Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Pics please (particulary M'con) 9Feb 17, 2008 4:27 pm 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) 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 5972 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 81768 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 |