Building - it always costs more than you expect
Home Design November 8th, 2007
Building – it always costs more than you expect…
Brace yourself…
So you have a budget of $200,000 for your new home… you will need to put in a great deal of your own time and effort to achieve this.
Most people don’t expect a new home to cost as much as it does. Be prepared, if you are not willing to do a lot of the leg work yourself double what you were planning to spend. Yes, trust me, I’ve seen it too many times, and been caught doing it on my own personal projects, even though I should know better.
Most people will go through the construction process only once in their life and construction costs change considerably over time; so much so that even the professionals have a hard time estimating what a completed building is going to cost until the tendering process is complete.
So if you are serious about keeping costs in check, perhaps a good place to start would be our construction cost estimator.
