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Aug 11, 2018
1:02 pm

I hope you don't mind if I join in.

Melobius, we are building next door at Beaumont. Our site classification was "P"(poor?) with soil classified as H2-D. I think its quite common in the area. Our lot had a fall of about 3 meters from front to back so we had to cut and fill the site to build a double storey. We had an olive grove to begin with. Clearing the trees and stumps fell as our responsibility.

Metricon quoted our site costs at 28K.

If you haven't done any tiling, joinery, electrical selections, you may very well exceed 100K. We certainly did by a fair bit and had many arguments (I mean... negotiations...) with the missus regarding what items to sacrifice.

Hope that helps.

melobious

Aug 11, 2018
1:10 pm

dunkintoo

I hope you don't mind if I join in.

Melobius, we are building next door at Beaumont. Our site classification was "P"(poor?) with soil classified as H2-D. I think its quite common in the area. Our lot had a fall of about 3 meters from front to back so we had to cut and fill the site to build a double storey. We had an olive grove to begin with. Clearing the trees and stumps fell as our responsibility.

Metricon quoted our site costs at 28K.

If you haven't done any tiling, joinery, electrical selections, you may very well exceed 100K. We certainly did by a fair bit and had many arguments (I mean... negotiations...) with the missus regarding what items to sacrifice.

Hope that helps.

I’m sure it will be about that much hehe
I’m just in denial right now!!

Damn our area being cursed with problem soil! Haha

My husband is currently getting yelled at I’m mean talked to bout what I ... I mean we want.

How is your build going? Do you have a thread?

dunkintoo

Aug 11, 2018
1:23 pm

Our build is going along pretty quickly now. We are doing a Franklin 53.

We had a few hang-ups / issues / delays with M on the pre-site phase, however, construction-wise no complaints. We live close enough to visit the lot daily and can definitely see progress on a day to day basis. I gather the slab and framing goes up pretty quickly anyway.

stoff17

Aug 12, 2018
8:37 pm

Hey guys, I might join in on the conversation too if you guys don’t mind.
First of all dunkintoo, I think “p” means problematic by memory off my soil test but don’t quote me on that, it was a long time since I looked.
melobious Our site costs were 31k and we are in Fulham, with no slope and on memory got told we have the best soil you can get. So I don’t get it when you’re in a very active soil. But is what it is.
Also as dunkintoo said, selections will kill you as we thought we were so on top of things waiting 5 years for our adventure to start and still blew 1000’s of dollars. Anyways good luck with everything. Admin = ok but annoying and long. At site, love it

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melobious

Aug 13, 2018
4:22 pm

stoff17

Hey guys, I might join in on the conversation too if you guys don’t mind.
First of all dunkintoo, I think “p” means problematic by memory off my soil test but don’t quote me on that, it was a long time since I looked.
melobious Our site costs were 31k and we are in Fulham, with no slope and on memory got told we have the best soil you can get. So I don’t get it when you’re in a very active soil. But is what it is.
Also as dunkintoo said, selections will kill you as we thought we were so on top of things waiting 5 years for our adventure to start and still blew 1000’s of dollars. Anyways good luck with everything. Admin = ok but annoying and long. At site, love it

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Yeah I’m pretty sure we will be shocked when it gets to that point but I’m secretly hoping!! Haha. Will let you all know when we get to there!! Haha the waiting is slowly killing me but since we aren’t ready to build till next year I won’t rush things!

Fulham... isn’t that near the beach? or are you at Fullarton? We are near to the foothills so that may have something to do with it!

I will go check out your thread!! Hehe I love following people’s journeys and seeing the end result!

stoff17

Aug 13, 2018
10:28 pm

melobious

stoff17

Hey guys, I might join in on the conversation too if you guys don’t mind.
First of all dunkintoo, I think “p” means problematic by memory off my soil test but don’t quote me on that, it was a long time since I looked.
melobious Our site costs were 31k and we are in Fulham, with no slope and on memory got told we have the best soil you can get. So I don’t get it when you’re in a very active soil. But is what it is.
Also as dunkintoo said, selections will kill you as we thought we were so on top of things waiting 5 years for our adventure to start and still blew 1000’s of dollars. Anyways good luck with everything. Admin = ok but annoying and long. At site, love it

Metricon Franklin 53 modified

Yeah I’m pretty sure we will be shocked when it gets to that point but I’m secretly hoping!! Haha. Will let you all know when we get to there!! Haha the waiting is slowly killing me but since we aren’t ready to build till next year I won’t rush things!

Fulham... isn’t that near the beach? or are you at Fullarton? We are near to the foothills so that may have something to do with it!

I will go check out your thread!! Hehe I love following people’s journeys and seeing the end result!

Our journey was real long and expect admin side to take along time. We took 12 months to get to site. So maybe start a little earlier as it drags and drags. It will be all worth it in the end.
Yes we are in Fulham and it is very close to the beach. Pretty much end of Henley beach road.

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craigo

Aug 13, 2018
10:55 pm

Hi everyone, melobious , stoff17 , dunkintoo !
The more the merrier =

I believe that "p" class sites are problem sites. Ours was "p" class due to the removal of many trees and it is a knock down rebuild site. Our soil was class "E-D" extremely reactive.

We first did selections just before xmas and only finished them a month ago. Our pre-site manager Adrian has been amazing. No task is too little or too big for him. No question left unanswered.

We never knew what we were going to spend on upgrades. We knew what we wanted and we knew there was going to be quite a cost associated with that. I picked the most expensive upgrades and worked backwards from there. Tried to find value in lots of things I would like completed before handover rather than having to run around after handover.

We have just received loan approval, waiting on abolishment of services and demo that is booked in on the 30th of August.
M want to be on site by the 14th of September. Cannot wait to get started.

melobious

Aug 14, 2018
2:17 pm

Yay!!! It’s all happening! Can’t wait to see the progress

stoff17

Aug 14, 2018
3:42 pm

Hahaha. Well that’s great news and when you say Adrian, are you talking about Adrian Newlands? He was our pre site manager too. He was great and helped at any moment. Great bloke. Very thorough

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dunkintoo

Aug 14, 2018
11:27 pm

Exciting times.

Congratulations!

Look forward to reading about your build progress.

melobious

Aug 31, 2018
3:10 pm

Demo done???? Was thinking bout you yesterday!!

craigo

Aug 31, 2018
3:35 pm

Demo time. Fence up a week early and then day 1 completed today.

craigo

Oct 09, 2018
6:22 pm