Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Sloping AND Narrow inner city build 14Oct 16, 2016 11:01 pm This will be a really cool build to watch. Sloping sites seem to be a huge pain but result in such unique building designs Re: Sloping AND Narrow inner city build 15Oct 19, 2016 5:19 pm Hey Chris! Been a bit busy mate, really glad to see you're going to get this out of the ground. Love to know which builder you ended up choosing. Unfortunate isn't it that sloping blocks are expensive, but reckon your place is going to be cracking. We've decided to go with a single storey split level with the Big M. Still not cheap, but cheaper than our custom would have been. Will eventually do a post on it, just too busy atm. Cheers M Re: Sloping AND Narrow inner city build 16Oct 19, 2016 8:57 pm PVBuild Hey Chris! Been a bit busy mate, really glad to see you're going to get this out of the ground. Love to know which builder you ended up choosing. Unfortunate isn't it that sloping blocks are expensive, but reckon your place is going to be cracking. We've decided to go with a single storey split level with the Big M. Still not cheap, but cheaper than our custom would have been. Will eventually do a post on it, just too busy atm. Cheers M Sounds great mate! I'm going with a local builder who only does custom builds. He literally lives in the next street 5 houses away! Can't get more local than that. Agree it's more expensive but hopefully the views will make it worth it. It wasn't too bad I think we ended up around 16k / square on average. I'm sure you will be fine with the big M. Just make sure you stay on their case with quality and get inspections done at every stage I recon. Small win today. One of the protection works notices was approved by one of the neighbours today. Should be able to get moving soon I hope. Look forward to seeing your build too! Re: Sloping AND Narrow inner city build 17Oct 26, 2016 10:49 pm Alrighty then. Lots of updates this week. We finally found a rental property so family has been busy packing to move out within a few days. Stressful. As. Hell. Am getting more calls from buyers interested who want to salvage stuff from my place which is great. Air conditioning units, oven, Rangehood, dishwasher. It's all going. Had a small setback due to a site issue, so my rear deck requires some minor design tweaks. Plans are being tweaked and engineering will also require a minor update. Hopefully not too much of a setback. Re: Sloping AND Narrow inner city build 18Oct 26, 2016 10:49 pm Oh and the interior designer was appointed today Re: Sloping AND Narrow inner city build 19Oct 29, 2016 8:37 am Good luck with selections - fun as (or not... depending on how much you guys agree on that sort of thing). I hear you with the rental. Stacks of them around, but I have a few solid requirements like they need to accept pets and be near a train station. Am obsessing about it right now. Re: Sloping AND Narrow inner city build 20Nov 07, 2016 8:09 am Ok so we survived the family move to the rental! Stressful but we did it. The removalists were amazing but I still did 20 trips in the car for all the small stuff. Have started salvaging what we can before the demo. Appliances mostly sold just waiting for pickups Demolition looks like it will be early January as I wasn't fast enough to book the demo guys unfortunately so their jobs to the end of the year are already full. Soak wells and electrical run in happening this week! Summit has told me they will relocate the laundry plumbing after the walls are completed. I'm actually pretty happy… 13 36803 Thanks again for this information. If you do hear anything different, would be great to know 4 8941 dimensions on your original plan are inconsistent and with accurate dimensions (including site plan, upstairs and down) i could make a proper scale drawing with furniture… 3 8010 |