Hi All
Just more of a reference check, background here, when we started building our house back in 2019 i negotiated a pricen of PHP 21K / sqm, at that time I thought that was a pretty good deal. However due to Covid we could not be onsite to wittness and as mentioned before we had some serious shoddy workmanship so much so that we ended spending another 700 K just to to try and correct what we can. Not a very big house, 3 bedroom, double storey etc.
Where am I going with this, well we want to build on another plot but being a bit more wiser, trying to undesratnd more of the civil costing. I am being quoted 50% of material cost to be labour cost. Struggle a bit with that in the sense if you use expensive materials such as tiles and fittings the labour cost increases compare to using lower cost materials. But the effort is the same irrespective of the cost. That is where my issue lies.
Any experience out there on building and cost estimates and how to treat the labour aspect. I need to understand the overall approx cost of the planned building otherwise we run with an open cheque book and that will be a recipe for finacial disaster.
Thanks Andre