Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Custom Home v Project Home 13Aug 10, 2020 10:53 pm Does Access homes Australia still exist? They were formally known as Alkira homes & had display homes at Kellyville Homeworld.. Cannot find any info on Access Homes Australia now. Does anyone know new contact details for Acchess Homes Australia. Built with Alkira 6 years ago. Re: Custom Home v Project Home 15Nov 18, 2020 2:01 am Eco Builder As mentioned above it really does depend on the quality of finishes you want Cookie cutter home builders (Volume Builders) tend to get good pricing for their materials due to economies of scale, and they also get much better pricing from their trades for ongoing work. The issue is usually they stipulate the prices for their trades! So the trades generally look at getting things done faster in order to make the right money I used to work for a few volume builders in Brisbane that paid a decent SQM rate - higher than most. My partner and i could build a 2 storey 400sqm home from slab to roof in 10 days, including straightening walls, studs etc. Problem was that sqm rate made us $20 per hour working 10 hour days. The only way to increase the hrly rate was to build even quicker - dont straighten walls, dont straighten studs etc etc. It would all still meet code but was not ideal which is why I went custom. Haven't seen many volume builders at the Master Builders Awards ceremonies What about California? It's an expensive area too, man I went out to these guys https://www.constructelements.com/ and decided to build on my own. What do you say, bad idea? Could anything go wrong with companies like this? Hi all, Been browsing project builders' website and saw Masterton with attached granny flat design Seeing bad reviews from masterton in this website/facebook, does… 0 18306 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair That laser level looks lovely! We bought one for less than a quarter of that price off eBay. It worked really well for us and it's still going now, five years later. After… 1 16717 |