Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 11, 2012 5:37 pm Hi all After a few months of reading many H1 posts and blogs, I have learnt a lot from fellow H1 members and enjoyed reading your building progress, photo’s and many building tips. So I thought it was about time I start my own H1 thread and set up a blog, to share our building progress with you. We currently live in a single story 3 bedroom home we built 15 years ago. Started out with hubby, then our family grew to 2 kids, now 13yo girl & 11yo boy. With hubby working from home for the last 5 years (his office is in our dining room!) and the kids growing up, it was time to upgrade. After 18 months looking at established homes, we decided to buy a block of land locally and build again. We put a deposit on a 639sqm block in early October 2011 and started our search for our new home. Our journey begins! Timeline 02/10/11 Deposit on land 31/10/11 Deposit paid to Wisdom 02/12/11 First tender appointment 12/12/11 Second tender acceptance 28/01/12 First draft architectural plans 09/02/12 Land registered 22/02/12 Contacts signed 29/02/12 Land settled 07/02/12 DA lodged to council 16/05/12 Council approved DA 10/07/12 Pool build commenced 02/08/12 Construction certificate issued 19/08/12 Site fencing 23/08/12 Site cut 31/08/12 Piering & plumbing 03/09/12 Formwork 04/09/12 Slab 12/09/12 Framing commenced 18/09/12 Frames complete and windows installed 02/10/12 Brickies started 18/10/12 Bricking finished 27/10/12 2nd floor roof 05/11/12 Scafolding removed 20/11/12 Air con ducting & electrical wiring 27/11/12 Gyprock 10/12/12 Stairs 12/12/12 Lock up 17/12/12 Water proofing of wet areas 18/12/12 Internal doors installed 03/01/13 Tiling commenced 15/01/13 Kitchen cupboards installed 16/01/13 Bathroom, laundry cabinets installed 19/01/13 Painters started 25/01/13 Bathroom & kitchen caesarstone benchtops installed 31/01/13 Taps, shower sets & semi frameless screens installed. 04/02/13 Electricals completed 05/02/13 Carpet and main floor tiles laid 08/02/13 Tiling undone 12/02/13 Tiling, take two 14/02/03 Kitchen splashback installed 16/02/13 House clean 22/02/13 Final paint and stairs built 26/02/13 Formwork for driveway and pathway 06/03/13 PCI 08/03/13 Driveway and path done 20/03/13 Handover 01/05/13 Landscaping starts Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 2Feb 11, 2012 6:59 pm Congratulations!!! Do you have a copy of your plans??? Our house building blog: http://shellgavshouse.blogspot.com/ Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 3Feb 12, 2012 7:42 am Good choice and congratulations on deciding to build another house for your growing family I look forward to following your progress K Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 4Feb 12, 2012 8:38 am Thankyou!........yes, plans will come soon I hope. We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - external colours?? 5Feb 27, 2012 12:03 pm Well we now have final plans and we signed our home building contract last week. We also settle on our land this week on Wed 29/2.....Yeah!! So full steam ahead to get our DA ready to lodge. Colours appointment booked in for this week......after MANY MANY hours over the last 2 months (and I mean a lot) I have been looking at external colour samples and combinations and we have decided on most things. Just one sticking point is the facia and garage door. We like the lighter colours to offset our darker brick and roof but can't decide from 3 of the lighter colours we like. Brick - Austral Symmetry Asphalt Roof - Bristile classic gun metal Windows - Anodic off white Front & balcony doors - timber stained Hume doors Driveway - Gun Metal Gutters - Monument (maybe ironside) Facia and Garage door - we like 3 so far: Surfmist Evening Haze Dune We can't decide out of these 3 colours. Also considered monument for the garage door but we prefer the lighter colours to the darker ones. I would appreciate any suggestions/ feedback to help me decide. We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours???? 6Feb 27, 2012 12:45 pm Great colour chioces. We have dark brown bricks with monument facia, garage door and front door. We ended up choosing Dune to go with our colours. If in dought, grab a sample of everything and it will help alot. Good luck Forrester 43sq We have our keys (3/6/11) Now it's time to decorate (that's the fun part.lol) https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37598 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours???? 7Feb 27, 2012 1:33 pm Hi onewheel, Colour choices sound good, we have symmetry asphalt bricks with monument window, gutters fascia and dune garage door and dune cladding. If you have white windows I wonder whether you are best to stick with surfmist That would then give you the contrast against your bricks. Although I think that dune would go well too Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours???? 8Feb 28, 2012 9:02 pm Thanks Rudolf1980 & gogo65 for your feedback, we are leaning towards surfmist but I like the colours you are using too......so many lovely colours to play around, we built 15 years ago and the colour range was more limited then compared to now. We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours???? 9Feb 28, 2012 10:21 pm Congrats, onewheel!! I'm with Wisdom too & expecting slab next week... Good luck for your journey! Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours???? 10Feb 29, 2012 7:17 am Thanks Willcres....you must be excited now the house build is actually starting. Good luck with the weather, hopefully the rain eases off by then. We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours???? 12Mar 01, 2012 2:29 pm hi onewheel congrats on starting your own thread. i had a sticky beak at your blog and i am so excited to see someone else from voyager point on here! I have been stalking this forum since we exchanged on our block in september 2010 and havent come across anyone. have you had your colour appointment yet? I like dune and surfmist (we're actually tossing up between them and shale grey for our render and fascia), i think all 3 would look good but id probably lean towards surfmist if you are having white windows. are you having any render or cladding? I look forward to following your progress (on and off the forum!)! Timeline Land deposit 14.9.10 Land settled 16.6.11 DA submitted 13.3.12 DA appoved 17.5.12 Construction cert 6.7.12 Site scrape 23.7.12 Lock up 29.11.12 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours???? 13Mar 01, 2012 9:10 pm Hi EmRuss Hello!! It's great to hear from a fellow homebuilder from Voyager point! What street & Lot No. are you? We settled on our land on Wed 29th Feb. Hopefully the DA will be lodged next week. We did our colours today - we ended up changing the garage door and facia to Evening Haze after some feedback from here and a few other people. Many thanks to everyone for your comments. We also decided on monument for the guttering. I hope it will look OK. We are just having brick, no render. We also did our internal colour selections, chosing the kitchen colour was the hardest. I have been looking for soooooo long at various websites, photo's, magazines etc.... so many colours to chose from. Then I stumbled across realestate.com.au and they have a section for "Home ideas" with heaps of photo's to look at to get idea's from. Anyway we have gone for a light beige colour for the cupboards (cafe cream). They didn't have a sample to give us but the colour looks a bit different online. So now slightly stressed about it and wondering if I have made the right decision. Hubby reminds me the colour of something online looks different than it actually is. I rang the kitchen manufacturer to send me a sample so hopefully that will put my mind at ease. What stage are your building plans at? Who are you building with? It will be great to follow someone else's progress at our neck of the woods. We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours decided! 14Mar 05, 2012 8:14 am hi onewheel im sure all your colours will all look great. i think i need to check out the home ideas section of realestate.com.au, i love looking at photos and pictures of people's houses and trying to imagine what mine will look like. looks like we are at the same stage! we are also hoping our plans will be submitted to council this week. we're building a custom design with a small builder at narellan. we are in willowie, lot 124. which lot number are you? what colour splashback and benchtop have you chosen for your kitchen? Timeline Land deposit 14.9.10 Land settled 16.6.11 DA submitted 13.3.12 DA appoved 17.5.12 Construction cert 6.7.12 Site scrape 23.7.12 Lock up 29.11.12 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours decided! 15Mar 05, 2012 9:40 pm Hi Em Russ We are also in Willowie Way, lot 410.....we are the 3rd last block at the end. So we are just up the road from you! Just waiting on solicitor to provide confirmation of land settlement then I assume the builder will lodge DA this week (fingers crossed). It will be interesting to see if we lodge DA around the same time how long we each take for council approval. Is your house single or double storey? Ours is 2, so our build will be at least 26 weeks. Do you already live in the area? We have been at Wattle Grove for 15 years so we are happy with the area and the schools nearby. Our kitchen we selected Polytec "Cafe Cream" which is a light coffee colour with a Caesarstone Organic White benchtop with a kind of milk chocolate glass splashback (called maltese). I wonder how they find names for some of these colours. I spent so many hours looking at kitchens online & magazines, it was only a night before our colours appointment look at realestate.com that I found what what we wanted, so hopefully it will look something like we are after. A friend of mine just moved into her new house, she also had organic white benchtops (with white cupboards), it looked great, so we are pleased with our benchtop choice. What colours have you chosen? We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours decided! 16Mar 07, 2012 3:08 pm Good news!!! Received a phone call to advise our DA lodged with council today........now need to get a move on with organising a pool, which needs to be dug before the house build commences. We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours decided! 17Mar 08, 2012 7:54 am Indeed good news, Onewheell! Hope this rain will stop when you start the build. Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours decided! 18Mar 08, 2012 12:14 pm yay that's great news! i spoke to our builder this morning and our DA will be sent in today. we are currently living in holsworthy, my fiance went to school there and has lived at voyager point before. your kitchen sounds nice, i cant wait to design mine but we'll probably wait till we have council approval before we see the kitchen people. it will be white on white with a grey splashback. that's a nice block you've got! does it have an APZ? here's to council not taking forever to approve us!! Timeline Land deposit 14.9.10 Land settled 16.6.11 DA submitted 13.3.12 DA appoved 17.5.12 Construction cert 6.7.12 Site scrape 23.7.12 Lock up 29.11.12 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours decided! 19Mar 09, 2012 11:56 am Great news for you too EmRuss......interesting to see if we get our approvals back at the same time. Was told it takes 6-8 weeks. Your kitchen colours sounds lovely, that colour scheme was in one of our builders display homes and it looks stunning. Hubby did not want white kitchen cupboards so chose a cream colour instead. I'm not sure about our land and APZ. There will be bush across the road which I assume is council land, so they will have to worry about that. I think they have to make sure it is cleared a certain amount before the kerb. We have had to pay an extra $8K for bushfire requirements for the build, such as hard wood for the eaves, gutter guards etc. I'll look through our paperwork again to see what is required. We built the Wisdom Majestic 40 - moved in! Our blog - http://ourwisdommajestic40.blogspot.com.au/ Our H1 thread - viewtopic.php?t=54156 Re: Building the Wisdom Majestic 40 - Colours decided! 20Mar 09, 2012 2:08 pm yeah ive heard 6-8 weeks too. will let you know how we go! we actually submitted a DA last year and it took them 7 weeks to get back to us. unfortunately the builder wasnt able to make the changes council required so we had to start all over again. it's ok you dont have to go through your paperwork, i was just curious. Timeline Land deposit 14.9.10 Land settled 16.6.11 DA submitted 13.3.12 DA appoved 17.5.12 Construction cert 6.7.12 Site scrape 23.7.12 Lock up 29.11.12 https://form.jotform.com/240284569218058 Please spare a moment to fill out this survey form for a project. You stand a chance to win a digital gift voucher. Legitimate… 0 2827 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. 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