Building costs can blow out

Great to hear. Please post progress photos.

 

Following with interest. Thanks for sharing as much as your comfortable with.

 

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Out of curiosity, how do you find small builders to tender ? And how do you vet them to make sure they can deliver.

 

Met builder on site yesterday, things our going well, slab down

Brickies are As scarce as hens teeth atm

Larger builders are paying as much as $3 per brick, these guys are getting poached. They knock off at 2.30 pm every day

18 months ago brickies were paid $1.20 per brick. But boom times today in Perth

We are locked in at $1.98 and scheduled to start in July. Which is a delay of 1 month, no choice here. At least we have a team which builder has used many times, and good brickies

We are up $10,000 on our budget, this could change of course??? Anything can happen

Just waiting on my landscaping quote, builder allowed $8000, we are aiming $6000. We know a landscaper who is good friend of daughter..... mates rates I hope

Once brick work is up we will be flying. This builder has been completing builds within 9-10 months.

 

Massive savings here. Brilliant

I have found smaller builders to be far more competitive with pricing. Also my builder will not charge a fee for variations, this is where larger builder will claw back money

 

So I am hamstrung at the moment waiting for my bricklayers to come to site. Its been one month

They are now scheduled for mid July, weather permitting

My only option was to pay $1.00 more per brick or just wait, the later was of course cheaper option

My builder believes we should be still on target to complete project by April 2022

 

$1/ brick is a 50% increase in labour costs. I’m not experiencing this in Sydney. That’s expensive. Maybe a bigger shortage in WA?

April ‘22 should be COMFORTABLE. We’ve built show houses (detached 4 bedders, fully landscaped) in 30 days. Aggressive but doable.

 

Its all the government grants has caused shortage of brick layers

 

Those dam grantees

 

Finally I get something, nice sweetener $60,000 govt grant

 

Ahhh I see.

 

Tradie shortage in Perth is unbelievable, my builder said never seen anything as bad as this.

He said Brikmakers has run out of bricks??
Average home will take 3 years to build.

Once we get our bricklayers to site, I should be ok. My small builder has a crew he uses, but there are still delays for me

 

Yup shortages on materials and trades.
I can foresee the range of bricks being available will be reduced to keep up with demand. ie instead of 12 cream bricks they might reduce it to 3 so they can just pump out supply.
Is it your internal or external bricks they can't get?

 

I am ok with my bricks, got them all

its bricklayer holding things up, and recently the weather. We are all in the same boat

 

The words on the building game grape vine.
Steel price up
Wood price up
Concrete price =

Expect delays for the next 12 months before some relief in June 2022.
This was told me at the start of 2021.

 

How much are you actually getting out of the grants? I am aware you are given the set amount by the Govt but at what cost? i.e Everyone is paying extra by the sound of it, Trades, bricks, other materials, there must be holding costs, bank costs, rental costs etc

 

$60,000

Build Price is locked

 

Sorry, didnt mean to pry into your particular circumstances. Was more looking at the overall picture and I am hearing a shedful of horror stories.