Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Redink Battleaxe - got bricks...no brickie.... 261Oct 22, 2014 12:56 pm My build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68002 Re: Redink Battleaxe - got bricks...no brickie.... 262Oct 22, 2014 2:28 pm Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - got bricks...no brickie.... 264Oct 22, 2014 2:42 pm ardie514 That is good news. In the end probably would have taken the same amount of time, waiting is just a pain. And totally better to have quality job done right the first time. Yes indeed! I was having quite the pity party for myself last night sometimes living with the folks is a bit tough and makes me want our own place so badly!!! But my husband told me pick myself up and dust myself off Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 265Oct 28, 2014 3:04 pm Hi all, While we're waiting for a brickie the question of the week is: to paint straight away OR wait a year until we paint? Personally, I really want to paint straight away (I just want a finished house!) but my husband isn't keen to paint given that while everything it settling it could potentially cause loads of cracks? My parents DA build is 1 year old and they have cracks in almost every wall and they had a house on the same block beforehand. Thoughts please! Or is there a particular type of paint, or way to paint, that will prevent cracks? Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 266Oct 28, 2014 4:50 pm [quote="justy"]While we're waiting for a brickie the question of the week is: to paint straight away OR wait a year until we paint? [quote]
Hey justy. Wow, I'm so oblivious to this. I had no idea there was contention about when to paint! I'm painting right after handover. I have no real reason to support this other than I assumed it was the 'done thing'. I'd feel like my house would be naked without paint. Naked and exposed! I'd feel sorry for it. Jeez you know you're starting to lose it when you personify your house Anyway, I definitely see the merits of waiting, so your parents makes a valid point. But I'm going to subscribe to the theory that 'what I can't see won't hurt me'! Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 267Oct 28, 2014 5:01 pm PanRaptor justy While we're waiting for a brickie the question of the week is: to paint straight away OR wait a year until we paint?/quote] Hey justy. Wow, I'm so oblivious to this. I had no idea there was contention about when to paint! I'm painting right after handover. I have no real reason to support this other than I assumed it was the 'done thing'. I'd feel like my house would be naked without paint. Naked and exposed! I'd feel sorry for it. Jeez you know you're starting to lose it when you personify your house Anyway, I definitely see the merits of waiting, so your parents makes a valid point. But I'm going to subscribe to the theory that 'what I can't see won't hurt me'! My husband is English and he was saying that most people definitely wait a while before painting! And then my folks said that no one used to paint until after a year 'back in the day'. News to me too! I'm with you Pan - my house would would be NAKED! FYI - not sure if RI is painting for you? But apparently most builders won't do a touch up paint job unless the cracks can be seen from 2m away. Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 268Oct 28, 2014 5:25 pm justy FYI - not sure if RI is painting for you? But apparently most builders won't do a touch up paint job unless the cracks can be seen from 2m away. For the record, I think rules like that are silly. What is the standard? Is that 20/20 2m vision or a visually impaired 2m? Sounds like a load of rubbish to me. Excuses for their shortcomings. Ugh I'm so over building!!!!!! Sorry, not want you want to hear when you have a long way to go! Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 269Oct 28, 2014 5:36 pm PanRaptor justy FYI - not sure if RI is painting for you? But apparently most builders won't do a touch up paint job unless the cracks can be seen from 2m away. For the record, I think rules like that are silly. What is the standard? Is that 20/20 2m vision or a visually impaired 2m? Sounds like a load of rubbish to me. Excuses for their shortcomings. Ugh I'm so over building!!!!!! Sorry, not want you want to hear when you have a long way to go! No idea if Redink do that. But DA do. Not sure what my Dad said to them but when I got home from work some of the touch ups were done and they're doing the rest next week Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 270Oct 28, 2014 6:40 pm Can't really help on this. I don't know anything about anything I would like to have our house painted before we move anything in, seems easier. So I'm planning to have it painted after handover. I know that cracks, particularly around the cornices are common and was told by someone at RI that they'd fix those at 6 mos maintenance. Hadn't really thought about the effect on the paint. Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 271Oct 28, 2014 7:14 pm ardie514 Can't really help on this. I don't know anything about anything I would like to have our house painted before we move anything in, seems easier. So I'm planning to have it painted after handover. I know that cracks, particularly around the cornices are common and was told by someone at RI that they'd fix those at 6 mos maintenance. Hadn't really thought about the effect on the paint. It's a tough one Ardie! I'd like to get everything painted first too. But then I see my parents brand new house and I'd say at least 60% of walls have cracks, if not more. It will be roughly 4K to paint the whole house (that seems to be an average cost from what I've read on here!) so I'm worried about throwing all the cash down the drain if we've got to fix it all in a year's time anyway. Hmmmmm so many things to consider! I might ask some the folks at Bunnings what they think they are usually pretty helpful Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 272Oct 28, 2014 7:16 pm Let me know what you find out. Am very curious. I might email the painter that we're planning to use and get his opinion too. Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 273Oct 28, 2014 7:29 pm ardie514 Let me know what you find out. Am very curious. I might email the painter that we're planning to use and get his opinion too. Will do! And please let me know what your painter says Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 274Oct 28, 2014 11:07 pm I didn't realise this was an issue either! I personally would want to paint straight away, the thought of living in an unpainted house does my head in. Surely any settling cracks could be easily patched up? Just like people patch up holes caused by pulling out old picture hooks? Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 275Oct 28, 2014 11:24 pm We've got to paint immediately because there's so much damage/patching/dirty water satins form the roof leaks and paint splashes on our walls we couldn't bear to look at it. I imagine if your walls looked well finished (ours did before the roof leaked and idiot tradies damaged them) you could leave them for a while. Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 276Oct 29, 2014 9:44 am My husband talked to one of our friends (of COURSE he can't just go with what I think ) who said that it was so easy to paint before putting the floor in. Soooo I think we'll be painting thankfully! Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 277Oct 31, 2014 3:11 pm Catching up, we're painting prior to floors etc going in. The floor guy said it would look better as the paint goes all the way to the slab rather than just the top of the floor and less chance of getting paint splatter on the new carpets and timber. Any news of brickies? Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 278Oct 31, 2014 8:17 pm My last paint for 250sqm was $5K Do floors first and then risk splatter on floor, not good if going with floorboards. Not so bad with tiles. Paint first and then floor installers will damage new painted walls with tiles and boards by smacking into them, not a big drama in carpeted areas. At least you should have some left over paint to patch if you did paint yourself or had it done after handover. Have builder do internal paint and walls come out nice cos builder did both. Pay for paint after handover and painter says walls not so smooth. A case of painter blaming builder or is painter being honest and it was builder who cut the corners and not done a good job on walls. Either way no good for you. My last painter claimed to be an artist, and he was quite good, but he cracked me up when he said he coundnt do much if the canvas on which he paints is rubbish to begin with. Most will sand back the worst of it but no matter the colour used the shadows will be evident when the light strikes at the right angle. Enjoy Timeline Aug 08-Land Mar 09-Demo/Titles Sept 10-Handover No1 Sept 11-Handover No2 April 12-Sold No2 Aug 14-Land/Demo Jan 15-Slabs viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25736 Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 279Nov 04, 2014 11:53 am Justy I think we may decide to wait with the paint, if this would mean we'd not have to spend more on patching up afterwards. We'll have so many things left to do after handover that I'll welcome being able to postpone one of the expenses! Re: Redink Battleaxe - no brickie BUT thoughts on painting p 280Nov 04, 2014 6:03 pm ToriMatt8132 Catching up, we're painting prior to floors etc going in. The floor guy said it would look better as the paint goes all the way to the slab rather than just the top of the floor and less chance of getting paint splatter on the new carpets and timber. Any news of brickies? No brickie yet RI emailed me yesterday and our SS is having a meeting with management today. Echo My last paint for 250sqm was $5K Do floors first and then risk splatter on floor, not good if going with floorboards. Not so bad with tiles. Paint first and then floor installers will damage new painted walls with tiles and boards by smacking into them, not a big drama in carpeted areas. At least you should have some left over paint to patch if you did paint yourself or had it done after handover. Have builder do internal paint and walls come out nice cos builder did both. Pay for paint after handover and painter says walls not so smooth. A case of painter blaming builder or is painter being honest and it was builder who cut the corners and not done a good job on walls. Either way no good for you. My last painter claimed to be an artist, and he was quite good, but he cracked me up when he said he coundnt do much if the canvas on which he paints is rubbish to begin with. Most will sand back the worst of it but no matter the colour used the shadows will be evident when the light strikes at the right angle. Enjoy That sounds positive Echo! Painting sounds like it will be fun... MalSannie Justy I think we may decide to wait with the paint, if this would mean we'd not have to spend more on patching up afterwards. We'll have so many things left to do after handover that I'll welcome being able to postpone one of the expenses! That's what my DH thinks too MalSannie but I'm tempted to just patch up later down the line...I'm terribly clumsy and I'd be so devastated if I got paint on the floorboards once they're laid!!! GENERAL UPDATE: Still waiting on a brickie. I am starting to get a bit frustrated... Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Thanks for the insight! My plot is a new development so hopefully I won't have too much problem during build as everyone should be roughly building together. I also… 2 3381 Thanks Draftroom that definitely helps a heap. We are still at the very early stage of planning to see what kind of house would fit on our plot. While we are on a… 3 15781 Joe, it depends on your certifier but we are noticing the ones we deal with are really cracking down. So i would recommend you follow your approved landscaping plans to… 4 10986 |