Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 3Aug 27, 2013 1:03 pm Building the Leabrook with Fairmont Homes in Mallala, SA. Building contract 24/3/13 Council Approval 18/6/13 Selections 29/6/13 & 1/7/13 Site works 21/10/13 Slab 7/11/13 Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 5Aug 27, 2013 1:26 pm http://camdenbuild.blogspot.com.au/ by invite only please pm me Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 10Aug 27, 2013 3:03 pm Building the Leabrook with Fairmont Homes in Mallala, SA. Building contract 24/3/13 Council Approval 18/6/13 Selections 29/6/13 & 1/7/13 Site works 21/10/13 Slab 7/11/13 Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 14Aug 27, 2013 4:57 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 15Aug 27, 2013 5:15 pm Demo + Build in Rivervale, Western Australia Moved in June 2014 http://rivervale.tumblr.com/ Building Thread Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 17Sep 04, 2013 12:53 pm There are so many reasons why building a new home can be your best choice. It's your dream, you make it the way you want it, and new homes that are built well take much less maintenance. You can design your home to take full advantage of orientation which saves heaps of money in the long run. New houses are also much better built, and you can incorporate features like double glazed windows (if it's a question of budget choose these over the ceasarstone bench tops any day of the week) that will give you a much more economical house for many years. There are often skeletons in the closet with existing homes, and they're not tailor-made to you. In terms of the risk, absolutely the most important thing is to find a builder you trust;this is the place to put a lot of research in my book. Do a search on the kind of terrain you are going to build on, in your area, make a list of builders and then start contacting previous clients, look on forums (especially for the big builders... I have a personal bias against volume builders because their pricing tends to be anything but transparent, and the good quality small-to-medium builders will give you a much better outcome at what is ultimately the same or even a better price.) Your builder can be like the "Sherpa" who helps climbers up Mount Everest. This is especially so with a challenging block, or a block with slope, but in my experience, holds equally true on the flat. Life is risky... why not build a dream or two? Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 18Sep 04, 2013 1:47 pm We had Handover of our new house last week. Admittedly we bought our land almost 3 years ago, but we didn't look at building until December last year. We researched, signed up in Feb, started on site in May and are moving in this weekend. We have had a great experience so far and would reccomend building if you can't find an established house you like. I would say though that you have to do your homework, be thorough in the planning and contract stage and always keep yuorself up to date with the building progress, to ensure everything goes well. Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65498 Deposit 17/02/13 Contract 12/04 Slab 17/05 Roof 06/06 Bricks, Lockup and Fixing 04/07 PCI 22/08 Handover 29/08 Moved in 07/09! Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 19Sep 04, 2013 2:05 pm It's as risky as you want it to be. There are ways of mitigating risk. At the lower end of the risk scale, build a modestly sized home through CDC on a flat (FLAT!), established (Neighbor) block of land with no bushfire or flood threat, with a major builder and I can't see you getting into too much trouble. At the other end of the risk scale you have steep blocks with lots of fill, close to forest with unknown soil type and outside standards (DA required) as owner/builder. That is the kind of build I would have nightmares about unless I REALLY knew what I was doing, ie; done it many times before. I suggest you start small and flat and you can't go wrong. Re: Is Building Just Too Risky? 20Sep 15, 2013 8:29 pm Hey all, I was looking through some builder's sites at their offers, and noticed they offer structural guarantees but when reading the small-print I see they don't cover something called 'cracking'. A little more reading and it seems that after some years, people sometimes experience cracks appearing in their property, in the walls and ceiling. Is this common? What causes it and is there any way to ensure it doesn't happen? It will be neat but you won't have much freeboard. At least they are not weep holes. Are you in a high intensity rainfall region? The regulatory slope is only required… 3 8268 Firstly, if your house is still under builder's warranty (10 years in Victoria) you should have no need to crawl into roof space but let the builder handle it, unless you… 3 5640 Not sure if that works? I was told the issue is the headspace clearance requirement on step 4. My builder is proposing shifting the beam 310mm towards the kitchen...I'm… 2 2596 |