Hello All,
I've run the searches but only found a limited amount of info on this topic. I live in Sydney so the Sydney (or nearby locations like Wollongong) area is my location of focus.
I recently had a guy (my physio) tell me there was a place in Wetherill Park (Sydney west) that sold kitchens and other building materials really cheap. The way he explained it was that the developers buy a surplus of kitchens etc for their projects and always have some left over which they get rid of really cheaply. Example, a developer builds a development comprising of 60 residences. They buy the kitchens for the development on mass and in order to provide some choice for those who buy the residences they might buy three different types of kitchen. They buy say 25 of each kitchen to try and cover peoples personal tastes (ie there wont be the exact right number of people that want each kitchen). The kitchens that are left over get off loaded cheaply afterwards.
The person I spoke to said he had renovated his home and picked up a good quality kitchen he valued around the 10k mark roughly for $600. Trouble is he couldn't remember the name of the place at the time. I'll have to chase him up on that one.
I've since searched the net and haven't found any such places. Although there do seem to be auction places (like Laws Auctions) that auction everything from kitchens etc to whitegoods.
So my questions are;
- Does anyone know of any places like the one described by my physio?
- Are there any other places, methods, books/magazines etc I should look for that would help in this area (discount materials/goods for renovations)? (I'm aware of the "Sydney Renovating Guide" by universal magazines that I found in one of Ruby's old posts).
- Do the auction places actually save you alot of money? Are they worth going to?
Thanks for your help,
MF
I've run the searches but only found a limited amount of info on this topic. I live in Sydney so the Sydney (or nearby locations like Wollongong) area is my location of focus.
I recently had a guy (my physio) tell me there was a place in Wetherill Park (Sydney west) that sold kitchens and other building materials really cheap. The way he explained it was that the developers buy a surplus of kitchens etc for their projects and always have some left over which they get rid of really cheaply. Example, a developer builds a development comprising of 60 residences. They buy the kitchens for the development on mass and in order to provide some choice for those who buy the residences they might buy three different types of kitchen. They buy say 25 of each kitchen to try and cover peoples personal tastes (ie there wont be the exact right number of people that want each kitchen). The kitchens that are left over get off loaded cheaply afterwards.
The person I spoke to said he had renovated his home and picked up a good quality kitchen he valued around the 10k mark roughly for $600. Trouble is he couldn't remember the name of the place at the time. I'll have to chase him up on that one.
I've since searched the net and haven't found any such places. Although there do seem to be auction places (like Laws Auctions) that auction everything from kitchens etc to whitegoods.
So my questions are;
- Does anyone know of any places like the one described by my physio?
- Are there any other places, methods, books/magazines etc I should look for that would help in this area (discount materials/goods for renovations)? (I'm aware of the "Sydney Renovating Guide" by universal magazines that I found in one of Ruby's old posts).
- Do the auction places actually save you alot of money? Are they worth going to?
Thanks for your help,
MF
