Construction Cost Estimate
Detailed cost estimates for your project, with scope and project-specific assumptions.
Jicora
Plan your renovation backwards from move-in.
Estimate when to start, compare approval pathways, and build an editable renovation roadmap.
Renovation planner
Tell us about your project
Your personalised roadmap will appear here.
Not sure which approval pathway applies?
We’ll show the relevant pathways side-by-side so you can compare the stages. This planner does not determine eligibility.
Project stages
Editable project timeline
Automated calculation of your recommended start date based on renovation inputs. You can edit each stage duration to tailor your project. Every duration means additional elapsed programme time, not total effort spent on that task. All durations are shown in whole weeks. Your selected move-in month is modelled as the 15th of that month.
Most of the difference comes from additional design development and builder selection—not the physical build itself.
Approval timeframe
Approval & statutory costs
Email me this output
For this MVP, the button opens your email app with your roadmap pre-filled. Automated delivery can be added later.
What this tool does — and doesn’t — tell you
This early planner is for project planning only. It is not planning, legal, building, certification or cost advice. Actual requirements and timing depend on your property, proposed works, approval pathway, council or certifier, and project circumstances.
DA council timing: FY2025–26 average for Residential – Dwelling Houses, NSW Government Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure. The planner combines submission-to-lodgement and lodgement-to-assessment into one DA assessment stage.
CDC timing: NSW Planning indicative timeframe used for the current CDC assessment assumption. Design, tender and construction durations: Jicora planning assumptions and are editable by you.
Fees basis: Schedules as published by the LGA and NSW statutory fee rules. Site-specific developer contributions, public-domain permits, deposits and professional consultant fees are excluded unless expressly shown.
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