Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Fixed Site costs 2Mar 24, 2013 6:06 pm We are building with Rawson and their site costs are fixed. For us that means water, electrical, piering, slab. We don't have to pay anything extra. Piering is one of the things that is usually an allowance. Piering is generally an unknown as a builder can't accurately tell how much piering will be required, so they give an allowance of a certain amount of lineal metres. As our site costs were fixed we did not have to pay extra no matter how many they needed Modified Fernside 38 Rawson Homes Blog: http://www.thehousethatmatandjenbuilt.blogspot.com Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60501 Re: Fixed Site costs 4Mar 24, 2013 9:25 pm check with your builder. we have fixed price footings and site work but it doesnt include retaining walls(i thought these were always at cost to owner?), extra gas run etc. Re: Fixed Site costs 5Mar 24, 2013 9:31 pm Ari, with things like rock and piering they may give a fixed price, but they may also give an allowance that they think should cover it. If they go over the allowance you'll have to pay the difference, but if it is a fixed price and they go over, they pay it. We had a lot of piercing but we had a fixed price for that as opposed to an allowance. Just be sure to double check the wording for each individual item so you don't get caught out. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Fixed Site costs 6Mar 26, 2013 1:23 pm The retaining wall possibly not being included is a surprise. If that's not site works...not sure what is! Yeah Piering is what has me freaked out and looking at Fixed site costs Joles. I didn't need piering last build so just went with the provisional site costs. I have nightmares where my block just falls away into a big hole that needs filling with concrete hahaha Re: Fixed Site costs 7Mar 26, 2013 4:18 pm Fixed site costs can be both a good thing and a bad thing. At least with an allowance for site costs - whilst you need to keep some cash spare in case you have bought a problem site, you pay what it costs at the end of the day. If site costs are fixed, they are fixed so that you are paying the maximum amount that site works could cost. They are looked at at an absolute worst case scenario, and you are billed accordingly. On the plus side - you can factor this into your loan calculations. My 2c. Re: Fixed Site costs 8Mar 27, 2013 11:45 am We have heaps of piering, around 14k I think, and it was all itemised with drawings in our contract. We didn't have any nasty surprises. We had no allowance for rock at all, but we were pretty confident there wasn't any on the block. I do have the occasional vision of our house sliding down the hill in a big storm! I think the basic rule with retaining walls is that they are done by the builder if it is necessary to make the block safe for construction. If there is space for the cut to be battened ( usually on bigger blocks) that's what they will do. I wouldn't worry too much about doing retaining walls after handover if need be, you'll save a heap in comparison to what the builder will charge. My only advice is to make sure really good drainage is included and done at the base of the cut and that it is gently sloped away from the house so water doesn't pool. Our drainage is one thing our builder got really right, even after the biggest downpour it's gone in minutes. Some of our neighbours can still have water sitting there the next day. Have a talk with any neighbours that have already built. That might give you an idea of likelihood of rock and what their costs worked out to be. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Is anyone building with Mojo and have a recent site cost tender 0 16239 Henley should give you some indication of site costs. Too many variable to give you any reasonable accuracy 1 2214 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 19601 |