Building and buying in New Zealand, one short video at a time.
Short, slightly too honest videos about the back corner of the section, the quote with GST hiding in it, the contract that is a thumbs-up and the one bit of paper holding up the CCC. Tap to play, then download or share.
The house is done but the CCC waits on the roofer's Record of Work. On QSME trades record their certificates on your project before they leave, and the CCC pack comes as one zip.
Screens in this video are recreations with demo data.
The site sign-in book, and its pen on a string, went missing. Print a QSME poster for the gate: people scan it, sign in on their phone, and the register prints on your letterhead.
A spreadsheet programme works Christmas Day. QSME shuts the site over the Christmas break by default and knows NZ public holidays, so you see the real finish date before you promise one.
A Christchurch owner-builder reads a 48-page consent pack into QSME, finds the drainage pages missing before the tender, prices the build line by line and tenders the same lines to every trade.
An $18,000 rewire agreed with thumbs-up emojis. Paste the thread into QSME, write it up as a proper agreement with blanks for what nobody said, and send it to be signed on a phone.
Screens in this video are recreations with demo data.
Three sections and one planner meeting. Search each address, read what the zone allows, check overlays, services and title facts, then take a one-page site report and three questions.
Screens in this video are recreations with demo data.
Our auction budget was a vibe. QSME's rough feasibility works backwards from the margin you want to keep to the most you can pay for the land. Illustrative numbers, not financial advice.
Granny flats can often go ahead where the site meets the conditions, but on a cross-lease the other owners must consent. QSME site research shows what your Auckland section would require.
We typed each council's own address into QSME site search. Every address gets boundary, land area, legal description and council; four councils add the zone; Auckland gets the full card.
Open homes show the front lawn, not the back corner. Search the address on QSME for boundary, zone, services and hazards such as an overland flow path, then order the LIM.
212 comments, six Daves and still no builder. Post the job on QSME once, invite the trades you choose and compare their quotes line by line in one table.