Runnymede

Runnymede

The Runnymede Project was a full renovation and refurbishment of a large single story home built by the existing owners in the late 90’s. Our clients were looking to update the internal feel of the house, maximizing the kitchen and both indoor and outdoor entertaining areas. We worked alongside the Architect and clients throughout the design and specification stages to ensure they could achieve the desired finish within their budget. The result was a complete transformation of the existing outdated styling to a very modern spacious and functional home ideal for entertaining whilst still suiting the needs of everyday living. Thanks to great design work from the architect, along with precision craftmanship with great attention to detail, we won the best Home Renovation/ remodeling Project up to $575,000.00 category at the 2020 Master Builders construction awards.

 

We recently engaged McIntosh Builders to undertake a major renovation of our residence. After numerous complimentary meetings with David McIntosh, we engaged a design company to plan our renovation. These were then provided to David for comment and provide costings. We found David’s ideas and experience invaluable during this process and he provided great support in assisting us with our decisions.

His quotation was very detailed, and whilst it was initially outside our budget, David worked with us to find acceptable solutions to satisfy our budget and maintain the integrity of the design. The items available for choice were costed such that we had plenty of product choice. Having spent significant time at the planning stage, we had minimal variations, making the final cost within our budget.

Our original plan was to have the interior designer project manage the job for us. However, we felt so comfortable with David that we ultimately decided to deal directly with him ourselves. As well as being very much a hands-on builder, David’s strong communication skills, openness to regular onsite meetings, relationship and use of quality subcontractors and excellent time management skills gave us confidence in our ability to work closely with him and saved us a significant amount of project management fees.
We are very satisfied with the quality of the work, the timeliness of the project phases and the value provided. We love the outcome of our home renovation and can honestly say it was a pleasure working with McIntosh Builders.

We have no hesitation in recommending them to a potential customer and next time we have the need for a builder we will be calling David at McIntosh Builders.

Michael & Frances Schramm

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