Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Selecting a Builder - Rawson high upfront site costs 2Sep 22, 2019 10:02 pm Canberra knockdown rebuild https://the35thweek.blogspot.com Re: Selecting a Builder - Rawson high upfront site costs 9Oct 01, 2019 10:41 pm Thanks for sharing your experience Huhness. So, we finally had our tender presentation at Rawson's main office in Rhodes yesterday. Pretty confronting. the additional site cost ended up being $100K. Sales quoted $130K. That was a relief. They do quote for the worst-case scenario. This included the stormwater allowance, additional H1 slab, tiger tails, electrical pole, etc. So much additional cost that you can't see adding value to your home Going through CDC to hopefully shorten the approval process. There are a few restrictions but we're willing to compromise. We had a minor issue on the siting as the alfresco side extension we opted for could not fit the inward tapered nature of our block. Looking at options to see how we can extend it to the back instead of the side. We did pile as much stuff in the tender and Rawson said we can augment the internals as required on succeeding appointments once the approvals are sent through. What I'm finding encouraging about the Rawson process is that they present you with a capped price and provide allowances for certain things based on similar previous builds. If it goes over their allowance, they'll wear the cost and if it ended up being less, we get it back as credit. Fair deal. So far so good. I am not sure whether Perth has its own way of doing things in regards to this. Most of Perth has class A (sandy soil), except for some areas near rivers or hills. 2 13053 Is anyone building with Mojo and have a recent site cost tender 0 15929 Henley should give you some indication of site costs. Too many variable to give you any reasonable accuracy 1 1839 |