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Simple Build Budget Planner
Twenty-four line items across five sections, including everything the contract leaves out. Totals, variance and a contingency line.
Your toolkit is ready
Eleven tools for the
decisions you can't undo.
Everything here is for the stage you're at right now — choosing land, choosing a builder, and signing a contract you actually understand. Download what you need, when you need it. It's yours to keep.
Start here
Work through them in order. Most people start with a floorplan and work backwards to a budget, which is how builds go wrong. The right order is budget, then land, then builder, then price, then contract — and that's the order these are numbered in.
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Start with the money
Before you fall in love with a floorplan, know what you can actually spend.
Choose your land and your builder
The two decisions that set the ceiling on everything else.
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Land Shortlist
Compare blocks on the things that actually change your build cost — soil class, fall, site costs, covenants. Works out price per square metre and total land cost.
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Builder Shortlist
Every builder you are considering, and what you have actually checked. Derives price per square automatically.
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Builder Selection Scorecard
Score three builders side by side against eleven weighted criteria. Print it and take it with you.
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Display Home Visit Checklist
Twenty-three things to check on the day. A display home is built to the best standard a builder is capable of — here is how to read one properly.
Compare the quotes, then sign
This is where the money is won or lost.
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Quote Comparison
Builders do not quote the same things. This works out the true comparable cost — headline price plus site costs plus what it takes to match your spec.
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Pre-Contract Checklist
Nineteen checks to complete before the contract is even put in front of you.
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Contract Review Checklist
Eighteen points, clause by clause. The contract is the only moment in your build where you hold all the leverage.
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Document Checklist
Thirty-two documents you should be holding, from first quote to the end of the defects period.
Keep them honest
Once you have signed, these are what you measure them against.
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Build Days Calculator
What your contract actually promised, and where you are against it. Finish date, days remaining, and whether you are past your contract date.
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Glossary of Australian Building Terms
One hundred and twenty-two terms your builder, surveyor and contract will use, in plain English. Keep it open on your phone.
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Keep going for the rest of the build
Your toolkit covers everything up to the moment you sign. Your Build Mentor covers all eight stages after it — slab, frame, lock-up, fixing, handover and the defects period — with progress tracking, variation and defect registers, a build assistant that knows your contract, and calls with a mentor when you need one.
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