Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Owner Build House - Denham Court 21Jul 08, 2019 11:42 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Owner Build House - Denham Court 26Jul 09, 2019 6:08 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Owner Build House - Denham Court 31Jul 18, 2019 5:25 pm Looking good on the concrete finish. Geez you must have put in some serious amount of concrete into your foundations and pool base. How have you found the owner build side of it so far? We considered it, but as we are only to this region to be honest I didn’t know any trades (or people in general!) to be confident. So we went with a ‘small volume’ local builder. We have our own key during the build and with their permission we have done some minor things ourselves, but overall the way I look at it is we are paying these guys a premium to access their long term trades. At least we know their quality controls are pretty good etc. But yeah I would have enjoyed being more involved throughout the whole project, so maybe one day I will have the courage to do an owner build like you. Good luck with it anyhow. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: Owner Build House - Denham Court 32Jul 18, 2019 6:41 pm darb74 Looking good on the concrete finish. Geez you must have put in some serious amount of concrete into your foundations and pool base. How have you found the owner build side of it so far? We considered it, but as we are only to this region to be honest I didn’t know any trades (or people in general!) to be confident. So we went with a ‘small volume’ local builder. We have our own key during the build and with their permission we have done some minor things ourselves, but overall the way I look at it is we are paying these guys a premium to access their long term trades. At least we know their quality controls are pretty good etc. But yeah I would have enjoyed being more involved throughout the whole project, so maybe one day I will have the courage to do an owner build like you. Good luck with it anyhow. Thanks. I'm lucky I have a few friends in the trade who have recommended others that I needed. It's not easy. Like most people say you need time to be owner builder. I get to be more hands on change things on the go which is good. As for the foundations I had around 95 piers all went to shale. We went around 2.5 metres deep around the pool. I made sure this house will last me as it will be our family home. I'm also lucky my wife's uncle is a builder and his son is an engineer so nobody can't cut corners cause I have them to overlook at stages. Knock on wood so far so good. My first home we were ready to do owner builder but couldn't get the funds from the bank so had to go with a builder. At least I got to see each process and got to see how bad the workmanship was. It's hard with non custom builders to find good tradies as they don't pay them enough to care about the work. Keep the numbers from the tradies that do good work for future reference. Re: Owner Build House - Denham Court 37Jul 31, 2019 2:20 pm Hi Tony Angievski, Looking at your front door sill, is that some form of 'capillary break' sitting under your bottom plates there? I am assuming the black stuff to the right there (under the bottom plates) is a DPC? Reason I ask is our builder didn't install anything under the external wall bottom plates, and my logic now would be to add something there to totally avoid any possibility of moisture making its way up from the concrete to the timber framing. Anyhow progress and quality looking good. Cheers --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: Owner Build House - Denham Court 38Jul 31, 2019 2:38 pm darb74 Hi Tony Angievski, Looking at your front door sill, is that some form of 'capillary break' sitting under your bottom plates there? I am assuming the black stuff to the right there (under the bottom plates) is a DPC? Reason I ask is our builder didn't install anything under the external wall bottom plates, and my logic now would be to add something there to totally avoid any possibility of moisture making its way up from the concrete to the timber framing. Anyhow progress and quality looking good. Cheers Hi darb it's actually a termite barrier. Re: Owner Build House - Denham Court 40Oct 20, 2019 1:48 pm Been a while since I posted. Here is an updated photo of where I'm at It's all rendered getting painted on Tuesday. Front door in 2 weeks same as garage door. Should be at lockup soon. I used cladding on the outside called masterwall. 150mm thick screwed straight into the stud. One of the most energy efficiency things you could get. That with my double glazed windows never have to run the aircon. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I've filled, levelled and compacted around 100mm of roadbase in preparation to lay some outdoor court tiles. Prior to doing the final compaction, I dusted the top with… 0 3044 Sorry but you have a crap builder. Probably too late now. For our last build I only spoke to builders who would allow me easy access (at no cost). I used my own sparky… 10 9820 If so what were the "special circumstances" under which it was granted? "Note: If the development consent is for 'dual occupancy' an owner-builder permit can only be… 0 14070 |