Planning a House Build

Once you have decided you want to build (rather than buy an existing house to live in), You will need to make some high-level choices. Budget Before you can think of building your house, you need to have a budget, not just for the land and house, but any other

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What are the Home Building Stages

After you have signed the contract with the building company, it might take some months before there is any “movement at the station”, as they say in old Aussie novels. Your land needs to be titled before any construction can begin. That alone can take many months, while the developer

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Resources

Government Moneysmart: Buying a house YourHome – Federal government guide to environmentally sustainable homes Private Visualisers Caesarstone Visualiser Lending Institutions

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Steel-frame house a Faraday cage?

In a Facebook group for new house builders, someone asked if we had a regret about some aspect of building a house. This was my reply (with edits): I built with a steel frame and a Colorbond roof. I don’t know which is the cause (could be a combination of

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Building a Steel Frame House?

Completed steel-frame house

Having built a couple of homes and being closely involved with some others, I’d like to share my experiences and thoughts of my first steel-frame house. I am not an architect, designer or builder, so take my comments entirely as a customer. In many ways, this is a review of

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