Browse Forums Building A New House Re: What tips do you have that can help 1st time builders. 7Jun 19, 2009 10:29 am 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: What tips do you have that can help 1st time builders. 13Jun 26, 2009 11:57 pm technically I haven't really build yet, however this is my contribution don't select a house / pan simply because it looks stunning, can you really affored all the same furniture or upgrade options like the display house?? imagine what how you will live in the house you have chosen so you can modify the right bits or place power points, lights etc a the 'right' spot for future use as it very hard to change it if door is small or room is too small, windows in wrong spot etc as with previous point the little things matters, you are going to be annoy with that thing you though will be 'ok' cause the builder said so. Imagine / visualise hard and insist it be changed to what your like. However do some research so you don't end up doing something stupid which other regretted. have plenty of money! seriously don't do rough estimate, do them as accurate as you can down to the cents!!! spend time to setup a budget in something like Microsoft excel where you can change particular fields and get an estimated position you will be in. There are free pre made loan projection excel files you can download and use to estimate your loan and repayment which you can then tide in with your budget to see the payment effect etc. It took us months to do one and we are still improving it weekly. You won't need to rely on your banker or broker to work it out for you every single time your costing changes Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14187 Hi there, We’ve recently had plans approved to add a 1st storey addition to our existing house for a growing family in Sydney. With the current cost of building… 0 4250 Just be careful with building stability during construction, that is when the structure may be weakened, refer to your engineering drawings for stability methodology. 1 7205 |