Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Builder for slope block in Melbourne 28Apr 27, 2012 7:26 am SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: Builder for slope block in Melbourne 36Feb 13, 2014 2:58 pm Very interesting comments regarding sloping sites. . Sloping sites present opportunities for creative design. Yes it is true that construction costs may be more expensive but this is usually offset by cheaper land because of this. Our suggestion is ALWAYS talk to a competant and qualified desiger. ALWAYS ensure the designer is appropriatly licenced, qualified and carried full insurance. There are many companies "on the net" selling plans or "designs" who are nothing but shopfronts and just subcontract the drafting out to offshore companies. Yes they are cheaper and to the untrained eye the designs may seem OK. But have you wondered what could be done by someone really talented? I employ skilled designers (architects) to do our design work and Qualified, locally trained Drafting Technicians to produce our documents. For the biggest investment in your life why would you want the cheapest plans or design for your new home? HAve you ever taken your wife to McDonalds for her birthday? Re: Builder for slope block in Melbourne 37Feb 14, 2014 4:31 am I agree with your comments. This is one reason I choose the builder I am with now. Off the shelf plans will never really work with blocks with steep slopes anyway. I understand that the basic principle for builders is to finish a house, take the money and life goes on. This is the fact. But how they accomplish this is another story. To add to your comments, as a customer, I also look at how well the builder integrates everything. ie: you can't just have a good designer where he/she can design a perfect house with all the documents sorted and very good communication but no one to build or organize to build the actual house. I think this is more crucial in sloping blocks as the designer really need to know how capable the partner builder and tradies are. Also, doing own research is a good thing too. I spend an average of 1.5 hours every night after I decided to build my house to research on different things for house building. Gaining new knowledge doesn't hurt anyway and sure will help me to get on top of things as there are times even knowledgeable builder can miss something or can use some new suggestions. Re: Builder for slope block in Melbourne 38Jul 12, 2015 1:22 pm I agree Snowing but it did use "to be true" as they say. Once upon a time when people were not so fussy and accepted something less grand, many people (maybe 1000) bought an off the shelf plan such as my old faithful the Splitco D7 which itself brought sales of 200+ People just don't want that anymore though. Re: Builder for slope block in Melbourne 39Aug 16, 2015 11:26 am I would like to say a few words of caution to anyone who is thinking to work with custom home designs (CHD) and Leanne Irvine. In our case, they used a tactic to push out contractual obligations from one stage to the next, asking us to pay upfront for every stage and promising that current stage obligations will be met in a following stage, which in their view was greatly discounted for this reason. The truth was that we never got what we asked for, but quite the opposite. She promised to work with the land and mocked competitor's designs for putting the "house in a ditch", but when we received the drawings from her (the drawings were very undetailed and tried to hide the fact that the house was in the ground). We were left to discover this ourselves (by doing our own modelling of the drawings) and were shocked to see that she put the house in the ground disregarding our main requirement and her own sales ‘pitch’ to us. When CHD was confronted with this fact, they decided to immediately exit the contract for convenience without delivering the contractual obligations and refused to refund our money that we paid upfront. Re: Builder for slope block in Melbourne 40Mar 10, 2017 7:58 pm Hi there, I was just wondering what your site cuts ended up being? And what builder did you end up using? Look forward to hearing back from you Thanks, Hi All, We have recently purchased a sloping block (3.5m fall building envelope, 6m overall). Just wondering if you know of any good builders that you would recommend for… 0 1776 i did click it, still couldnt make it out rofl. in any case, doesnt look like too extreme a slope, you may be in luck. Just shoot out some emails to volume builders in… 3 18572 A survey must’ve completed by a certified surveyor. This form part of every DA requirement 3 223625 |