Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Porter Davis price increase 3Jul 02, 2017 8:39 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 9Jan 08, 2018 8:07 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 11Jan 08, 2018 8:29 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 13Jan 08, 2018 9:13 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 17Jan 10, 2018 11:05 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Porter Davis price increase 18Jan 11, 2018 8:20 am StructuralBIMGuy Trades get paid the same rates irrespective of the builders size. If I am not working next month I will consider dropping my rates. Large builders get bigger manufacturers rebates but they rarely get passed on to the consumer. I would say your balcony price was a stuff up.. 60% increase is nonsense that can't be blamed on labour and material increases, it sounds like the salesman, estimator, or someone make an error What you will find larger Builders doing now is loading their order books while waiting for rates to drop. BTW those builds will take years to build. This is exactly what happen in perth, during the last boom cycle Well volume builders can in ways force rates from builders, and the balcony wasn't one I was directly looking at. But it wasn't an error, the price when from ~15k to $25k and has stayed at that price since. Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 81667 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12320 Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 29679 |