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 15Jan 15, 2014 12:01 pm 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 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 8627 |