Browse Forums Building A New House Re: advice for someone with no idea :) 4Jan 19, 2017 1:51 pm Our home (being built by REDINK on 5 acres) was changed A LOT from a base of a display home we liked, combining that with a range/farm style. Our consultant was able to listen to what we were wanting and after lots of drawings we arrived at where we are at, sited for our building envelope with lovely verandahs. I am happy to send you the details of who we worked with as he was great, very patient and helpful and we discovered that it was going to be far more cost effective for us to get them to build it as it came with some inclusions that would have thrown or tight budget out the window (aircon, stone benches, recessed sliders etc) and now they are offering lots of other incentives . Anyhoo, just message me if you want to chat further . ps: we are doing earthworks ourselves as this was cheaper for us and Redink agreed to that, so good luck with everything. . You must be new to the internet. You're also the only person anyone here has ever heard of washing their garage wall. I hate to break it to you, there are insects and… 6 4808 Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 15673 Thank you so much for the effort. We will use it to talk with builder. We also had idea of building duplex instead and seeking suggest ions. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=106744 11 13817 |