Master Builders | Allan Wallace Builders
Making difficult builds easy
Allan Wallace Builders Awards • 2000 Registered Master Builders (RMB) Auckland category winner new homes over $500,000 • 2004 RMB Auckland category winner new home $250,000 to $400,000 and Supreme Auckland winner • 2006 RMB Auckland category winner renovation over $250,000 • 2010 RMB Auckland gold reserve award renovation $250,000 to $500,000
Allan Wallace of Allan Wallace Builders Ltd likes a challenge, but in his 47 years in the business the multi-award winning builder had never come across a home with no windows - until he was presented with an eco home project that has seen him garner more awards for his home building craftsmanship. The Kumeu based Allan Wallace Builders was approached by South Head couple Sarah Sutherland and Dougal Watt to build their ground breaking eco home on the coast west of Auckland.
Building Energy Efficiency Award at the 2012 Registered Master Builders Awards. Allan is rightly proud of those awards and when added to the list of other awards his company has picked up during the years, it makes for impressive reading and goes a long way to ensuring potential clients know they are going to get a high quality finished home. “We wouldn’t have been able to achieve such a result at South Head without our key contractors and suppliers who have helped us, including Helensville Glass, who supplied our bathroom glass, our door suppliers Nulook Kumeu, which included the specialised LowE glass and our gibstopper AMH Ltd,” Allan says. Allan Wallace Builders is a family owned business with wife Dale supporting Allan with the running of the company and son Jonathon one of four registered builders on the staff of five, which includes one apprentice.
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• 2010 RMB Auckland category winner new home $350,000 to $450,000
Testimonial
Alan Wallace is one of those rare builders, who combines great skill, experience, common sense, honesty, team building and customer focus. Our house was extremely challenging to build and was mostly built using solar power. Not only did Alan Wallace Builders achieve an amazing result, but they have won multiple awards for it and are an outstanding example of environmentalism and professionalism in building.
• 2010 RMB National winner new home $350,000 to $450,000 • 2012 RMB Auckland new home $600,000 to $1 million gold reserve • 2012 RMB Auckland sustainable home $500,000 to $1 million gold reserve • 2012 RMB National winner sustainable home $500,000 to $1 million • 2012 RMB national winner Future Proof Building Energy Efficiency Award
Alan Wallace and his wife Dale, didn’t just build our fantastic house, but have become friends. - Sarah Sutherland and Dougal Watt, South Head
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Dale Wallace says one of the keys to the success of the company is that the team works well together. “Some of them have been with us for over 20 years and they are a tight unit when working together,” Dale says.
“Allan really knows the industry. He is always up for a challenge and is never more happier The home, which is set on 175 hectares than when he is working with our clients with views to Muriwai beach and across the especially on a build which is out of Kaipara Harbour, has no windows. “It’s all glass doors, 24 of them, making up 93 percent the ordinary.” of the walls,” Allan Wallace says. Allan Wallace Builders Allan says the trickiest part of the build, which 179 Old Railway Road Kumeu took seven months, was ensuring everything was perfectly straight as if it wasn’t, the doors T (09) 412 9611 E twal@xtra.co.nz would never have lined up. — Advertising Feature
“A lot of the strength for the building comes with the aluminum joinery which is inlaid with steel.” With so many doors the house, with its three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a massive living/kitchen area, can virtually be opened up to the elements from all sides. The interior wall cladding for the home is recycled rimu which came from Blenheim. “All the wood had to be hand sanded then covered with 15 coats of Dutch soap,” Alan says. The house is self sufficient in power and water and not connected to the power grid. In addition to solar power generation unit, which provided the power for the build as the nearest power pole was 3km away, the house has a wood fired boiler which provides both the hot water and under floor heating.
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“I believe since the build the owners have spent just on $100 for utilities,” Allan says. The nearly $1 million South Head home won the BRANZ Sustainable Homes $500,000 to $1 million category and the Future Proof
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