Hi there We are planning to build our first home in Rolleston Area CHCH

Hi Ash, I’ve built with Paul McStay builders in the Selwyn area and highly recommend them. Been a Canterbury company for nearly 20 years and not franchised so you won’t end up having to pay franchise fees. You work with Brendon (owner) and his architect without having to go through sales consultants. You’ll end up with a much better spec for a good price compared to the bigger companies. I came across them from this website. ‘Ctrl F’ and there is nothing but good feedback. MT

Hi Ash, I agree with MT – Paul MsStay are good as are Greenland Homes, DNA Structures Limited, Peter Ray Homes, Quinn Homes, Que Homes. I would stay away from the big group builders. As for insulation etc, I am an Architectural Tech and personally for my new home which we will build next year we will be going R2.8 in the walls (would go more but don’t really want to have to go to 140 walls), at least R4.1 in the roof (but will probably push it up to either 5.2 or even 6.3). Examples of R values (with a longrun colorsteel roof on trusses are R5.44 with 5.2 batts as opposed to R3.84 with the standard 3.6 batts. We will have thermally broken window frames and low-e glass and will possibly even go to argon gas but not sure yet. We also will possibly look at insulating the edge of the slab as well. We have a ducted heatpump system in our current home and would do this again – we have found it to be very cost effective. At work we build houses in a zone where they have to be designed as energy efficient and that means a min of R2.8 in the walls and R4.1 in the roof plus thermally broken windows. Good luck with your build 🙂

Hi Ash Search for Rolleston or Chch South on this site, there are lots of stories. If going brick stay away from Bricktech – many have had lots of issues there. Also, stay away from GJs they have caused many much stress and pain. If we were to do it again we’d go for a smaller local builder and never a franchise. The GJs national office are not interested in helping the customer. This is all worded very nicely as I’m trying to move on. Goo

Thanks for your advice really appreciate it.

Thanks Sally, for your advice really appreciate it.

Hi MT I have checked out their website, I will Contact Brandon Thanks for your advice really appreciate it. Cheers