Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Web & Brown-Neaves contract 2Apr 10, 2022 10:34 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Web & Brown-Neaves contract 7Apr 11, 2022 6:15 pm Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Web & Brown-Neaves contract 12Jul 13, 2022 10:02 pm I’m building with Riverstone (2 storey, ~1M) and have had a great experience so far. No price rise with the contract I signed last November. Slab was poured in April and the second storey bricks are about to be laid. They only do about 30 homes a year. I would check them out. Re: Web & Brown-Neaves contract 13Oct 06, 2022 6:29 pm We are also considering demo and building a two storey hpuse. We are very early stages of it. We are also considering above mentioned builders so would really like to hear other members experiences with above mentioned builders. Has anyone had any experience with Invouge. They seem to be also a small building company. At this stage we are trying to look at standard plans and identifying changes we would like to have. Wyldey seema like our potential build might be along the same lines as yours. We also got a pool and a garage/shed at back of our existing house, which we want retain. Any tips/points to keep in mind/consider. Re: Web & Brown-Neaves contract 14Oct 06, 2022 6:48 pm Hi tamamontu I'm probably still too early in my build to really comment. Our slab has been down 12 weeks now and this fortnight's update suggests we'll have brickies starting in 2 weeks. Stannard's comms have been good thus far - they told us up front wait would be approx 10 weeks for brickies and last few fortnightly updates have seen that pushed back a little but compared to other experiences you read out there, wer'e still going ok. If you're a stickler for detail, you'll probably get frustrated with the rather generic communications you'll get from builders, you just have to learn to go with the flow a bit. We're retaining the pool shell but had the old apron demo'd and it'll receive a birthday after the build. We bought our own temporary fencing off gumtree/FB marketplace to put around it as it's MUCH cheaper than hiring it and you can probably sell it for about what you paid for it years later. Retaining the shed at the back has also, so far, not been an issue. We do regularly pop past site as it's pretty much on the commute from where we're living to work and will be visiting more as the weather gets warmer to water our established fruit trees. No materials have really been put on the back six odd metres of our block so that area, which we're largely hoping to retain, has gone unaffected (other than a new soakwell or two). My only tips would be to take your time prior to signing build contracts and try and front end as many changes as you can before moving to construction. Once you enter construction, you start getting variation charges each time you decide you want to change something. We spend a lot of time going through our plans room by room, thinking about how we thought we'd live in each space, where we'd want power points, which wall we'd want taps on, where we'd put furniture, any built in cabintry etc. We visited a lot of displays and took lots of pictures of things we liked. Couldn't afford all of them so prioritised and compromised. I'd like to think that we won't have too many/any changes once we see the build come to life but you never know! Hope that helps, good luck in your build journey. Re: Web & Brown-Neaves contract 15Oct 06, 2022 7:00 pm ![]() Any tips/points to keep in mind/consider. Here's the issue with builders standard plans and dealing with the sales process ... the builder closely guards copyright, so it's impossible to get competitive quotes from other builders. Unfortunately, Builders employee high commissioned Salesman for many reasons, here 1. The sales housing industry is unregulated (check warnings from consumer protection) PPA WA Govt Warning! 2. Salesman become your best friend (up until you are handed the contract, then go MIA) 3. If they don't get you to sign they don't eat crayfish, ( but they are happy to take you out to a free lunch) 4. Salesman sell you on the sizzle in the BBQ with Fake promises/rendering (as meat prices are going thru the roof metaphor) 5. The salesman has immunity in the contract process, they are at arms length.. (forget PPA .. ) 6. The salesman made a mistake on the site estimates and costs ( he's not an engineer) 7. We are too big to fail ( metricon's last stand) 8. You have moved this wall so it's going to cost you dearly ( Variation charge, Engineering , brickwork ..clients fault) 9. The salesman said we have allowed $20k allowance the builder will adjust the price at contract signing (the plan changes slightly and its not enough) Enough of the comedy... back to work Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Web & Brown-Neaves contract 16Oct 11, 2022 6:40 pm Thanks wyldey, StructuralBIMGuy for your replies and sharing the information. I dont want to hijack original thread of JaneyS. Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 73373 I ended up refusing him to pay to fix HIS mistake. I paid money to fix just one ceiling, that too was overpriced but had no choice I shared my build story on another… 2 30948 I'm a home builder. 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