Browse Forums Building A New House Re: First Quote - Questions and Feedback :) 4May 20, 2014 9:19 am Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: First Quote - Questions and Feedback :) 5May 20, 2014 12:46 pm My Noosa 23 Build - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72782 Re: First Quote - Questions and Feedback :) 6May 20, 2014 3:46 pm Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: First Quote - Questions and Feedback :) 8May 20, 2014 9:53 pm J&J Building our Home on The Coast. Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=55601 No longer our dream it's our reality!!! Re: First Quote - Questions and Feedback :) 9May 21, 2014 4:57 am 11.01.2014 Land contract signed and holding deposit paid 28.03.2014 Land unconditional 07.04.2014 Signed New Home Proposal with Adenbrook Re: First Quote - Questions and Feedback :) 11May 21, 2014 10:32 am missmorgan Hi, We are also building on an acre in QLD. We too are on trickle feed water and needed at 31,500L water tank and HSTP system. The builder quoted us $25,000 for both of these. We went straight to the supplier Quality Tanks and he has quoted us $13,500 fully installed. The only thing to be careful of when moving your house back is the service costs. I doubt that it will only cost a few hundred. We were very surprised at how much extra we have to pay ins service cost and we are only the standard 15m back off the road (the builder standard is 6m). I think we have close to an extra $7000 in service costs for being further back than standard and to get all our HSTP and tank connections done. Yes, yet another example of these building companies profiteering out of sub contracting costs. Like what was the real cost that they had to pass on to you, $13500 plus 25c for a phone call, another 25c for a fax, yet they make $11499.50 profit. You wouldn't mind them making a few bucks out of it, say anything up to $2000 max, but not what they're making out of it. HSTP connections should cost you no more than regular connections because your house is further up the block, as that's all the same distance from the house, and if these cookie cutter builders say different then they're just gouging you (unless the ground conditions are a lot different between street level and house level). I did mention earlier that services will cost a lot more than a few hundred dollars to go further up the block. In our case electricity to go from the road up 100m to the house cost us just on $3000. That was with 3 phase 35mm2 aluminium cable which was paralleled so we effectively got 70mm2 capacity on single phase. We supplied the trench, but trenching cost won't be much more than someone 15m from the road, as the equipment travelling time has already been covered. Worst case, $100 per hour, would normally take no more than an hour, just say 2 hours... $200 extra for the trench. Mind you I got several quotes for the electrical connection, one was just shy of $7000, but that was 70mm2 copper, and others were in the low to mid $4000 region. Phone cables go in the same trench, but if you're in a NBN area get them to lay the fibre from the street at the same time as the trench is done... if that's not possible, get the Telstra 20mm conduit (which is really 25mm white conduit) with 'telstra' rope inside it so they can pull it through.... telstra rope is also called Parramatta rope as it is blue and yellow. You can get a 400m spool for around $70, and use the extra for anything. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . hey there! 😊 so, it’s kinda common for standard drawer depths to be around 500mm since most cabinets use this size to fit the usual runners… 3 21610 I was being kind to the builder. With the amount charged for the upgrade the builder is probably charging closer to 100% margin. There are a few variables as I… 5 14798 |