rj_louise
Sorry Johno I missed your PM on this.
This was the breakdown of our site costs or "builders bonus" as I like to call it:
Fall of land 1.1m $3,186
M Class piers as per soil report $2644 (M class is in the price but apparently we needed 21 piers, hence price addition and we barely had any fill so go figure)
Soil removal $2062
OHS costs $571
Temporary fencing $1322
Part B Termite Protection $1385
Temporary driveway $500
All in all not a huge amount but I still find the whole idea of additional site costs a bit of a rip off!
This was the breakdown of our site costs or "builders bonus" as I like to call it:
Fall of land 1.1m $3,186
M Class piers as per soil report $2644 (M class is in the price but apparently we needed 21 piers, hence price addition and we barely had any fill so go figure)
Soil removal $2062
OHS costs $571
Temporary fencing $1322
Part B Termite Protection $1385
Temporary driveway $500
All in all not a huge amount but I still find the whole idea of additional site costs a bit of a rip off!
We had to sign a prelim contract back in sept to secure our first home buyers, because they couldn't do a soil test as the land wasn't redy for one (still isn't titled) DFH had to include a worst case senario soil quote which came to like $12,000 thats including soil removal. the contract had stated our site costs to be for a H class slab. (worst case)
Anyways they ended up doing a soil test last month which ended up coming back as P class, mind you our block is straight with no fall what so ever.
I found that hard to belive as i have been talking to a few other residents in the next street which had M class results.
What i did then was ordered an independent company to perform a new soil test, the result came back as M class.. So now i dont know if im getting ripped off as DFH stated that our block had fill on it which this independent mob said there wasn't any.
Im still waiting for the final contract to see how much they are going to charge me, can it be more than the prelim costs??? the bank has the prelim contracts and wont give us anymore as the house has been valued already.