Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 03, 2009 12:37 pm Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 2Nov 03, 2009 12:38 pm Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 3Nov 03, 2009 12:38 pm ELECTRICAL Check the standard electrical plan carefully – there’s the bare minimum included! Electrical appointment takes 2-3 hours, depending on how well prepared you are. As usual, best advice is to print out the standard floorplan and mark in everything you want prior to the appointment. M will also email you a full pricelist of everything prior to your appointment, Rough upgrade prices - Double electrical powerpoint $61 - External junction box for light $50 - Wall, floor, step light point $56 - Downlight $46 (and if this is a “new” downlight point, add about $56 for a “ceiling light point” first!) - Two way switch $50 - Three way switch $100 - IXL 4 lamp $500 - 4 star gas heater upgrade about $750 - Zoning for heating about $350 - garage door remote.. $860 - 2 hand remotes, 1 wall mounted remote, 1 p/pt. - telstra trenching/cabling/fitting wall box - $335 - concrete paving - $2844 for 36 sqm - tv points - $101 ea - 2 exhaust fans - $228 Intercom - $1564 Alarm - $1500 Extra recycled tap - $120 *Edit* See these attached files for pictures of M light fittings and their prices (from Sept 09). Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 4Nov 03, 2009 12:38 pm TILES M have unfortunately reduced their tile range as of Aug 09, so there’s not many standard tiles. You can go to Beaumont Tiles in Oakleigh anytime for a stickybeak – the current standard range is marked by little blue dots on the tiles. You can choose from quite a large variety of upgrades of course - hard to give prices as there's so many. Porcelain, glass and large tiles cost more to lay. Your tile consultant should be able to give you a full costing of everything at the end of your appointment. Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 7Nov 03, 2009 6:06 pm Great idea for new people building with M. Would have been great info a year ago when we were going through all the preliminary stuff. My advice would be go to the site every day if you can to try and pick up mistakes before they get too much further into the build. I would go home after every part was done to check it against our contract. I would check all the photos I had of our house as a display home (we went to every Tribeca 36 and 40 that have been in Melbourne over the last 2 years and I photographed every room) and compared everything. I was amazed how many things ended up being different than the photos-some things actually worked in our favour and others I got them to change to how they were meant to be. I also agree with going to as many of their display homes as possible-I went to nearly every one that existed to know what was possible with M and gave you great ideas of what colors work together. I would write notes after seeing any problems and then discuss the list each week when our SS rang. We were lucky in that our SS gave us his phone number on the first meeting so if there were any major issues I could call him straight away. I found developing a rapore with the tradies on site and sending some beers their way helped with things being done right and properly. I also found that a lot of pre-construction variations didn't seem to reach the tradies so I was glad I was there every day to let them know how things were meant to be. You can't catch everything but it certainly helps. We found it to be a very stressful year but in the end we got a beautiful house with only a few minor issues remaining (things that maybe get sorted out in the 3 month check but are easy enough for us to sort out if they don't). Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 8Nov 03, 2009 7:22 pm Im not building with M, but great idea!! I did the same thing for Carlisle... these general threads limit repetitive threads and questions, and make info easy to find. I might steal the idea of having approximate upgrade pricing. There should be one for PD too.. if no one from PD is willing to do this, I will! Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 10Nov 04, 2009 1:19 pm fruitty Even through we haven't gone very far (just repeating everything almost twice!), I might do one for H3nley if there is interest. I'm sure many other will contribute. It'd probably be an idea to start one for h3nl3y - seems to be quite a few h3nley builders if you go by the listing of blogs! not as many metr!con, but I'm hoping the metr!con builders out there will contribute more info to this thread, as I only know from my experience what upgrades cost, and I'm sure many other people would like to know some rough figures before wandering into their colour appointment and getting a big 5 figure upgrade bill! speaking of which, I added a few photos of studio M to the first post above! T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 12Nov 04, 2009 2:26 pm JuniorMin Generally speaking... if you can't say something nice, don't say it. Hence not much discussion re: M. ?? Hi guys We are building with Big M and I must say they do build very nice houses and by looking at their displays house and compare with other builders, quality wise Big M are ahead of the rest hence why they are the No1 builder here in Victoria and Australia. We just started with our site start last week and our experience up to date has been ok. We found the Customer Service Skills in replying back to email are a bit slow and frustrating at times, this just doesn’t happen with Big M, this also happens with the other builders. Not a good thing, but it tends to be the norm with all builders. Double check your sales quote as you can be charged for things twice or they forget to put things in or take out. We did our homework on what we wanted well before we had all our appointments, which made life easier on the day so you don’t forget things and don’t feel pressured as variations after contract do cost. My advice would be doing your homework, by going to B-tiles in Oakleigh and see their range also ask Big M to give you a list of their Bricks and go to Boral and Austral Bricks, play around on their Studio M website. If you want to save money do some things after handover, the more you do the more you save. There are always bad building stories, they will outnumber good stories as people want others to know about their grief and also let others what to look out for whilst building, where all the good news goes unnoticed as they are happy in their home and have better things to do...... If this is one thing of concern, get yourself an Independent Building Inspector as it could save you headaches and money in the long run. Throughout this forum what I have learnt it all comes down to your Site Supervisor/Project Manager and also the tradies they get. Good Luck with your Build, you’ll know at the end of it all you’ll have a beautiful house. If you like checkout my blog http://mickeyb-soho.blogspot.com/ Builder; Big M Design; Soho 32 Facade; Ascent Blog; http://mickeyb-soho.blogspot.com Trend; viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23990 Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 13Nov 05, 2009 10:52 am Thanks very much slknv for taking thge time to help other people with their builds. I am just waiting on my preliminary contract - it is supposed to be leaving their office today, so I will have my work cut out for me. One thing I can add is if you are building in QLD, that M no longer use B'mont Tiles. M now have their own tile studio just around the corner from Studio M in Robina. We went and had a sticky beak, and there is quite a good selection of standard and upraded tiles available. Also, when you go to do your tile selction, you will get all the costings back the same day, which I think is fantastic. Building the Grandview 36 with M$tric0n Plans approved 15/4/2010 Site start date 21/5/2010 Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32825&p=461266#p461266 Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 14Nov 05, 2009 12:13 pm we are building the nolan 41 with M and have been dealing with them since March 09. They have been very professional and responded in a resonable time frame to all our queries. The reason we choose M was the Nolan floor plan, the other major volume builders are good as well and seem to deliver as a superior product as M. All building is or can be stressful but hopefully at the end of the build the product delivered meets to your expectations and I have faith M will deliver on their promises to us. As numerous people have pointed out, the more research you do prior to your appointments the easier the process is and potentially less stressful, as these appointments are full on and lots of decisions need to be made in a short time frame. Good luck with all your builds! Williams Landing Stage 2 - Building Nolan with Big M - Slab Poured 09/11/09 Frame started 17/11/09 Brick started 05/01/10 Lock-up 31/01/10 Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 15Nov 08, 2009 10:49 am cotbfamily ...we are building the nolan 41 with M and have been dealing with them since March 09. They have been very professional and responded in a resonable time frame to all our queries. The reason we choose M was the Nolan floor plan, the other major volume builders are good as well and seem to deliver as a superior product as M.... Any pictures or updates on how your build is going? There's not many other people building Nolans for us to follow! Have also updated the "electrical" post with some pictures of the Metricon lighting range. We found that some of their light fitting were well prices compared to what you'd find at BEacon etc, but some light fitting (in particular the external floodlights!) were hugely overpriced, so we just put in junction boxes at our electrical selection for later change to floodlights. Anyone else care to contribute any info, in particular related to pricing of upgrades, which I can update the main info with? T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 17Nov 09, 2009 6:39 pm I guys Does anyone know what is standard with Metr!con when it comes to Termite Protection? Thanks in advance Builder; Big M Design; Soho 32 Facade; Ascent Blog; http://mickeyb-soho.blogspot.com Trend; viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23990 Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 18Nov 09, 2009 6:54 pm mickeyb I guys Does anyone know what is standard with Metr!con when it comes to Termite Protection? Thanks in advance Erm, there's no standard termite protection. Cost us about $1400 or so I think. Roz2877 Probably an appropriate question given the current weather in Melbourne. Does anyone know what an air con upgrade costs with M? Evap cooling is about $5000 for a Bonaire unit (Summer Breeze) with 5 outlets. We figured it's not good value so we're doing it after handover. If you want ducted refrigerated A/C, our salesperson said for double storey houses it's about (wait for it) ...$20,000... so we're not getting that Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 19Nov 09, 2009 10:07 pm slknv mickeyb I guys Does anyone know what is standard with Metr!con when it comes to Termite Protection? Thanks in advance Erm, there's no standard termite protection. Cost us about $1400 or so I think. Double checked the contract Your right there's no standard termite protection, we where quoted $1550 for a Homeguard termite protection. For some reason I thought maybe we forgot to do it. Cheers Builder; Big M Design; Soho 32 Facade; Ascent Blog; http://mickeyb-soho.blogspot.com Trend; viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23990 Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 20Nov 10, 2009 1:35 pm slknv mickeyb I guys Does anyone know what is standard with Metr!con when it comes to Termite Protection? Thanks in advance Erm, there's no standard termite protection. Cost us about $1400 or so I think. Roz2877 Probably an appropriate question given the current weather in Melbourne. Does anyone know what an air con upgrade costs with M? Evap cooling is about $5000 for a Bonaire unit (Summer Breeze) with 5 outlets. We figured it's not good value so we're doing it after handover. If you want ducted refrigerated A/C, our salesperson said for double storey houses it's about (wait for it) ...$20,000... so we're not getting that you may want to price up that evap cooling from a dedicated heating & cooling specialist. we were going to get M to install our evap system for the $4800 or whatever they charge, but I rang around and spoke to a few installers.. the standard unit M offers is the Bonaire Summer Breeze SBM65... this is apparently not a big enough unit to cool a house over 24/25 squares (according to the installers). I got a quote for a Bonaire SBM75 (I think it was SBM) and it was $500 cheaper than metricon, has 3 more outlets and is a way more powerful unit. I would suggest you simply go and talk to council about your proposal, most councils are getting onboard with ancillary dwellings. There is no benefit in keeping it… 1 4069 Tradie may sit at home but will need to get house plastered as well or will you sit it out? 6 9922 How do you remove one of these ceiling air con vents? And is it possible to disconnect the duct joined to the vent from inside the house, without going into the roof cavity? 0 5898 |