We are at the DA stage and have had a pretty smooth course so far compared to our last builder.

Thanks for the replies, we are still waiting on the tender to come back hopefully next week.

Has anyone else recently started with Hudson. Does anyone happen to have a rough cost for upgrades like electrical and colour selection place?

What sort of landscaping are you doing for $75000 that is a lot of work.

It was our money that we put in the provisional tender at the start to assist in budget and roughly look at final costs. In saying that looks like budget…

Our block is 420sqm house is 300sqm so take out about 60sqm for driveway and concrete leaves about 60sqm about 15sqm is pebbles so lets just say for arguments sake…

I think they still get alot of business as most people just want everything done before they move in for me as I able to do it most of it…

Yeah we got the $5500 landscaping voucher which originally was going towards the driveway with an additional tender allowance of $2500. So I'll most likely get them to do the…

I've done a few backyard and front yard turf and garden renovations as thats my past job. Fencing for me is over the top it is only 4.6m in total…

It will take a day to do site prep and return a couple of tonne of top soil or underlay and then half a day to lay the turf. The…

That's the only part of the quote I can somewhat agree with they also charge $1000 for a rendered mailbox which you can get a bunnings cheaper and $750 installed…

Drive way isn't level slighty sloping will require drop edge beam type set up along one side it does include additional steps 4 in total and a smaller slab on…

If they priced better they would be run off their feet and wouldn't be able to keep up. But at those prices it is worthwile going elsewhere.

Driveway will be around $10,300
Site prep is another $2100
Fencing is something like $4800 just for a gate and side returns which is way way over priced
Lawn is so…

So we got our provisional landscaping quote today. Lets us say if they priced accordingly they would be run off their feet. I come from a Horticulture background and the…

I got someone in to clear the site of the everyone's elses construction debris and general rubbish. I then went back and used round up on all the weeds and…

My issue was and still is that if they were realistic in their projected start times. We would have kept our exisiting house and sold it later this year, but…

Good Luck, with the 12mth schedule. Our land was registered and ready to go. We signed the intital tender back at the end of July 2016 and it is only…

Not a problem, I've got a local guy that I will use but as it's the last block in the street it has everyone else's rubbish so looking at around…

Has anyone had Wisdom clear their site of additional debris. As I have quite a bit of soil and general rubbish on the site as it is the last block…

Yeah, I am thinking of running with the ESP but it may get cut due to budget demands. I beleive with the ESP it would take around 5 years to…

Hello,
First post in here we are currently in the process of building the washington 32 at Elara. Have done most of the appointments. I just wanted to know who has…