Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Please Help! Is my site cost too much??? 3Nov 10, 2010 10:59 am Site Start: 10th September, 2010 PCI : Friday 27th January, 2011. Handover: 3rd February, 2011 Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37677 Please Help! Is my site cost too much??? 4Nov 10, 2010 4:17 pm viewtopic.php?f=31&t=40976 Aug 26/10 -Land settle Oct 1-Signed UE Nov 4 -Site Cut 22 -Slab 26 -Frame Dec 17 -Lock Up Feb 1/11 -Fixing Mar 31+Apr 14 -PCI cancelled Please Help! Is my site cost too much??? 5Nov 10, 2010 4:22 pm viewtopic.php?f=31&t=40976 Aug 26/10 -Land settle Oct 1-Signed UE Nov 4 -Site Cut 22 -Slab 26 -Frame Dec 17 -Lock Up Feb 1/11 -Fixing Mar 31+Apr 14 -PCI cancelled Re: Please Help! Is my site cost too much??? 7Nov 10, 2010 8:25 pm viewtopic.php?f=31&t=40976 Aug 26/10 -Land settle Oct 1-Signed UE Nov 4 -Site Cut 22 -Slab 26 -Frame Dec 17 -Lock Up Feb 1/11 -Fixing Mar 31+Apr 14 -PCI cancelled Re: Please Help! Is my site cost too much??? 9Nov 11, 2010 6:57 am Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Please Help! Is my site cost too much??? 13Nov 29, 2010 10:17 pm 3. Provide up to 60lm of bored concrete piers under the slab $5520 -- if the pier is 450mm by diameter, this is the sort of price we paid 6. Dropped edge beams to be house as required by Local Authorities and site conditions including increase ceiling height to garage by 514mm and provide 2 internal steps $14850 -- how bigg is your estimated drop edge beams? our builder chargeed 595/sqm 11. Extend 100mm sewer line. $1044 -- this seems to be a ripoff. 14. Provisional Allowance for footpath opening to connect to sewer and stormwater. $5000 -- where is your sewer main? inside your property? if they need to dig a tunnel to connect to other side of street, you may pay about $10000 15. Provisional allowance for On Site Detention. $22000 -- crazy OSD, everyone has to do this nowadays, maybe you ask to do this yourself. we are going to have above ground OSD, we are doing this ourselves, paid drainage pipes + pits so far ($6600), we then need to construct retaining walls later (estimated cost about $6000). You can have below ground OSD with water tanks, it will easily set u back by $20000 7 12004 Not sure if that works? I was told the issue is the headspace clearance requirement on step 4. My builder is proposing shifting the beam 310mm towards the kitchen...I'm… 2 2586 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37143 |