New Home Builders on the Kapiti Coast

A New Home Built by the Person You Talked To

A new house is the biggest thing most people ever build.

JMC Builders builds new homes on the Kapiti Coast the way a small owner operated company can and a volume builder cannot: Jamie Corrigan prices the job from your drawings, is on site through the build, and is the one phone call for everything from the engineer's query to the colour of the flashings.

The homes are one-offs. A black-clad single-storey bach with a cedar entry and a wall of glass; a white weatherboard family home with a pool, a roof terrace and a gabled portico; a three-level house with a curved roof on a sloping section; the home at Parenga Road in Te Horo with its slatted timber ceiling and stone benchtops. Coastal sections, hill sections, rural sections and flat suburban ones. What they have in common is that they were built to the drawings, to the consent, and to a standard the owners talk about afterwards.

What a New Build With JMC Involves

1. Plans, pricing and a quote

   If you have architectural drawings, Jamie prices them. If you have a section and an idea, he can put you in touch with the local architects, architectural designers and draughtspeople JMC works with, and price the concept as it firms up. The quote is itemised, so you can see what is in it and compare it like for like.

2. Consent, engineering and the contract

   The building consent application to Kapiti Coast District Council or Horowhenua District Council, the engineer's design for the foundations and any steel, the geotechnical report where the ground needs one, and a written building contract, which the law requires for residential work of $30,000 or more including GST. Jamie manages the paperwork; you sign what you need to sign.

3. Site, foundations and floor

   Clearing and levelling the section, and where a section has an old house on it, JMC Builders with digger and truck can undertake its demolition. Then the set-out, the piles or the slab, and the floor framing - the stage the beachfront build in our gallery is photographed at.

   

   

4. Framing, roof and cladding

   Wall framing, roof trusses or rafters, the roof on, the wall underlay and cavity battens, and the cladding - weatherboard, cedar, plaster systems or metal - fixed by the licence holder, because this is the restricted building work that keeps the weather out for the life of the house.

   

   

5. Joinery, services and linings

   Windows and doors in, the plumber, electrician and any other sub-trades come through, insulation, then the linings, stopping and the internal fit-out: kitchen, bathrooms, stairs, doors, trim and flooring.

6. Finish, sign-off and handover

   With all fit off and finishing completed, final inspection from council and code of compliance certificate issued, and a walk through the house with Jamie before the keys change hands.

Plans, Designers and Engineers

Not sure where to start with plans? You are not alone, and it is the question JMC hears most. Some people arrive with a complete set of architectural drawings and a resource consent. Others know only that they want a home that suits their family and their lifestyle. Either is fine. JMC Builders works alongside a trusted network of local architects, architectural designers, draughtspeople, engineers and consultants on the Kapiti Coast, and can point you to the right one for the size and style of house you have in mind, then stay involved as the design develops so that what is drawn can be built for a price you already know. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's guide to planning a successful build sets out the homeowner's side of that process - scope, design, consents, contracts - and it is worth reading before the first meeting.

Building on Kapiti Sections

The coast is not one kind of site. Waikanae and Otaki have new subdivisions on flat, easy ground; Te Horo and Peka Peka have rural and lifestyle blocks where the house can sit anywhere and the services have to be brought to it; Paekakariki, Pukerua Bay and the Raumati escarpment have steep, tight sections where access and retaining come before anything else; and the beachfront everywhere has sand, wind and salt to design for. JMC has built on all of them, and the first site visit is where those questions get asked - which way the house faces, where the driveway goes, what the ground will carry, and what that means for the foundation the engineer will draw.

What Affects the Cost and the Time

Three things move the price of a new home more than any other: the size and complexity of the design, the level of finish, and the site. A simple single-storey plan on a flat section is the most economical house to build; a split-level home on a slope with a curved roof and glass balustrades is not, and it is worth knowing which you are asking for before the drawings are finished. On finishes, cedar cladding, stone benchtops, timber floors and a slatted ceiling feature all show in the photographs on this page and all cost more than the standard alternative. Jamie will price options against each other at the quote stage so the decisions are made with the numbers in front of you.

A new home on the coast usually takes the best part of a year from consent to code compliance certificate, depending on the size, the weather and the trades, and Jamie gives you a programme at the start and tells you when something changes it. If you are adding to a house rather than starting again, our renovations and extensions page covers that, and if the house you own has cladding that has failed, recladding is often the alternative to a rebuild. Either way, have a look at the houses we have built first.

Contact Us

To talk about building a new home in Pukerua Bay, Paekakariki, Raumati, Paraparaumu, Waikanae, Peka Peka, Te Horo, Otaki or Levin, ring Jamie on 021 052 4447 or send the details through the form below. If you have drawings, even a sketch, mention it and Jamie will ask for them.