Browse Forums Building A New House Re: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 3Nov 01, 2009 10:45 am Building Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=13002 Site start: 8th July 2009 Handover: 11/12/2009! 5 months total build time. 40 sqs of luxuary...Bliss! Re: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 4Nov 01, 2009 10:56 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: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 6Nov 01, 2009 11:08 am Building Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=13002 Site start: 8th July 2009 Handover: 11/12/2009! 5 months total build time. 40 sqs of luxuary...Bliss! Re: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 8Nov 01, 2009 12:52 pm Our building journey has begun: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23138 Brookvale 45 by Porter Davis ************** Lead me not into temptation.....I can find the way myself. Re: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 14Nov 01, 2009 3:24 pm ... built a Promenade with Clarendon. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25104 20-10-09 - excavation and piering completed ... 12-04-10 - Basins fixed. Connecting to the electrical grid 23-04-10 - PCI 07-05-10 - HANDOVER! Re: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 16Nov 02, 2009 11:58 am We've spent well in excess of $50,000 on the outside and our house is over 40 squares and our block size only 615 so we don't have a big yard. And that is doing most of it ourselves apart from retaining walls and concreting. We seem to have spent a lot of money on having dirt delivered for fill and for garden beds and for under the turf and the trucks keep coming. We had a lot of slope to deal with so have some pretty massive retaining walls. Then we decided to put in two water tanks and paved a quarter of the back yard. Still to do yet is actually plant all these boxed planting areas I have now, deck the alfresco floor (can't afford at this point), a bigger letter box, and I think another water tank for the front. Fi has moved in!! Re: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 17Nov 02, 2009 12:33 pm Being First Home Buyers.. we are trying to do ours on a budget - that said... we havent done very well at sticking to it *woops* Not included in our package .. and stuff we now need to sort out: - Fence... we are going a bit overboard here,, but corner block.. and no neighbours for what looks like 12 months.. going to get us back around 8.5k - Landscaping - Hoping to get away with a starting budget of around 2-2.5k and we will build on it over time. Thats for about 400m2 of backyard/front yard space - Letterbox - $20 Bunnings job will do us fine to start with.. will upgrade later - Clothesline - they start from about $100 in Bunnings (for the fold out from the wall ones) - Window Coverings - going to get aluminium venetians throughout. supply only I got a price of about 1k for our whole place. - We already spent an extra $1700 on concrete around the house (for air con units to sit on etc) - and spent $1200 on a dishwasher as it was the only essential we didnt have for the house. Everything else was included in our package - flyscreens/antenna/paint/floor coverings etc etc Re: How many $s required after handover to make it complete :) 18Nov 12, 2009 10:24 pm ahhhh.. still to many to think about after.. and i have not yet even started building ![]() ![]() ![]() Oxford 22 @ Stage12a Point Cook Site Cut : 05/03/2010 Slab Pour : 24/03/2010 Frame Inspected : 06/04/2010 Pre-plaster Inspection: 22/04/2010 PCI: 16/07/2010 Final Inspection: 30/07/2010 Landscaping: who knows??? MyHomeoneThread Our Oxford22 Blog Not sure, we are doing our driveway during build, our builder MJH has allowed us to get our own trade to do it before handover (lucky in that aspect). But we are still… 2 1368 Not sure who you're building with, but I moved in recently to a 11month scheduled, 8 month actual build on the South coast/Illawarra NSW 3 6318 I posted the floorplan on Houzz.com forum and got some really good ideas and advice from people there. Then we reached out to a couple of renovation companies and one… 5 11646 |