Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 121Mar 03, 2016 5:02 pm Any news ryalls? M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 122Mar 04, 2016 12:14 pm How did yesterday go? https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80908 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 123Mar 04, 2016 12:54 pm The guy at the council was amazing! ! So helpful and friendly! We come up with a few solutions so with corals co-operation we should be back on track really quickly.. although Coral are being their useless and incompetent selves and just brushing me off. The council rep basically said coral were being difficult and weren't really trying to work with him to find a solution. I just sent my rep a faul email saying unless its sorted they can get stuffed im over it. I am so so angry right now!! _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 124Mar 04, 2016 1:03 pm Ryalls_first_build The guy at the council was amazing! ! So helpful and friendly! We come up with a few solutions so with corals co-operation we should be back on track really quickly.. although Coral are being their useless and incompetent selves and just brushing me off. The council rep basically said coral were being difficult and weren't really trying to work with him to find a solution. I just sent my rep a faul email saying unless its sorted they can get stuffed im over it. I am so so angry right now!! That is so crap on Coral's behalf. Honestly, take it higher. Demand to speak to your rep's manager. It's no t ok and they need to get it sorted. I will lend you my cranky pants to put on! Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 125Mar 04, 2016 4:53 pm Ryalls_first_build The guy at the council was amazing! ! So helpful and friendly! We come up with a few solutions so with corals co-operation we should be back on track really quickly.. although Coral are being their useless and incompetent selves and just brushing me off. The council rep basically said coral were being difficult and weren't really trying to work with him to find a solution. I just sent my rep a faul email saying unless its sorted they can get stuffed im over it. I am so so angry right now!! I don't blame you for being mad... Hope since we spoke this morning you have a resolution or at least someone mildly competent to get on to it! I was so lucky- my original CSO was the manager and she was amazing- I hate to think how I would have coped in those early days through head office without her. She was on the ball and chased stuff up and still everything took forever so I think the issues are in drafting and estimations. Haven't had any good experiences with anyone else there though apart from Bec. Don't deal with the CSO any more- go above her head to get some action. You actually could ask to speak to Rebecca. She's the manager of the pre- construction cso's M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 126Mar 07, 2016 9:26 am KLB Ryalls_first_build The guy at the council was amazing! ! So helpful and friendly! We come up with a few solutions so with corals co-operation we should be back on track really quickly.. although Coral are being their useless and incompetent selves and just brushing me off. The council rep basically said coral were being difficult and weren't really trying to work with him to find a solution. I just sent my rep a faul email saying unless its sorted they can get stuffed im over it. I am so so angry right now!! That is so crap on Coral's behalf. Honestly, take it higher. Demand to speak to your rep's manager. It's no t ok and they need to get it sorted. I will lend you my cranky pants to put on! Hahahah dont worry the cranky pants were well and truly on! lol _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 127Mar 07, 2016 9:28 am I got a call from coral on Friday afternoon saying they had sorted things with council and knew exactly what was needed yay! Although.. they have said they have to raise the slab by 200mm and re-design the front veranda... So will be additional costs to us! I absolutely went ballistic!! lol And told them i refused to pay an extra cent due to their incompetence and had they read the guidelines they would have known the requirements. Im going to follow it up with someone higher today, my husband and I are basically at the point now where we have had enough of Coral and are considering changing builders. Fingers crossed for a new productive week _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 128Mar 08, 2016 4:43 pm Hope you have had some good news by now regarding the outcome. Terrible that they overlooked this. They should come to the party financially. M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 129Mar 08, 2016 4:53 pm Ha as if! Although I had an email from them so guess i cant complain. It basically said .. update on the progress , we have one of the drafts people are working on designing a compliant veranda for your job, when this is done the Estimator will then calculate what is involved in the change and we will then contact you to discuss. Who knows when that will be? ? _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 130Mar 10, 2016 10:58 am Well so far we havent re-submitted anything to council but i must say Im feeling alot happier with Coral this week, they have been far more pro-active in following up our issues and im even getting replies to my emails within 10-15 minutes! Its a shame i had to go higher to get progress but we are excited to see something happening _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 131Mar 10, 2016 1:24 pm How annoying for you Ryalls_first_build! We had similar issues with council - the one about the landscape plan not being included and also the bit about the verandah roof. Out set back was also too far from the boundary as well. Its annoying when the builder (beechwood) has built other properties in the same estate with the same guidelines yet they miss important guidelines. The we had to get it certified by geotech (more money). This delayed everything for us. Its been a while since I last posted in here but we are just waiting for our certificate of commencement from the bank. We just had everything approved loan wise so should start building soon! Building Beechwood Bordeaux Four in Newcastle area Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 132Mar 10, 2016 3:55 pm nataliea How annoying for you Ryalls_first_build! We had similar issues with council - the one about the landscape plan not being included and also the bit about the verandah roof. Out set back was also too far from the boundary as well. Its annoying when the builder (beechwood) has built other properties in the same estate with the same guidelines yet they miss important guidelines. The we had to get it certified by geotech (more money). This delayed everything for us. Its been a while since I last posted in here but we are just waiting for our certificate of commencement from the bank. We just had everything approved loan wise so should start building soon! Oh wow great to see another apple tree builder! What street are you on? I kinda feel a little better its not just my builder lol but its so frustratingly slow!! Once we get everything sorted we have to get a geotech report done too.. how long did yours take? Just so i can mentality prepare myself. Fingers crossed you have a start date soon! It will be great to have a house to stalk.. in a non creepy way lol _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 133Mar 10, 2016 8:50 pm Oh Ryalls how frustrating. Have you heard anything from the estimators yet? I hope you stick to your guns about extra cost. I can't believe they tried to cut more than 1m. That's a condition that's Lake Macquarie WIDE, not just your estate. Can you do the front yard without a retaining wall? Fingers are crossed for you that they come to the ball park on the cost and changes in a manner than is acceptable to you. There have been a few bad stories on here about Coral, though I admit I haven't read threads about all builders so it could spread across several different builders. Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 134Mar 10, 2016 10:22 pm No no reply yet.. theyhave sent the drawings to make sure it meets requirements then will be in touch with me. I absolutely will be sticking to my guns regarding the pricing.. i honestly don't see how they can charge me extra its a fixed contract and they had the guidelines well before we signed the contracts for what we thought would be a house that met council requirements. I dont think they are too worried about the retaining wall they just shouldn't be visable from the street its easier for houses on the low side of the street to hid it behind plants. Im getting email updates a couple of times a day so hopefully things are looking up ☺ _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 135Mar 14, 2016 11:52 am So we have just heard that council is happy with the veranda and the cut/fill so just waiting for a geotech report and it will be through... Woohoo .. Goodness knows how the the geo report takes?? _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 136Mar 14, 2016 11:56 am Ryalls_first_build So we have just heard that council is happy with the veranda and the cut/fill so just waiting for a geotech report and it will be through... Woohoo .. Goodness knows how the the geo report takes?? That's great! Any idea of what it's going to cost? M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 137Mar 14, 2016 12:30 pm MrsJM Ryalls_first_build So we have just heard that council is happy with the veranda and the cut/fill so just waiting for a geotech report and it will be through... Woohoo .. Goodness knows how the the geo report takes?? That's great! Any idea of what it's going to cost? Haha nope! They havent said anything and im not asking! Although i am very ready to go to battle.. Hopefully i dont need too, This house building business is draining! I only said to hubby last night that i was happy i didnt have to deal with Coral on the weekends i need time to recover each week lol _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 139Mar 29, 2016 12:26 pm Still impatiently waiting!!! Our house was sent to Corals certifiers on the 1st December 2015 and we still dont have approval!!!!!! If your considering building with Coral... Hope your not in a hurry, If it takes this long to get the house through council god knows how long it will take them to build it!!!!! _________________________ Building the Noosa 26 with Coral Homes https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80794 Re: Our Forever home - Coral Homes Noosa 26 at West Wallsend 140Mar 29, 2016 12:49 pm Ryalls_first_build Still impatiently waiting!!! Our house was sent to Corals certifiers on the 1st December 2015 and we still dont have approval!!!!!! If your considering building with Coral... Hope your not in a hurry, If it takes this long to get the house through council god knows how long it will take them to build it!!!!! Frigging hell.... That's terrible. After what we have all been through (with the exception of Lexie and a few other lucky people ) I can't imagine ever signing up with Coral now after reading what everyone has gone through. These problems are systemic and they don't seem to be going away! I really hope they can sort their cr@p out soon and approve your plans M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair Hi, I've got a brand new (2nd hand) Bosch Hydropower 16H tankless hot water heater. Since it was installed I have noticed it leaks a lot. 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