Building At Edmondson Park

rk7 · Jul 06, 2016 6:06 pm

Hi there, could someone pm me the details of fence contractor that you've used...appreciate if you can share what's the price per linear sq mt you paid ...thanks in advance

bk84 · Jul 06, 2016 6:55 pm

Hi ash, weird that your estimated time of completion is that far away? We are building with clarendon and our building contract states 32 weeks for double storey. Does your contract have how many weeks the build should take? We are hoping to be in no later than march (we started excavation on site end of may) including Christmas/New year shutdown.

bans · Jul 07, 2016 7:40 am

Hi ash_nav1,
CDC can recommend certain changes and the plans need to be amended to reflect that. Re the 20 day time between last paperwork and commencement at site, that's the time used by builders to arrange materials etc as per your final paperwork .
If you are getting flooring and driveway done by builder, industry norm is 20-26 weeks which easily takes your project into early next year territory. But mostly single storeys are finished within 15-18 weeks. And you can be in your new house this year if everything goes ok .
Good luck

BlueGum Design · Jul 07, 2016 10:17 am

bk84

Hi ash, weird that your estimated time of completion is that far away? We are building with clarendon and our building contract states 32 weeks for double storey. Does your contract have how many weeks the build should take? We are hoping to be in no later than march (we started excavation on site end of may) including Christmas/New year shutdown.

There will be allowances for rain days as well. I also built with Clarendon, but a single story, and they were well under the contract time. I think they are generally pretty good with that. If you get lucky with rain days, you could get handover before Christmas, otherwise February/March would the max I'd say.

ash_nav1 · Jul 07, 2016 8:10 pm

Thanks everyone for your inputs . Appreciate that. Thanks Bans we hope so too. They have mentioned 26 weeks in the contract . We are hoping to get the jets this year too . But seems like it won't happen. We are getting flooring done by the builder and we would be doing driveway fencing on our own . So it might take us easily to early March April ! 3 years to own a home ??. Hope the wait is worth it .

Jahangir · Jul 07, 2016 8:33 pm

Jahangir

TheSaint

Hi all,

Has anyone else slug with damage inspection fee of $260 for new construction in bardia from campbelltown council ? My builder went through CDC and private certifier.

I got similar from council. Did you speak to your builder if they should have paid this charge?

I sent this to my builder. They have paid this fee.

boris_l · Jul 11, 2016 3:14 pm

rk7

Hi there, could someone pm me the details of fence contractor that you've used...appreciate if you can share what's the price per linear sq mt you paid ...thanks in advance

did you get any response to this? i am also interested in the price per linear sq

thanks

aHomeHunt · Jul 11, 2016 4:04 pm

Someone gave me a quote of $85 per linear meter. He will go to site and will come back with written quote.

Tobruk · Jul 18, 2016 1:08 pm

Hi, am looking for my neighbours on lots 2120, 2122 and 2107.

Cheers

SoftEng · Jul 18, 2016 3:00 pm

Did anyone have to pay an outrageous amount to the builder to remove council crossover (concrete) to construct driveway as Liverpool Council did footpaths in land com released lands prior to settlement of the land ?

Nug · Jul 18, 2016 3:41 pm

SoftEng

Did anyone have to pay an outrageous amount to the builder to remove council crossover (concrete) to construct driveway as Liverpool Council did footpaths in land com released lands prior to settlement of the land ?

How much did you pay? Our builder told us that they would only provide a coloured driveway from the garage to the footpath, and we'd have to sort out the rest ourselves with a concreter. They said we would have to leave the footpath and have plain concrete from the footpath to the road. So in other words, our driveway will be two different colours.

bluemviews · Jul 20, 2016 10:24 am

Hi can I get some advice regarding landscaping plans - do we need them for CDC approval. I heard we do not need them if we are going thru CDC, but my builder is saying its a developer requirement. Even if it is, I would say these plans maybe required down the track not at the beginning stages where building plans go for approval.
Can I get some info on what people have experienced . Thx

Jahangir · Jul 20, 2016 10:40 am

bluemviews

Hi can I get some advice regarding landscaping plans - do we need them for CDC approval. I heard we do not need them if we are going thru CDC, but my builder is saying its a developer requirement. Even if it is, I would say these plans maybe required down the track not at the beginning stages where building plans go for approval.
Can I get some info on what people have experienced . Thx

My plan has been approved from CDC without landscaping plan.

bluemviews · Jul 20, 2016 10:47 am

Thx Jahangir , that's great. I am sure ours would be the same. Cheers

bluemviews · Jul 20, 2016 10:56 am

Need some more advice - we had taken pre approval from the bank for the construction loan - the bank told us they would go to unconditional approval only after they received the signed contract. I sent them the signed contract couple of weeks back and they are going through the motions - the approval will come it's just that I am losing time . I can make the 5% deposit needed at this stage on my own but had planned to get the bank to do it as first progress payment. How is it being done by others . Just for me to get an idea . I had not estimated the bank would take so much time else would have made the payment on my own at the start. Am chasing the bank but there's only so much one can do chasing. Do let me know how are most of you handling the first progress payment- on your own or thru the bank. Thx

Tobruk · Jul 20, 2016 11:19 am

bluemviews

Need some more advice - we had taken pre approval from the bank for the construction loan - the bank told us they would go to unconditional approval only after they received the signed contract. I sent them the signed contract couple of weeks back and they are going through the motions - the approval will come it's just that I am losing time . I can make the 5% deposit needed at this stage on my own but had planned to get the bank to do it as first progress payment. How is it being done by others . Just for me to get an idea . I had not estimated the bank would take so much time else would have made the payment on my own at the start. Am chasing the bank but there's only so much one can do chasing. Do let me know how are most of you handling the first progress payment- on your own or thru the bank. Thx

Hi,

From my experience the:

Builder-
The builder asked us the pay the remainder of the 5% deposit prior to or on the day of signing the Tender Document (New Home contract).

Bank-
The bank used the 5% deposit as a partial deposit for our construction loan.

Galedpk · Jul 20, 2016 12:28 pm

bluemviews

Need some more advice - we had taken pre approval from the bank for the construction loan - the bank told us they would go to unconditional approval only after they received the signed contract. I sent them the signed contract couple of weeks back and they are going through the motions - the approval will come it's just that I am losing time . I can make the 5% deposit needed at this stage on my own but had planned to get the bank to do it as first progress payment. How is it being done by others . Just for me to get an idea . I had not estimated the bank would take so much time else would have made the payment on my own at the start. Am chasing the bank but there's only so much one can do chasing. Do let me know how are most of you handling the first progress payment- on your own or thru the bank. Thx

Not sure of you situation but ours was.
We borrowed 80% on the land leaving the majority of our funds in offset for the construction. Bank will not release any of their portion of the construction until we have paid all of our contribution first. We are bankwest but i believe all or most of the banks are the same on this. They will not pay any funds in a construction loan until you pay the amount that you have said you will contribute first.
If you are in the situation where you are borrowing 100% of the construction and you pay the deposit you will not get the deposit back untill the very end when they will deposit any unused funds into the account that you nominate. They will not reimburse you for the deposit before the end of construction.

bluemviews · Jul 20, 2016 12:46 pm

Thx Galedpk, we are with Westpac, and yes we hv approval for 100%, which is what I would like, but this delay is frustrating me, since we had all the time so far and could hv done what the banks doing now earlier, anyway it is what it is. Never mind.

Tobruk · Jul 20, 2016 4:42 pm

Galedpk

bluemviews

Need some more advice - we had taken pre approval from the bank for the construction loan - the bank told us they would go to unconditional approval only after they received the signed contract. I sent them the signed contract couple of weeks back and they are going through the motions - the approval will come it's just that I am losing time . I can make the 5% deposit needed at this stage on my own but had planned to get the bank to do it as first progress payment. How is it being done by others . Just for me to get an idea . I had not estimated the bank would take so much time else would have made the payment on my own at the start. Am chasing the bank but there's only so much one can do chasing. Do let me know how are most of you handling the first progress payment- on your own or thru the bank. Thx

Not sure of you situation but ours was.
We borrowed 80% on the land leaving the majority of our funds in offset for the construction. Bank will not release any of their portion of the construction until we have paid all of our contribution first. We are bankwest but i believe all or most of the banks are the same on this. They will not pay any funds in a construction loan until you pay the amount that you have said you will contribute first.
If you are in the situation where you are borrowing 100% of the construction and you pay the deposit you will not get the deposit back untill the very end when they will deposit any unused funds into the account that you nominate. They will not reimburse you for the deposit before the end of construction.

Our situation is different. We have two loans. One for the Land at 80% (Principal and Interest) and a second loan 85% for the Construction (Interest Only while the house is being built to reduce repayments) and will merge the two after completion to 1 loan (Principal+Interest).

shams · Jul 21, 2016 11:46 am

bluemviews

Need some more advice - we had taken pre approval from the bank for the construction loan - the bank told us they would go to unconditional approval only after they received the signed contract. I sent them the signed contract couple of weeks back and they are going through the motions - the approval will come it's just that I am losing time . I can make the 5% deposit needed at this stage on my own but had planned to get the bank to do it as first progress payment. How is it being done by others . Just for me to get an idea . I had not estimated the bank would take so much time else would have made the payment on my own at the start. Am chasing the bank but there's only so much one can do chasing. Do let me know how are most of you handling the first progress payment- on your own or thru the bank. Thx

I also paid the 5% deposit using my own funds, the bank to fund the rest through progress payments. However, our builder would not put us on the construction list until they received an authority to commence letter from the bank, this is what caused me delays.