Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Things you arranged outside of the builder 6Dec 13, 2020 8:30 am Problem with flooring is that the builder will quote carpets and they will be the cheapest they could find. There is a lot of choice from expensive timber to engineered timber, stick-together hybrid planks, glued vinyl planks, tiles and "stones". Once you know what you want, you can ask the builder to quote and a retailer to quote with the precise area and model no. It took us a long time to know what we wanted and we stuck to 6.5mm timber-look-alike hybrid planks with a 1.5mm plastic underlay. Cost of about $8,000 or about $56/m2. Trevor's Carpet in Perth wanted to be paid in full on the day BEFORE installation as people no longer pay up after losing jobs and legislation allows defaulters to keep the carpet, so they did not get my job, besides, once told of a competitors quote, they dropped the cost by $10/m2. "but certainly not to the extend of $85,000" - Certainly not chump change 5 18063 ![]() It will require using dowels to connect the brick columns with the existing main building brick N12 at 400mm and same for column footing if not connected to main building… 4 4800 IMO it's like russian roulette with volume builders. Even with custom builders its extremely hard. Listen to undercover architect podcast. She has a few episodes on volume… 4 10518 |