How Much To Budget To Finish Off House?

Beetle · Jun 04, 2007 2:20 am

hi cabinfever
tiling in wet areas is usually included. When I refer to 'tiling' I mean the extra costs of tiling the main living areas and hallway.

cheers

yvette72 · Jun 04, 2007 8:32 am

finished a house off can be expense I guess sky is the limit in regard to want to what
we have been getting quotes for carpet around 3000 to 4000 for 4 rooms not expense carpet
tiling of living areas my father is doing that so we only had to pay for tilies and glue etc
windows having curtains much better for keeping the warm and keeping out the sun but I can sew so will make my own
painting is including by builder but we decied to do our own to save some money
rural property so no driveway
have not got a price for the patio etc
We are having a in ground pool around 12,000 getting a second
a garage $12,000
But we will slowly do them as we have money
No light fittings as it has downlights
a/c have these on layby brought on sale as they wanted to get them off the shelves save 30%
we are even doing our own bricklaying as my husband is a licensed bricklayer so they pay him to do it.
All I can say is to shop around and compare prices
I have done up 5 houses this my first time building

yvette72 · Jun 04, 2007 8:36 am

sorry me again forgot the garden we have decided to wait on this until we get some rain dont want to waste the water on the garden we are only on tanks

ahuang · Jun 14, 2007 5:50 pm

Cabinfever

I notice that "tiling" keeps coming up as an extra cost. Does that mean bathroom tiling ? But surely that's part of the the build cost ?

Hi Cabinfever,

"Beetle" is right, normally only floor of bath + laundry + shower in bath + 1 tile across the walls of bath/laundry included. Some also provides splash back for kitchen. You need to check with the builder to have a correct understanding of what's covered and what's not.

Also, they normally only allow very low price (say $27/m2) tiles, if you want better quality ones, you need pay the differences as well.

Cheers
Allan
http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/

david s · Jun 14, 2007 8:31 pm

I suppose another thing you need to look at is that the $7000 worth of turf may look great, if you're paying for it as part of the loan then in reailty over the life of the loan it's really costing you $20,000.

Adrian B · Jun 14, 2007 10:48 pm

Someone might be able to confir or dey, but I hear that oversized tiles and different types of tyles also increase the cost from a labour and cutting perspective, IE diamond tipped blades, and things like that. When we built with the company that ends with Etricon, we were told by Beaumont Tiles that not only were somet tiles more expensive per M2, but also in labour, laying and some in grout and glue types.

mek · Jun 15, 2007 12:57 pm

We were told that anything over 500mm x 500mm for tiles is extra for laying. We're still getting 600mm x 600mm.

Cookiemonster · Jun 15, 2007 1:00 pm

You'd think bigger tiles would be cheaper to lay.. there's less of them.

3timesbuilda · Jun 15, 2007 1:07 pm

Same thing for bigger bricks, We wanted to go wtih large sandstone blocks but extra charge. They said something about requiring a diamond blade to cut them. I don't see why you wouldn't need a diamond blade to cut regular bricks?

3xb

vanderlay · Jun 15, 2007 1:10 pm

Even better excuse from our builder....we wanted double height bricks...they said no as they can only lift 3 at a time insted of 6 so would take longer......umm...but they are twice as big......!

Must have been all too hard for them!

Cookiemonster · Jun 15, 2007 1:21 pm

By that logic it should be so cheap to lay those itsby bitsy mosaic tiles over all your floor. Or miniature bricks.

Ask for a price...

Sallyho · Jun 15, 2007 2:46 pm

One would think it would be cheaper to lay the larger things, but its just another way that they manage to squeeze an extra dollar out of you.
For me anything over 400 x 400 incurrs an extra charge.
I'll still be having the larger tiles but not so happy about the cost :evil:

First_Timer_Ray · Jun 16, 2007 3:49 pm

wow...
Maybe I'm delusioned, but I wasn't allowing anywhere near those figures!
We have quotes for concreting ($2.2K for 34m2) and blinds ($3K including 4 timber venitians, the rest roller blinds). We have included about $2K in upgrades to lights, and have had a quote for about $3K for carpets to the remaining rooms. Our tiling is being done through the builder (after saying we would do it ourself, it wasn't worth the hassle) for a cost of $7K (for about 92m2).
So apart from what we have got the builder to do, we have the concreting, blinds, carpets and fences to do, and I was only allowing about $10K as we are not putting in a garden with the current weather situation (not straight away anyway).

~Ray.

ahuang · Jun 19, 2007 1:48 pm

First_Timer_Ray

wow...
Maybe I'm delusioned, but I wasn't allowing anywhere near those figures!
We have quotes for concreting ($2.2K for 34m2) and blinds ($3K including 4 timber venitians, the rest roller blinds). We have included about $2K in upgrades to lights, and have had a quote for about $3K for carpets to the remaining rooms. Our tiling is being done through the builder (after saying we would do it ourself, it wasn't worth the hassle) for a cost of $7K (for about 92m2).
So apart from what we have got the builder to do, we have the concreting, blinds, carpets and fences to do, and I was only allowing about $10K as we are not putting in a garden with the current weather situation (not straight away anyway).

~Ray.

Might want to check with your council to see if you will be allowed to move in if you are doing the garden latter. Some council will issue a temporary certificate but some are much tougher.

Also, don't forget if you move in earlier, you saved $ for the rent/mortgage as well. So you might want to work out the priorities, some can wait until moved in (e.g. upgrade of light), some can't (e.g. tiling in wet areas)...

Cheers
Allan
http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/

Sallyho · Jun 19, 2007 2:21 pm

That's a valid point Allan in our estate the front garden + driveways and entry paths to the home need to be compelted before occupancy of the home occurs. Curtaining to the front of the home needs to be completed as well.

3timesbuilda · Jun 19, 2007 3:29 pm

Sallyho

That's a valid point Allan in our estate the front garden + driveways and entry paths to the home need to be compelted before occupancy of the home occurs. Curtaining to the front of the home needs to be completed as well.

Intresting, I would like to see them try to enforce that, I think in Vic VCAT would tell them to get real. Problem is that would take time and money and delay moving in.

3xb

vanderlay · Jun 19, 2007 3:42 pm

Sallyho

That's a valid point Allan in our estate the front garden + driveways and entry paths to the home need to be compelted before occupancy of the home occurs. Curtaining to the front of the home needs to be completed as well.

Hmmm...would love to see a developer try and evict the OWNER of THE HOUSE AND THE LAND cause they haven't finished an entry path....would this kind of c*ap stand up legally if push came to shove??? Wouldn't it need to be on some kind of covenent etc on the title for them to be able to enforce that kind of thing??

vanderlay · Jun 19, 2007 3:48 pm

must be the way of the world in the "footpath on both sides" estates

parker · Jun 19, 2007 3:57 pm

vanderlay

Hmmm...would love to see a developer try and evict the OWNER of THE HOUSE AND THE LAND cause they haven't finished an entry path....would this kind of c*ap stand up legally if push came to shove??? Wouldn't it need to be on some kind of covenent etc on the title for them to be able to enforce that kind of thing??

Think it'd be a council thing rather than the developer?

vanderlay · Jun 19, 2007 4:01 pm

I could be wrong, and it may be different in other places, but I've never know of a local council to insist on paths/garden/curtains before allowing occupancy of a home...not round Melbourne anyway! Have heard of estate developers wanting that kind of stuff done though..