Man, this video presentation is so complete in all aspects of the requirements for anyone thinking of building on a rural block, it is second to none. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make, and post, hugest apreciated by many viewer, I am sure.
This is the most productive video I have ever watched on UA-cam period!.... very helpful and in so much detail I would never have looked into. Thank you.
Awesome Video! My partner and I are still in the dream mode but now that you have taken a lot of the unknown out of the process, it seems the worry and stress levels have lowered. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!
Blingy Julz No worries, just keep in mind prices I mentioned will be out of date. Using a building company that look after the whole project can really simplify things too.
You total star! This is just what I was looking like as I haven't clue about buying land and building on it, but It's something I'm about to do. And you've answered loads of questions, and given me loads of insight into what I need to think about. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks for spending the time to put this together. I am looking to build on our land in the near future and there is a lot to think about, so i picked up a few interesting points from your video.
Mate, really helpful video. Exactly what I (as a total novice) was after. Now I just need a video about how to build on a wretched sloped section in Auckland 😅
@@GroundbreakCreative Building on poles is an excellent method. It has many advantages over concrete foundations. For a starter you lose the excavation and compaction costs. Much better quake resistance, easier placing of services, more comfortable flooring. We have had a strange push in the direction of concrete flooring since the eighties which I must admit mystifies me. Concrete foundations after the ChCh quake are still causing major problems but we still keep doing it.
Hey m8 informative video thanks, I know power supply was accessible to site, but what determined your decision to tap into grid witch you can potentially endure a power cut, opposed to self reliant power supply? fully off-grid? Cheers from the Naki
Just much cheaper to tap into grid if it’s available. Our budget was pretty tight so tried to reduce initial costs as much as possible. If your house site was a long way from a power source, then off grid would be the cheaper option. Just a matter of pricing up. You can also look at the solar options that feed power back to the grid too.
Great info Thanks! So if fully serviced (power, sewage, water) banks will lend up to 75% If no services provided then they will only lend up to 50% of the purchase price. So if I understand you correctly you recommend to install power, sewage, water utilities first so as to make available an additional 25% bank lending? And all three must be completed first? I ask because often the septic effluent fields are the last site works done. 2:28 big rooves often mean bigger, more expensive houses so I'm not sure this is the most economical way to ensure your off-grid potable water supply over summer. How about a filtration system attached to your bore water supply?
Yeah, so you need to talk to the bank about what is required to be called “serviced land” and what they will lend. My point about the roof is if you build 2 storied you will end up a with less surface area on your roof. Not saying to build a bigger house just to catch more water. The other option is to put in an extra tank to retain more of the water you do catch.
Great video need more like this. Bit of a rude question but im looking at building in south island 20min out from dunedin, how much was was you build in the end and how long did it take?
No worries, our build took 7 months from excavation to keys. We spent around 300k + the cost of the land, however that was a good 3 years ago now before everything started booming upwards. This house plan would have cost an extra $28,000 if we signed the contract one day latter. Just remember to allow some head room in your budget, you will want to change things along the way and may come up against unexpected expenses.
We got a master builder to build our house and what a nightmare. The builder did not use ceiling battens. Screwed gib straight to trusses . Six months after finishing all our ceilings cracked.
Yes this is true, however the master build guarantee is what you are after. Even though individual tradesmen can be dodgy, the master build guarantee means you have someone to cover these kinds of screw ups. I had an argument with the builder on ours about door sills he hadn't packed under, he kept telling me it couldn't be done, when I knew it could and should have been done. In the end I just told him I'd contact master builders and get them to sort it. He changed his tune pretty quick and came out to sort the issue.
Groundbreak Creative you don't no what you are talking about mate . We have been through the wringer .don't trust master builders full stop . Go see good builders who will give you the run down
Did you have a "master build guarantee"? Or did you just use a "master builder"? The guarantee you pay for is 25years of cover against faulty workmanship. It should have been a matter of having your lawyer contact them and have it re-done. Of coarse thats a pain in the backside after the build is finished. This is a good thing for people to look out for though, What suggestion would you make to help people know who is a good builder and who is not?
Groundbreak Creative go and see them building .see what they have built . We had the guarantee everything . It's a lot of crap . Alot of the best builders laugh .there's no way they display there logo they don't need it
Those figures are rather irrelevant now. We built 6 years ago, right before the prices started jumping up. The house build was roughly $300k the whole project including buying the land cost just over $500k. You could go on some housing company websites and get a fair idea of prices. This design is in the Lattitude homes range the “Kaimanawa”. We made a lot of changes to it, but might give a rough idea of how much prices have increased.
Oh right yes! Okay thanks heaps for your video is still very informative despite the time stamp 😁 The NZ housing market is insane when looking closer to any city so this is so much more logical 👍 thanks again for the info
Your dreaming mate .master builders are not insurance companies. They sell the bull shit to builders so they may get more work with the fancy stickers they can put on there truks . Slot of well known builders don't need stickers and television advertising .
Again the guarantee is what you are looking for, I'm not suggesting a "master builder" is any better than any other builder, but with the "guarantee" there are actually legally binding obligations, that are covered, not by the builder themselves, but by the company "master builders".
Ny Chan apologies if I have offended you. I’ve just made this video to help people out with the many unknowns of building rurally. The only mention I make in the video of master builders is around their guarantee (focusing on the bankruptcy of a builder). This was pointed out to me by my lawyer, when entering the process. I never claimed to “Know it all”. I never claimed that a master builder was better than anyone else. All I was suggesting to you was that if you had that guarantee you would have a legal standing against your builder that you could take advantage of. Clearly you are Uninterested in that suggestion, so my apologies for making it.
Groundbreak Creative all good mate just saying we been down the claims with master builder's and had lawyers the works .the paper guarantee is not worth the paper it's on . Just saying if you have been around building the top builders who do no advertising will not go near there stickers they will hand out of you pay up your fees. And another thing is alot of companies offer a 25 year warranty. I get to see one existing under same name .
Man, this video presentation is so complete in all aspects of the requirements for anyone thinking of building on a rural block, it is second to none. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make, and post, hugest apreciated by many viewer, I am sure.
This is the most productive video I have ever watched on UA-cam period!.... very helpful and in so much detail I would never have looked into. Thank you.
I agree! Thank you so much
Cheers mate, really helpful to hear firsthand, and great tips, working towards moving rural at the moment so any info we can get is great!
Awesome Video! My partner and I are still in the dream mode but now that you have taken a lot of the unknown out of the process, it seems the worry and stress levels have lowered. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!
Blingy Julz No worries, just keep in mind prices I mentioned will be out of date. Using a building company that look after the whole project can really simplify things too.
You total star! This is just what I was looking like as I haven't clue about buying land and building on it, but It's something I'm about to do. And you've answered loads of questions, and given me loads of insight into what I need to think about. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks for spending the time to put this together. I am looking to build on our land in the near future and there is a lot to think about, so i picked up a few interesting points from your video.
Thanks for the tips, we are building on our 5 acre section
in coastal north Otago in 2019, lots of help for us in your video. Great work.
What is the cost of 5 acres in you place man? Pls tell me.
Wow the information in this video is incredibly beneficial! I learnt so much - thank you for taking the time to share!
Thanks for very good information. This is very useful currently i am looking for a lifestyle block
Solid advice, thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your effort to put this video up. Enlightened for our future home. 😊
Awesome detail bro thank you!
Great insight and very helpful
Certinly made me aware of a few things. Thanks man.
This video is awesome and so informative. Thanks for taking the time out to share your learning!
Very helpful! Glad you made this :)
Excellent video. Thank you.
Great advice, thank you so much
thanks for posting mate!
Mate, really helpful video. Exactly what I (as a total novice) was after. Now I just need a video about how to build on a wretched sloped section in Auckland 😅
You’ll need to talk to an engineer for that one 😂. If it’s a big slope, you might be looking at building on poles.
@@GroundbreakCreative Building on poles is an excellent method. It has many advantages over concrete foundations. For a starter you lose the excavation and compaction costs. Much better quake resistance, easier placing of services, more comfortable flooring. We have had a strange push in the direction of concrete flooring since the eighties which I must admit mystifies me. Concrete foundations after the ChCh quake are still causing major problems but we still keep doing it.
Thanks man good advice
I will listen 🎶
awesum vid thank you. puts everything into perspective about planning your infrastructure. nga mihi
You've helped me a lot! Thank you its a bit daunting
Excellent.👍.thanks for this important information😊..lots to consider
This video is very helpful 👌..Thank you.
Great info and advice 👍👍 thank you 😁
awesome video bro thanks.
So informative, thank you
Great video, super informative. Thanks so much for sharing :)
Great video!! Thanks 👏👏👏
hey brother thanx for sharing really valuable and keep posting such kind of useful videos..Awesome work
Hey m8 informative video thanks, I know power supply was accessible to site, but what determined your decision to tap into grid witch you can potentially endure a power cut, opposed to self reliant power supply? fully off-grid?
Cheers from the Naki
Just much cheaper to tap into grid if it’s available. Our budget was pretty tight so tried to reduce initial costs as much as possible. If your house site was a long way from a power source, then off grid would be the cheaper option. Just a matter of pricing up. You can also look at the solar options that feed power back to the grid too.
Awesome video man. Cheers a tonne for that 👍🏼
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Great info Thanks! So if fully serviced (power, sewage, water) banks will lend up to 75%
If no services provided then they will only lend up to 50% of the purchase price. So if I understand you correctly you recommend to install power, sewage, water utilities first so as to make available an additional 25% bank lending? And all three must be completed first? I ask because often the septic effluent fields are the last site works done. 2:28 big rooves often mean bigger, more expensive houses so I'm not sure this is the most economical way to ensure your off-grid potable water supply over summer. How about a filtration system attached to your bore water supply?
Yeah, so you need to talk to the bank about what is required to be called “serviced land” and what they will lend. My point about the roof is if you build 2 storied you will end up a with less surface area on your roof. Not saying to build a bigger house just to catch more water. The other option is to put in an extra tank to retain more of the water you do catch.
Really helpful! Thanks so much.
Great. Thanks for that
Awesome!! Great video very helpful
Awesome video super informative... Thank you so much for your time in sharing your experiences.. NGA Mihi
Beaut site man. Thanks for the video.
Interesting banks will only lend 50% of land value. I would have thought bare land was low risk as it has nothing on it it can't lose value.
I wish you well and hope you have many years in your house trouble free 👍👍
Ny Chan thank you, I wish you well also.
Yes excavator can charge ridiculous prices . If they have a huge workload they will throw a crazy price take it or leave it attitude
Great video need more like this. Bit of a rude question but im looking at building in south island 20min out from dunedin, how much was was you build in the end and how long did it take?
No worries, our build took 7 months from excavation to keys. We spent around 300k + the cost of the land, however that was a good 3 years ago now before everything started booming upwards. This house plan would have cost an extra $28,000 if we signed the contract one day latter. Just remember to allow some head room in your budget, you will want to change things along the way and may come up against unexpected expenses.
We got a master builder to build our house and what a nightmare. The builder did not use ceiling battens. Screwed gib straight to trusses . Six months after finishing all our ceilings cracked.
Anyone can be a master builder, they just have to pay for it.
Yes this is true, however the master build guarantee is what you are after. Even though individual tradesmen can be dodgy, the master build guarantee means you have someone to cover these kinds of screw ups. I had an argument with the builder on ours about door sills he hadn't packed under, he kept telling me it couldn't be done, when I knew it could and should have been done. In the end I just told him I'd contact master builders and get them to sort it. He changed his tune pretty quick and came out to sort the issue.
Groundbreak Creative you don't no what you are talking about mate . We have been through the wringer .don't trust master builders full stop . Go see good builders who will give you the run down
Did you have a "master build guarantee"? Or did you just use a "master builder"? The guarantee you pay for is 25years of cover against faulty workmanship. It should have been a matter of having your lawyer contact them and have it re-done. Of coarse thats a pain in the backside after the build is finished. This is a good thing for people to look out for though, What suggestion would you make to help people know who is a good builder and who is not?
Groundbreak Creative go and see them building .see what they have built . We had the guarantee everything . It's a lot of crap . Alot of the best builders laugh .there's no way they display there logo they don't need it
great video very helpful, any chance you could give more rough numbers? what were total council fees, and actual project total?thnx
Cheers mate real help
I watched, like, 15 minutes of this 'till I realised I didn't need to know any of it at all! But shot Dean! Giving out to the community!
Very helpful!
Thanks heaps
good on ya mate cheers
Thanks a lot!
Your property? How many acres mate?
where is this land located mate? central otago?
Hawke's Bay. Just keep in mind if you're building now, prices have significantly increased since the time when this video was made.
How much roughly was your house build price?
Those figures are rather irrelevant now. We built 6 years ago, right before the prices started jumping up. The house build was roughly $300k the whole project including buying the land cost just over $500k. You could go on some housing company websites and get a fair idea of prices. This design is in the Lattitude homes range the “Kaimanawa”. We made a lot of changes to it, but might give a rough idea of how much prices have increased.
Oh right yes! Okay thanks heaps for your video is still very informative despite the time stamp 😁 The NZ housing market is insane when looking closer to any city so this is so much more logical 👍 thanks again for the info
In which part of New Zeleand is this house located?
This is in Hawke’s Bay
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Your dreaming mate .master builders are not insurance companies. They sell the bull shit to builders so they may get more work with the fancy stickers they can put on there truks . Slot of well known builders don't need stickers and television advertising .
Again the guarantee is what you are looking for, I'm not suggesting a "master builder" is any better than any other builder, but with the "guarantee" there are actually legally binding obligations, that are covered, not by the builder themselves, but by the company "master builders".
Groundbreak Creative your a no all mate you can't of seen fair go.
Ny Chan apologies if I have offended you. I’ve just made this video to help people out with the many unknowns of building rurally. The only mention I make in the video of master builders is around their guarantee (focusing on the bankruptcy of a builder). This was pointed out to me by my lawyer, when entering the process. I never claimed to “Know it all”. I never claimed that a master builder was better than anyone else. All I was suggesting to you was that if you had that guarantee you would have a legal standing against your builder that you could take advantage of. Clearly you are Uninterested in that suggestion, so my apologies for making it.
Groundbreak Creative all good mate just saying we been down the claims with master builder's and had lawyers the works .the paper guarantee is not worth the paper it's on . Just saying if you have been around building the top builders who do no advertising will not go near there stickers they will hand out of you pay up your fees. And another thing is alot of companies offer a 25 year warranty. I get to see one existing under same name .
@@GroundbreakCreative - Thanks for keeping the conversation classy Groundbreak Creative. Could have gone downhill rapidly. Glad it didn't.