costing plan

was told buy a builder to roughly draw up a plan of what we wanted and they would cost it, haven't heard back from them and alot of other builders want you to pay $2000 up front before you have even decided who to go with. why is it so hard?????

Those builders are charging you for their time. Turning a plan on a napkin into a realistic house plan isn't just a 10 minute job.

ETA: just call the builder who is doing the plan for you and see how they're going?

thanks for the reply i realise it takes time. we have brought a eco bush block which has a few restrictions so we can't go for a project home. so in a way this is a first for us once we know roughly the cost then we'll go from there

Shop around we found 4 builders that gave us quotes off plans we had drawn up at no cost, they where all able to give prices using there specs . There was also a big difference in price for the build between the builders of about $100,000 to build our house. It took each builder about 2 to 4 weeks to get back to us with a price.

Cheers Lou

finally had phone call back from tc homes, thats all i want for now to acknowledge they received my emails and will be in touch