Good questions, ready for the kitchen table.
Five practical worksheets for planning an Australian owner-build. Read them online, print them and write all over them. No email gate and no claim that a generic checklist knows your project better than you do.
These are starting prompts only. Confirm current costs, requirements and advice for your site, documents, jurisdiction and contracts.
Owner-Builder Budget Worksheet
A detailed place to record allowances, comparable written quotes, committed costs, payments and contingency review notes.
Residential Build Planning Checklist
Responsibility, evidence, interface, approval and handover prompts across ten broad phases. It is deliberately non-exhaustive.
Knockdown Rebuild Cost Worksheet
A blank stage-by-stage worksheet for your own allowances, current proposals, actual costs, source notes and exclusions.
Owner-Builder Insurance Checklist
A starting list of cover, exclusion, worker, contract and later-sale questions to take to a licensed adviser and the relevant authority.
Trade Scope Planning Worksheet
A six-part framework for defining inclusions, exclusions, interfaces, evidence, timing and payment terms before comparing proposals.
The broader owner-builder planning guide
Work through the roles, records and decisions that sit around the drawings, then follow the links when a topic needs a deeper read.
Three useful next stops.
Cost categories that are easy to miss
Practical reading to help turn a worksheet prompt into better project questions.
Read article02How I reviewed a framing quote
Practical reading to help turn a worksheet prompt into better project questions.
Read article03A knockdown rebuild planning timeline
Practical reading to help turn a worksheet prompt into better project questions.
Read articlePut the working record beside the build.
Bildr helps keep project facts, assumptions, trade proposals, dates and follow-up together as the job changes.
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