Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Lots of help needed!! 25Feb 19, 2008 9:00 pm Start: 15 May 08, Current: Handover inspection 19/09 after that, the house is ours!! Visit our blog: http://loveourgerbera.blogspot.com/ Re: Lots of help needed!! 27Feb 19, 2008 10:13 pm Mrs B Hi haywgl, Have you thought about a custom built home? This way your architect can design a home that suits your block and keep town planning and neighbours happy. It is not as expensive as you may think... Mrs B I'm going to go into the realm of speculation here about spec vs custom built...so stay with me. I previously mentioned that my brother was building in Macleod - an established suburb - with a spec home builder not M. The project is a complete schmozle (260k block, knock down house, build 400k+ house) ...one of the excuses was that "we don't know the subbies in the area". The argument being that in recognised development area like say, Tarneit, Point Cook, Pakenham plenty of work and the crappy subbies have been sorted out (er..doubtful). Also the supervisor was going from a "nearby" estate which was Laurimar (15 -20km up the road) to Macleod for inspections so he was never there. Keeping in mind that I'd built with the same builder seven odd years ago and was happy at the end of the day. I like Mrs B's idea of custom built in established areas like Newport because the supervisor may not be spread as thin and you may get a better pick on tradies. Having said this check out Keogh Homes, they are a Melb western suburbs builder would probably go to Newport, we had a chat with them, when we were thinking of building, and they seemed to produce an excellent quality houses to your spec and design without seeming to loading the price for "custom built". They don't do lots of houses...and have there own subbies or subbies that they say (emphasis on they say) they have used for years. We ended up not building with them but bought an established home that they had built eight years ago...the reason we bought the house was that it had a unique floorplan which suited the way we use the house to a T and was on a 1/4 acre with a blank canvas backyard. Like I said there's a bit of speculation in the above but I'd thought I'd share....take from it what you will mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard My land is 260m2 (10m x 26m) located in claymore NSW. Under campbelltown council. I know in general the following setbacks would apply ground floor side setback =… 0 6935 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6917 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 7014 |