Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 83Jun 25, 2010 5:40 pm Building Havana Elite with side HT with MJD 20/04/11 DA approved by council 06/06/11 cut/fill 08/06/11 piering 20/6/11 slab 11/8/11 frame complete 18/9/11 lock up 28/11/11 handover booked Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 85Jun 25, 2010 8:37 pm Building Havana Elite with side HT with MJD 20/04/11 DA approved by council 06/06/11 cut/fill 08/06/11 piering 20/6/11 slab 11/8/11 frame complete 18/9/11 lock up 28/11/11 handover booked Re: Metr!con Homes: Universal Info thread! 89Oct 14, 2010 9:22 pm Building a M37r1c0n Tribeca Blog: K & L Home on the Croydon Range Site Start Date: 19th May 2011 Block Scraped: 19th May 2011 Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 90Nov 19, 2010 9:32 am Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 92Nov 10, 2011 10:46 pm Blog: http://matt-and-jo.blogspot.com.au/ Purchased Block: August 2011, Block Settled: Dec, 2011 Contract Signed: 28/6/12, Site Works Started: 9/11/12 Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 94Nov 11, 2011 11:08 am Building the Milano30 Site start: 30th June 2011 PCI: 1st December 2011 Handover: As soon as the bank pays! Approx 16th December viewtopic.php?f=31&t=44051 Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 96Jul 06, 2012 5:59 pm Hi Wimma. We built with M and have been in about six months now. We went thru the same questions as you, mainly to try and save a bit of money and also why pay someone if you can do yoursleves. We left the cabling up to M, even though my brother could have done it (an electrician) however we were uncertain of how much access we would have during the build. With light points, we added to the standard light points downstairs for all the positions for future downlights, and then when we moved in, replaced these with LED's my sparkie brother got for us wholesale. Upstairs we left as standard, because we have access to adding additional light points through the ceiling. Again we're replacing these with LED's and adding additional light points. With power points, our package was fairly generous at the time (even bedrooms had at least two double power points) so we added a few over the standard ones. I belive since then, they've cut this back to a bear minimum. We put double power points inside all the vanities for things such as tooth brushes, hair dryers, etc. This keeps vanities cleared for the decorative stuff the wives love! One of the things we really wanted was sound insulation not only between floors, but also between internal walls. Previously we lived in Perth where houses are double brick and internal walls are single brick, so very good for sound isolation between rooms. We included sound batts above family room, theatre and study because there were bedrooms above, but couldn't really justify the expense for the whole area. We thought we'd approach our supervisor about putting in our own sound batts in internal walls at pre-plaster stage and see how we go. Anyway, we had a really good supervisor and he was OK with us installing our own sound batts at pre-plaster. We bought the tontine polyester sound batts and use a staple gun to fix them inside the studs and noggins. I think we spent about $1500 on these but it did the whole house, ground floor and first floor internal walls. Also, the guys installing the builders sound batts had about 12 bags left over. (They were installing these in the groundfloor ceiling the same weekend I turned up to put the tontine batts in.) Anyways, they said use them so I put these in the other parts of the ground floor celing and even had enough of the tontine batts left to do the rest. Look, your building contract has a clause that says you're not supposed to be onsite, etc blah-blah, but we all know what happens in reality. In the end it all depends on the relationship with your supervisor. So apart from the sound batts, my brother also ran speaker wires for the home theatre, a HDMI cable for the ceiling mounted projector and also some adiditional cat6 data cables throughout the house, basically following the ones the builder out in. We kept these out of the way of the builders data cabling as well. Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 97Jul 06, 2012 11:26 pm OurLindrum52 So apart from the sound batts, my brother also ran speaker wires for the home theatre, a HDMI cable for the ceiling mounted projector and also some adiditional cat6 data cables throughout the house, basically following the ones the builder out in. We kept these out of the way of the builders data cabling as well. Thanks OurLindrum52, appreciate the feedback. Lights sound like the general way to do things, especially getting the layout right on the ground floor. Curious as to how they ran the cabling in - did they drill decent sized holes? (20mm? 30mm?) so you could just use that cable to pull through a few more? Did you have any through internal walls between floors? Wondering how they do the tv points also, especially on internal walls, as they say they run the cable to the roof. Did you have to drill any holes for your wiring/cabling? If so, any issues? I would like to put some surround sound wiring in also, but wasn't sure how to without drilling some holes somewhere. Realise it will be up to how accommodating the SS is, but makes it difficult to plan what to do if I don't know early on what's possible Will have to investigate sound proofing/internal insulation a bit more I think. Where abouts did you build? Thanks again. Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 98Jul 10, 2012 6:59 pm Hi Wimma I've just gotten back from a long day out at the metr!con office doing my internal and electrical selections. From my experience I would say there is very little that they will let you do/supply yourself (this may change once you're building if you have a good SS, but some things can't be left till then!). I was hoping to supply my own frameless shower screen (M quoted $1850 for one), tapware and get conduits put in so in the future we can run cables if we decided we wanted to have a smart home. Shower screens and tapware was a firm no. Apparently if you don't have a shower screen installed its a waterproofing issue and the inspector won't sign off on it - I wan't to look into this a bit further because I don't know if I believe this completely. Same thing with the taps, they said they couldn't just put the plumbing in and cap it because it could lead to issues which would then void their warranty on any of the surrounding areas. The conduits was probably the most frustrating thing. Whilst they will do conduits they'll charge you an arm and a leg so you may as well just get the data cabling done by then. For each cat6 data cable you get it will cost $115, and the conduit around 110. It seems the more popular/useful the conduit would be the more they charge for it. It get a conduit running from a projector to a TV was quoted at something like $260, and for a wall mounted TV down to the foxtel box/dvd was around $120. We ended up getting some basic data cabling done by M and will have our hub in the upstairs linen closet so we can do all the upstairs post build. Its not ideal, but better than spending a whole heap on something we don't even know if we want yet. Lighting we've just fitted out the ground floor and will do upstairs later. We got 20 downlights included in our promotion so used them in the living/kitchen/dining area and will get battens installed in the other downstairs areas and change them over later. Some quick prices for you are: Halogen downlight - $105 Led downlight - $200 Ceiling batten - $40 Island bench double powerpoint - $110 double powerpoint - $45 Pay TV - 90 Phone socket - 80 Let me know if there are any other things you're looking to upgrade as we seem to have upgraded almost everything so I should be able to give you a pretty good idea of what some things will cost with M. Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 99Jul 11, 2012 12:09 am jessime Hi Wimma I've just gotten back from a long day out at the metr!con office doing my internal and electrical selections. From my experience I would say there is very little that they will let you do/supply yourself (this may change once you're building if you have a good SS, but some things can't be left till then!). Hi jessime, thanks for the info, very helpful! I'm beginning to see this as the common theme, and I can understand they'd like to bend you over for as much as possible, but doesn't look like there's many options for us other than praying for a reasonable SS. We got told you may be able to get your own trade person in, but they would have to do as per the plans and M pricing anyway. Quote: The conduits was probably the most frustrating thing. Whilst they will do conduits they'll charge you an arm and a leg so you may as well just get the data cabling done by then. For each cat6 data cable you get it will cost $115, and the conduit around 110. It seems the more popular/useful the conduit would be the more they charge for it. It get a conduit running from a projector to a TV was quoted at something like $260, and for a wall mounted TV down to the foxtel box/dvd was around $120. So with conduits, did they explain where they put them exactly, and how big (diameter)? Do they run them from top floor all through to bottom? If they did, this would be worth it for me, as I want multiple cat6 runs per room if I can. Or even if they just drill holes. (actually, would anyone complain if I drilled holes just in noggins? From roof space down to ground floor? That'd be handy too!!) Else perhaps I get them to do a single cat6 run to all rooms I want networked, and hope like hell I have a reasonable SS, so I can go in just before plaster and run multiple cables through the same holes they drill (again depends on hole size - wonder if they're flexible here...), basically in parallel with theirs. Surely they wouldn't rip them out?? I can see benefits in having 2 or 4 actual cables run to many rooms with AV equipment, but I can't afford to pay 4x$115 for each one Did you ask if they'd put a pull wire through? Or how much for a dual or quad cat6 run perchance? Thinking if I can get multiple cat6 runs, I could prob avoid multiple paytv points. But on Pay tv, was that a single cable? I know at least some sat boxes require 2xRG6 lines. $90 doesn't sound that bad. Do they leave it in the roof space to cable up later? Same as regular TV point? Still undecided on wall mounting TVs. Have in our current home, but that's really because we had a fireplace. Hoping we'll have enough room (going from ~13sq to ~38sq I hope so!!) to sit TVs on a little cabinet that houses the AV gear anyway. Still to be worked out Quote: We ended up getting some basic data cabling done by M and will have our hub in the upstairs linen closet so we can do all the upstairs post build. Its not ideal, but better than spending a whole heap on something we don't even know if we want yet. Interesting - how will you do this? I thought it would be difficult to even drill down through the noggins on the top floor, assuming you'd want cat6 points near the floor? Would love to hear more on this - I would like to put in a bucket load of cat6 up stairs too, and was going to put a run up into the roof anyway. Quote: Lighting we've just fitted out the ground floor and will do upstairs later. We got 20 downlights included in our promotion so used them in the living/kitchen/dining area and will get battens installed in the other downstairs areas and change them over later. This is sounding quite common now, and I can see why from the prices you listed!! $40 batten sounds good. I assume they only have these in the plaster, and not actual ceiling battens/beams? Not sure what that means for hanging a heavy pendant light later?? What was the promotion you're referring to? I'll have to check ours. Don't recall any free D/Ls unfortunately Quote: Some quick prices for you are: Halogen downlight - $105 Led downlight - $200 Ceiling batten - $40 Island bench double powerpoint - $110 double powerpoint - $45 Pay TV - 90 Phone socket - 80 Thanks! Awesome to see current pricing. Quote: Let me know if there are any other things you're looking to upgrade as we seem to have upgraded almost everything so I should be able to give you a pretty good idea of what some things will cost with M. Haha, lots Still want to put in speaker cabling myself too, but again may just chance it with the SS to do myself, and worst case just do the top floor rumpus myself after. Would be great to do the downstairs rooms also though, just in case I want to use later. And maybe prep for a projector Thanks again, much appreciated! Re: Big M / Metr!con Homes: - Studio M & Upgrade Prices! 100May 13, 2013 10:27 am It seems as though the last post to this thread was some time ago. I hope that's not a sign that not many people are building with M3tric0n these days!! I was wondering if there was anyone out there in Sydney who has recent information on upgrade prices for M3tric0n? In particular i'm interested in upgrading the standard 20mm ceasarst0ne benchtop to the 40mm and 2-pac cupboards to the kitchen. My husband and I have fallen in love with the Soho and are starting to put together numbers now that we have sold our house and these two upgrades are on my 'essential' list. TIA 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 9918 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 5834 |