Sunday, July 11, 2010

Ka-Ching Ka-Ching goes the cash register

Today we had a meeting with Premier to analyse the specifications of the  house and discuss the little "extras" that we desire.   Over an hour later, I now know the meaning of lintel, finial, what reveals & madison boxes are.

Also discovered the EXTRA  costs of awning windows instead of sliding, the cost to have the original facade including colour bricks around house, bullnose window sill bricks, twin brick piers and brick fence inbetween, the cost of having a small piece of steel lintel over the back garage door is $320, even though we have already paid $370 for the same over the main garage door which is more than twice as wide!!  Picture rails to lounge, hall, family & master.   Can you hear the cash register ringing???  About $5,000 for all this.

We will have to wait to get the EXTRA cost of awning windows at the front including side light windows in the bay to the master (because that is extra!), the cost of having a larger bi-parting sliding door in the alfresco, and the cost of having a zone put in for the ducted heating, putting a door in the hallway to shut off the kitchen/family from the lounge room, turning the coat cupboard into a half & half shelves & hanging and having 2 doors to open instead of one. 

I wonder why I ever uttered those immortal words "I was thinking" and started all this.
What you see when you see a display home is not what you get, anything nice is always EXTRA, you never see basic inclusions, they always upgrade the display house to the hilt.

So I now wait for Premier to get back to me with all those other EXTRAS, and the sound keeps going ka-ching ka-ching.

3 comments:

Raelene said...

Hi Janine,

Please share... what IS a madison box???

Don't you just lurve the extras? Especially the "yes we can widen the benchtop. Thats an extra $600", but then when you get to tender stage you discover that you'll need the waterfall edge for an additional $1,200. "Oh, sales didn't tell you that?".

Guess it's all part of the fun and games of building. I think we'll be drinking chateau d'cardboard around the kitchen bench rather than anything from a bottle. We'll both be broke by the time this is over!!!

Janine K said...
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Raelene said...

Ha ha ha - I just had a visual of you running outside to the gas meter to answer the phone!!

PD have charged us $250 to even run the telstra cable to the house, which I know know is a madison box (!!) so we didn't even get to the stage of locating the phone point in the house. We don't currently have a home phone, but were told it's compulsory to have the line. Hmmm?

And I love this one - we were told we had to upgrade our stormwater pipe that runs under the driveway. At a cost of $1,500. Because they keep cracking and PD have to come out and fix them. Then the OHS fencing at another $1.5K. You'd think these things would be built in, wouldn't you?

Again - we gotta keep on laughing!!