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Builders in Townsville are being advised against fixed price and fixed date contracts. With a severe shortage of contractors and building supply costs increasing at a rapid pace it is nearly impossible to predict building costs at anything other than a month by month basis.
As a home renovator not having a contract with with a [...]

Our current builder started building under our house to the lockup stage on Monday, July the 9th. He had his crew of three guys working every day of that first week, only taking Sunday off.
On Tuesday July the 17th we received the “Compliance Inspection Report” from the Townsville City Council building certifier. The report indicated [...]

Given our previous experience with builders here in Townsville (the first people we were talking too apparently might be going to jail for fraud and the second guy took almost a year to finish our front stairs) we were pleasantly surprised when our new builder was here with his crew at 7:00 this morning to [...]

Talk about being in the right place at the right time…
There is a house behind my work that has been lifted and is the process of being built in under, like what we want to do with our place. At the same time a friend from work, who is also my boss, is having a [...]