Posts by NRyde Glendale37+ • Home Renovation & Building Forum

Re: Dream Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney)!Building A New House

19 June 2017

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Jun 19, 2017 2:41 pm

So our Landscape works begins! Let's hope after the 6 weeks the garden looks perfect [emoji8]. I gotta set up some cameras to do time lapse shots [emoji328] [emoji329] https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170618/f47ba719ab5a6099de4cf5c5761a4e42.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170618/fa4ecc2129...

I do love your drone and time lapse pictures. Game on. Build thread: http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31t=78...

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19 June 2017

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Jun 19, 2017 2:37 pm

Ok folks input needed: on our ground floor, right next to the front entry door we changed up our formal living into what will be our guest room - it has its own access to the powder room which has a shower in it. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170619/6b4256e90c0c96814159125363826983.png The doub...

Ok folks input needed: on our ground floor, right next to the front entry door we changed up our formal living into what...

18 June 2017

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Jun 18, 2017 5:31 pm

Just don't seem to be able to catch a break with our house. 1/2 step forward three steps back!!! Had trades on site fitting off door handles, but they didn't actually finish doing them all (1/2 step forward) but.... Having waited over three weeks for the replacement door handles, wrong ones have bee...

Just don't seem to be able to catch a break with our house. 1/2 step forward three steps back!!! Had trades on site fitt...

Re: Metricon Laguna 40 Kingston Sydney Northern BeachesBuilding A New House

18 June 2017

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Jun 18, 2017 4:52 pm

Did my fortnightly walk through this week. Although some improvement still a lot to be done. We walked through and taped most of the issues. Still some way to go. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170617/f2c89fe2918f5093614d1fbd320f30ce.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170617/906d91b116e2f69...

Looking good Nev. You can't be too far away now? Have they given you any dates yet? Nope no dates yet, still trying to ...

15 June 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 5:01 pm

On the Clipsal "always on" LED backlight, all of ours are illuminated always. Whether two way or three way, I guess our installers knew this little trick [emoji1360] Yeah I think that's an easier setup. What we want is all LED backlights for that light to be "on" if the light is...

Yeah I think that's an easier setup. What we want is all LED backlights for that light to be on if the light is off onl...

15 June 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 3:30 pm

Might want to check with both Optus and Telstra to see which cable service is available on your street. Generally it's one or the other or both. Then you can decide which service is avaialble. Also note the cable services will be replaced by the new NBN which will change everything. Did you provisi...

Yes provision for nbn, just checked with Optus (there is no Telstra in our street) and seems they've upgrade to supply ...

Metricon Glendale 37+Building A New House

15 June 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 2:49 pm

Yes provision for nbn, just checked with Optus (there is no Telstra in our street) and seems they've upgrade to supply ...

15 June 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 2:25 pm

Yes pictures please! We had an issue with foxtel installation lately and the only option avaialble in our street was getting satellite pay TV instead of cable. Vaccaro assured our street has foxtel cable TV but it wasn't correct. We had issues whereby satellite TV needs 2 coax cables but luckily we...

Cheers mate, we don't have cable in our street so will be an interesting conversation to see if varraco have made that ...

15 June 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 2:06 pm

Cheers mate, we don't have cable in our street so will be an interesting conversation to see if varraco have made that ...

Re: Metricon Liberty 45 in Ryde NSWBuilding A New House

15 June 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 1:55 pm

[quote="Kandi"]Hi all 1) Is any one hired an independent building inspector in Sydney. Is there any need for this? 2) We have received sample HIA contract from M. is there are need for a laywer to be get involved, not sure, just trying to see how everyone did. 3) Has anyone taken any kind...

Hi Kandi, we used Houspect and they picked up things that I would never have known or had the time to pick up. I review...

15 June 2017

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Jun 15, 2017 1:32 pm

Had a site visit with CM. interesting meeting as we saw a reasonable amount of progress but still so much to do. Just getting the feeling that M are pushing ahead with what they can do now in order to pass their QA tick box to then push us into handover. E.g I called out the lights setting and it wa...

Had a site visit with CM. interesting meeting as we saw a reasonable amount of progress but still so much to do. Just ge...

Re: Metricon Henderson 42Building A New House

11 June 2017

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Jun 11, 2017 7:28 am

And so we finally had handover on Thursday. Our journey with Metricon began back in 2015 and I couldn't be happier to see the back of this company. At least until something breaks down and I need to contact them lol The last few years have been very stressful for us and I've felt like I've had a pa...

Couldn't agree more. Any one thinking of building with M just don't! Move on to any of the other builders unless you're...

Re: Metricon Liberty 45 in Ryde NSWBuilding A New House

8 June 2017

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Jun 08, 2017 8:36 pm

Hi all our plan does not have any window for the garage and laundry. not sure do we need it. does any one got windows for garage or laundry. also does anyone have skylight for any of the areas. just checking We considered lights in the garage and I still think maybe we should have but it would have...

We considered lights in the garage and I still think maybe we should have but it would have meant loss of storage wall ...

Re: Metricon Laguna 40 Kingston Sydney Northern BeachesBuilding A New House

3 June 2017

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Jun 03, 2017 10:38 pm

That's right. Converting powder to shower doesn't automatically upgrade the hot water system. I had to ask for it and pay the difference. It's one of the thing that was mentioned numerous times on 'things you forget' forum. NabeelC | Metricon Merricks 38 | Queensland http://forum.homeone.com.au/vie...

Yeah we've converted our powder room to have a shower but luckily did manage to read the comments and upgraded to rinna...

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3 June 2017

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Jun 03, 2017 2:20 pm

The ones we had didn't do it out of the box, they needed a modification, but it's not hard to do If you've still got the instructions or link, could you post them on here or PM me? Build thread: http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78995

If you've still got the instructions or link, could you post them on here or PM me? Build thread: http://forum.homeone....

3 June 2017

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Jun 03, 2017 1:55 pm

Ring Clipsal customer service and ask them if they have an official way of doing it... It can be done by linking all of the backlight LEDs to the same circuit... Doesn't take much modification of the switch to do it, but does need an extra wire between the switches to achieve the outcome you want.....

Yeah unfortunately that's a limitation with the backlit LED for 2-way and 3-way . We were told of this at our electrica...

3 June 2017

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Jun 03, 2017 7:17 am

Saturn back light on a two/three way switch: https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170602/4ae72aabdd4be134a725e147ff2c5fc2.jpg So we selected the Saturn switches for a number of our more visible switches, we'd asked the electricians to ensure that the very nice blue LED back light be on when the light...

Yeah unfortunately that's a limitation with the backlit LED for 2-way and 3-way . We were told of this at our electrica...

3 June 2017

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Jun 03, 2017 6:09 am

Saturn back light on a two/three way switch: So we selected the Saturn switches for a number of our more visible switche...

3 June 2017

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Jun 03, 2017 5:55 am

So after yet another week of poor communication and fairly poor progress, had the AM call me and gave it to him with both barrels. To his credit he didn't try and defend Metricon or argue back (he didn't have a leg to stand on) and took on board my calls outs (or so he's said, we wait to see if anyt...

So after yet another week of poor communication and fairly poor progress, had the AM call me and gave it to him with bot...

3 June 2017