Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 11, 2011 8:35 pm If your contemplating on doing a knockdown rebuild and whether its worth it.. Well for my family it definitely was worth it.. 1st deciding factor we didn't want to leave the neighbourhood. we are on a good street. 2nd the size of the land 625sqm big enough to build the house we are building Wisdom Homes Sorrento 28MKII SOL Single story.. 3rd the money i had spent on the demolisher would have gone to stamp duty and real estate fees... The hard part living arrangement in between.. we were lucky and we are staying at my wife parents... This has helped us save $$$ towards the finishing touches after handover. Havind two seperate loan - one for the previous home that was on the lot and one for the construction.. its a pain but we are managing.. Can't wait till its put together in one loan. Now to getting to demolish your home.. make sure you get a few quotes. and in the quotes make sure you specify all the things you want removed.. Trees included. Here are few things I missed in with the demolisher *temporary fence its normally not quoted. *porta toilet if the council requires that onus on you too *I had to submit the DA application for Demolishion and i had to provide 3 copies of the workplan which your demolisher has to provide. *you have to cut your services from the supplier, in my case only the electricity, if you have gas then that too.. NOTE: you will need level 2 service electrician after to disconnect your electricity and the same with a plumber for gas... you leave the water and sewerage alone as builder will need those... In the mean time ask you electrician to check if 3 phase is available on your property because if you plan on doing 3 phase Air conditioning and don't have it within you lands boundary then your up for $$$. i had to pay $1500+ for it to be delivered to the boundary.. and that was cheap.. some go up to $11k.. lastly before you go ahead.. strip your house as much of things you can sell or give away... then call the demolisher to go ahead.. I called a few days to early and i lost out on selling some items like windows and so on.... anyhow if you wanna check out where were at http://kkb-knockdownrebuild.blogspot.com Building Wisdom Sorrento 28MKII SOL - http://kkb-knockdownrebuild.blogspot.com Re: Knockdown Rebuild - Deciding and what you need to know.. 2Feb 22, 2011 9:23 pm kbreboot If your contemplating on doing a knockdown rebuild and whether its worth it.. Well for my family it definitely was worth it.. 1st deciding factor we didn't want to leave the neighbourhood. we are on a good street. 2nd the size of the land 625sqm big enough to build the house we are building Wisdom Homes Sorrento 28MKII SOL Single story.. 3rd the money i had spent on the demolisher would have gone to stamp duty and real estate fees... The hard part living arrangement in between.. we were lucky and we are staying at my wife parents... This has helped us save $$$ towards the finishing touches after handover. Havind two seperate loan - one for the previous home that was on the lot and one for the construction.. its a pain but we are managing.. Can't wait till its put together in one loan. Now to getting to demolish your home.. make sure you get a few quotes. and in the quotes make sure you specify all the things you want removed.. Trees included. Here are few things I missed in with the demolisher *temporary fence its normally not quoted. *porta toilet if the council requires that onus on you too *I had to submit the DA application for Demolishion and i had to provide 3 copies of the workplan which your demolisher has to provide. *you have to cut your services from the supplier, in my case only the electricity, if you have gas then that too.. NOTE: you will need level 2 service electrician after to disconnect your electricity and the same with a plumber for gas... you leave the water and sewerage alone as builder will need those... In the mean time ask you electrician to check if 3 phase is available on your property because if you plan on doing 3 phase Air conditioning and don't have it within you lands boundary then your up for $$$. i had to pay $1500+ for it to be delivered to the boundary.. and that was cheap.. some go up to $11k.. lastly before you go ahead.. strip your house as much of things you can sell or give away... then call the demolisher to go ahead.. I called a few days to early and i lost out on selling some items like windows and so on.... anyhow if you wanna check out where were at http://kkb-knockdownrebuild.blogspot.com Are there services which combine demolition, tree lopping and site preparation? Does the site preparation require the DA approved plans? Re: Knockdown Rebuild - Deciding and what you need to know.. 4Feb 23, 2011 9:31 am juxt1n If you go through a builder, don't they take care of the knowdown for you too? Not if you build with a volume builder in Victoria, no. I don't know what happens in other States with volume builders, but generally they like 'clean' land to start. It 'may' be different with a Custom builder, as they may organise the demo for you. Don't forget Council Asset Protection either. We had to pay our Council $1955 for the permit and a $1800 deposit which got back after demo (nothing was damaged). Temp fencing for demo was extra ($300), plus one panel was damaged when the demolishes took out our large tree, and we had to pay $55 extra to replace that. We also had to install a power pit (single phase as we weren't having refrigerated aircon). We had this done prior to demolition and it cost us $790 back in 2008. I believe in VIC prices have gone up considerably. We also organised Optus to remove the cable from our home prior to demo, but the Telstra phone line was cut by the demolishes, I just had the phone disconnected through Telstra at the exchange, but I held onto our phone number (paid about $10 a month) so we could have the same one when we moved back in a year later, as we had been living in the old house for 12 years! A knockdown/rebuild was definitely worth it for us, but it is not for everyone. We were lucky that we pretty much had paid off our old mortgage, and we didn't have to pay rent for a year during construction (stayed with family). We had our old house valued so had an idea what it would sell for, and to buy a 2 or 3 year old house (one that didn't need renovating...more money) in the same suburb the size we wanted was going to be astronomical. It wasn't going to be worth it, especially when you factor in stamp duty, agents fees and the STRESS! We also thought about renovating and adding a second storey to existing house, but it would have destroyed any street appeal it had, and we still would have been without a double garage. It was easier to start from scratch on the land we pretty much owned. It's a huge decision, but for us it was the right one! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Knockdown Rebuild - Deciding and what you need to know.. 5Feb 23, 2011 10:16 am Our custom builder didn't arrange the demo for us "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Knockdown Rebuild - Deciding and what you need to know.. 7Feb 23, 2011 12:08 pm Mine said he could, but it would cost much more. Oh and by the way kbreboot, I'm just going to assume your name is Chris and you actually live in Victoria as your story is IDENTICAL TO MINE!!!! Seriously, only land is 768m2 and different builder. I found a guy to do Knockdown and site cut but had get another guy for retaining walls. The two trees that were in the way were just ripped out by the 30t excavator as they were only small. if the original house is in good condition most of what you listed could be added in stages without the need for KDR and costs and disruption of having to live elsewhere… 1 13678 Hi We have finally decided to complete a KDR on our corner plot in NE Melbourne suburbs. Given its a corner plot approx. 400 sqm just a standard design may not fit the… 0 8563 multiple occ properties are always billed by trades at a premium, rarely per sqm for the lot. You either have trades you know whoe will do by sqm or youre going to get… 1 2229 |