Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Arden Developments 3223Sep 12, 2018 8:37 am _________________________________________ Regards Manj https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88256 Re: Arden Developments 3231Sep 12, 2018 7:49 pm _________________________________________ Regards Manj https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88256 Re: Arden Developments 3236Oct 19, 2018 9:33 am g33kerb0t It probably is due to site access on your block? Do you have something in front that will prevent them to deliver materials easily? Have they done a site survey as well? My suggestion is go speak to other builders and see what they say. Sometimes things like these get added at sales stage but then get removed at tender (like BAL for example). MangoC We are building with Arden also. In the initial stages. Its a knock down rebuild and we are waiting for site costs to come back. In the interim though our sales person has come back at us with a random extra cost added to our quote of 5k for crane use to from building material in to our lot over existing power lines and then another 7k to provide tiger tails (whatever they are!) To power lines due to oh&s requirements??? That's a total sum of 12k they have just pulled out of nowhere. They say its a council requirement but after having visited council to ask questions council were actually scratching there heads. Has anyone got any knowledge or experience with this? Building the Votivo43 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88553 The builders are the ones saying this. When I approached council to see if this is the usual requirement they were scratching their heads saying its only to drop materials off on a vacant block! Just want to clarify if we are getting taken for a ride and what measures to take to ensure we dont get charged unreasonably. Hard when we know nothing about the industry and are trying to budget! Re: Arden Developments 3238Oct 20, 2018 9:38 am Ezza78 We also had the $5k crane cost. They have used a crane multiple times, I tried to query it but told it was required. We do have overhead powerlines in street. Was that part of your site costs and did you get charged the 7k as well for tiger tails? Re: Arden Developments 3239Oct 20, 2018 7:20 pm Hi MangoC, it was listed separately to site costs under OHS but we didn’t have the tiger tails cost, we did sign a long time ago and I know of other builds both with Arden and other builders to have tiger tails included in their costs. Re: Arden Developments 3240Oct 22, 2018 8:58 am Ezza78 Hi MangoC, it was listed separately to site costs under OHS but we didn’t have the tiger tails cost, we did sign a long time ago and I know of other builds both with Arden and other builders to have tiger tails included in their costs. Thanks Ezza. Its hard to know what is a legitimate cost and what can be pushed to be avoided. |