Plan · Manage · Build
How we build. Step by step.
Ten defined steps from your first enquiry to handover. You always know where your project is, what happens next and what it costs, before it happens, not after.
Why the process matters
Cost blowouts are a process failure.
Most renovation horror stories follow the same script: a price given before anyone looked at the structure, a contract signed before the scope was defined, and variations arriving mid build because the questions got asked in week eight instead of week one.
Our process exists to ask every expensive question before you commit. The engineer looks before we price. The scope is written before the contract. Your selections are locked before construction starts. That discipline is exactly what lets us offer a fixed price and mean it.
It is the same process on every second storey addition, home extension, renovation and custom home we build.
The ten steps
From enquiry to handover.
Three phases. Ten steps. At the end of each one you receive something concrete, an estimate, a set of plans, a contract, a completed home.
Your Initial Assessment
We review your enquiry, your site, your timeframe and your budget before we pick up the phone, so the first conversation is already about your project rather than our sales pitch. We contact you within 24 to 48 business hours to arrange a consultation.
Consultation & Build Cost Estimate
An experienced builder walks your site and talks through what you want to build, what the structure will allow and what your budget realistically buys. Then we prepare a detailed build cost estimate, real numbers based on your home, not a brochure figure based on nobody’s.
If your house cannot do what you want for what you have, we say so here, at the point where the advice is free, not in week eight where it costs you.
Preliminary Agreement
This formalises your engagement, secures your place in our construction schedule and lets us start spending real time on your project: coordinating designers, engineers, certifiers and council. The agreement carries a fee, confirmed in writing before you sign, and it goes toward the preliminaries for your project rather than disappearing into thin air.
Plans & Design
We coordinate the design and documentation for your project: architectural plans, structural engineering, BASIX and everything council will ask for. The design is drawn to your brief, your site and your budget, with optional 3D modelling so you can see the result before anyone lifts a hammer.
Submission to Council
We prepare and lodge your approval, a Development Application and Construction Certificate through council, or a Complying Development Certificate through a private certifier where your project qualifies. We choose the pathway, prepare the paperwork and manage the questions, because chasing council is our job, not yours.
Final Cost & Contract
With approval in hand and the scope fully defined, we confirm your final build cost and issue your HIA Building Contract. This is where the price locks. Anything that genuinely cannot be priced until the walls open is listed as a provisional sum with a stated allowance, in plain sight, not hidden inside the total.
You review the full contract, the inclusions and the exclusions before signing. We would rather answer questions now than argue about them later.
Pre-Start Selections
Together we finalise your fixtures, fittings and finishes with our suppliers: tiles, tapware, flooring, colours, the lot. Everything is selected, documented and confirmed before work begins, because mid build selection changes are where budgets and timelines go to die.
Start of Construction
Your project manager meets you on site before work commences to walk through the documentation, the site setup, the schedule and how we will communicate through the build. You know who to call, and they know your project.
Construction
Your project manager runs the build day to day: coordinating trades, managing quality against our specification, keeping the site tidy and keeping disruption to your household to a minimum. You get regular updates on progress, and any question gets a straight answer.
Practical Completion & Handover
We walk the finished project with you, item by item, and anything that needs attention gets fixed before handover, not promised for later. Then you receive your warranties, compliance certificates and care documentation, and the keys to your new space.
We stay available after handover. A builder who disappears at practical completion was never planning to stand behind the work.
Honest timeframes
How long it all takes.
Every project gets its own timeline once we have assessed your home, but these are the honest ranges we work to.
Design & approvals
Plans, engineering and council or certifier approval, managed by us while you get on with life.
Contract & selections
Final cost, contract review and your complete selections schedule, locked before site start.
Construction
Depending on the size and complexity of the build. Larger projects with ground floor works run longer.
Good to know
Process questions.
When does the price actually lock in?
What does the preliminary agreement cover?
Can I make changes during construction?
Who do I deal with during the build?
Do you handle council, or do I?
Can I live in my home during the work?
What if the engineer finds a problem with my house?
Are you licensed and insured?
Start at step one.
Tell us about your home and what you want to build.
We review your enquiry and contact you within 24 to 48 business hours to arrange your consultation. No cost, no obligation, and honest advice from the first conversation.
