Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building house on the boundary - SOLVED 21Jul 16, 2013 1:43 pm Hi all thanks for your input! If not for your inputs, I wouldnt have chased it to the admin manager... Now everything is solved. I got a call from the admin manager that it will only cost us $704 to move the garage wall to the boundary as opposed to 6k... I dont know where my admin got the $6000 and I got no explanation and i cant be bothered to ask for an explanation... I cant imagine if I have so much money and agreed to $6000, I would have lost more than 5k. Re: Building house on the boundary 22Jul 16, 2013 2:11 pm OH MY GOODNESS! Congratulations!!!! That is fabulous news ______________________________________________________________________ Signed up Jan 2013........Almost done! My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65763 Re: Building house on the boundary 24Jul 16, 2013 4:02 pm That's great news! But a little worrying that they were quite happy to charge you the $6000 if they thought you wouldn't question it. Good on you for pushing it. Re: Building house on the boundary 25Jul 16, 2013 8:35 pm Great news and well done. This isn't completely unusual though and is just another reason why these forums are so useful. Odd costs crop up in many of our tenders and only get sorted out if you really make a fuss. We had a few of these. The best one related to some doors which cost around three times what we anticipated. Nobody could explain why until I finally managed to get their estimator on the phone. Between the two of us we worked out that they were all custom sizes instead of pre-fab, which was much more expensive. We adjusted them back by a few mm and suddenly there was a few grand extra in our budget! HD Re: Building house on the boundary 26Jul 17, 2013 2:19 pm Glad to hear it got sorted out, you must be so relieved now! Lurgen, we are in a similar situation now - if we could have a 5 minute conversation with someone who knows what they are doing we could sort out our issues straight away, but going back and forth between so many people its so time consuming and almost impossible to get the complete picture of what we're asking! Re: Building house on the boundary 27Jul 29, 2013 10:35 am Our builder did similar things, claimed we couldn't do things then I came on this forum after signing the contract to see other people building the same house plan wtih the same builder doing things we were told we coulnd't, I think it is laziness on the sales rep side of things, they can't be bothered so they say they can't do that. You should be able to encase the sewer but you will need it designed and approved and access to lot 580 to do the work 2 17138 Hello, We are about to build and the plans show a part of the exterior wall is being built on top of a limestone retaining wall. Does this mean the retaining wall will… 0 6949 thanks Chippy, i hope they have applied sealer but i am doubt to be honest, so i am gonna do this job after handover. 8 16228 |