Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 26, 2017 8:00 am Okay, silly question time. I'm weighing up doing wall frames myself for a new house, or getting in a pair of skilled carpenters (along with me) to do it. Like most things, it boils down to a cost/time situation. So for a 150sqm house, single story and fairly simple, how long would it take on average to erect wall frames for a new house? Note that nothing is prefabbed and everything has to be constructed on site. Re: Time to erect new house frame? 2Feb 26, 2017 5:00 pm Our build was 4 days (with bad rain) for my 25sq single storey from start of frame to roof trusses being installed. This is 100% true. You can not hang anything on steel frames. very frustrating 8 5322 Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 8373 This certainly doesn't look good. I would be engaging with an independent inspector to have a look at this. As for the unscheduled site visits, most builders are quite… 1 28285 |