Weekender Cottage, Country Block. Buliders and Designs Ballarat Area.

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Weekender Cottage, Country Block. Buliders and Designs Ballarat Area.

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Started 12 years ago by franks
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franks
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Im looking at building a 2 bedroom weekender/cottage on my 10 acre block south of Ballarat, been looking at 2 bed room kit and granny flat designs, all seem to be based on 8to10 squares with wood floor and stumps, not many designs seem to be well suited for slab floor and with well insulated walls and double glased windows,at $11-12 thousand per square built.

I got a north facing aspect for the house, got 20 metres of free space around the planed spot for the house, good view of the north sky and east and west.

looking for ideas for a built design, with good thermal propites, well insulsted (extra aircell double foil on roof and walls with ployester bulk inslation for walls and ceiling), colourbond zincalume external cladding, slab floor covered with cerimic tiles, veranadahs on north and south sides, double glased windows, no windows on west side, small window on the east side.

Can it be built say for $12-13 thousand a square in the Ballarat area?? would love to hear any comments of owners who have built a good thermal and energy design 2 bed room weekender.

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Frank
franks@alphalink.com.au

Posted Saturday 19 Sep 2009 @ 8:59:03 am from IP #
JohnB
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Frank,

I'm in North coastal NSW, so I don't have a 'feel' for Victorian build costs - but - $12-13k per square, or $1300-1400 per sq m sounds like plenty to me. The only real difference between standard coastal construction here and what you want is an extra R1 on all the insulation and the double glazed windows.

I drew a proposal for just such a place earlier this year, but it was costed with single low-E glass in the windows and glass doors.

It was about 106 sq m house only, had full length North and South verandah roofs, (1.8m timber deck to North, pavers to South) and a 3.6m wide carport/shade roof across the Western end. I recall the estimate was about $140k.
There was also an optional elevated louvred solar pergola type area in the North verandah, over an extended 3.6m deep by 6m wide deck area with balustrades - which I recall added about another $20k. (If you have a look at my linked page there are two images - Summer and Winter - of the model near the bottom.)

Unless country Victoria build costs are particularly high it sounds very do-able to me.

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