C J Homes review. Our tear down and rebuild with them.

This is about our build with CJ homes, nothing made up and nothing false in any way, this is our story!

They profess to be the tear down rebuild specialists, you can organize that yourself very easily as most earth moving companies do demolitions and you will save heaps!!!!


If you intend on going with them, this is a must to be aware of.

On The HIA building contract for your new home, there is a section on the last page for a start date and completion date to be put in, do this or do not sign that document!!!!!!
When they say it’s just a standard HIA building contract when you say you need to take this home and read it, don’t listen to that, take it home and study it or show a solicitor before signing.

There is a part of all this that builders can use to prolong your start date by putting permissions for you to sign along the way, this means that they can put off your build until 20 days after all permissions are completed, be careful of this, get those start and finish dates put in the last page of your contract.
The build with them was very badly organised, or intentionally prolonged. Luckily the boom was making products too expensive for them to take as long as they were wanting to do.

With us we wanted our old home torn down and single story built on our block, so once we looked around, C J homes sounded good.
Once we started talking to them, it was obvious the demolition through them was quite expensive.
They quoted $33.000 dollars for that part, not including any other aspect of the tear down, of which includes the builders fence, sewerage capping, electricity disconnection and the water disconnected and tap left on site for trades, on top of the $33.000 figure.
They said if we want to organize it we will recommend a company, that company’s price was the same price of $33.000 and all other aspects, are extra!

So I hunted around and found three companies, two were local and one was not far away, one was $19.000, another was $21.000 and another was $23.000, but they would do the fence, the certifying, the asbestos and the sewerage capping and they cleared the entire block, not just demolition, they were very good at it and good value.
We organised a time and date and the paperwork and the asbestos was done then they came in and took our old home away and left the block completely cleared and ready for the build.
These pics are of our homes demolition and cleared block.
Our old home with asbestos out.


Demolition well under way.




Demolition done and block cleared.