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A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Perfect Location
Explore the critical considerations for selecting the ideal location to build your dream home. Location,...
What Are Provisional Sums? A Guide for First-Time Homebuyers
Let's delve into this crucial aspect of home construction and unravel the mysteries surrounding it. What Are...
Navigating the Kiwi Dream: Choosing the Right Property Type in New Zealand
Let's take a closer look at the first crucial step: determining what type of property you want to purchase....
What to Consider Before Building a New House: 3 Must-Know Tips
Building your dream home is an exciting journey, but it can also be a complex one. Whether you're a...
What Makes Fraemohs Homes Different?
To help streamline your research and decision-making process, we've compiled a few aspects that we believe...
Can You Use Green Home Loans for New Builds? | Fraemohs Homes
Constructing a home involves various expenses, but there are ways you can get support from your bank to...
PlanHub: Create Your Own Site Plan In Minutes
PlanHub is an app that enables users to quickly and easily teleport different plan ideas onto any section...
The Hidden Impacts of Natural Disasters: Beyond the Immediate Destruction
Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods and fires, can have a profound impact on communities and...
Why Building With Timber Is Good For The Environment
Building a home with timber can have many environmental benefits in New Zealand, thanks to the modern...
The Ultimate Waste Reduction Choice
If you’ve followed us for awhile then you’re probably familiar with us using the term ‘carbon negative’ to...
Who Needs GIB Anyway? Build With Timber & Beat The Bottleneck
The current shortage of GIB in New Zealand provides a neat opportunity to take a closer look at both the...
Why We Chose To Get Into Home Building – Nat and Josh of Fraemohs Wellington
It’s funny how a dinner with friends can lead to a life changing moment. That’s exactly what brought my...
Building Your Own Home in New Zealand: A Foreigners Guide
Lifestyle, family, safety and oddly - Donald Trump - were the top searchable reasons foreigners wanted to...
How To Save Money When Building In A Remote Location
Imagine that you have discovered land for sale in your favourite part of New Zealand and taken the leap and...
Building A Holiday Home
Updated May 2021 If you are thinking about building a holiday home, there's a good chance you're...
How To Banish Condensation From Your Home
Winter is well and truly here and many of you will be battling the daily curse of condensation dripping from...
Your Budget To Build A House + Home & Land Packages
Updated May 2021 We Kiwis are known for our laidback, “she’ll be right” attitude. While this approach can...
Building Costs Per Square Metre & How Size Can Be Deceiving
Real estate agents always encourage clients to declutter their homes when selling them. This is because...
Choosing The Best Home Orientation For Your Site
Many of us grew up in older homes where the sunniest room in the house was the bathroom or the laundry!...
Roof Styles – Monopitch vs Hip and Gable
When it comes to roof styles for houses, there are a number of different options. Two of the most common...
Why Our Timber Homes Perform So Well In Earthquakes
With the demand for earthquake proof house designs increasing every day, more and more New Zealanders are...
Understanding R-value And Thermal Efficiency
Updated May 2021 R-value is a measure of thermal resistance of a material, and we're often asked about the...
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