Wow, looks exciting. Good luck on your build!

Just watch out for site costs or any provisional sums, as they are flexible (usually in the builders favour)

Not sure what state you are in. We are in WA and the prices we have are:
Gas (more than 20m) @ $55/m
Power $55/m
Water $18/m
Sewer $43/m
Gas would be cheaper if we…

Cheers for the great thread, it was an awesome read.
You house looks brilliant.

You can go in and ask at the display home how much it is, the ones I've asked about have been between $60k and $160k more than the "standard" design…

thats a bit pathetic
not sure what your next step would be

Awesome! How exciting. Hopefully it all comes together nice and quickly.

So our tiling done, however they appear not to have followed our plans, we got a variation to tile the area infront of the amenities, (see picture) but they have…

The plans look awesome, love the block.

Hi Casellmai,
That was last weekend, my partner snuck a peak yesterday and it appears most of the tiling has been put in, so only a few things left, its getting…

Its been a little while since i posted some pictures, a fair bit has happened in the mean time, plastering, rendering, ceilings have gone in, cornice has gone in, ceilings…

We had one off our light switches plaster over completely (grey float and white) the sparky was there a week later and had it cut out again, so don't stress…

Wow its really coming together

The house had the plumber go through next, and shortly after that, the roof was on!

and that's us nearly caught up, to now.

A week or two had passed and we had our roof frame on. yay! it not looks like a house. (So we are currently some time in June/July)

the roof cavity…

Same story here with face brick, apparently it had quality issues.

@1rocky no issues with bushfire ratings (builder has taken care of all the requirements thank god), just need to keep the area clear of leaf/grass and dead material during summer…

Thanks, we love having all the trees around, but I fear I will be fore ever cleaning gutters
A few more photos of the brick work,…

Wow, i love those floors, what kind are they? Engineered, Solid?

Thanks Nitro, we have been watching your place go up every time we drive by.
Cheers kiwi
A few weeks after the slab was down, the bricks…

Clearing the trees, that was certainly not a fun task, we got some contractors in, who simple put couldn't follow basic instructions. This caused some issues, that I wont go…

So the next stage was getting some access up to the site, we have about a 2 meter slop leading up to the flat part of our block, we needed…

Here is our uncleared block!
So during February we went to our builder (from the previous Byford expedition) and resigned our paper work, with the various changes we wanted in…

Hi All,
I've been quietly following many of your builds over the past 6 months and figured it was time to post our own adventure.
We initially, signed up for…

Thanks,
I'll have a bit of a chat to them and hopefully they back off a bit.

Thanks for the replies,
The full breakdown is:
Eatherworks 12k
Bulk sand removal 500
Paving Prep 650
Slab Prep 325
Grano Prep 325
Removal of Roots & Rake 1.5k (We got trees externally cleared leaving only…

Hi All,
I'm a first home builder, I've just gotten some figures back from my builder regarding siteworks and was hoping someone with some more experience than me could tell me…