Browse Forums Building A New House Re: How to decide on a builder?? 24Aug 13, 2015 8:43 pm Coastalbreeze1 Check out my link below it has a plan on the first page. We made the deck deeper by 1m, added extra window and bigger sliding doors to living, switched ensuite around and moved entrance to rumpus, moved linen cupboard and added an extra one, higher garage door to get ute in, gable on the roof changed layout of wir to get a window in. That's it for the major stuff I think:-) If you go with coral be prepared for things to take a while. Thank you. You mentioned coral take a while?? Why? Re: How to decide on a builder?? 25Aug 13, 2015 8:51 pm Head office are just backed up at the moment and it takes about 4 weeks to get changes back. the staff are flat chat. We have had issues with the changes not being done correctly but when we finally got it sorted when we went down to the colour appointment which was good. If you check out llomas thread he has had an awesome run but made minimal changes. Re: How to decide on a builder?? 26Aug 13, 2015 8:52 pm If you don't make many changes you can get an express contract which is supposed to speed things up. Re: How to decide on a builder?? 29Aug 30, 2015 7:12 pm Well we are still looking. Im meeting with planbuild and Hald (house and land design) this week. Has anyone built with either of these companies. So many things to remember to ask. Does anyone have a checklist they used during the quote process? Ive thought about doing an excel sheet to compare, but havent got to it yet. I thought this would be a popular question but I haven't been able to find any similar posts. Perhaps I'm wording my searches wrong? When you have car insurance and the… 0 7115 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 22422 I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 16721 |