Pre-purchase Recladding Cost Plan · $499 incl GST
One address and the documents you already have. A 12-page cost plan back in five working days — 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.
Buy the house, reclad it with us, and the cost plan was free. Buy it and use someone else, and you still made the decision with real numbers.
One product, one price
No subscription, no upsell to a second stage. A cost plan priced so that a buyer with a seven-figure decision does not have to think about it.
Pre-purchase or owner
Order a cost plan
A home you are bidding on, or the one you own and are deciding whether to fix. Send the address and whatever documents you already have — we confirm the scope and email a payment link before any work starts.
No card on this form. We check the property is one we can cost properly, then email an invoice. The five working days start when we have payment and your documents.
The enquiry, your documents and the finished plan sit together on your AVR record so nothing gets lost between offer and settlement.
Reclad with AVR and the $499 comes off the contract. You are not paying twice for the same thinking.
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. That is what keeps it at $499 and five working days. An hour on site comes later, with the survey in hand, when it turns into a fixed-price proposal.
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.
Five working days from when we have payment and your documents. 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. Buy the house and reclad with us and the plan was free. 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 for $499 incl GST. Twelve pages in five working days, credited in full 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.