I’m in that space and I’d recommend never doing it. I consider property development to be about as ethical as organised crime. It’s just one crook after the next trying to get their fill
I know two ethical, great builders. They tackle commercial and resi, both quit expensive, and in demand. Both I’d trust with a first born.
But fuck I could write a book about the useless cunts I wouldn’t let build a chook shed.
One commercial disaster, structural steel horizontal members with 3 degree falls. Couldn’t get isolated footings the same height in a structure with steel exposed on the inside of the room. Stands out like dogs balls.
Same builder. Existing tilt up panel building. 4th level is a roof deck, steel columns running down to the dirt. Existing roof stayed in place.
Footings holding up the roof deck in one corner of the structure have dropped 30-40mm. Combo of poor soil geo, undersized footings, and drainage issues never addressed. You know when water pours out badly layered concrete from the slab that’s under ground level on a wet day 30m away on another section of the site, there’s issues.
Slabs with a perimeter strip footing 1200 below finished ground level and no external drainage treatment. I’ve never seen so much black mould in a commercial setting. House owners in FNQ would have been saying “at least we’re not that”
Back to the original issue. You really need to be an owner builder. Or buy from one.
My old boss built his own dream house. Frame is square. Screwed, not nailed.
Roof gutters with fall, and more then one down pipe for 250meters of roof . Some mythical shit never seen anymore.
He just got his certificate of occupancy. Inspector said he almost never has any dramas with owner builders doing intentionally dodgy shit, just honest mistakes that are normally pretty mild.