Hi All,
I am new on this forum, but loveee it - its so good to hear everyone elses stories and I would like to share my own and any advice I can offer !!
First off, I would like to share my experience with our Buider, Louie from BuildCarp Constructions. We bought our block almost 2 years ago, and where saving hard to build our dream home ! My hubby and I both had our ideas of what we wanted, and so after 12 months of hard savings, we decided to start getting in some quotes ! We where devestated when the first 2 came in, it was way out of our budget and it was disappointing to have to start looking at cutting out the rooms and space that both of us really wanted ! When we expressed this to the builders, they offered us no assistance, and it was basically fix it - then come back to us !!
A few weeks later, we visted a girlfriend who had just had this magnificant deck built, and she referred us onto her Builder, to get a quote for our home ! Hubby and I met with Louie who is the Director and discussed what we wanted, what we could afford etc. we finally left that meeting feeling optimistic about our home! The quote came in 3 days after our meeting - and 50k CHEAPER then the other builders! Louie helped every step of the way, from amending our plans, to dealing with the council! We both work full time so he would make time in the evenings to come over and go through the works !
The whole process from then on was great (and so quick).. fast forward 6 months and we moved into our brand new home last weekend ! I cant express enough gratitude to the guys from BuildCarp for their work.. They where always professional, clean - and whenever I changed my mind (which was alot) he was gracious and quick to fix whatever the issue was !! We have refered him to all our friends and are now looking at buying an investment block and getting him to build townies on !! I cant wait - we enjoyed the process so much !!
I am putting up photos soon of each stage of my job.. and as I was involved most steps of the way - I would be more then happy to help anyone with questions
Karla