Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 81Feb 23, 2023 5:37 pm Did anyone end up upgrading with Beautiful Tiles (The tile supplier for Allcastle in Sydney)? The salesperson in Beautiful Tiles told me the Allcastle builder's range tiles included were very basic & non-glossy, nothing look like the one shown in the display home, I ended up paying an extra $$$$ just for the glossy tiles. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 82Dec 13, 2023 10:32 am My house is due for completion in the next few weeks, for some reason connect-down pipe for stormwater is not included, they just leave it like this. It's either your plumber needs to complete the rest to comply with the council regulation or you pay extra for their contractor to finish it off. https://www.ozphotovideos.com/external/others/allcastle-down-pipes.jpg Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 83Dec 13, 2023 11:27 am First time ive heard of that. Did u have to do hydraulic plans and get a plumber in to build it? Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 84Dec 13, 2023 11:27 am Also paid an extra $ 17XX for connecting the wire from the public line to the private pole and installation of a new meter, apparently it's not included either. So if you're initiating a contract with Allcastle make sure you know what's not included. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 85Dec 13, 2023 11:30 am The mains connection is standard across the board i think. Everyone needs to get a level 2 electrician in to connect it unless u specify in contract for them to connect. In which case they will charge extra Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 86Dec 13, 2023 11:36 am Bao Nguyen First time ive heard of that. Did u have to do hydraulic plans and get a plumber in to build it? yes, we do have a hydraulic plan, around late last year, the builder's-plumber came to lay the pipes and they sent me an extra bill for doing the following: 1. Supply and install 100mm stormwater pipe to pickup existing down pipe from the existing building and connect to the Pit 2. supply and install 100mm stormwater pipe to pickup tank overflow, pit and downpipes and connect to the front boundary pit 3. supply and install 2 450 x 450 precast concrete pits with galvanised grates 4. supply and install 100mm stormwater pipe to connect the boundary pit outlet to the council kerb & gutter 5. Extend 100mm charged line and provide clean out point inside the pit for future maintenance purposes 6. Saw cut concrete path and for safe pedestrian access. Total $4785. We're not experienced in building a new house, and not informed these are something that is REQUIRED to complete the rainwater drainage system. We thought the basic pipe work was included, these were just extra work options. So Allcastle just left these downpipes like this to hand over. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 87Dec 13, 2023 11:49 am Strange, our hydraulic sounds similar but they just connected the down pipes to the hydraulic. Not sure why they left it like that Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 88Dec 13, 2023 12:22 pm Bao Nguyen Strange, our hydraulic sounds similar but they just connected the down pipes to the hydraulic. Not sure why they left it like that Hi Bao, Are you currently building with Allcastle, what stage is it in? did the plumber send an invoice for the additional jobs? Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 89Dec 13, 2023 12:46 pm Build was completed in 2021. And yes we got a separate plumber in for the hydraulic part. I used one of the plumber they recommended. Could have used any other plumber but they were all droning on about the cost being in the 8-10k range. Their recommended plumber did the whole thing for about 3.5k, and as far as i can tell did the job correctly, sent me a stack of photos and all. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 90Dec 13, 2023 12:50 pm i got a reply from the Allcastle customer Liaison :
"This is part of the work that would have been done by the drainer doing your Hydraulic requirements. I can see that you chose not to go with Reliable Drainage, so whomever you had complete this job is responsible. I trust this clarifies this for you." The problem is that we as new home builders not sure what is required and what's optional from their contractor to do extra work. and what is included and what is not included, some time it's not very clear. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 91Dec 13, 2023 12:55 pm Overall i think allcastle is decent, mistakes were made but they corrected as soon as i pointed it out. They tend to stick to the contract and if u want to deviate from that, u will have to pay. For example, when i wanted them to just leave the skirting as is and not install them, they wanted 1k for contract deviation. Yes they wanted more money to do less work. But such is the game. I guess its too late for urself but for anyone else, be wary of provisional amounts. Our provisional for traffic control was 5k. Ended up being 40k. So again terms of contract. Maintenance was also decent as far as i could tell, they fixed was was obviously faults and explained clearly what wasnt which is reasonable i didnt have major faults so cant speak on that regards. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 92Dec 13, 2023 1:04 pm Bao Nguyen Overall i think allcastle is decent, mistakes were made but they corrected as soon as i pointed it out. They tend to stick to the contract and if u want to deviate from that, u will have to pay. For example, when i wanted them to just leave the skirting as is and not install them, they wanted 1k for contract deviation. Yes they wanted more money to do less work. But such is the game. I guess its too late for urself but for anyone else, be wary of provisional amounts. Our provisional for traffic control was 5k. Ended up being 40k. So again terms of contract. Maintenance was also decent as far as i could tell, they fixed was was obviously faults and explained clearly what wasnt which is reasonable i didnt have major faults so cant speak on that regards. Was your home next to a major busy road? They charge me like 15K for provisional traffic control, but never see them doing traffic control work. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 93Dec 13, 2023 1:34 pm Yeah, our property is on a busy road with only one lane. I never saw them either and its my biggest gripe with the company. I was also a first hime builder so many things were learnt Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 94Dec 13, 2023 1:44 pm Ull get the unused portion of that provision back. They were at least honest with me when i made changes to plans. Smaller window in a room, standard brick pattern on a pillar and such. They refunded me money for those, but even if they hadnt i would have been none the wiser Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 95Dec 13, 2023 1:47 pm As for ur downpipes, maybe check with the plumber that did the hydraulics. Might be something hes already charged u for Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 96Dec 13, 2023 2:50 pm Bao Nguyen As for ur downpipes, maybe check with the plumber that did the hydraulics. Might be something hes already charged u for luckily it is not a major issue, I'll get a plumber to fix and install the rest of the storm water system. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 97Dec 25, 2023 10:25 am Did anyone having issue with Termguard they installed? They just put it like that how am I suppose to pave concrete driveway with this on it's way? According to this thread it suppose to be trenched. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=107735 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 99Jan 02, 2024 7:37 pm Hey everyone, Happy new year! Does our CDC from Allcastle cover driveway design? I just went to our local council in regards to drive way, vehicle cross, they ask me to refer back to our Builder's CDC certifier to see if there is already a CDC in place for driveway(they can't check this). Otherwise We'll need someone to design a driveway/ vehicle cross and get approval from council or certifier. Re: Building With AllCastle Homes 100Apr 15, 2024 2:27 am eguan88 Did anyone end up upgrading with Beautiful Tiles (The tile supplier for Allcastle in Sydney)? The salesperson in Beautiful Tiles told me the Allcastle builder's range tiles included were very basic & non-glossy, nothing look like the one shown in the display home, I ended up paying an extra $$$$ just for the glossy tiles. Hi I would like to get in touch with you. I’m a first time builder we just signed mid range contract and identified a lot of things are not included in our internal appointment. We had one choice of toilet, shower, door, kitchen sink and mixer.) Is this what you had? Hi we are looking to talk to people who have built with them recently. We have signed mid range built contract but identified that a lot of things are not included.… 0 1278 Was the offer also on their website? If so, you could check the Wayback Machine. 1 1558 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 77797 |