Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8812Jan 08, 2018 6:59 pm ASJ1981 lombieagle Funk52 Hi All, I am planning to build a Majestic 40 with the signature package. At this stage I just have a preliminary estimate from the sales consultant. It seems like even with the signature package there are so many optional upgrades you need to provision for just to ensure you have something which looks good at the end instead of looking unfinished and cheap looking. I now want to try and get as much bang for my buck as possible by doing some things after handover. One thing in particular I'm thinking of is the render / stone cladding to front façade. The Majestic display home in Oran Park has rendering costed at $9k. The stone cladding is POA. All up I'm guessing this will be around the $15k mark. Can much money be saved by doing this afterwards and is it practical to do so? Hi Funk52, We are taking a different approach we are having WH do just about everything, especially that type of essential works. We just want to move in with everything completed and enjoy our new home. To save a small percentage of your contract price to organise and deal with tradesmen, having building material still onsite, etc after you have moved in is it really worth it? Consider occupancy certificate approvals impacts? Good luck! We are of the same opinion too. We opted to include the Daintree Landscaping Package worth $20,500 (take $5,500 Landscaping voucher from Live Boldly Promo) and we have landscaping including driveway, back and front turf, maillbox, plants etc for $15k. It saves me finding landscapers after handover and organising quotes etc etc. We just want as much as possible move in ready and be able to enjoy the new home as well - the driving factor really is not only cost but timing - we are hoping to move in before our daughter's 16th Birthday and hubby's 40th and have the house party ready! Haha! I guess if you must do it after handover, so important (with anything really!) to do your research and background checks on landscaping companies and tradies and you don't get "rotten" ones because unfortunately there are ones out there - i had a friend who paid a landscaper (lots of $$$) and he did a runner! PS had to change the word d o d g y to "rotten" as admin didn't like! Woops! I guess I am lucky in that I don't need to move in ASAP. I would probably draw the line at sourcing internal tiles and carpeting myself which sounds like too much of a hassle. But when I am getting pool quotes which are all $15k+ less than what Wisdom is quoting (even after using the gift voucher) there is no way I would pay Wisdom that kind of premium. With the landscaping I have been recommended the Eden package due to the size of my block ($33.5k less $5.5k voucher). This seems quite expensive for what is very basic looking landscaping which I will most likely need to upgrade, then on top I will need tiling for the alfresco plus glass fencing and tiling for the pool area. To get all that with Wisdom and end up with something half decent is not going to be cheap. There are definitely sizeable savings to be made. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8813Jan 08, 2018 7:11 pm Funk52 I guess I am lucky in that I don't need to move in ASAP. I would probably draw the line at sourcing internal tiles and carpeting myself which sounds like too much of a hassle. But when I am getting pool quotes which are all $15k+ less than what Wisdom is quoting (even after using the gift voucher) there is no way I would pay Wisdom that kind of premium. With the landscaping I have been recommended the Eden package due to the size of my block ($33.5k less $5.5k voucher). This seems quite expensive for what is very basic looking landscaping which I will most likely need to upgrade, then on top I will need tiling for the alfresco plus glass fencing and tiling for the pool area. To get all that with Wisdom and end up with something half decent is not going to be cheap. There are definitely sizeable savings to be made. Totally get what you mean! I thought the Landscaping was hefty as well - until i asked the forum and a few friends whether the $15,500 was reasonable for what i'm getting in the package. Driveways alone can cost $8-9k already. The package also includes fencing and the 2 side gates amongst other things. Are you getting a pool from Wisdom? That was the only thing i was going to do after handover... in the future though. I dread to even ask how much Wisdom charge for pools I only want a smallish one (5m x 3m) and if i'm not mistaken, a pool this size is from 50k plus - as per the Wisdom landscaping brochure Building with Wisdom Homes 8814Jan 08, 2018 7:45 pm Has anyone got info on these landscaping packages? Maybe they aren’t applicable to my block (645sqm) as we’ve never been offered a package. We just wrote up a very long list of things we want to do before we move in, plus the landscaping and furniture and appliances we want to buy. Going to have no money again ever lol Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8815Jan 08, 2018 7:50 pm MandM+4 Has anyone got info on these landscaping packages? Maybe they aren’t applicable to my block (645sqm) as we’ve never been offered a package. We just wrote up a very long list of things we want to do before we move in, plus the landscaping and furniture and appliances we want to buy. Going to have no money again ever lol Hi MandM+4, the landscaping package is from the Live Boldly Promo. I took a photo of the Eden package for you - it's applicable to 600sqm block. For a bigger block than the 600sqm, you just pay the difference for what you need (ie turf etc) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8816Jan 08, 2018 7:53 pm MandM+4 Has anyone got info on these landscaping packages? Maybe they aren’t applicable to my block (645sqm) as we’ve never been offered a package. We just wrote up a very long list of things we want to do before we move in, plus the landscaping and furniture and appliances we want to buy. Going to have no money again ever lol I just did my list today too... it all adds up, doesn't it! I have a list from appliances to furniture and down to the nitty gritty like habedashery and lighting! Lol! Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8817Jan 08, 2018 7:55 pm ASJ1981 MandM+4 Has anyone got info on these landscaping packages? Maybe they aren’t applicable to my block (645sqm) as we’ve never been offered a package. We just wrote up a very long list of things we want to do before we move in, plus the landscaping and furniture and appliances we want to buy. Going to have no money again ever lol Hi MandM+4, the landscaping package is from the Live Boldly Promo. I took a photo of the Eden package for you - it's applicable to 600sqm block. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thanks! Building Monte Carlo 40- Wisdom homes Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8818Jan 09, 2018 9:00 am ASJ1981 Funk52 I guess I am lucky in that I don't need to move in ASAP. I would probably draw the line at sourcing internal tiles and carpeting myself which sounds like too much of a hassle. But when I am getting pool quotes which are all $15k+ less than what Wisdom is quoting (even after using the gift voucher) there is no way I would pay Wisdom that kind of premium. With the landscaping I have been recommended the Eden package due to the size of my block ($33.5k less $5.5k voucher). This seems quite expensive for what is very basic looking landscaping which I will most likely need to upgrade, then on top I will need tiling for the alfresco plus glass fencing and tiling for the pool area. To get all that with Wisdom and end up with something half decent is not going to be cheap. There are definitely sizeable savings to be made. Totally get what you mean! I thought the Landscaping was hefty as well - until i asked the forum and a few friends whether the $15,500 was reasonable for what i'm getting in the package. Driveways alone can cost $8-9k already. The package also includes fencing and the 2 side gates amongst other things. Are you getting a pool from Wisdom? That was the only thing i was going to do after handover... in the future though. I dread to even ask how much Wisdom charge for pools I only want a smallish one (5m x 3m) and if i'm not mistaken, a pool this size is from 50k plus - as per the Wisdom landscaping brochure This prices in the brochure are based on a flat block of land. I have two landscaping quotes for land of 450-480m2 come up to be around $55k excluding pool of course Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8819Jan 09, 2018 9:52 am psur2357 ASJ1981 Funk52 I guess I am lucky in that I don't need to move in ASAP. I would probably draw the line at sourcing internal tiles and carpeting myself which sounds like too much of a hassle. But when I am getting pool quotes which are all $15k+ less than what Wisdom is quoting (even after using the gift voucher) there is no way I would pay Wisdom that kind of premium. With the landscaping I have been recommended the Eden package due to the size of my block ($33.5k less $5.5k voucher). This seems quite expensive for what is very basic looking landscaping which I will most likely need to upgrade, then on top I will need tiling for the alfresco plus glass fencing and tiling for the pool area. To get all that with Wisdom and end up with something half decent is not going to be cheap. There are definitely sizeable savings to be made. Totally get what you mean! I thought the Landscaping was hefty as well - until i asked the forum and a few friends whether the $15,500 was reasonable for what i'm getting in the package. Driveways alone can cost $8-9k already. The package also includes fencing and the 2 side gates amongst other things. Are you getting a pool from Wisdom? That was the only thing i was going to do after handover... in the future though. I dread to even ask how much Wisdom charge for pools I only want a smallish one (5m x 3m) and if i'm not mistaken, a pool this size is from 50k plus - as per the Wisdom landscaping brochure This prices in the brochure are based on a flat block of land. I have two landscaping quotes for land of 450-480m2 come up to be around $55k excluding pool of course Thank you Psur2357! That is good to know. We have Tender Presentation coming up in 2 weeks and i will clarify the details then. Re: Building with Wisdom Homes 8820Jan 09, 2018 8:03 pm Happy New Year folks! In my opinion landscaping is the biggest waste of money to pay wisdom. The Eden package if u were to do yourself, it wouldn't cost much. Colored concrete driveway is about $100sqm and so that's about 5.5k but let's just round it up to 6k. Then add a fence which is about $65 lineal mtre x 50 = 3.25k + grass which cost bout $10lineal metre and is so easy to lay 3.2k based off their 320sqm provision, letterbox - 500 max, clothesline - 300 and other items are also minor so the value if u want to include labour should be no more than 20k. Do some yourself like laying grass and clothesline, letterbox and you'll probably have change with that 20k so to pay 33k to wisdom is just overpaying. With render, wisdom are expensive. I remember them saying it was like 50k to render the Manhattan 39 we are building so we only rendered our whole front facade only which was about 9k. Lately ive been quite turned off by render as I've seen so many rendered houses with cracks but the sales consultant did say the renderers wisdom have are excellent so fingers crossed we don't get cracks Can someone please offer some advice? Im DESPERATE. Because I'm completely and utterly exhausted. 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