It is pretty straight forward, mine cost about $5k at start of the year with United Energy in south east Melbourne.
All I did was complete the form as well as…

all the quotes I got when I did this at start of the year said they break you pay.
and when demo actually did get completed, guess what.. they broke and…

No nothing specific, I was more interested to know if anyone challenged anything in the document and what was the outcome, or whether there was anything in there that was…

that's no good, i can imagine there would have been quite a bit of cost involved in achieving the effect you are after, e.g. reducing the ceiling height / having…

Hi All
For those building with TA, was there anything in the contract specification document that you would have received along with the HIA contract that you had an issue with?
I've…

sounds unfortunate as i'm sure it's going to be more challenging and potentially costlier to do the pool after the build.
our pool guy has been really good thus far. …

Probably depends on how much surface water encountered.
Ours was a steady sludge like consistency coming out (bit like mud lava) as well as a some pockets of more 'normal' water…

wow where do I start with this. We are doing a concrete pool with our build and the pool shell has gone in first due to its proximity to…

heat pump tank is what we went.
if you are building with TA, then our upgrade was only a few hundred from the standard system you get. this is the…

i would suggest it would depend on your circumstance.
gas ducted heating + add on cooling I think means they will give you evaporative cooling, which has some mixed reviews on…

the new electrical process is with the actual electrician down in cranbourne. I was quite impressed with it. However, I think you may be right as with external…

wow that's a steep price tag for what seems like a small matter.
i'm hoping to avoid any and all variations by being as detailed as possible leading up to contracts

tender feels like a bit of a bottleneck. ours went for about 1.5 months, but that might be because of the detail I went to in terms of what…

congrats on progress. If you don't mind me asking, who did you use for the swimming pool and did TA not do a house set out prior to the…

why not just ask your builder?
As a way of comparison I was charged 8.8k for a double storey to increase to 2735 GR and 2585 FF. 20 sqs ground…

To those of you who are following this thread and building with TA, have you appointed your own surveyor? Or did you go with what they recommended.
If you have…

congratulations on your new home. hopefully everything goes to plan and your feature staircase with the windows looking out to a mini courtyard looks good

it was the original width of mine, however we eventually got it widened. I just assumed it was standard as the OP's garage is also 5.5m internal width

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thanks for your detailed post looks great. We are in a very similar position with you, having just had our tender discussion recently. Just decided to create an account after…