvale that we are completing on soon. We have been to a few display homes and out of the ones we have seen we are liking one of the single storey floor plans from each of Carlisle, Henley and Boutique homes. We are lo...

Hi There! We are first homebuyers/builders and have a titled block of land in Greenvale that we are completing on soon. We have been to a few display homes and out of the ones we have seen we are liking one of the single storey floor plans from each of Carlisle, Henley and Boutique homes. We are lo...

Wow 60k for upgrades? I'd check out granvue homes they do knock downs and rebuilds. Yeah you might loose $1,500 but think of the savings when you compare all the standards with granvue which are considered upgrades with Metricon. We lost 2k with mimosa Acer switching to granvue but we got a bigger h...

Does anyone know the costs added to construction if your land is in a bush fire zone? Our land in Oran Park is BAL19 and we are worried about the costs this might add to construction. Just wondering if anyone has experienced it? Thanks. depends on the area ours was $4,800

Hi everyone, Just recently purchased a block of land and am now looking around at building companies. Just wondering if anyone has built with 8 homes? They're floor plans and prices are quite good and I'm thinking of going down to one of their display centres next week to look at a couple of homes....

Hi all!! I'm fairly new to H1 so I've just been lurking around having a read of some of the threads pertaining to the builders I was looking at (PD, Henley, Boutique) but have actually come down to 2 floorplans, one from Granvue (actually, 2 with Granvue, I'm hoping to Frankenstein the two to make ...

Hi all!! I'm fairly new to H1 so I've just been lurking around having a read of some of the threads pertaining to the builders I was looking at (PD, Henley, Boutique) but have actually come down to 2 floorplans, one from Granvue (actually, 2 with Granvue, I'm hoping to Frankenstein the two to make ...

Hi Parabatzis. That's no good that you had a negative experience with Burbank 8 years ago. My sister built with them about that time and things didn't go as smoothly as she would have liked either. 9 years ago we built with Met ri con and could not fault them - as far as we were concerned we would ...