mrsxtro
23rd July 2005, 08:51 PM
Evening all.
We will shortly be building a new house. Well, actually the building company will be doing that, we will be paying! Anyway, the builder is a fairly large project home builder. The house is a fairly standard 4 bed, 2 bathroom job. We have modified the insides quite a bit, adding french doors, making rooms bigger, raising ceilings etc. We have also changed to a zinc roof instead of the standard tiles (will be on 8 acres, need the tin roof for rain collection). This last change added another $4000 to the price. The company informs me that they can do the tiles cheaper because of their buying power for the standard options. Does that seem a reasonable price difference? The standard external cladding is brick (basic range I'm sure). I am thinking we would prefer weatherboard (such as Hardiplank "old style cladding". Is there a huge price difference between bricks and weatherboard per lineal metre? I am quite sure the builder will add on some substantial dollars if I ask for this change. Would like to be aware of the vailidity of such a price hike!
Thanks for any info you can give.
-mrsxtro.
We will shortly be building a new house. Well, actually the building company will be doing that, we will be paying! Anyway, the builder is a fairly large project home builder. The house is a fairly standard 4 bed, 2 bathroom job. We have modified the insides quite a bit, adding french doors, making rooms bigger, raising ceilings etc. We have also changed to a zinc roof instead of the standard tiles (will be on 8 acres, need the tin roof for rain collection). This last change added another $4000 to the price. The company informs me that they can do the tiles cheaper because of their buying power for the standard options. Does that seem a reasonable price difference? The standard external cladding is brick (basic range I'm sure). I am thinking we would prefer weatherboard (such as Hardiplank "old style cladding". Is there a huge price difference between bricks and weatherboard per lineal metre? I am quite sure the builder will add on some substantial dollars if I ask for this change. Would like to be aware of the vailidity of such a price hike!
Thanks for any info you can give.
-mrsxtro.