Home extensions and renovations have become popular solutions for homeowners wanting to strategically push up their property value while attaining desired lifestyle changes and new aesthetics.
Let’s delve into Rebilt’s unique experience and enjoy some insights on pricing, trends, tips and assistance for your upcoming project.
Trust Rebilt’s Time Honoured Protocol
The Rebilt professional protocol is formulated to mitigate all risks and provide as best a project experience for you as possible.
The Rebilt team handles all types of extensions and renovations:
- Ground floor home extension and additions
- First floor home extensions
- Ground floor and first floor extensions
- Luxury upgrade renovations
- Renovations with recreated floor plans with no extension
As a specialist in extensions and renovations in the Sydney Metro area Rebilt assists homeowners with the right advice from the beginning, defining the vision, determining the true scope of works and exploring the homeowner with practical and aesthetic options.
Homeowners can enjoy the peace of mind of knowing that a trusted specialist will steer your unique project from ideas and options through all preliminary elements. These may include block survey, structural engineer collaborations, essential council documentation for your project pathway, geotechnical survey reporting, bushfire restrictions [if required] and managing your DA/CDC approvals.
This service includes your design drafting right through to construction commencement.
Trust the Rebilt team to offer ideas on how to optimise living spaces and add greater durability, overall aesthetics and functionality to enjoy for years to come.
How Can I Gain Realistic Pricing For My Finance Application?
As every project is unique, Rebilt takes advantage of using an independent quantity surveyor to offer project pricing that is realistic, reliable and trustworthy for your unique project.
Our qualified quantity surveyor has accurately priced over 6,000 projects with little to no contingencies. This is ideal for homeowners desiring transparent pricing and stress-free renovating.
In some cases homeowners have opted to stage their project. We recommend that this is done only with the guidance of the Rebilt team. It may be done:
- To stagger the project cost.
- Minimise disruption on their family due to personal reasons.
- Or simply as a fiscal precaution.
Without such guidance, homeowners may be unnecessarily blowing out the total project cost so discussion is highly recommended.
Some homeowners opt for the seamless project management of their extension and renovation without staging and as a singular dynamic given the reliability of Rebilt project pricing.
Let’s Do A Deep Dive Into More Understanding Of The Factors Which Influence Pricing:
- The actual skill of the tradespersons required. Not all carpenters, tilers or painters have the same capabilities so tradespersons are handpicked for your specific project. This is one of the many benefits of contracting a renovation specialist.
- The quality and type of materials selected, for example a decorative choice of tiling for a bathroom feature wall or choice of a decorative stone for a vertical feature wall in an al fresco area will elevate your cost but some homeowners may choose to heighten their aesthetics for a home or area they plan to live in for years to come.
- The use of additional skilled tradespersons or industry expertise such as stone installers, asbestos handlers, mould technicians and interior designers.
- A lack of access can increase double-handling of materials or increased labour costs and/or bring complexity to scaffolding pricing. This can occur at times when a homeowner is pursuing customised architectural features.
- The necessity to conduct structural repairs and remedial works to regain compliances and/or structural integrity. For example roof works to stop leaking into your home or sub-floor damage repairs due to overdue or failed waterproofing from wet areas. In some cases it may be cheaper to replace a weathered and aged window than try to repair it.
Stop Water Leaks And Save Money
Dealing with water ingress and leaks is essential as consistent leaking within your property may lead to:
- Soil erosion around property foundations
- Termite damage
- Wood rot
- Internal cracking
- Non-symmetry of materials i.e: doors and windows begin to stick
- Failure of piers and pier slippage
- Infestations of mould
- Settlement and twisting of your property
- Cornices cracking and/or pulling away
- Ceilings dropping
All these repair works are managed by the team at Rebilt and under one single project contract.
Decide What Your “Must Haves” Are
Some homeowners save lots of cost from their renovation project by determining their “must-haves” from their “nice-to-haves.” This will allow some homeowners to stay on budget while not compromising on highly desired lifestyle upgrades.
Some renovation elements that have been under discussion previously include the home office [some recognise this as an essential income producing asset, other’s not,] butler’s pantry off the kitchen, island bench, appliance centre, al fresco, pergola and entertaining areas, external kitchens, feature walls, bi-fold windows and doors, cavity sliding glass doors and walk-behind showers.
What Renovation Elements Could I Be Thinking About
Rooms with more than one function such as laundries with an additional bathroom or kitchens with a laundry built in. Outdoor family dinner areas. Doors that open up into the outdoor area. Opening up more sociable areas of your home with wall removals, decks, indoor-outdoor rooms, home cinemas, glazing that capitalises on more natural lighting, automated lighting, home security, climate control, under-floor heating, feature flooring, lighting up the food prep area.
Decks have often been viewed as a “cheap extension” by homeowners. Check out Pinterest for deck ideas, privacy screens and have a think about timber choices. If you are seeking to stay in the property or it is your ”forever home” Google the benefits of say, merbau timber as a more suitable [non-lifting, non-twisting water friendly] outdoor timber for your deck over pine.
What Else Should I Know About The Team At Rebilt?
Rebilt is fully licensed and carries all insurances.
The team at Rebilt offers comprehensive design and build services that encompass everything from initial ideas and options to final construction handover.
Because Rebilt offers a comprehensive service of design and build you benefit from streamlined and managed communication and professional collaboration between teams, often heading off build issues ahead of time.
Rebilt expertise will guide you through managing pitfalls. They have a proven track record and adhere to best practices and the National Construction Code [NCC] with a company policy of zero shortcutting.
Each tradesperson is qualified and handpicked for your unique project. Trust their protocol to enjoy the best extension and renovation experience possible.
The Rebilt pricing protocol ensures that all aspects of the project are covered off. This would include such elements as skip bin and rubbish removal, final exit cleaning, statutory home warranty and essential project scaffolding.
The team at Rebilt utilise a project management app for real-time updates and proactive communications throughout your project. This fosters team collaboration and keeps everyone focussed on deadlines and the project vision.
Being a specialist they have the expertise to handle structural repairs and hidden property issues and are not daunted by them.
“I’ve done quite a bit of work with Rebilt Renovations.
They will be able to walk you thru the certification process, engineer’s, geotech reports etc, as they do a lot of that themselves for their clients.
They will also be able to review the drawings from a builder’s perspective and provide quotations for you too.
I really recommend you check out their website and especially the videos.”
Jeremy Paterson, KJR Drafting
How Do I Begin My Journey
Let your journey begin with an initial consultation where ideas may be exchanged and feasibility assessed. From there, Rebilt will produce a preliminary proposal including detailed plans that meet both aesthetic desires and practical requirements before securing necessary approvals and permits.
Some Project Tips
Rebilt works on a first-in, first-served policy and recommends early planning due to current projects and industry expertise and tradesperson availability.
Some renovation elements and materials have longer lead times allowing delivery and fabrication so exercise patience.
Always allow for and strive to maintain open communication with the team at Rebilt throughout every step of the project process.
Be prepared for being patient with extra communications with your contractor and in managing new levels of noise and disruption.
Take a “we’re in this together” approach with the team as they outwork a “we’ve got your back” approach with you.
Always exercise respect and appreciation as the team deals with any challenges keeping your project on track and seamless.
Stay flexible as challenges may arise that need quick discussions and decision making.
The best times to take a planned holiday and find that Air BnB deal is during kitchen and bathroom renovations. This is where a family can be most impacted so go find a deal and add that as a renovation project cost.
Consider your neighbours and keep them informed about key timelines to maintain good relations with them.
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