Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 34Oct 23, 2017 12:46 pm Mojitostan Thanks L The tender is taking 3 weeks and with $6k price rise .. will be fun negotiating with the if we go ahead Stan Just don't rush into it. Unfortunately, they will keep putting the prices up every six months and they will have no problem telling you this to pressure you. The other costs we incurred were for additional piering, additional drop edge beams, removal of 3 trucks of soil, plumbing cost to connect water from property to the street (this is the owner's cost), hydraulics engineer. If for some reason you are in a Flood Zone, you will be required by Ryde Council to substantially raise the height of your home. You need to ask the builder to show you, at your place, where your floor level will be. We are not in a flood zone, but our house was raised more than we knew. I wish we had asked someone to come out and show us exactly where the floor level was going to be before we signed off on the plans. If your house has to be raised, the cost will be significant due to drop edge beams, piering and additional landscaping. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 35Oct 25, 2017 6:00 pm Thanks Tara We have now accepted the render and will be going forward to the plan and external stage. Did you upgrade your ceiling to 2.7 m ?? If so is your rear stalker door increased to 2.4 m like other internal doors to 2340. ..? Can you also share who you use for the hydraulic ? And if you managed to avoid onsite detention ? I Am also decide if we going to go ahead with terracotta roofing and steel frames. Decisions decisions Stan Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 36Oct 26, 2017 11:44 am on site detention depend on the hydraulic engineer calculation on the roof area and the rainfall of your area. it is hard to argue if it is require. AC leave this to the owner to deal with the hydraulic engineer. You have to pay for the design. Rainwater tank can be use for the purpose and will end up bigger capacitive tanks, My one is 10K litre sit on the backyard. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 37Oct 26, 2017 12:43 pm Thanks L I don’t mind onsite if it frees up my side given we are going with CDC SO HAVE 2.6 meter side access. ( easier for pool if needed ) Will let you all know how I went later . Can you all share the company and cost for the hydraulic design and report ? AC RECOMMENDED EZE WHICH IS Not too bad for $2200. Stan Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 38Oct 26, 2017 1:03 pm Hydraulic Eng will need your house drawing and the pipe/storm water pipe location for the design. More money to pay for locating the pipes. I also have a 2.5m side access drive so also prefer to put the big water tank at backyard. You need to check if any sewer or water pipe run across your land and that limit where to put the tank. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 39Oct 27, 2017 3:59 pm Mojitostan Thanks Tara We have now accepted the render and will be going forward to the plan and external stage. Did you upgrade your ceiling to 2.7 m ?? If so is your rear stalker door increased to 2.4 m like other internal doors to 2340. ..? Can you also share who you use for the hydraulic ? And if you managed to avoid onsite detention ? I Am also decide if we going to go ahead with terracotta roofing and steel frames. Decisions decisions Stan Hi, yes we had the Easybuild package which included the higher ceilings. I think it's 2.6m. We have the double stacker doors in the back, but the height of those doors are standard. The other internal doors are higher. We also opted to go for the front door lower than the one that came with the package. The reason was that I didn't want the taller front door was because it was mainly made of glass. All the tall doors in their range were mainly glass. We got the solid timber door, same width, I think it's 2100 high but with the 4 glass panels in it. We used Ezy Hydraulic and I actually found him very good and very quick. Thankfully we didn't need the onsite dentention. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 40Oct 27, 2017 4:04 pm LevaneT Hydraulic Eng will need your house drawing and the pipe/storm water pipe location for the design. More money to pay for locating the pipes. I also have a 2.5m side access drive so also prefer to put the big water tank at backyard. You need to check if any sewer or water pipe run across your land and that limit where to put the tank. We put our rainwater tank, hot water and airconditioning unit all on the same side. That way it freed up one side completely for us. We are lucky though as we have 2 metres on one side and over 3 metres on the other side. We had to come in 3 metres from one side as we are on a corner block and also required to have the side articulated which cost around another $4,000. Hi we are looking to talk to people who have built with them recently. We have signed mid range built contract but identified that a lot of things are not included.… 0 1740 Was the offer also on their website? If so, you could check the Wayback Machine. 1 1807 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 109681 |