Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Reducing the cost 13Jan 12, 2008 7:51 pm That's a fair call.
I agree, there are some items that we can purchase for as good as a builder - in many cases they are not offered in the standard house/price. But it's not really the nickel and dime stuff of saving $30 here and $40 there that is going to do the trick. To effectively reduce the costs you are more than likely going to look at the big ticket items (heating and cooling). I haven't seen too many cases where an owner has been able to delete out these items (credit of say $5.5k - $6k) and then be able to replace them for the same or less (supplied and installed). Sorry, getting off track of this string. Base price for many builders will not include complete site costs - unless you're building on a flat 700m2 block with an 'M' class soil, which is quite rare - due to the way developers are leaving sites. H 7 11931 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 37085 Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 29679 |