Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 11, 2011 1:52 pm Hi all..first time post here. I am interested to hear from anybody who has done a demolition project using PD. We are loving their homes. They all look so well designed. My concern is the cost of site works. I have budgeted a certain amount, but now I am not sure if that is enough. No doubt a soil test will be required to give more accurate and conclusive results. The house we bought is on a flat block, but after demolition I am sure the slab will require upgrading from M to H or P. What are some of the costs you have been quoted with PD for this type of project. This will give me an indication as to which home we can build. Thanks in anticipation Ilias Re: P/D's - Double Stoery Homes 2May 11, 2011 2:16 pm Hi Ilias, welcome to the forum. There's been two forumites I can think of off the top of my head that have done knock down rebuilds with PD, Petal and haywgl. Petal built a Brookvale and haywgl a Cremorne. Unfortunately Petal is no longer active on here and haywgl is rarely on. If you shoot haywgl a PM I'm sure she will be able to give you some details of her build when she next checks in. From memory her knock down was around 10 or 11k and her site costs were around 6 or 7k. That was a few years ago and I'm not sure how accurate my memory is. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: P/D's - Double Stoery Homes 4May 11, 2011 2:55 pm If you go to the very top of the page there is a tab for messages between Control Panel and Logout. Click that and you can send a message through there. Yep sorry, PM is private message. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: P/D's - Double Stoery Homes 5May 11, 2011 3:35 pm Hi Ilias, My other half and i did a knockdown and are building the Waldorf by PD. Our block was virtually flat but had less than a metre slope at the front (which was out of the building envelope anyway). Our demo was $10.5k and we were lucky to be able to get the PD promo last year that included the site costs. At tender we were quoted just under $20k to cover the slab upgrade as a result of the 1st soil test being very poor, and we required screw piles. There was an additional excavation cost of $4k. We were pleasantly surprised however when we got a credit of just under $15k as the second soil test after the house was demolished was better and we didn't required the screw piles but we still needed concrete piers. Our site was classified "P" due to the depth of filling material encountered nad to account for abnormal moisture conditions caused by trees (which was minimal! There is a half dead gum tree on the council nature strip and all other trees are on surrounding blocks) and for the proposed demo of existing dwelling from site. If you can it is better to overestimate (When we had that surprise figure of $20k it was a relief that we had over estimated on site costs when we applied for our finance (even though that meant that we had to for-go doing our driveway etc for some time) but it was nice that we ended up getting it creditted.) Looking forward to seeing what you choose! Cheers, M Building Waldorf 44 with PD Feel free to follow our build progress - http://melnrobsknockdownrebuild.blogspot.com/ Re: P/D's - Double Stoery Homes 7May 11, 2011 4:24 pm [quote="MelNRob"]Hi Ilias, My other half and i did a knockdown and are building the Waldorf by PD. Our block was virtually flat but had less than a metre slope at the front (which was out of the building envelope anyway). Our demo was $10.5k and we were lucky to be able to get the PD promo last year that included the site costs. At tender we were quoted just under $20k to cover the slab upgrade as a result of the 1st soil test being very poor, and we required screw piles. There was an additional excavation cost of $4k. We were pleasantly surprised however when we got a credit of just under $15k as the second soil test after the house was demolished was better and we didn't required the screw piles but we still needed concrete piers. Our site was classified "P" due to the depth of filling material encountered nad to account for abnormal moisture conditions caused by trees (which was minimal! There is a half dead gum tree on the council nature strip and all other trees are on surrounding blocks) and for the proposed demo of existing dwelling from site. If you can it is better to overestimate (When we had that surprise figure of $20k it was a relief that we had over estimated on site costs when we applied for our finance (even though that meant that we had to for-go doing our driveway etc for some time) but it was nice that we ended up getting it creditted.) Looking forward to seeing what you choose! Cheers, Thanks so much for the information. I wish I had site costs included. They do currently have a promotion wherby they include $10k of site costs. We are really liking the Cayman with the Grand Entertainer attached. The sales consultant has been so pleasant and very eager to help. He is currently putting some estimates together for us. Did you go for many upgrades, such as vinyl wrap, taps tiles etc. We will do our own carpets and tiles to other areas after completion. Do you mind telling me how what you upgraded and approximate costs associated to them. Anyways, thanks so much for your response and look forward to reading the blog. Cheers Re: P/D's - Double Stoery Homes 8May 11, 2011 10:00 pm joles *slaps forehead* and MelNRob!! I follow your posts as well! and here i have been thinking that what i am saying is actually interesting..lol...i'll forgive ya Joles! Building Waldorf 44 with PD Feel free to follow our build progress - http://melnrobsknockdownrebuild.blogspot.com/ Re: P/D's - Double Stoery Homes 9May 11, 2011 10:34 pm Ilias MelNRob Hi Ilias, My other half and i did a knockdown and are building the Waldorf by PD. Our block was virtually flat but had less than a metre slope at the front (which was out of the building envelope anyway). Our demo was $10.5k and we were lucky to be able to get the PD promo last year that included the site costs. At tender we were quoted just under $20k to cover the slab upgrade as a result of the 1st soil test being very poor, and we required screw piles. There was an additional excavation cost of $4k. We were pleasantly surprised however when we got a credit of just under $15k as the second soil test after the house was demolished was better and we didn't required the screw piles but we still needed concrete piers. Our site was classified "P" due to the depth of filling material encountered nad to account for abnormal moisture conditions caused by trees (which was minimal! There is a half dead gum tree on the council nature strip and all other trees are on surrounding blocks) and for the proposed demo of existing dwelling from site. If you can it is better to overestimate (When we had that surprise figure of $20k it was a relief that we had over estimated on site costs when we applied for our finance (even though that meant that we had to for-go doing our driveway etc for some time) but it was nice that we ended up getting it creditted.) Looking forward to seeing what you choose! Cheers, Thanks so much for the information. I wish I had site costs included. They do currently have a promotion wherby they include $10k of site costs. We are really liking the Cayman with the Grand Entertainer attached. The sales consultant has been so pleasant and very eager to help. He is currently putting some estimates together for us. Did you go for many upgrades, such as vinyl wrap, taps tiles etc. We will do our own carpets and tiles to other areas after completion. Do you mind telling me how what you upgraded and approximate costs associated to them. Anyways, thanks so much for your response and look forward to reading the blog. Cheers No worries Ilias, happy to help any way i can. Lord knows how much this site assisted us when we started out too. The Cayman is a nice design. i really liked the flow of it when we were looking at displays. And that offer for the grand entertainer is awesome! Which area are you looking at building in? Our upgrades were mainly in things like the countertops (upgraded from laminate to caesarstone in areas not covered in promo), downlights (plus lots of electrical upgrades like data points etc), front door (we wanted the large pivot door), upgraded tiles in the master ensuite, upgrade tapware in the master ensuite, upgrade to heating unit to include refrigerated cooling (the offer they had before the simplicity included option of evaporative cooling only = totally not good for my hair. FRIZZ!!! haha) added a duct to the storeroom, changed window design to living and theatre room, added in a laminate benchtop to laundry for extra counter space, upgraded the stairs to contemporary stairs option 2, Included in the complete promo was cat 1 tiles to most of the wet areas, we had to pay for tiling in cloakroom and storeroom and the carpets were automatically upgraded to cat 2. Send me a pm on what you would like and i'd be happy to share approx costings. 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