Browse Forums Building A New House Re: How much building work can I do myself? 3Aug 22, 2013 7:50 pm snuck Banks don't like giving owner-builders money. Especially if you aren't qualified and are talking about doing the qualified trade stuff yourself. You'll need a huge deposit before they'll consider you. Yeh, I thought this might be the case, we have a good deposit but its not in the league that im lead to believe is required. Shame really. snuck If you owner-build in WA you are expected to take out insurance to cover defects if you sell your house within ?10yrs? (the assumption is if you don't sell it in that timeframe and something breaks it's your own problem anyway). I'd be fine with the idea of insurance covering any mistakes, though im a pretty picky bugger when it comes to stuff like this so i'd end up researching exactly all the codes etc that you mentioned. snuck Don't know how good your back is, but if you are planning to go bricks/concrete then I'd consider getting professionals in to do that (it's not that expensive - the walls are the cheap part of the house!) and save your jelly beans for the fiddly bits that needs lots of swearing at. Yeh I agree with you, the 'hard labour' part im inclined to let someone in the know get on with, its more the finishing off bits that im good at anyway. But even things like re-tiling a roof I've done. So its weird to think that the 'Aussie Dream' is a kind of fake, as most normal people aren't able to easily contribute to their own 'self build'. snuck You can do your own owner builder easily enough. There's no reason why you can't. You can arrange the trades in as you please and do whatever on the build you like. Here in WA you take responsibility for making sure you meet the building regulations (and have to get a licence and do a short TAFE course about what those regulations are) and you then take responsibility if the ceilings fall down. Of course the professional builders aren't going to help you with that! I looked up a TAFE course in Tassie but can't seem to find anything like that that isn't either a full time degree course or aimed at 11th Grade teens. This however I did find (its an online owner builder course) http://www.ownerbuildercourses.com/tasm ... ation.html Again, I would owner build if I had the major deposit needed. I found a Tassie owner builder advice manual that really laid it all out, what would be involved, it was really good. http://workplacestandards.tas.gov.au/li ... r_2012.pdf Thanks Snuck for getting back to me so quickly, the more I know, the better decisions I can make, thanks again. I posted the floorplan on Houzz.com forum and got some really good ideas and advice from people there. Then we reached out to a couple of renovation companies and one… 5 10083 Block of two storey townhouses requires painting on the roof. A brick parapet wall separates each unit and extends above the tiled roof. The parapet walls require sealing… 0 3497 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 3585 |