Browse Forums Building A New House Re: New Build with Henley ( Palace Q1) 138Oct 03, 2016 9:18 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: New Build with Henley ( Palace Q1) 140Oct 04, 2016 10:23 am Mclaren77 stayxtrue How much in extras did you end up adding to your house? Ours is already up towards the 70k mark! that isnt including flooring! We are doing this after hand over Well I think we did ok, 65k from the base price being $287000. We were really happy with the plan of the house and didn't do any structural changes except extend width of garage. We are doing carpet upstairs and tiling to flooring only downstairs after handover. We've been quoted for porcelain tiles $3500 ( no labour, our friend will help us with this, as he is a tiler) and carpet $8800 supplied and fitted with premium underlay. Our cousin is a concreter which will help us with driveway etc and my husband has done all of our CCTV and data cabling! We are fortunate as we've helped a lot of people with their builds and now they are happy to return the favour! We will also do cooling after handover through another friend. I do suggest anyone needing carpet or tiles to go through Western Distributors in Melbourne! They have a great range at great prices. Oh wow the base price of the house has gone up a fair bit then! When did you sign up for it? I suppose the other question is were your site costs reasonable? I am hoping henley allow me to lay all of my ethernet cabling as well, how did you go about organizing this with your SS Hi, If you give a set of criteria as to what means 'good' to you, it'll give others prompts to respond. We considered Henley early on but there were two factors that… 1 12751 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 19849 A person needs to be licensed to offer financial advice. Surely the accountant you use would have been chosen for his/her expertise in this field. Have you asked your… 1 7231 |