Hi All
After the crazy COVID building price increases, last year we saw prices finally stabilise.
Based on some trade prices we have received recently I fear 2024 is going to see…

love a good drama. This looks promising. Shame bimboy isnt around to offer you some sage advice on how you coud have avoided all this with some BIM.

you cant. The only real regulation of growth is cutting them. Though theres probably better erosion solutions in way of smaller plants, but thats a long term solution. Also I'm…

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Hi Everyone,
I finally signed up for a trade account at Beacon, and it allows me to refer people for a 20% discount.
One of my clients put me onto this…

I will try and sit down in the next few days and analyse them and then post a report

Yes, this was my whole point - you install vapour permeable barrier in front of much less permeable OSB layer, effectively, shutting down this barrier and causing vapour accumulation and…

In much of Perth we build on the coastal plain and as such we are on sand. We have an ant called the western coastal brown ant that just loves…

Ive explained this in other threads recently.
The final payment hinges on the contract definition of completion. It wil be words to the effect of “built to plans and specifications”.
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Well Simeon, if you'd just gotten BIM, data and proofs, you'd have avoided a 100k loss 😆

Yep you can run it all in the trench spaced out. It is in all the appropriate standard documents. Trench is 600mm deep for power. The rest is installed above…

The owner is not only entitled to have the job well done but also the comfort that it is so. No comfort here.

Top of the list is it's finished to fair Standard and reasonably price!

i wouldn't worry if you have no cracks. Often things aren't hung perfectly square, so the slightest movement and presto, your doors are catching. Most doors will have a…

did you tell them to:
"Get their own design copyright on the plans and preliminary engineering, data and estimate .
Then provide this information to 3 builders to quote, as soon as…

there's a good chance that when you get the HIA contract eventually, the price in it will be higher than what you have been quoted so far

That sounds exactly what I would like to achieve. Hopefully the builder comes to the party.

you can have a volume builder build a higher energy efficiency home. You just have to choose the upgrades, and some preferred upgrades may not be available.
ie a volume…

Don't get too hung up on Bimboys comments, he's an alarmist and often suggests unrealistic courses of action to first time builders. Don't get overwhelmed by it.
While there are provisions…

you mean the materials which even builders with direct supplier contracts and relationships cant get or have to pay a 30% premium on?
Or do you mean building from cardboard…