Deutscher
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If you've contracted builders to do it for you then shouldn't they be dealing with the all that technical stuff? I would have thought that they would have to give the plans to the council first to get the building permit approved... you shouldn't have to worry about much at all except making sure the builder gets the job done on time.
We thought so too. But the builder is kind of doing the minimum he can. He is the cheapest we could find. The total for the house is going to cost $150k. So we are on a really tight budget. So I've been drawing up each floor plan and do all the measurements for it all and hand it to him and he passes it on the his designer guy who draws it up on computer. I draw all the plans to scale and write all the measurements in and the builder kind of just makes a proper floor plan up and gets me the price.
He hasn't checked the land etc so he doesn't know anything else apart from what I tell him.
Our block is kinda gay, it's got a retaining wall and therefore the drive way can only be on one side (opposite side from EVERY plan possible!)