Pre-purchase Recladding Cost Plan · From $99 incl GST
One address and the documents you already have. A 12-page cost plan with a choice of 10, 5 or 2 calendar days after payment and Sarah’s confirmation that your document pack is complete — the number, the range either side of it, and what decides where you land.
Inside your cost plan
Most reclad “estimates” are a rate times a wall area. This one starts by reading everything the vendor and the council already hold on the house — and the number moves with what we find.
Consent dates and code compliance, foundation history, geotech and stability, the exposure and wind zones, the cladding system, cavity or direct-fixed, moisture readings, any remedial work. Six findings, each cited to the page it came from.
Gross wall, net cladding, openings and scaffold face, per building. Published in the plan so you — or your own builder — can redo the arithmetic.
Strip-out, wrap, cavity, new cladding, joinery, flashings, balcony, framing. Every rate carries a reference to our reclad schedule; every unknown is a named PC sum, not a number buried in a total.
Nobody can see the framing until the cladding is off. So it is priced four ways, from “survey came back clear” to “full reframe”, and the plan says which evidence would move you along that band.
The Recladding Cost Plan
The cover carries the number. The findings page carries the evidence. The summary carries the band. And the last page says exactly what to do next — usually one survey, and three questions to put to the vendor.
Illustrative sample only. These pages are produced by the same builder your cost plan uses, but the address, the figures and the findings are invented — not a real property. Your plan is measured from your property’s own documents.
How it works
No site visit, no fixed-price theatre. A desktop cost plan that reads everything that already exists on the house, then tells you the one thing worth paying to find out.
Listing and floor plan, the council property file, and any building or plaster inspection. Don’t have the council file? We’ll tell you how to get it in one click — or forward the vendor’s copy.
Every page of the file. The envelope measured per building. Priced from our reclad rate schedule, framing shown four ways. Twelve pages emailed to you.
The plan tells you the survey worth commissioning before you go unconditional, and the questions to put to the vendor. If the answer is “walk”, it says so.
The $99 report credit comes off your reclad contract. Buy it and use someone else, and you still made the decision with real numbers.
Choose your turnaround
All prices include GST. Your turnaround starts after payment and Sarah’s document confirmation.
Time to plan ahead
$99 incl GST
For exploring your recladding budget without a tight deadline.
A decision coming up
$199 incl GST
A quicker turnaround when you need to move your plans forward.
One priority booking per day
$299 incl GST
For a nearer decision, subject to today’s available report slot.
The clock starts only after payment is confirmed and Sarah confirms all required documents have been received. Uploading files or pressing Documents ready for review does not start it. Sarah emails the confirmed start and due date. All three options use New Zealand calendar days, including weekends, in Pacific/Auckland time.
Recladding Cost Plan · Version 2
Standard is $99 for 10 calendar days, Express is $199 for 5 calendar days, and Priority is $299 for 2 calendar days, including GST. One order covers one Auckland property with up to two dwellings. Every option includes the same twelve-page desktop cost plan.
The clock starts only after payment is confirmed and Sarah confirms all required documents have been received. Uploading documents or marking them ready does not start it. Sarah emails the confirmed start and due date in New Zealand time.
This is a desktop order-of-cost estimate, not a building inspection, moisture survey, fixed-price quotation or purchase recommendation. Accuracy depends on the supplied evidence. Site visits are separate and available to homeowners only.
The existing $99 credit applies against the recladding contract if AVR builds the work. Express and Priority add faster preparation. Your statutory consumer rights are unaffected. AVR’s privacy policy and website terms apply. Existing orders retain the terms accepted when ordered.
Questions, answered
A twelve-page cost plan for one Auckland property: the number and the band either side of it, six findings read out of the council file and inspection reports with page citations, the wall take-off per building, the priced breakdown trade by trade, cladding options priced against each other, four framing scenarios, a risk register, exclusions, and the next steps — usually one survey and three questions for the vendor.
No. It is an order-of-cost estimate at plus or minus 15%, built to make a purchase decision with. Nobody can see the framing until the cladding comes off, so the plan shows the range rather than pretending to a single number. It becomes a fixed price only after an invasive moisture survey, as a Master Builders contract.
With the council property file and a building inspection report, about ±15%. With a listing alone, closer to ±30% — and the plan says which it was. The one thing that moves it most is the framing behind the cladding, which is why four scenarios are shown and the plan tells you the survey worth paying for.
No, and the plan says so on the cover. It is a desktop cost plan from your documents and public records. Choose 10, 5 or 2 calendar days to suit your decision. Site visits are separate and available to homeowners only.
The listing and floor plan, the council property file, and any building or plaster inspection the vendor has had done. The more you send, the tighter the number. If you have none of them yet, tick that box and we tell you what to ask for and where.
Auckland Council will sell it to you online, usually within a day or two, and we tell you exactly how. If the vendor already has one — many do when a plaster house is listed — ask the agent to forward it. The consent date in that file is the single most valuable fact in the whole exercise.
Choose Standard at $99 for 10 calendar days, Express at $199 for 5 calendar days, or Priority at $299 for 2 calendar days. The clock starts from Sarah’s confirmation that all required documents are received, once payment is confirmed. A file that runs to hundreds of pages takes as long to read as it takes; that is the point of it.
Then the plan says so. It is written for you, not for the sale. A cost plan that talked a buyer into a house with a $700,000 reclad would cost us more than it earned.
In full, against the reclad contract, if AVR does the work. The $99 report credit comes off your reclad contract. Use someone else and you still made the decision with real numbers.
No. It uses them. A building inspection tells you what the inspector saw; a moisture survey tells you what is behind the cladding. The cost plan tells you what those findings cost to fix, and which of the two is worth paying for next.
You can bid with it — that is what it is for. But the framing behind the cladding cannot be surveyed before an unconditional bid, so the plan gives you the band, not the point, and says plainly which end you are more likely to land at.
Yes for now. The rate schedule, the council records and the exposure and wind zones are all Auckland-specific. Ask us about anywhere in the wider region.
One address. One number you can bid with.
Order a Recladding Cost Plan from $99 incl GST. Choose 10, 5 or 2 calendar days after Sarah confirms all required documents are received and payment is confirmed. The existing $99 credit applies if AVR does the reclad.
Order my cost planThe Recladding Cost Plan is a desktop order-of-cost estimate. It is not a building inspection, moisture survey, LIM, title review, Council approval, planning, legal, surveying or engineering advice, a fixed-price quotation or a purchase recommendation. Accuracy depends on public and supplied information. AVR’s website terms and privacy policy apply.