Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 08, 2018 9:25 am Hi, We are just about going to receive the tender from the builder. Can we get some information from an item on our estimate? Council zone allowance? Is this a standard charge that we have to pay to the council? So builder charge us and they pay the council? I know it is different from council to council...but I saw some builders charge $3 to $4K for most of the areas that they build. But I have an estimate of $10K for Northern Beaches council. Is this correct? Thanks. Re: KDR - Eden Brae Homes 2Nov 08, 2018 4:44 pm andyscl Hi, We are just about going to receive the tender from the builder. Can we get some information from an item on our estimate? Council zone allowance? Is this a standard charge that we have to pay to the council? So builder charge us and they pay the council? I know it is different from council to council...but I saw some builders charge $3 to $4K for most of the areas that they build. But I have an estimate of $10K for Northern Beaches council. Is this correct? Thanks. It’s the fee that EB will charge you on top of your other costs/inclusions to build in your area Re: KDR - Eden Brae Homes 4Nov 08, 2018 9:30 pm Almost every builder charges a Northern Beaches council loading as they have to pay the tradies more to come here/work here or are from here or so we discovered. Some are $4000, some are $11000 - like everything, where you save on one thing they hit you with another! Don’t forget there is also another charge from the NB council themselves that is a % of your contract - just because!! A couple of thousand here for no reason too Re: KDR - Eden Brae Homes 5Nov 09, 2018 11:34 am Forg Yeah I don't think it's related to the council as much as just the general cost of building there, getting stuff transported there, getting tradies to travel further, etc. EB has already included $6K for moving the material etc in the estimate. Thank you for the information. Re: KDR - Eden Brae Homes 6Nov 09, 2018 11:37 am hezmac Almost every builder charges a Northern Beaches council loading as they have to pay the tradies more to come here/work here or are from here or so we discovered. Some are $4000, some are $11000 - like everything, where you save on one thing they hit you with another! Don’t forget there is also another charge from the NB council themselves that is a % of your contract - just because!! A couple of thousand here for no reason too The other builder mentioned the % contribution that we have to pay to the council. Thank you for the information. Re: KDR - Eden Brae Homes 7Nov 09, 2018 11:38 am Manhattan52 andyscl Hi, We are just about going to receive the tender from the builder. Can we get some information from an item on our estimate? Council zone allowance? Is this a standard charge that we have to pay to the council? So builder charge us and they pay the council? I know it is different from council to council...but I saw some builders charge $3 to $4K for most of the areas that they build. But I have an estimate of $10K for Northern Beaches council. Is this correct? Thanks. It’s the fee that EB will charge you on top of your other costs/inclusions to build in your area Thanks for the information I built with EB back on 2009. Check out this thread on this forum. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12911&p=154061#p154061 I can't speak for recent expericience however, we had no… 1 23290 Hi, I am looking into doing a KDR in Melbourne and am contemplating using Kialla Homes. I am looking for feedback on them from others who have built with them. 0 13444 |