Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 24, 2012 12:38 pm A builder quoted $11K/square for a double storey townhouse and calculation as follows: Building construction: $11K x 22 Square = 242K Garage $7K x 4 Square = $28K drive way $15K services connection $10K ----------- TOTAL $295K Is this the right way to calculate the building cost? Re: How to calculate the building cost based on the square? 2Jun 24, 2012 8:01 pm The cost of building the house is, for the builder, how much all the wood & the concrete & the doors & the windows & the plaster & the paint etc etc costs, as well as the cost of the labour. How they decide to charge you, however, depends on how they handle their risk & structure their pricing. It's certainly possible that a builder might decide to price like that. Re: How to calculate the building cost based on the square? 3Jun 24, 2012 8:32 pm That calculation sounds reasonable, particularly as you are being charged less for the garage (as you should, as there is less work / materials / labour involved). Many companies take a total sqm (including garage and decks - which irked us as we have 100sqm of decks and garage which is why we wanted a calculation more like yours). 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 No idea about the driveway question, but your price for a house that size including landscaping seems very good! 1 6158 Hi We are building in the Hunter Valley, our soil test is H1, our builder has advised us they need to have a letter signed for Fair Trading as the new drainage standard… 0 3550 thanks. the above one is white Mat tiles and have gripness so going for this Mat tiles for both indoor and outdoor. Beaumont told it can be used in both indoor and… 2 1663 |