Building with Wisdom Homes

Yes same for me. I believe they are just doing the roof after the bricks. I've seen a few double story homes both from Wisdom and Masterton that start the bricks before the frames of the roof have been put up.

Ok. All the best with the rest of your construction.

Yes, they will put up roof after claim frame stage payment, this caused a bit issue with my bank. You probably check with your bank first to check if it will be ok.

Thanks. Does it affect to the quality of construction? as the bricks are going to be exposed without any cover.

Thanks. Does it affect to the quality of construction? as the bricks are going to be exposed without any cover.[/quote]

I asked them, and they told me something to do with Health and Safety, they will put scaffolding after brick works and finish the roofing. I don’t know about the quality but the valuer stated this as front loaded payment or something similar. They claim 70% of the contract price and the house is not even at lock up stage.

This might be a dumb question, but here goes. At what point do we get told 'this is your final price'

Going through our contract now, there seems to be quite a few places where we may have added costs. Eg BASIX and traffic control.

Has anyone been hit with major additional expense after going through cq? We currently have a contract price of roughly 580k, about 50k in PAs for CQ, around another 60k for driveway and basic landscaping (after handover) and 25-30k for site demo. Grand total of roughly $730k which is on target for our estimate of 700-750.

Also once building starts, how likely are we to get additional expenses? Or is this 'contract price' continually fluid until we pay the settlement?

Anyone?

Final will be just before you move to construction. They will give you an amended contract to sign.

You could have large expenses at CQ but that all depends what you want. It's easy to spend money on the kitchen, flooring and electrical.

I also got hit with BASIX and had to upgrade all my windows, insulation and water tank.

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How badly mate?

How badly mate?[/quote]
That was about $15k

Ok, so not great, but not terrible. We have a 2 year old solar system which we will be reusing, shame they won't let us include it in our BASIX checks

Contracts signed and 5% deposit paid

Does anyone knows what windows does wisdom use? I know it is Trend, but what range do they have, I just saw their website they have synergy, quantum etc. do you know?

This is our Windows and Door Schedule from the plan if it helps you. They dont specify whether its synergy, quantum or something else but yes they are Trend brand and you are allowed to upgrade to any style, for eg. we upgraded our W7, W8 and W3

They use Synergy which is the residential range. Quantum is semi-commercial (thicker frames). You can upgrade anything you like. Generally Quantum is 40% more but its not that bad. From a $450 window it could be $630. If you do all of them it can add up but if you target certain windows/doors its not too bad. Stacker door upgrades arent that much more either. You can call Trend for pricing but they custom make every window so they wont have standard pricing. They have to give you specific quotes for each window. This is why Wisdom cant give you pricing for Quantum without asking specifically which windows you want to upgrade and then it will take them some time to get back to you.

thanks, I only think to upgrade the sliding door X 3, when I was at CQ centre, they have a disply for Trend Quantum sliding door, the quality is good - heavy & strong, the sliding door in their disply homes are thick and weak. I will contact them.

I thought you had to decide at tender as it's structural. Not 100% sure though.

If this is the case I just leave it as it is. I thought this is part of CQ.

Went through contract signing a couple of weeks ago, and received our consultation plans on Thursday.

Everything seems good, except wisdom missed a height change on one of my garage doors (double door, single, and a drive through) to 2400mm.

I also noticed that the laundry sliding door to the exterior of the home was 2100mm high, even though we have the Signature package with the higher ceilings and doors. Every other door on the floor is 2340.

Because of these two changes, we now have a 20 business day delay, meaning we will be lucky to be able to proceed before the end of January now... Grumble grumble

Can't you still book your CQ appointments? The final plans are only done as a last step (after BASIX, Kitchen drawings, etc are done) which will most likely take another 6-8 months