thanks Lissane We're down the hill from Cinny, that should give you a clue
Poochie, we have found Bentley to be really good to deal with. We had a couple of hiccups during the contract prep stage, mainly because they tried to rush and made a few mistakes in the process, but they fixed them all up and even wore the costs of the mistakes without trying to offload them onto us, which kept us very happy During the build they have been amazing, so quick! We are having an independant inspection done tomorrow so I'll let you know if the quality is any good!
At our colour selection we added a lot of things, such as timber windows, carpets, tiles, and a few other cosmetics. We had also added the study to the front of the house. When we got the tender back it was 60k more than the base price! So we pulled about 20k back out again. Our site costs were about 13k because of the size and fall on the land, then we had the study which was 13k and we upgraded the bricks to the Hawthorn. Everything else is pretty much standard. We are organizing our own carpet and tiling which worked out about half the price they quoted us.
Good luck with the build, are you in the Northern Suburbs as well?