OUR PROCESS AND YOUR JOURNEY

The following should make your journey into a new home a lot easier and faster.

Time

  • From our first conversations to moving into your new home allow 6 to 12 months depending upon the project

Finance

  • Ensure you have the finance approved before signing a contract

Progress Payments

  • We recommended anyone building a new home uses progress payments

  • As such you pay as the home is built, with the last payment on completion of your new home!

  • We use a 6 stage progress payment plan for on our yard builds and 13 stage if on your section

  1. Contract Deposit

  2. Floor Down

  3. Frames & Trusses & Roof Completed

  4. Exterior Cladding

  5. Ready to Move

  6. Final Payment – Onsite 

Insurance

Legal / Council / Developers

  • Check that you can have a new home transported to your section

  • (When they say you cannot have a relocatable home on your section; they are generally referring to an existing home being picked up and moved; not a brand-new home being transported to your section)

  • Do you have a building platform which you must build within, or building setbacks from the road, side, and end boundaries. Typical setbacks are 3m or 4.5m from the road boundary, 1.5m to 2m from the sider boundaries and 3m to 4.5m from the back boundary 

  • Check your building site coverage, typically it’s around 35% to 45% of your section size

  • Number of dwellings allowed, if you have space, you could plan for a second minor dwelling in the future, they are general up to 70m2

  • Roof style mono / gable / hip. You may also be required to have a certain roof pitch

  • Check the type cladding you can use on the outside and how many you need, or can have

  • Also check the colours and reflectivity of the cladding / roof / joinery (windows & doors)

Land

  • You may require an engineer’s report so that we build your truss and frames, and engineer the home to meet the climate zone / wind zone / snow zone / earthquake zone

  • If required, we will need a Geotech report to design the foundation or piles to meet the requirements for your foundation or piles

Services

  • Check that you have the following on your boundary

  • Power / Phone / fibre / Water / Sewer

  • We can then allow around 30 meters of connections for each service in our costings

 

Rural sites

  • Often require a resource consent on top of a building consent to build your new home.

  • You may require the following - Water tank / firefighting tank (often the same tank) and hard stand for the fire truck / septic tank and distribution fields / soak pits for storm water.

 

Earth Works

  • Most sections require earth works for the placement of the home.

  • Piles can reduce the required costs of earthworks as we don’t require a flat site, and can use the pile to level the out the home

Transportation

  • Before we sign a contract with you to build or deliver your new home, we first ensure we have the right access to your section, and that we get you an estimate of the costs involved

 

Choosing the right home plan

  • Our homes have been architecturally designed to capture 180 degrees of the sun and views

  • The plans can be mirrored or flipped to suit your section, sun and views

  • You can customize the doors and windows to suit your needs

 

Plan customization

  • Should you want to make further changes to our plans, we will first need to check our schedule. It will require new working drawings. We need a $5,000.00 deposit to cover these additional costs.

 

Building specifications

  • You can find our building specifications under each home

  • We can customize the standard building specifications, so please let us know what you would want changed

  • Then we can sign off on the specifications along with the following

    • Kitchen Plan

    • Electrical Plan

    • Flooring selections

    • External cladding combinations and colour scheme

    • Internal colour scheme

    • Roof / Gutter / Flashings / Downpipes Colours

    • External Joinery

 

Colour Selection

  • We confirm and sign off on your colour selection to ensure we are all on the same page from the roof to the kitchen, bathrooms, tapware, carpets etc.

Contract

  1. Once you have approved the working drawings, cladding and joinery

  2. Signed off on the building specifications, kitchen plan and colour selection

  3. Checked the contract and paid the first 10% deposit

  4. We will lodge the plans with the council

 

Build Time

  • Once the council has issued building consent (takes from 4 - 6 weeks) we will get our team onto building your new home

  • Our suppliers work hard to deliver their products to our site on time to keep the building moving forward

  • We allow 3 - 4 months to build our homes on our yard, and 4 - 5 months on your section

Build stages

  1. Foundation / Subfloor

  2. Wall Framing

  3. Roof framing and roof

  4. Exterior doors and windows

  5. Exterior wall lining/cladding (does not include exterior paint/stain)

  6. Pre-wire and pre-plumb

  7. Internal stopping and sanding

  8. Interior Painting

  9. Kitchen installed

  10. Plumbing and electrical fit off

  11. Final Payment CCC

Yard or site visits

  • For health and safety, we take you thru an induction before visiting the site, and then book a time to do so with our project manager

  • We also give regular photo updates on the progress of your build