So they have seemed to have changed suppliers for their painted fibre cement. They have changed it to James Hardie 'Scyon' Acon smooth board with vertical grooves.
Our tendor had rendered or feature brick for the pillars of the fascade and the garage pillar so we chose to have the black brick which apparantly gave us a credit of about $420 the brick we could have chosen from was from the Designer range of bricks which our colour consultant didn't even mention anything.
We were quoted $685 for having off-white mortar. Does this sound reasonable? has anyone asked their bricklayers to do off-white as a cash job instead of going through the builder? How and when do you make the deal?
Another thing the consultant didn't ask about is the type of joints for the brick work. round ironed joints are standard.
Provision of insulation to the garage roof is about $250.
To have the caesarstone tops int he bathrooms is $525 which is what we are disputing with coral as they were on the signed plans.
upgrade to the 'bronze' range of door handles for the bathrooms: $76 and for the kitchen: $116. The standard range is not that great.
The upgrade to full chrome floor wastes to the bathrooms and showers: $98.
Our design did not include above bench cupboards in the kitchen for some reason so we had them included also with cupboards above the fridge. Kitchen: $ 770 and the fridge space: $342.
These prices include painted bulkheads and our consultant said that they will also fill the gap between splashback and cupboards.
The upgrade from 6000mm stove top to a 900mm: $ 93.
The upgrade for the range hood to match: $185.
Plus no cost to move a data point thankfully.
We upgraded to the Gold range of carpet in all bedrooms: $731.
Fly screens to the alsfresco doors: $ 360.
Do you think that is a reasonable cost to get flyscreen doors for an alfresco door? (4 panes of glass with two middle able to open)
And is the upgrade to off-white mortar expensive?
We just got the brickies number from the SS, rang him and organised the white mortar and paid him directly.
They charge at $80 per 1000 bricks, we had 5000 approx in our place so it ended up costing us $400.
Happy to pay that, it looks awesome.