Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Negotiating Site costs, any success? 2Oct 04, 2012 10:19 am Our Build - Places Fairhaven 23+ - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28045 Our Landscaping - Belial's Backyard - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45375 Re: Negotiating Site costs, any success? 3Oct 04, 2012 1:14 pm Building a Delta 21 at Craigieburn - http://homeofzero.blogspot.com.au/ Deposit: 26/02. Contract: 22/05. Settlement: 29/05. Site start: 18/10. Re: Negotiating Site costs, any success? 4Oct 04, 2012 3:35 pm My Hamptons build (completed): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63370 Moved in Wednesday 11th Dec 2013 Front landscaping completed June 2016 Re: Negotiating Site costs, any success? 6Oct 05, 2012 1:45 pm Gumbette88 akashra Before contract I had two options for site cut. Have they given you a figure that indicates how much soil would need to be removed from the site? They are both doing the maximum, which is 1m cut and 600mm fill. Both quotes are to do exactly the same thing, which is why I can't understand the huge difference. But did both of them allow for the same amount of site works in their base price? Its obviously not just the cost of a cut and fill, slab upgrades and i'm assuming a retaining wall will all be part of what they're quoting. If one builder allows in the base price for flat land only, no clay, no rock, no retaining but the other allows for say 500mm of fall, has a stronger slab design etc in their base price then that is probably where a lot of the difference comes from. Additionally some of the larger project builders (in vic at least) just don't want to build on some sites as the amount of extra time and effort to tailor their base house to suit your land unless you are willing to pay a premium to do so. Project builders work on turnaround and the number of houses they finish as quickly as possible. Anything out of the ordinary takes more time, in planning, approvals, construction than if you land is perfectly flat and all they have to do is rubber stamp everything and the tradies build it exactly as they did the last one and the one before that. Compare what is included in the base, type of slab, fill allowed etc to see why there is such a difference. if you're not sure post some of the details here or a link to inclusions lists. Our Build - Places Fairhaven 23+ - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28045 Our Landscaping - Belial's Backyard - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45375 Is anyone building with Mojo and have a recent site cost tender 0 16113 Henley should give you some indication of site costs. Too many variable to give you any reasonable accuracy 1 2088 Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 7955 |