Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 3Jan 14, 2014 4:35 pm My build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68002 Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 4Jan 14, 2014 7:46 pm Build Permit-17/12/13 Earthworks-13/1/14 Slab-30/1/14 Frame-10/2/14 Lock Up-7/3/14 Fixing Stage Complete-20/3/14 New Home Presentation-6/5/14 Moved in 17/5/14! Blog: http://dandesbuild.blogspot.com.au Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 6Jan 14, 2014 9:03 pm Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 14Jan 15, 2014 11:21 am Burnsfirsttime We want to upgrade to full house acrylic render - $11000 (Don't think that is going to happen now!) We upgraded our tiles from standard - the cost $10 more than the builders allowance and are 300 x 300 instead of 200 x 200 - the cost of that is going to be $7000 for the 3 bathrooms and laundry room. Very annoying!! They really try to rip you for every cent when you upgrade things! We wanted to upgrade from a 900mm under beanch oven to two 600mm under bench ovens and they wanted to charge us $2500 more! Again it got scratched off the list. When I build again it will be owner builder so that I can actually put in the things I want and not be ripped off just because I made a change. OMG... How big you are building house? Bunch of villas? Who is your builder!!! Upgrading tiles to bathroom 7k? Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 15Jan 15, 2014 12:01 pm All the upgrade and slice of the pie prices these building company makes out of you pushed me in to owner build. 31500 litre Taylex water tank was going to be charged to me by one building company $10700 including the pump. I have just paid $4750 delivered and put in the hole for exactly the same tank. It would have cost an extra $2000 for them to dig the hole and put the gravel in the bottom of it. Tank goes in next week. Anyway, back to your question. I would see if you or your own sparky could be let on to the site to put in cabling to extra power points that you get your sparky to hook up after handover time. You can generally run power cable all through your house as long as you don't connect it up. Been through a lot of display homes, and you often find just one power point in a room, which in these days of tablets and smartphones, simply isn't enough. Double GPO's is a no brainer, who puts in a single outlet, as there's no saving. Kitchen and bedroom tables might pay to get one of those new double GPO's with USB charging built in. Whilst talking electrically, and if you have the garage under the roof, consider having a inside circuit breaker board in the garage. Leave the meter box for the meters, which means you'd only need the smaller size meter box outside. Double glaze your north and west windows, or at least use the Low-E glass. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 16Jan 15, 2014 12:13 pm Most volume builders do not include eaves as standard, except maybe at the front as part of the facade. Ours cost about $3500 but it was well worth it, keeps the midday summer sun off the windows, also stops the house looking wierd. Too many houses have no eaves and just look cheap. Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 17Jan 15, 2014 2:39 pm Excellent information being shared here guys. Just a note on the powerpoint thing here. I work with a bunch of sparkies and we were chatting away about it. Came up with the thought of if your smart the way you lay out the powerpoints you can add extras on the other side of the wall with no real trouble. So if your smart with your positioning you can save yourself some money later on. Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 18Jan 15, 2014 2:50 pm Best thing we did was raise our ceiling to 2740mm at a cost of $2,709. Very good value from Fairhaven Homes. Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 19Jan 15, 2014 9:06 pm Just signed our contract a couple days after the building company took over 3 months to get the final costings back to us...our base house was 168, 900...current costings are 271,000...which still doesn't include (what I assume are going to be large costings) for floor coverings/window coverings/driveway/fencing/path around perimeter of house/shed Our major costings were: 1 ducted air con...costing 13300 2 ceiling fans...2700 3 extra foundation for bad soil rating...17000 4 underground drainage...which you think would be included in price...3500 5 adding extra bedroom/extending porch...6000 6 higher ceilings to 2550mm...3800 (wanted 2700mm but would have been around 8000) 7 brickwork above windows/garage instead of FC cladding...1200 8 extra bathroom...8700 9 grey toned glass to all windows...1000 10 internal cavity sliding doors...400 each 11 extra cupboard along rear garage wall...1500 (going to be so worth this cost) 12 broom cupboard...500 13 built in pantry...2700 14 glass splashbacks in kitchen...1500 15 2 x wide pot draws...280 (so worth it) 16 extra kitchen cupboards...1700 17 extra cupboards in laundry...2100 18 2 stoves instead of 1 included...additional 1100 19 shower niches...500 x 2 20 13 extra powerpoints 780 21 extra lights/switches/fan & heater lights in bathrooms...2500 22 external sensor lights...600 23 extra 2kw solar panal...3900 24 safety screens on all windows/doors...3200 Luckily...although not so sure I was lucky having 100 grand extra costs (with the other major costings still to come)..I had read the valuable thread about what not to miss before signing the contract...so many of these items we would not have even thought of...so we are very thankful to have come across it before signing the contract...so needless to say...we are definitely going to be spending quite abit more than we had originally budgeted...but hopefully we will be happy with the finished product...fingers crossed...oh...and that we win the lottery to help with the extra expenses! Re: Upgrade Costs - What did you change and what did it cost 20Jan 16, 2014 7:12 am ugbug Most volume builders do not include eaves as standard, except maybe at the front as part of the facade. Maybe it depends where you are? All the companies we considered did. In Sydney there's been a moving project-home village called Homeworld, because they're showing-off their latest they sell-up and build another one every ... well it seems like maybe every 5-7 years. Anyway, we went to look at the previous one maybe 4 years ago just before it shut down, and there were plenty of homes there without eaves - but the current one has few houses without eaves unless they're trying to "get fancy" with an unusual design which doesn't really suit eaves. batey_1020 Could you tell me what the actual price of it was? I was looking at a colorbond shed 2 bay being constructed separately for around $10,000. Maybe its worth having the 2 car garage added to the main house. We originally wanted to have a big single garage; but the rules we're building to meant our house would have to have been reduced by the size of the garage, due to land:floorspace ratio issues. But the separate 2nd garage sort-of got around that. Cost? You could get it done more cheaply afterwards, we just want it all done at once & less stuffing-around in mud for 2 years after the builders have finished. It's got 3.8m internal height & the slab's engineered for a 2-post hoist & it's got a ceiling & has 3-phase so it's costing us ~$45k ... we had estimates between ~$25k & ~$35k from salespeople for other builders (but they weren't taking the extra height into account). Quote: It really surprises me that the aus building code doesn't have double glazing as standard these days given the massive benefit. Actually, double-glazing isn't that much more expensive, and it doesn't seem to give you that much benefit over the top of decent single-glazed with the right treatments/coatings/whatever. We're getting thermally-separated frames though, apparently if the frame inside is the same piece of metal as the frame outside it's the frames which "leak" the most temperature with aluminium. My wife prefers the look of aluminium to wood & neither of us like the maintenance/repairs involved with wood; but wood does a better job of insulation than aluminium if you don't specifically go for thermally-separate aluminium frames. 5 11207 2 3138 Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 8629 |