Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 2Jul 13, 2012 5:37 am @builderforlife Building inspector and passionate about construction When you need an expert to take a look. Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 7Jul 13, 2012 12:28 pm My Hamptons build (completed): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=63370 Moved in Wednesday 11th Dec 2013 Front landscaping completed June 2016 Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 10Jul 13, 2012 3:15 pm Building Henley Monaco Nouveau Q1 - Mernda Villages https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=57810 http://razbuild.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 11Jul 14, 2012 4:57 am Hello everyone! Thanks for all the responses and advice given so far to the extremely frustrating situation. I spoke with the lady on the phone from Kerdels that sent me the letter yesterday. She was nice enough to listen to me then like a recorded message said her piece which was something on the lines of because I took too long on pre-start that they have the right to review prices. Suspicious to me how they chose to do so at the beginning of the financial year and hold my dream to ransom for an additional 10k! I work away and the broker had been asking for the addenda from the builder to finalise the finance but they wouldn’t provide it till the pre-start was completed. The broker had said that was highly unusual as they normally provide what was agreed on with the PWC. As I have never built a house before I didn’t think anything strange of this matter or that it would cause any issues. Now Kerdels are trying to blame me for taking too long and using that as their excuse to add the increase of cost. If that is the case they would equally be at fault for the initial delay and once my job was ready to go to scheduling could have pushed it through before they knew the prices were going to rise. Does anyone know how long scheduling takes for a new house, would it be any more than a few weeks if required? I have asked for a detailed breakdown of the costing and also information regarding the possible cancellation of the project as I may need to seriously consider that as an option. I will look at contacting my local Consumer Affairs office to investigate and also as suggested to contact the ACCC to see if I can get some light on the matter. I don’t see how I can be made to blame for the inefficiency and lack of transparency in regard to this price rise. It feels completely wrong and as though they are trying to take advantage of my situation. If anyone has any further advice or have faced similar issues please feel free to write your comments. Many thanks to all that have taken the interest to do so! Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 12Jul 14, 2012 8:45 am How long did your pre-site take?? What was the timeline like for your pre-site process? Building Henley Monaco Nouveau Q1 - Mernda Villages https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=57810 http://razbuild.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 13Jul 14, 2012 10:10 am Tenders do have an expiration date. We pushed ours out to 180 days cos we knew our land wasn't registered, and I wanted to be insulated from any price rises. Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 14Jul 14, 2012 2:25 pm i suggest you pm one of the h1's and speak to them. type in your builders name in the search box and you will find the thread. Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 15Jul 15, 2012 3:35 pm You really need to have a good look at your contract and understand exactly where you stand not just listen to the lady on the other end of the phone. If you are still at tender stage it will have an expiration date, if you have signed a fixed price contract it will tell you all the in and outs of when they can pass a price rise on to you. If you're not sure or confident in the contract you need to get some advice from a solicitor, a couple of hundred dollars is nothing compared to $10K. Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 16Jul 19, 2012 1:14 pm Im building with Kerdels and we are almost finished - my advice is RUN AWAY!!!! Bulding with them is a nightmare, I wouldnt wish them on my worst enemy. Take a look at the thread Ive got about them. They might be cheaper and have nice inclusions, but you will pay for it with the amount of stress they will put you through. Re: Builder Price Increase - Please help, advice needed! 17Nov 06, 2012 5:42 pm Industry rumour is that Kerdels are fully importing kitchens, bathrooms and kitchen benchtops from China, is that the case with you ? Also I would say that ALL builder's have 30 days on quotes, if you go over it that can exercise the right to review prices. If supplier's have advised them about the carbon tax then they are well within their rights to pass it on. 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 82161 Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 30174 How are you doing Ben? Extremely interested in hearing what you are doing or plan to do! 12 15356 |