270 days sounds like it’s a decent size house? How many m2?

Clearing of site by owner will be referring to grass, trees, rubbish. Is there any of that on there?
Excavation of rock will be for when they cut the block and/or drill for piers. Most builders don’t allow for it in the contract because it is something of the unknown and can get costly…[Read more]

Yeah we do a lot of high end stuff, just finished one that was 680m2. Over it though, so many extras and you don’t come out any better off if you banged out a couple of small ones. Send some of that Sydney work up this way hey? Haha

Far out it sounds like there’s heaps of work down that way! We are the only project/volume housing company that is still stick frame all the rest are pre fab. I think I might take a few days off leave the boys at work and get my boots on the ground.

Not sure what it is for pre fab but I get 23 a m2 for stick, I’ve been hearing that most companies are paying 20 a m2 for pre fab which makes me want to jump ship and start doing pre fab work if I can find it.

Off the topic question here, do you do stick or prefab and what’s the m2 rate you get?

Yeah I finished it a year and a half ago but only got my supervisors licence at the moment, I’ve been meaning to do up the paperwork to get my builders licence. What state are you in? I’m in Queensland and HIA where doing the cert 4 for 1800 but now it’s even cheaper. 2-3 nights a week and every second Saturday for 8 months I think it was.

What kind of trade are you? I’m a contract carpenter and have been through a few apprentices, currently have two of them. I found fair work to be pretty useless at best. I became a member of HIA to do my builders cert and have found them to be extremely helpful when it comes to wages and what you are and what you don’t have to pay. It sounds like…[Read more]

Can’t believe I forgot my email! Thanks Richard much appreciated

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Hi Richard, I think I’ll jump on and ask for a copy too thanks mate!

Cheers, Shaun.

Everyone’s got to start somewhere right? I think a bit of diversification in investments is good. Hell I bought some shares this morning, how many others on here just invest in property?

Haha yeah give or take a dollar maybe.

Redon syed- That is one of the main things I’d like to learn, why interest rates affect the buy and sell of property. I would like to teach my self more on tax and accounting so I can understand more of what’s said on these forums in regards to loans and so forth. I never stop reading and sometimes I think I read too much and get confused.…[Read more]

Posting this off my phone and for somereason cant see text, sorry if anything doesnt make sense!