Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building contract with Metricon 3Nov 13, 2018 9:44 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Building contract with Metricon 16Jun 20, 2019 11:20 pm gillybean The problem with Metricon is they give away “free” stuff in promotions and worse is that people actually believe they’re getting “free” stuff (you only have to look at this forum to see this). There’s no such thing as free stuff, someone pays for it somewhere, and your site costs estimate vs reality is one example of an easy way for them to recoup the “free” stuff. Walk away. 💯 true!! No such thing as "free" Re: Building contract with Metricon 17Jun 22, 2019 9:20 am MLC Hi. Our site costs have also gone up about the same amount. We are shocked too! Especially when they have said we need a $20k slab upgrade from standard?? We are building south east Melbourne on new land that is almost flat! How did you go tran18- were you able to have your site fees reduced to near the original estimate? I bailed out and have not looked back. This doesnt help you, I know but I wasnt prepared to have more ‘surprises’ with them. You talk about deletions, are they variations or PS and PC adjustments? pleas list them 1 16455 I've decided, after a period of confusion (my building broker told me it's probably not worth it to use a lawyer, but others have said it is a must) that I definitely will… 7 27906 |