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It's best to talk to your preferred builders after plans have been completed but prior to DA approval. This allows the builder to review and estimate if it's within your budget, and any areas in the build that will blow the budget. Once you have a DA in place, you are really 'locked in' to...

Thanks willair. It's red brick. I've been hearing around this price from a couple of the trades, which surprises me. 25 bucks is getting up there. This would be about 7500 to do a double story. I wouldn't have thought it would take more than a week to bag a house with 1 person. And it would...

This house definitely lends itself to a big value add with bag and paint. I will look into the oxide option-however I have seen the look of a oxide bag job that has faded and it's not a great sight on a modern home.

thanks tobe. I'm not sure. I've seen some dog's breakfast bag jobs out there. However I suspect it's often more to do with the prep work(either rough bricks or not flushing the joints correctly) than bagging itself. For the sake of a few grand, I really don't think it's worth the risk of...

Thanks for the advice. I think the telling thing is done 'nicely'. I've actually bagged my previous house myself and I did an 'okay' job-not as nice as the display village bagging though. Since this house is a relatively high end house, I'd prefer to pay someone to do it. Just need to get an...

Simple answer to that is painting is relatively easy, and bagging has a particular technique/s that I don't want to stuff up in a nice new house. I've started calling for quotes-it's the time of year they're all on holidays.

Hi, I'm looking at cememt bagging(not rendering) a double storey home i'm in the process of buying, and I wanted to get an indication of what others have been charged to bag a house. There's plenty of info on cement rendering, however bagging info seems more scarce. I know materials are...

I'm hijacking this thread as well, but can anyone tell me what I can do about a "crunching" laminate floor. I don’t know if it was simply cheap and nasty, or the subfloor is not level(cypress pine underneath), but it crunches all the time on nearly the whole floor. The edges have 1 cm gap, the...

These days, a fair chunk of the 60-100k valuation increase would be lost in buy and sell costs, interest and opportunity cost on your invested capital and labour. I can see how people make profit, but it ain't glamorous, and it's only those who a buy significantly below market, reno...

You do realise it's a "profits" tax rather than "revenue" tax. The loss making argument is moot. Those resources still exist in the ground. So yes, jobs "today"are potentially lost( i don't pretend to know the grade of ore), but in 5-10-50 years time that ore will be mined.... What do you...

With all due respect, are you joking? 18kfor a rebuild..Are you sure you're not talking about 1972 instead of 2010.......A 200sqm(very conservative slab), would cost close to 18k...and thats' just the start. I'm not sure how you convert that to a full house. ??? Suraj, I know you've asked for...

That's a sensible idea. I've always found this to be a failure in the current residential tenancy laws.

Just get an electric hedge trimmer. It's quick and easy...

I'd say increased company tax revenues from the resources boom may allow structurally lower income tax levels over time. The trend of "exporting deflation" from china will also continue with anything manufactured, combined with the strong aussie dollar. Whether that equates to anything...

Good post. i've always believed that the design of our economic system inevitably leads to a cash rate of 0 long term for some of the reasons you mentioned. When you target inflation at 2-3%, debt never erodes, and the peak of each cycle becomes lower than the one before due to higher and higher...

I think you would agree that a fair amount of demand has been brought forward by stimulus measures of late...possibly a bit of investor pent up demand, but certainly not FHB's. On the topic at hand, the system requires a lot of new money in the form of debt to maintain the status quo and...

Michael. Supply is not being reduced. It's just not increasing as fast as it was. For supply to reduce, you'd need to knock down houses. I do agree of course that demand is increasing through increasing population and other demographic shifts. It's not quite as black and white as you make it out...

Imagine you hired a car over in New Zealand for a holiday(a cold climate), and the car heating immediately broke down. You have to freeze for the week in a cold car you are spending 6 or more hours a day in. Would you expect compensation? Would you expect a replacement car? Everyone's demands...

I see it slightly differently. They are paying a rent for a house with specific services and features. if those features or services become unavailable then they should not have to pay for them for the duration of the service being unavailable. I would argue more along the lines of a rent...

Good luck with your project, but it is a "bit" more complex than that. Opening up an external load bearing wall and inserting a engineered beam, installing the tracks(you need good quality or they will catch-bifolds weigh a lot), running the hings so they stack well. It's all pretty hard...