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.
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.
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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!!!
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!!
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