Do we have to have landscape plan for both the front and back areas or just what is seen (so the front). I thought the back was up to us…

Thanks pEast. I hadn’t heard anything about it. We are in a new estate. Glad to hear we don’t have to hand over another 4K. That isn’t in our budget.

Hey, what is an electrical pit? Do I need to organize this myself or do Arden do it?

We got our land valued by the bank for our land loan yes but the bank doesn’t value it for more than what you pay for it. I have been…

We are in stage 5. Our engineers report said ‘P’ class. Not sure exactly on the fill but think it was nearly 2m in some areas.

We went with the sales rep at Wollart, he was great. Agree the sales rep at Point Cook is not great. Our site costs came in at $24K which I…

Has anyone had their land revalued? I am interested to see how much land has gone up as someone was saying the other day that land at Life has gone…

Hey we got our site costs from our builder (Ardden homes) it ended up being $24k all up including rock removal which I was ok with, we had allowed for…

Hi gags,
They had done the soil test, don't think they would fix costs without the test having been done. We didn't know the soil test had been done though. They…

Hi gags,
Yep building in Point Cook at the new Life estate. Soil type was P can't remember off the top of my head the fill (think around 2m). But lots…

Tender all finished. Ended up taking all day. We have decided to take this years pricing to get an extension on our build time - it also means we get…

We wanted bi folds as well but went with ezy reveal window that is just a normal slide open. Hardly cost anything.

Any reason for not going everything withBosch?

Thanks Ezza, hoping tomorrow goes smoothly, our 6 yr old can be great but can also be a right pain (50/50 of which version he is on any given day).

The reviews of the ovens are not much better. We were thinking Miele but went to the show room near south Melbourne markets, the sales lady we spoke to was…

Thanks for that G33. Hadn't thought about how cupboards would open. Also think we need to add more data ports (they only give you two I think)

Do you mind me asking what the price was of the IKEA ones?

Hey All,
sorry, been awol for awhile. Going to tender tomorrow. Have been reading back at the thread but am getting headache from reading through 40 pages that I have missed…

Why stay away from Waffle? I had heard the same but have heard that as long as it is properly engineered they are fine. I would say that Raft would…

Thanks for the info Siouxsam. Will see if we can get in to do soil test as well. I'd rather know what costs we are going to be up for…

Hi Siouxsam,
We are in Life as well. Stage 5, I don't think that Arden do fixed costs but are going to look into it. Which stage are you in? We…

Sinbox, we ended up going with the Sales rep in Wollert as we felt more comfortable with his knowledge and customer service. I forgot all about the site costs at…

Hi Ezza
We deleted the serving bar as I didn't like the look. We had also flipped the butlers and laundry around so that I could have a window opening out…

Hi guys,
Long time lurker here. We are building the Votivo43 (changed to suit us) in Point Cook. I'm interested to hear they have fixed site costs as I was told…

Jeez, so $30k not unrealistic then. We are building the Votivo. Where abouts are you building the Mercer

Hi,
We are building in Life, also because our kids go to school at Alamanda. We are in stage 5 and titling has been pushed back to August from the initial…

Thanks for your reply Jadeypox. Unfortunately they can't fix the price until they can get access to the site evidently. Did your fixed site costs included everything. I think that…

Hi All,
Has anyone built with Arden Homes in Point Cook, Melbourne? We are building the Votivo 43 with a few changes, esp downstairs. We are doing our colour selection next…