Hi there. We had:
Slab upgrade: $4,030
Salinity requirement: $2,745
Bushfire: $9,000
Additional estate requirements: $1,600
So $17,375 additional for site related costs. Although this was 4 years ago when BASIX requirements were a lot…

Hi there. We had:
Slab upgrade: $4,030
Salinity requirement: $2,745
Bushfire: $9,000
Additional estate requirements: $1,600
So $17,375 additional for site related costs. Although this was 4 years ago when BASIX requirements were a lot…

Yes not a problem. We have moved in and started to get things together like landscaping etc.
Just need to find a moment to get some photos up.

Bricking almost completed.
Roof to go on next, then brick clean, render and cladding.

Hi Cooky,
The estate we are building in has there own requirements for setbacks. It was 4m from the front and something like 3m from the side (due to corner…

It depends on the size of the house and which stages you want them to inspect. I've pasted the below original quote from Houspect below which explains the stages and…

Looking good! What bricks are you using?
We are using Austral Mineral Velour as the main brick which is like a brown/grey natural colour. It's also not a face brick as…

Bricks and scaffolding now going in.

Frames progress.
Roof going on next week.

Now have a slab. Crazy how fast it seems to go after spending so much time in the admin stage.

Just commenced. Site has been levelled and the formwork for the slab has been put in.
Apparently going to pour next week.
We've just engaged Houspect to help with the stage…

Spamming cos I ️ our pendant light. Even more beautiful in person.
So simple and clean. The black ties in with our black accents in the kitchen and the wood…

Love this pendant light! Could you please tell me the supplier where you got it from?

Had our contract meeting today and signed all the required documents and final contract. Hopefully looking to start building early next month. Just need to get our finance finalised and…

Ended up going with Conzept. They did a good job. Ended up with about 4 pages of drawings/specifications like the below which gave us a good idea of what we…

I believe technically you can do it yourself but you need to know what you're doing as particular councils are going to want to know species of plants, driveway gradients,…

Hi Zen,
We ended up choosing the colours ourself, but the Home Ideas Centre has a great deal of colour scheme and boards than can help you get an idea of…

Yes we were pleased with the Hall and Hart inclusions and price. The base pricing for the designs we were interested in were similar to Metricon in terms of cost,…

Hi all,

Figured we would try and document our process with Hall & Hart as being a relatively new builder there is not a lot of information out there on…

We have just received our tender for the Madison 'Contemporary' facade from Hall and Hart and am currently weighing up the pros and cons against another tender we got from…

We are looking to build the Madison 'Contemporary' facade. Only early days, we just received our preliminary tender document.
We also got a tender with Metricon so currently weighing up the…