Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 8Feb 17, 2008 2:09 pm WOW!!!
Thank-you so much for gong to all that trouble Ray - Great photos and great descriptions!! Your house is going to be gorgeous!! I must say I am VERY happy with the standard range and this has made me much more relieved about my budget!!! I think I would be happy to go for quite alot from the standard range!! Yup Ray, you have me sold we ARE going to build, the sooner we find some land/old house to knock down the better!! This forum rocks!! Thanks so much again, greatly appreciated!! Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 9Feb 17, 2008 4:27 pm wow ray your kitchen is looking great
haywgl - the big m in brisbane may be a little different to Melbourne but to give you an idea our base price as quoted by them was $191360. However you can not ever build a house for the base price. even if you had an S soil test you still need to add : drainage $2k (compulsory with M in QLD, I think it should be in the base price) : rain water tank $7K : temp fencing $600 plus you would expect your site wouldn't be an 's' so I would add at least $10K for site costs council fees for a particular council should be included in base price only if your council area charges more should you pay extra As I said we are with the big M in QLD so things may be different in Vic. We upgraded a number of items and changed the house a fair bit. To give you an idea here are some of the costs Promo package (Caesar bench, 8.5ft ceiling timber bi-fold, front door upgrade, 900 cooking, range etc, dishwasher microwave, 3 phase upgrade for air cond, upgraded basins & taps)- $6500 Air Cond Ducted - $14490 Butlers Pantry with sink - $4300 Tiles to entire house expect - bed 1-4 and home theater - $9863 Upgrade tile to porcelain in entire house including bathroom, ensuite floors, wall feature tiles etc $2110 approx 200m2 of floor tiles 3 controllers for HWS $675 powder room - $2368 render entire house - $12445 second shower set in ensuite - $650 duct rangehood to outside - $486 roof tile upgrade to boral striata - $854 upgrade laminate bench tops to caesarstone in bathroom & ensuite $1600 butlers pantry $2130 and ends and front apron of kitchen island bench $2364 Upgrade kitchen sink - $458 Glass Splash back to kitchen - $2364 we also removed one wall between the rumpus/family moved the living room wall back 2m and out double sliding doors on it to make it a home theater. you get credit for removed walls. total cost ended up about $800 after credit taken into account. we also change windows and got credits because what we chose was cheaper. Our other major cost was our outdoor room extension (this cost may help of you need to add rooms) we were told it was not much more to fully enclose if we wanted. We added 4m to the entire back of the house 14m width ie 56m2 at a cost of $21k. If you find a house you could always sign a contract subject to soil test and prelim council approval (if it works the same way as QLD) The other thing to keep in mid if you need to demolish is Asbestos, this will cost extra to get rid of. Anything else you would like to know happy to help Grandview 36 on Beautiful Bribie Site Start Dec 5th 2007 Projected completion May 12th 2008 NOPE Handover 24th June 2008 Moved in 11th July 2008 Wating on one final thing - Still - Oct 2009 Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 10Feb 17, 2008 5:28 pm coljacqld - Thanks for the info mate! Greatly appreciated!! You have had some decent upgrades there, 21k for an add on room/structural change , maybe I might be better finding a plan with these included...
Was your aircon ducted refridgerated? Or evap?? 15k sounds good, I was budgeting about 20k... I am hoping the 100k we have set aside for upgrades will do ok, we also have set aside a further 50k for site works and demolition of the old place... I know what I'm like and I'll probably have a preference to all the upgrades, but I have to remind myself to only get the essential upgrades (the things that will cost $$ to change after construction) and save the non-essentials for down the track Keep all the info coming on 'M' guys its great to hear its straight from the people dealing with them Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 11Feb 17, 2008 10:37 pm haywgl
don't be scared off by the cost of the extra we added, when you look at the cost per sqm to what you pay for the whole house it is reasonable. Remember that what we have added is equal to 3 generous size bedrooms. base cost - 191K for 332m2 = $ 575 per sqm our extension $21k for 56m2 = $ 375 per sqm. The other thing we had to think about with outdoor entertaining was what it would cost us after to add some sort of stratco structure and the overall look we wanted. Quote: Was your aircon ducted refridgerated? Or evap?? 15k sounds good, I was budgeting about 20k... Air Cond is ducted refridgerated Anne Grandview 36 on Beautiful Bribie Site Start Dec 5th 2007 Projected completion May 12th 2008 NOPE Handover 24th June 2008 Moved in 11th July 2008 Wating on one final thing - Still - Oct 2009 Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 12Feb 18, 2008 10:39 pm Hi haywgl,
I answered on your other post. I will give you a detailed list of our upgrades too, so you would get more ideas. We are both building double storey house and most of your list of upgrades were part of our upgrades too. From the base price, our total cost went up by $70K (upgrades and site costs of $8k only), excluding floor tiles/carpets, curtains, driveway and landscaping, which we'll do after handover. We are budgeting around $60K for all of these. So in total, we are looking at $130K on top of the base price. The promo that we had was $31K worth of upgrades for only $5k. The evap cooling was $1.5K only. Upgrades/structural changes were: We added a mud room (around $5.5K+) by extending the garage, moved the laundry opening (to make way for a bigger WIP and bigger fridge opening), and enclosed the lounge area (same as your Laguna) to make it a Home Theatre. We upgraded the kitchen (as displayed) - with 40mm stone benchtop and 100mm to the other side, the stone benchtop from category 1 to category colour, even the glass splashback. Ensuite, Bath and Powder room benchtops - category 1 20mm stone composite All doors to downstairs were high solid doors (2340mm as opposed to the standard 2040mm). Three of the doors (2 to HT and 1 to pantry) were the timber glazed with Sikkens finish. Mortar colour - upgraded to off-white Bricks - category 3 (Melbourne series) Roof tiles - flat colour through Sound proofing to HT and pre-cabling flyscreens 25 degrees roof pitch door locks to all toilets/bath rooms 4-star rated close coupled toilet suite medina bath tub stainless steel canopy (instead of the standard glass canopy) some downlights/dimmers (not all areas), extra battens, etc. - total of $5.5K extra for electricals AFter hand over: - porcelain floor tiles 450mmx450mm - wool carpet to all bed rooms and HT - front and back landscaping - driveway I don't have the list with me, these were as far as I can remember. So if I'll re-check my contract and let you know if I miss any. Hope it helps. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built the Nevada 42 Next project - landscaping! Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 13Feb 19, 2008 8:53 am Thanks so much VJ, I love the Nevada - your house sounds like it is going to be gorgeous!!
I like all your upgrades too - If you had $130k of extras in total (inc floorings etc, site costs) I am thinking I may be alright, I am budgeting $150k but will also need to demolish an old house and I think my site costs will be a little more.... I am assuming that with companies like M, you can list all the things you want and if budget doesn't permit you can remove items to decrease the $ spent? Also out of curiosity has anyone got the builder (particulary M) to do the floorings and if so was is a dramatic increase in price? I am just thinking it will be easier to have the house complete for handover, and also don't want to have to worry about skirting boards with timber floors/carpet, unless if anyone knows if M are happy to tack the skirting boards on? Cheers guys! Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 14Feb 19, 2008 8:24 pm Exactly. We were told to include all the things we could think of to quote it all, then at Pre-Contract we eliminated all the extras that we decided we didn't need/want/couldn't afford.
I know this is our first house, and we have a limited budget but I can't think of much that we didn't include that we would have wanted to upgrade anyway. We found that their inclusions were quite generous compared to some other companies that were very basic. When you consider what M offer as standard, I would think you could build a fairly decent house with NO extras on the base price (apart from required extras like site costs, temp fencing, etc). When you think about $100K+ of extras/upgrades, that's a heck of a lot! And for what it's worth, when I was doing a search for home and contents insurance, one of the site quotes had a calculator and said something about it would cost $40K for demolition and removal of rubble (eg. house burnt down), but I can't remember if it was based on our house size or it was a generalisation. ... will see if I can find it. Ray. Second Time 'Round 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 5963 Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 81758 Hi all, sorting out the ducted air con for a 350sqm double story house. Does this placement sound reasonable to you? Also, I plan to have 6 zones I think. Living room… 0 0 |