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Brad McEwan

Australian television presenter

Sep 20, 2026

MattHOST
3:39
Okay.
3:40
It varies for me because the site inspection plays such a huge part in what the cost of the build is going to be.
3:48
because I'm potentially hundreds and hundreds of metres away from power.
3:52
You might have to upgrade the transmission.
3:54
Needing to work out what services we're including in the project, you know, water, is it off-grid power, all these sorts of things that could be up to a quarter of a million dollars in costs.
4:06
that are completely separate of the actual building, you know, and if you're not including that in feasibility.
4:15
Like roadway, like creating just a path.

8 MINS LATER

HamishHOST
12:01
into the bucket and then poured it into the septic
HamishHOST
12:54
That's a really good point
12:55
actually.
12:55
You know what I mean? Like if you're perusing through Instagram and Sanctum Homes pops up and you think, that kangaroo ground job that Hamish did look sexy.
13:04
I wouldn't mind that.
13:05
It's probably worth a phone call.
13:06
Hey, Hamish, roughly what was that house worth? Yep.
13:09
And straight away before you've invested any time, any money other than, you know, sliding in someone's DMs, you've got a rough idea whether you can actually afford that or not before you've wasted all the time.

14 MINS LATER

MattHOST
27:29
Bespoke carpentry.
HamishHOST
60:31
I feel like that attitude is gone
60:32
goneWhich, what, what happened? Just I will do whatever I need to do to put food on the table.
60:38
Oh, I'm sure s- In our modern culture.
60:39
I'm sure some people have that attitude anyway.
60:42
Like, it's, that's neither here nor there.
60:45
The...
60:47
Yeah, so it got really hard in that now I'm like, and I had said to Erica through '23, '24 when I was doing what I thought was really well financially, I'm like, "I don't give a fuck if you never go back to work at all.

17 MINS LATER

MattHOST
77:50
Yeah.

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