Building with Wisdom Homes

The question about upgrades are "how deep are your pockets". What i've noticed is Wisdom are expensive ! so upgrades will cost you a fair bit and depends what you want to do yourself. Just to give you an example of my situation, we're about 230k above the base price of our house (not including any site costs) and i'm doing driveway and flooring after handover.

Also if u dont need to borrow the full amount from the bank then u really dont need to list all upgrades but if you do then it's good to put as much as possible

I'm also going through Wisdom for a concrete pool. Roughly will cost us about 65-70k extra. This is pool, fence and about 28sqm of concrete. I'm tiling myself but probably would have cost 70k if I did tiling through them. They charge over excessive rates for any work like tiling or concreting but we wanted to get the concrete done in order to get pool fence in so we can get interim occupational cert asap.

You would be able to spend about $120k to $150k above base price with reasonable upgrades including driveway

You would be able to spend about $120k to $150k above base price with reasonable upgrades including driveway[/quote]Agreed 150k will get ya something nice. We did 3 decent structural change like alfresco extension, removing a structural pole to open up the area, and raising ceilings to 3.2m which cost us about 45k just for those.

This might help

- Stairs can cost up to 23k odd if u want floating staircase with glass.
- 15k for kitchen would get u waterfall edges, caesar stone upgrade, and extra sink and cabinet for butler pantry, soft close drawers and some other stuff, shark edges
- electrical, 10k provisional allowance should be a good amount for house ur size
- 5k for high ceilings upstairs
- standard skylight is about 2.3k
- we spent 14k for wet area tiling upgrade (this may be more if you dont have full wall tiling as per signature package) we used large 400x800 tiles.

One thing that stung us was the hydraulic detail listed under council/other requirements of the tender. Our PA was 6k but that came to 27k

Aircon upgrade
CCTV

Yes agree with aircon upgrade. About 6k upgrade. CCTV I would do afterwards. Get them to run you cat5/6 cables. Most good security cameras are power over ethernet (PoE) so you just plug them in and configure your system and away u go.

Doosra

What size is your pool?

What pool layout did you choose and other pool options.
Ie multi speed pump, auto dosing, mineral water, pool cleaner etc

Thanks

Also which coping have you selected.

Is there a catalogue of lights to choose from?

I'm going to do pool coping and pool surrounds same as alfresco as well but I'm purchasing separately. Wisdom charge 160per sqm for silver trav coping which can easily be found for $80 or even less outside.