Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Cost Surprise - new home, odd but not way-out desires 21Apr 29, 2012 10:14 pm I thought clothing allocation was part of the DA process? And yeah, garage unfortunately has to go there. Rear lane access is pretty rare around here, and if it were a corner-block it'd be a different design already. jodge, the suburb's North Ryde. Re: Cost Surprise - new home, odd but not way-out desires 22Apr 29, 2012 10:19 pm I saw that too. . . forgot to comment on it. . . Forg. . . I think you MAY need some help with those houseplans. . . would you like to redesign??? HAHAHA! Then again, you did get that enormous man-cave downstairs with the hoist. . . HAHAHA! North Ryde isn't WEST!!! Seriously, look at Zen. . . SunshineT, Gogo, Scgia all are building with them. Re: Cost Surprise - new home, odd but not way-out desires 23Apr 29, 2012 10:24 pm jodge HAHAHA! North Ryde isn't WEST!!! ditto! We are not far from you and I have never heard it described as West. Maybe the river is the divider between North Shore and West???? Who knows. So that is hilarious - did you really get your draftsperson to put that in your robe or did you insert it later?! Love it kiwi - I will have you know it was DH who insisted we have the 3.1m WIR not me. SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: Cost Surprise - new home, odd but not way-out desires 24Apr 29, 2012 10:33 pm I was brought-up in The Shire ... North Ryde is definitely within what I've always stored in that catch-all bucket labelled "out west". [and no, my cupboard allocation wasn't actually on the original drawings ] Anyhoo hopefully this week will give us some direction, with feedback from various builders including the original ones. It's all very exciting, I must say, except for the mortgage bit of course ... Re: Cost Surprise - new home, odd but not way-out desires 25Apr 29, 2012 10:43 pm Forg I was brought-up in The Shire ... North Ryde is definitely within what I've always stored in that catch-all bucket labelled "out west". [and no, my cupboard allocation wasn't actually on the original drawings ] Well, "West" is all relative We are in the neighbouring suburb. My DH had a good chuckle at the self edition to your plans too H1 is a wealth of knowledge (which we found too late for amendments to our plans). Good luck! SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: Cost Surprise - new home, odd but not way-out desires 26Apr 29, 2012 10:45 pm HAHAHAHA! Shire! HAHAHAHA! I lived in Sutherland for a little while. I'm quite surprised to see you moving so far-afield Forg. . . Furthererererest I've ever known a shire hobbit to move is Brighton-Le-Sands. . . and that was only temporarily! HAHAHAHA! Sorry. . . shouldn't laugh. You can laugh at me, I'm a REAL westie. Re: Cost Surprise - new home, odd but not way-out desires 27Apr 30, 2012 8:13 am Wow 1.2M is rediculous. We are in Eastwood over by Kurzon Hall, so pretty close to you. I would highly recommend our builder Binet, happy to walk you through our place. Have a hard time believing they would charge anywhere near that nuch for what you have proposed. I have a 3car, and we've had them draw up more plans for 2 more as its not enough:) PM me and we can arrange a time to meet up. Greg No one can give you a meaningful answer without looking at your building contract, what happened on site and who designed your house You should get experienced building… 1 10203 1) I had requested R6 ceiling insualtion batts, however I noticed that on some areas there are huge gaps which will allow hot air to sweep in, and also noticed black/grey… 0 3597 My door tends to rub against the frame during winter and I'm looking to fix it so it closes smoothly. Looking online on Youtube I'm seeing methods to fix the alignment and… 0 687 |