Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 5Feb 02, 2008 12:11 pm Thank you all for your quick replies and keeping our spirit still alive.
Casa2 Sounds like your site has had fill material. Do you know if this is the case? Also, do you know how far down down the fill material is? Your soil test should tell you this. Also how deep is the fill material? Basically 450 mm bored peirs come out to about $100 per meter (various between States). Yes, we were aware of the fill material and as per our developer and compaction report it's a "Level 1 Supervised Compacted Fill". As part of soil test they did 5 bore holes and have noted the following level of fills Bore 1 = 700mm Bore 2 = 400mm Bore 3 = 450mm Bore 4 = 800mm Bore 5 = 750mm aussiebell What is the fall of the Land? I do know that National Builders don't include any fall of land on there house costs, so site costs are always going to be higher with them. Even then I still think they work out cheaper than anybody else in terms of inclusions and everything. They haven't noted any fall on the land but have quoted $1344 for "Site cut of 200mm and fill of 150mm (350mm total) approx to an RL of 100.25 as required to produce a level building platform" My main concern is the amount they have quoted for pouring the concrete as to me it looks bit over priced. Kind Regards rajmicky Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 6Feb 02, 2008 12:34 pm Hi
Our raft slab cost was 48K for 300 sqm (Class HD soil) double story. No slope. Just received the bill the other day . Thank goodness we had a fixed price contract - although I'm sure it was always included. Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 7Feb 02, 2008 2:42 pm Our slab "p" is $7165 -, We have additional builk concrete of $ 5055-. We have quite a slope and including cut, fill ($7451) , retaining walls (for house) and all the normal site costs we are up to $50,000 site costs for the house. We are with the same builders as you. We also got soil tests and costs done from a custom builder whose site costs were similar. I also went to Metricon with the soil test and they predicted over $40,000. Unfortunately we are building on a slope with reactive soil. The view had better be good! Fi has moved in!! Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 8Feb 04, 2008 7:17 pm G'day... know how you feel. We're building with Metr$c$n in Vic and fell off our chairs. Our site has 3 metres of fall, so steeper than you're average block. 31sq home:
Cut & Fill $10,092 Slab P Class $9050 Retaining walls to one side of the house $4,600 Additional siting (post demolition) fending and clean $2,500 We spoke to some builder friends and also spoke to Whelan the wreckers who are demolition the existing home. They gave us a quote to do the cut & fill (while they were pulling the house down we thought we'd save some money) the costs were comparable and our friends agreed. It sucks, but as mentioned above it's the foundation of a sound structure. We looked at other costs in the home to compensate and excluded a couple of things in our contract we could do after lock up that is not a specialty for volume builders (that's were you get gouged - stuff like timber bi-fold doors etc). What ever you do, do not have anything in your contract that is a "provisional sum". They should know, and committ to, up front the cost of everything. They tried to put a provisional amount in our contract for crainage (because our site is steep) of $6k, we said no, you have the information lock in a price. It came down to $3k. Talk to as many people as you can. Good luck! Thunder1 Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 9Feb 05, 2008 11:21 am Just my 2c...
Is it possible to pay deposit to a different builder without signing any contract, just to verify if the slab price is not too much? Worst case, you lost the deposit (hopefully also around $500) and found that the slab price is similar. Best case, you could save thousands, and get a different, hopefully much quicker and better service builder. Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 10Feb 05, 2008 12:22 pm We didn't even have to pay the deposit. We were interested in building the buckingham with one builder or the tribeca with another builder. We paid a deposit with the first one. When I got the soil tests I took them to the tribeca builder who did an estimation on site costs for me there and then. We preferred the design of the buckingham more. Fi has moved in!! Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 11Feb 05, 2008 12:23 pm our site costs were $55,000 for concrete slab with 1.6m footings on clay soil! needless to say, we were floored at the price (excuse pun )
Helen Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 12Feb 05, 2008 3:04 pm the quoted price for the slab specs you have mentioned is not over the top its average for that type of slab
i used to do house slabs , factory floors etc if you ask the builder for a cost break down on slab they may or may not give it to you as an example: the average 4-5 stage boom pump with 2 operators for a day is $3 - $ 4 k concrete to spec 25/14/120 to 32/14-20/140 is around at trade cost for a pump mix $142 a q/m y12 6mtr is $16 odd dollars a length if you look on your slab plan you can work out how many l/m there are 3f11 trench mesh $20 - $25 a 6 mtr length f82 average $70 - $75 a sheet, one sheet will fill 12 sqm have a look on your slab plan it may be double steel pad sand $30 a q/m + del. excavator $75 odd dollars an hr poly plastic x 3 odd rolls $350 excavator for screw piles $75 hr on house slabs the average concretor will cost $5000 a slab inc all prep work, labours x 4 who average $250 - $300 a day, cost of running choppers, tools etc and profit of around $3000 To almost all people inc my self when i quote the cost does look high but when everything is tallied up , all costs etc profit for the buisnesses involved it is quite resonable also the cost of warranty insurance for the slab, workcover etc i would ask to see cost break down of your slab best advise i can give Da Vinci Outdoor Living Architectural landscaping http://www.davincioutdoor.com Re: Please help !!! Shocking Site Cost 13Mar 11, 2009 1:40 pm Hi Raj,
How did it go eventually, what is the status?? curious to know as i have about 2 m fall on my land as well going to meet the NBG consultants with my quote next week. Where abouts are you building?? Regards Rajjo Bought land in Bayview Rise, Bayswater North, Vic Looking for builder!!!?? 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 37150 Thanks for the insight! My plot is a new development so hopefully I won't have too much problem during build as everyone should be roughly building together. I also… 2 3373 Approvals are covered in the cost we are paying to the pool company. The only thing stated in our home build contract for the additional cost is engineering support. … 3 7121 |