Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building the AllCastle Grandworth 42.5+ 92Oct 14, 2014 10:02 pm Good to hear that thAt it is all going well for you now. We built the Palace Regent 12. No modification or anything. Started the tender process in Jan 2013 and we are only moving in now. So you can see how long they took and it has been frustrating for us. The actual build stared in September 2013. The paint job in my house is terrible and the brickwork is terrible. So unlike the quality shown in the display house. Re: Building the AllCastle Grandworth 42.5+ 93Oct 24, 2014 2:30 pm Hi Shopgirl, how did your move go? Hope you have settled in. The downstairs layout of the Palace Regent 12 is similar to the Grandworth but upstairs is very different. I think the Palace Regent 12 is more Grand than our house. You must be busy having to arrange all the other things such as driveway, paths, landscaping etc. What colour is your paint and bricks. I'm scared now because our bricks are dark and inside is all white. So since my last post, AH have put their fence up and portaloo delivered but other than that, nothing else is happening. Just so eager to start. Did you use AH for the flooring? We are but I'm sure I won't like the builders range of floor tiles so really concerned how much it is to upgrade. Any help from anyone on this is appreciated. Re: Building the AllCastle Grandworth 42.5+ 94Oct 29, 2014 3:27 pm As an update, nothing has happened since my last update. According to our contract, 'the builder is to commence the building works within 20 working days', anyway the 20 days ends tomorrow and so far nothing absolutely no work whatsoever. Given that we have not received or heard from AH I called them yesterday to see if we should see some work take place on that 20th day which is tomorrow. Our CS person said it aint going to happen. I asked why and she advised they havent engaged the excavator. I quietly hung up thinking mmmm but the contract says otherwise. Just trying to be as patient as possible. as I don't want to crack it especially since we havent even started building yet! Not sure my long my patience will last. I thought if it's in the contract that is gospel but obviously not. Has anyone else building with AH discovered the same delay? Re: Building the AllCastle Grandworth 42.5+ 95Nov 13, 2016 12:30 pm Hi, sorry to hear of the delays, from reading your post the explanation of the delay doesn't sound good enough. Once we had demolished and AH came to inspect they requested a couple of things be done (plastic cover on colourbond fence and a small retaining wall). but they started in the 20 period. 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 1027 Was the offer also on their website? If so, you could check the Wayback Machine. 1 1198 |