Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Site costs - Established area 9Feb 26, 2008 7:23 am Building an architect designed home out of Insulated Concrete Forms on acreage in semi-rural SE Melbourne. Developer approval obtained, engineering complete, getting quotes Re: Site costs - Established area 14Feb 26, 2008 12:56 pm Kerrie - Wow! 80K no wonder you almost died!! Thats a huge difference, one of the troubles of building in an established area hey? I have spoken to M'con and they said they build in Newport, whereas other companies like PD told me flat out no. I have since enquired with M if they charge extra for building in our area..waiting for a reply.... i agree with you though that I doubt the owners will allow me to drill holes in their garden...we just have to decide whether to take a gamble...like you I am petrified of finding the worst once the house is removed...
Brittany - $40k I could probably squeeze into my budget as I have overestimated other items like demolition, air con, flooring but I really wouldn't want to go much over.... I drove past and lookd at the house again, I have noticed it has a large concrete driveway right up the side of the house and also more concrete running from the front of the house into some of the front yard...would I be right in assuming this might mean the house has been built on a concrete slab? Do people think this is more likely to reduce the amount of fill/slope in the land and hopefully reduce site costs? Re: Site costs - Established area 15Feb 26, 2008 6:56 pm We'll also build in an established area with a volume builder, and we just got our final costing yesterday and the site cost comes down to $24,000. big chunk of it goes to concrete piering totalling $10,700. This cost includes cut and fill, restricted site surcharge (apparently tradies charge extra because they have to carry the building materials by hand because of the existing neighbouring properties), slab upgrade, etc, etc.
According to the soil test report, the costs to build in an established area are generally more expensive because the soil has been "disturbed" because of the existence of the old house and the demolition. Start: 15 May 08, Current: Handover inspection 19/09 after that, the house is ours!! Visit our blog: http://loveourgerbera.blogspot.com/ Re: Site costs - Established area 16Feb 26, 2008 7:03 pm haywgl Kerrie - Wow! 80K no wonder you almost died!! Thats a huge difference, one of the troubles of building in an established area hey? I have spoken to M'con and they said they build in Newport, whereas other companies like PD told me flat out no. I have since enquired with M if they charge extra for building in our area..waiting for a reply.... i agree with you though that I doubt the owners will allow me to drill holes in their garden...we just have to decide whether to take a gamble...like you I am petrified of finding the worst once the house is removed... Hi Haywgl, We were also take a gamble wehn we purchased our land. we didn't do a soil test before hand. Worse case scenario if none of the volume builder wants to build on your property is to go with private builder. Besides with your budget, i don't think you'll have any problem building with private builder. Just bear in mind to get a fairly flat land we thought our land was flat too with the old house on it but the survey revealed that it was slightly sloping luckily not much though. good luck!! Start: 15 May 08, Current: Handover inspection 19/09 after that, the house is ours!! Visit our blog: http://loveourgerbera.blogspot.com/ Re: Site costs - Established area 17Feb 26, 2008 7:12 pm Thanks for that build_build....I hope we can make the right choice - its such a tough decision, I hope my site costs are like yours, they sound pretty reasonable considering..can I ask who you are building with and what area? (If you don't mind of course)
I initially thought I was being good budgeting $30k but I think we might be more around $50k. Yep the land definatly looks flat with the house on it, you would think you could tell if it had a slope wouldn't you Ah the joys of building Re: Site costs - Established area 18Feb 26, 2008 9:24 pm haywgl Thanks for that build_build....I hope we can make the right choice - its such a tough decision, I hope my site costs are like yours, they sound pretty reasonable considering..can I ask who you are building with and what area? (If you don't mind of course) I initially thought I was being good budgeting $30k but I think we might be more around $50k. Yep the land definatly looks flat with the house on it, you would think you could tell if it had a slope wouldn't you Ah the joys of building we're building in mt. waverley with b***bank, a single storey house about 29 squares I guess site cost will vary greatly between builders. Someone mention on another discussion thread about site cost earlier in this forum that this is how the builder make money.... i just hope that's not the case if yes, we're all being ripped off Start: 15 May 08, Current: Handover inspection 19/09 after that, the house is ours!! Visit our blog: http://loveourgerbera.blogspot.com/ CDC Housing Code 3 When to apply Floor Area external face of wall vs Gross Floor Area internal face of wall. Reading thru CDC Housing Code 3, lets take a lot 915sqm.… 0 16561 I am not sure whether Perth has its own way of doing things in regards to this. Most of Perth has class A (sandy soil), except for some areas near rivers or hills. 2 13098 Is anyone building with Mojo and have a recent site cost tender 0 15952 |