Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Is this normal - Designing a kitchen with builders? 8Jun 24, 2014 1:31 pm mwccl When they sent you to a 3rd party mob, did the 3rd party actually drew the designs and help you with the sizes of cabinets/drawers? Yep, it was all done pen-and-paper while we were there, but the end-result was a CAD diagram with dimensions etc. Same deal (with the same person) for bathroom furniture (we're getting tallboys for extra storage, which meant redesigning the standard vanities) and also the laundry cabinet. Re: Is this normal - Designing a kitchen with builders? 9Jun 24, 2014 2:06 pm Our builder had an allowance for the kitchen, but the actual kitchen (and laundry and bathrooms) design and costings was done by the cabinet maker (3rd party) with our consultation. The cabinet maker used the sketches we gave him, drew them up properly, and gave us advice for sizes and so on. Re: Is this normal - Designing a kitchen with builders? 10Jun 24, 2014 2:35 pm What I meant by taking exposed shelves out was that underneath the vanity part of it was exposed shelves and we preferred drawers. Re: Is this normal - Designing a kitchen with builders? 11Jun 27, 2014 8:18 am With my builder ( clarendon homes ) when we initially signed out first tender the kitchen was no where near what we wanted. The sales guy put an allowance in the tender for us. No changes like draws were made at this stage. Couple months down the track once contracts were signed etc we had our appointment with the kitchen company. This is where we spent hours changing this and that( of course at a cost ) and then put ontop of our contract as a variation. Only bad thing was that we handed our contract to our bank only to end up spending 34k extra after kitchen, laundry and internal upgrades. But since I've changed banks with a more accurate price. A lot of people assume that the sales consultants are the ones that change everything. It's a long process but that's how we went through it Re: Is this normal - Designing a kitchen with builders? 12Jun 27, 2014 5:09 pm Thanks for all the replies. Looks like I will be visiting the cabinet makers but do the design myself since they will charge for drawing the plans up. I guess that's the "cons" of building with a volume builder. Hi Stefcep Thank you so much for your advice. We normally allow for 54 bricks per square meter but somehow by the time we add all the sand, cement, lintels and labour… 119 168778 Legend, it does. I figured it will be hard to get quotes anyway since it's not for an actual job but a comparison. Thanks 15 20041 you need a fridgie to answer but I would think you vac the whole system then add gas if you have a leak, unless it is new install with the gas already loaded, in that case… 1 7924 |