Browse Forums Building A New House Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommendation 8Jun 14, 2019 5:04 pm Reiri36 Thanks for the responses everyone. @Stanis I went through all 50 pages of vuster’s post and it was very useful! I went and saw the La Pyrenee 68 which is 878k base and the display was $1.68m which is over budget which is why we’re considering Bordeaux 59. We’re mainly focused on getting nice floor and wall tiles, carpet upgrade, and stone kitchen bench tops. Not too fussed on wall paper / different paint colours and small features or cabinetry so was hoping that would cut costs a bit. We plan to go with a basic gas Burner & oven. I’m not sure if cooling and heating is included in the base price? If not would have to account for that too, and possibly upgrade so it can be controlled individually in every room. We were thinking about 150-200k in upgrades + site cost to be within budget, any thoughts? Doulton777 Do you mind me asking how much your build was total? Thanks! Our total cost was $860,000. That’s just for the house. Not the land. I believe heating is included. It only cost more if you have zoning. Or if you update the heater to have heating and cooling. We just did the 4 zoning and just got evap cooling. Also we upgraded the heater to 6 stars viewtopic.php?t=86597 Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 9Jun 14, 2019 5:13 pm Thank you! That’s not bad actually, I’m assuming that’s not including site costs (was told that it’s roughly 50-100k)? I had a quick skim at your thread just now and think I’m going to have to binge read it when I get home tonight to get some ideas Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 10Jun 14, 2019 5:26 pm Reiri36 Thank you! That’s not bad actually, I’m assuming that’s not including site costs (was told that it’s roughly 50-100k)? I had a quick skim at your thread just now and think I’m going to have to binge read it when I get home tonight to get some ideas Bear in mind Doulton 777 completed their house a while back and contract signed much earlier.. Between mid 2017 and 2019, Prices has gone up by quite a lot. Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 11Jun 14, 2019 5:42 pm Reiri36 Thank you! That’s not bad actually, I’m assuming that’s not including site costs (was told that it’s roughly 50-100k)? I had a quick skim at your thread just now and think I’m going to have to binge read it when I get home tonight to get some ideas Haha go for it. Yes including site cost. Base price was $444,000. This was in 2016. On new land. And that was including the extension. We thought it was a reasonable price too. viewtopic.php?t=86597 Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 12Jun 14, 2019 5:50 pm Yep, we just went through costs with a base + promo pack and air con on the 59 sq Somerset at 875k, probably around 900 after final upgrades. It seems like the price has increased quite a bit, considering you got a whooping 67 squares on a similar style! I’m very jealous haha. Did you try to haggle at all (or get any free additions) after the final price came out for everything you wanted included? Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 13Jun 14, 2019 6:05 pm Reiri36 Yep, we just went through costs with a base + promo pack and air con on the 59 sq Somerset at 875k, probably around 900 after final upgrades. It seems like the price has increased quite a bit, considering you got a whooping 67 squares on a similar style! I’m very jealous haha. Did you try to haggle at all (or get any free additions) after the final price came out for everything you wanted included? No not really. We didn’t think too be be honest. Because we thought it was a great price with everything we got. I believe the extension came in at $80,000. But we got freebies during the build. And because m left some things out. They had to pay for it. So we did get a few thousands worth. The Somerset was one of my favourites too. But the doulton stairs won us over. It is metricon biggest job on new land in over 40 years we were told. So metricon treated it like their baby. They even had csr install the hebel. My ss was the best. I even told metricon his an asset to them. Don’t know if that got him promoted. But after my house they moved him to framing Supervisor. He was an awesome guy. Very humbling and attentive. Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 14Jun 14, 2019 6:36 pm That’s great to hear! From what I’ve read some SS can be terrible My dads super worried about extra hidden costs after we have a total cost set (everything including upgrades) cause we’re really pushing our budget atm (with $1m for land costs). He was just telling me about - oh what if they say there’s some issues with plumbing/pipes to your site and end up charging an extra few thousand etc. here and there. Did you experience any of this? Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 15Jun 14, 2019 6:40 pm Reiri36 That’s great to hear! From what I’ve read some SS can be terrible My dads super worried about extra hidden costs after we have a total cost set (everything including upgrades) cause we’re really pushing our budget atm (with $1m for land costs). He was just telling me about - oh what if they say there’s some issues with plumbing/pipes to your site and end up charging an extra few thousand etc. here and there. Did you experience any of this? We did get $11,000 extra for site cost. Because neighbours build on the fence line. So they had to move the house across. Which then bought it closer to the other neighbours who also had their easement there. So they had to put 60 piers in. So yeah there can be extra cost that does come up. viewtopic.php?t=86597 Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 17Jun 17, 2019 2:31 am Hi $900k is a good price for a good home with all the good upgrades. Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 18Jun 17, 2019 3:03 am Renman we did some calculations and it’s roughly $940k total for it done with pretty good upgrades (carpet, floorboards, 60/40mm benchtops, tiles etc). I think this is pretty good for the quality we’ll get. I’m not sure how much extra we’d be spending on the landscaping, driveway and fencing though. Not too sure on how much they cost. If anyone has rough figures for landscaping etc that’d be great. Contacts would be awesome Re: Metricon thoughts&Bordeaux 59 (Melb) &builder recommenda 19Jun 17, 2019 5:01 pm Reiri36 @Renman we did some calculations and it’s roughly $940k total for it done with pretty good upgrades (carpet, floorboards, 60/40mm benchtops, tiles etc). I think this is pretty good for the quality we’ll get. I’m not sure how much extra we’d be spending on the landscaping, driveway and fencing though. Not too sure on how much they cost. If anyone has rough figures for landscaping etc that’d be great. Contacts would be awesome What ever you planned for landscaping, double it. DM if you want to discuss price estimation. Our landscaping bill will be close to $230k. Hi, This is my first post. We are planning to buy new home via House and Land (H&L) Package around Boxhill/Gables/Marsden Park in Syndey. Googled reviews for most of… 0 10507 Very good points. Thanks so much ponzutwo for your advice. 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