Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 27, 2012 11:40 am Very interesting to know : What was your pre-start budget and how much over your budget did you go? Include your colour selection pre-start as well as electrical. Re: How Much Did You Spend At Your Pre-Start Meetings? 2Jun 27, 2012 11:46 am we spent 19,000 this includes about 8,000 worth of items we had to delete from the initial contract to make the house fall within our budget with the bank. we added: double shower with extra tapware and a nib wall double vanity extra basin extra width full framed mirror upgraded tiles throughout the house including wet areas and main floor tiling stone benchtops, undermounted sink, upgraded tapware upgraded roof tiles upgraded cornice upgraded front doors upgraded garage door upgrade door handles throughout glass splashback to kitchen all around overhead cupboards to kitchen all around upgraded lined ceiling in alfresco to gyprock didnt do much with electrical as ill be doing a good portion of it after handover but yeah...19,000 :O Oct 10 - Council Approval Oct 23 - Site scrape Oct 29 - Footings and Prelay OCT 30 - Slabbed Nov 6 - Bricks Delivered Nov 13 - Brickwork started Re: How Much Did You Spend At Your Pre-Start Meetings? 3Jan 26, 2013 9:58 pm also i just realised you and i had our prestart meetings on the same day Oct 10 - Council Approval Oct 23 - Site scrape Oct 29 - Footings and Prelay OCT 30 - Slabbed Nov 6 - Bricks Delivered Nov 13 - Brickwork started The worst thing you can do is sign a building contract without a pre contract review. Over the years many people have come to me with disputes where they just signed… 0 8279 We've had the offer of a short term tenant whilst waiting for CDC/DA home approval and demolition for our knock down rebuild. It would achieve a pretty low rent as it's… 0 13690 The fastest thing a builder will do is bank your cheque, those systems work perfectly with lightning speed, everything else is slow burn. Just the way it is. 1 8678 |