So we met with the builder yesterday to discuss all our rock excavation and removal costs. Unfortunately not much could be done about it. Our sore point about the drainers digging out so much rock at 5 x the price of the excavators could not be avoided. I won't go into detail here but suffice to say everything was explained to us and seems reasonable, so we just have to accept it.
Most of our rock was located at the front of our block which presented a problem for our edge beams. Our engineer stipulated that they could not be partially founded on rock and partially on soil. It had to be entirely one or the other. Hence they had to dig the beams much deeper at the back than anticipated which meant using more concrete. That's added another $6.5K on top of the $15K!
Builder really felt for us though and has kindly waived our $2K additional window costs and also some of the additional rock removal costs after the channels for the beams were dug out. Small mercies.
Bricks have been delivered on site and they should start the double brick garage wall shortly. Meanwhile the frame is being constructed in the factory. Progress is a bit annoyingly slow but I'm sure it will all go up quickly once it's delivered to site.
Gonna order our splashback tiles tomorrow before sale ends at Beaumont Tiles, so can save a bit there. Definitely decided on the 300x75 size.
Hope everyone else's builds are professing well!
Our 37sq Custom Hamptons Inspired Home:
http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=86931