Book a free Cost Blindspot Review with Jackson. He'll look at your home, your ideas and your budget together, then send you Your Cost Blindspot Summary: where your budget sits, what could catch you out, and what to do next.
30 minutes · Complimentary · Best done before your plans are finished
Pick a time that suits you. It takes about 30 seconds.
The Cost Blindspot Review is for Auckland homeowners planning a renovation, extension or new build, especially character homes, before the plans are finished.
This isn't a sales pitch or a quote. If we're not the right fit, I'll tell you, and you'll still leave with a clearer picture of your project.
Your Cost Blindspot SummaryWhether your vision and your budget look like they are in the same place, and what that means for the next step.
The things most likely to push the price up on your home: character or heritage rules, what could be behind the walls of an older house, and your site and access.
The ideas worth checking for cost and buildability while they are still sketches.
Where allowances are most likely to be set too low for the home you have in mind.
What to do next and who to bring in when, whether or not you build with JW.
Prepared by Jackson Wall, Licensed Building Practitioner
Built around your home. Not another generic guide.
You won't get a quote in the review. You'll get an honest early view of where your project stands, and a clearer picture of whether your budget and your plans line up.
Most people find out what their renovation costs at the very end, when it's too late to change much. On an older Auckland home the big risks are usually council rules, what's behind the walls and the site itself. The review looks at those for your home while you can still do something about them.
At concept stage, changing your mind costs a conversation. Once the plans are engineered and consented, it means redrawing, re-engineering and sometimes going back to council.
Ease and cost of changing things drops at every step. The earlier we look, the more you can still move.
These are examples. Your Cost Blindspot Summary is built around your home.
A Category B listed church from 1900, empty for 15 years, converted into four apartments with Gel Architects. Around 240 steel beams brought it up to a 75% seismic rating, and the original kauri lining was catalogued and put back where it came from.
What started as a leaking membrane roof became a full roof restructure, new skylights, new insulation throughout and a switch from gas to fully electric, once we found what was underneath.
Metres from the water on unstable ground with an intricate footprint, built for returning clients who were overseas for most of it.
I'm Jackson Wall, the builder behind JW Build Group and a Licensed Building Practitioner. I love the jobs other builders turn down, and I take on a small number of projects at a time so I can run them properly. When you book a review, you're speaking directly with the person who does the work, not a salesperson.