Hi Everyone,
We are new to the forum and are just about to start building our new home.
We considered to go with the builder, then after talking to few we were thinking about getting a builder to build to lock up stage only but after completing the owner building course provided by home base expo and reading through the forum (which was a great help - many thanks guys for sharing your knowledge and experience!) we have decided to owner build the house. The main reason why we don’t want to go with the builder is that we don’t want to be limited by the specs provided and we do want to have full control over the planning and construction process.
We don’t have much experience but have renovated our present home on our own and learnt a lot during the process so we are hoping we will be able to pull this through. It is a scary feeling to look at our empty land and think that we are about to take full responsibility of how this place will look like two years from now but at the same time we are very excited and ready to invest all our time and effort to build our dream home.
I guess the big challenge will be to find contractors that you can trust with building your home. We were thinking of joining the owner builder network to be able to access the data base of the recommended contractors, but if any of you would be willing to provide us with contact details of tradies that did a good job on your home that will be very much appreciated. In return we can help with your landscaping needs as my wife is a registered landscape architect.
We are planning to share our OB experience on this forum and hopefully it will be helpful to some of you.
Thanks
K&K