Hi everyone, love this forum and have been on here a while now but this is my first post.
I haven't seen many homestart builds on here so hope this may be of interest to someone.
We are building the accolade on a 580m2 corner block in the melros estate dawesville, this is our first build.
When we first me the sales rep we worked out how much we could borrow, we then chose the biggest house they did on the biggest block that was within our budget. We have just gone with the basic inclusions apart from some electrical upgrades which were reasonably priced and would have cost more to do after handover.
Have to say that so far everyone at homestart have been great and we have had no issues.
I will try to post some pics.
28/01/14 went to see the block
30/01/14 deposits paid
20/02/14 site survey
04/03/14 first set of plans
26/03/14 building permit
16/05/14 finance pre-approval and house plans signed
05/06/14 finance approval
19/06/14 prestart and signed electrical upgrades
25/06/14 land settlement
end of july site scrape/compaction
17/08/14 footings dug/ pipes in
22/08/14 slab complete
18/10/14 bricks started
30/10/14 bricks complete
28/11/14 roof timbers started
23/1/14 roof tiles complete
04/02/15 rendering, white set and windows complete
locked up
ceilings painted
doors on
bricks cleaned
22/03/15 toilets and taps fitted (between 07:00 - 09:00)
This is the accolade by homestart
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This was the first visit to the block, we had looked at other areas but this felt right.
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House plan - we added doors to the theatre
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Site plan and house position - had to pay extra for boundary wall as it sits on the boundry wall - I didn't mean to say boundary wall twice - now that's three times... just found the smilies
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Site scraped and compacted
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From the back yard
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Front left
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Materials arrived - soakwells and some mesh
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Don't dig footings unless you are ready to pour
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From the street
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My brain is going now
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Slab down - happy days
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One more
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slab from the front
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We added around 14 double sockets, conduit to all bedrooms for data points, an outside power point and some conduit for downlights which we will do after handover.
Here is the electrical plan.
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These are the wet areas
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Kitchen plan
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We really liked the tourmaline two course blocks from brickmakers - that's our first choice - here is a pic from google
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I will post our prestart selections later.