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! 12Jul 14, 2012 8:45 am 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! 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 81983 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 29956 How are you doing Ben? Extremely interested in hearing what you are doing or plan to do! 12 15269 |