Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14576Mar 15, 2017 9:47 am Buildingabetterhome.blogspot.com.au Land deposit - Oct 14 Deposit - Jan 16 Land registered - June 16 Settlement - July 16 Colour selection and approval -Sept 16 Slab- Nov 16 Frame - Dec 16 Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14577Mar 15, 2017 2:37 pm tecnoz78 Hi there Building my first house. Just want to ask , is it worth taking "Indulgence Package". $22000 Does the things really add up to $22000. Any info will be appreciated. Thanks Tecnoz don't forget that beechwood place their builders margin on top of all the costs from the supplier from contract signing I think it stated 21 or 31% builders margin. So depending on what you wanted it might be easier discussing directly with the trades doing the work. Like talking directly to the tile company etc Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14578Mar 15, 2017 2:41 pm tapasr_Lexia4 Happy to share that we've received our commencement letter stating 10 April as the magic date .... can't wait...I'm pretty sure it will feel like eternity just waiting for it... Hope everyone is well in this crazy weather afternoon.... Great news I bet it's a relief to see some movement.. looking forward to the pictures Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14579Mar 15, 2017 2:44 pm jonesyGT poppet82 jonesyGT What's the average build time for single level? 24 weeks? If so, does this include the 28 day start? I'm after a rough idea of times as we've been dealing with this since September & still nothing has been submitted to council yet. 3 tenders @ 8 to 10 weeks each plus move an air conditioner from the side of the house to the back, 7 weeks. Hopefully this week we will submit. I think council will be 6 to 8 weeks. Gives a finish date around December. it took us about a year with tenders.. yes 6-12 weeks each time any change made. Which council are you with... some people are approved within a month... we have been waiting since November.. I'm guessing you have at least 9 months to go. Been going since September. Blacktown council I think they average 6 weeks. I think 2018 is on the cards. Jonsey you might get lucky prior to Christmas. Beechwood don't like holding over houses but the looks of some prior posting if they are nearly completed due to the risk of something happening over the month shutdown period. Fingers crossed Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14580Mar 15, 2017 2:51 pm braddy_ Does anyone have any recommendations for under cabinet lights in the kitchen for under the high wall cabinets, that do not require the cabinets to have a 'false floor" ? Also, do i need to stipulate the location of the laundry power point? i dont want it to be ground level. We did basic Elec plan at contract and then went to south west electrical in Sydney who are doing the electrical for beechwood in our area and done the electrical plan in detail about a month after contract signing. It was far cheaper than paying the beechwood prices for electrical items. All our heights we chose and were able to move all the points around where we wanted them and anything we wanted added was all done costed and printed on site for us to review. Only thing I can say is do your research prior as they may try to push you in a certian direction when not required. Example being they strongly recommend connecting Fibre throughout the house and from the house to the road for NBN. However there would be no point as it's only copper from the node to the house. Huge money and no gain. Few other things with smoke alarms (we are fire fighters kinda funny debating this one) they advised they needed to replace all the smoke detectors to 12v detectors at another cost. If you go to south west electrical do your research and will save you a packet Even if it's not being sub-divided and you want to keep it as Torrens title, you will still need to talk to a town planner or Council themselves, to see if they will allow… 1 11501 Not unless you have managed to put it as a special condition into the contract somehow. 1 6411 I do enjoy the drama:-D In his latest two videos he has started bringing security guards to site, I am waiting for the punch on to begin lol 6 46051 |