Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone building in the Vermont Estate at Pitt Town? 1072Feb 22, 2015 5:36 pm Hi guys We are building in pitt town and nearly at the stage for fencing . Can anyone recommend anyone and know what they roughly paid for ezyclip per metre. I have a half acres lot so I hope it's not to much . Cheers Re: Anyone building in the Vermont Estate at Pitt Town? 1074Feb 24, 2015 3:32 pm Things are certainly moving along in Moorhen Street with multiple slabs now laid and more soon to be laid. I noticed both my side neighbours have started, hopefully I will soon join them. Just awaiting the finalisation of my construction plans due back any day. Michelle - the administration process with Wisdom has been very very slow (but I think this is with any building company). Looking forward to construction phase. I was curious about the driveway as I am also doing some cementing around front, side and back of the house and this all needs to be complete before the dog moves in (her kennel needs to go on some of the cement) and I also need the turf laid (as my dog can be a little destructive)! I know its early but trying to roughly put in leave so I get it when I need it! Looking forward to meeting my site supervisor who hopefully is one of the good ones. Re: Anyone building in the Vermont Estate at Pitt Town? 1075Mar 04, 2015 9:19 am Carla, EVERY builder suffers with the branding of 'SLOW ADMIN' it's the downfall of building unfortunately and something that we all go through no matter what. I'm sure you will have a very competent SS and no doubt he'll make sure your build runs smoothly and accordingly. Good luck with the progress Re: Anyone building in the Vermont Estate at Pitt Town? 1076Mar 04, 2015 5:23 pm Well today u get text from MJH saying roof and bricks finished . Go out to house and what do you know bricks not finished. Still All sill and front columns . Then I ask if kitchen could rise 40mm and reduce splash back and they say $2300 . I fell over. I'm not happy Re: Anyone building in the Vermont Estate at Pitt Town? 1077Mar 04, 2015 7:55 pm hi Gohmsen, just wanted to offer some words of comfort re: the text message and your dismay of seeing the work wasn't finished to the stage you were expecting... We found this happened with us too (also built with MJH) and discovered that these messages are automated. Sometimes it means the order for the next stage has gone through - they have to "tick off" that one part has been completed so the next part can keep moving forward. Unfortunately, it means we sometimes get disappointed because the message is a little inaccurate with the timing. It is a good thing though, as it means that you aren't losing time between stages. Hang in there! Re the extra cost to change the height of the kitchen... Sheesh! This is it though - they don't want you to make changes after everything has started. We didn't add any extra height to our benchtops (apart from getting the 40 mm stone tops with the upgrade) and our height is pretty well perfect - I was a little concerned we would lose height as we had tiling done ourselves after handover, but it's all ended up completely fine. And this is coming from someone who has always had extra high benchtops in previous houses (father is a builder - apparently it's a "thing" that they like the extra height!). I'm sure you'll find yours will be ok. Fingers and toes crossed for you! Re: Anyone building in the Vermont Estate at Pitt Town? 1078Mar 04, 2015 8:24 pm LaurenDrew hi Gohmsen, just wanted to offer some words of comfort re: the text message and your dismay of seeing the work wasn't finished to the stage you were expecting... We found this happened with us too (also built with MJH) and discovered that these messages are automated. Sometimes it means the order for the next stage has gone through - they have to "tick off" that one part has been completed so the next part can keep moving forward. Unfortunately, it means we sometimes get disappointed because the message is a little inaccurate with the timing. It is a good thing though, as it means that you aren't losing time between stages. Hang in there! Re the extra cost to change the height of the kitchen... Sheesh! This is it though - they don't want you to make changes after everything has started. We didn't add any extra height to our benchtops (apart from getting the 40 mm stone tops with the upgrade) and our height is pretty well perfect - I was a little concerned we would lose height as we had tiling done ourselves after handover, but it's all ended up completely fine. And this is coming from someone who has always had extra high benchtops in previous houses (father is a builder - apparently it's a "thing" that they like the extra height!). I'm sure you'll find yours will be ok. Fingers and toes crossed for you! Thanks for that . Yes I am a joiner and I know what thing cost like that. I'm doing a new kitchen after handover as to upgrade it was more that I can make a new one in polyurethane for. So I'm doing 60mm stone as well . I'm keeping the mirrored splash back thought so I'm just try to get that installed a bit higher . Re: Anyone building in the Vermont Estate at Pitt Town? 1079Mar 05, 2015 10:37 am gohmsen LaurenDrew hi Gohmsen, just wanted to offer some words of comfort re: the text message and your dismay of seeing the work wasn't finished to the stage you were expecting... We found this happened with us too (also built with MJH) and discovered that these messages are automated. Sometimes it means the order for the next stage has gone through - they have to "tick off" that one part has been completed so the next part can keep moving forward. Unfortunately, it means we sometimes get disappointed because the message is a little inaccurate with the timing. It is a good thing though, as it means that you aren't losing time between stages. Hang in there! Re the extra cost to change the height of the kitchen... Sheesh! This is it though - they don't want you to make changes after everything has started. We didn't add any extra height to our benchtops (apart from getting the 40 mm stone tops with the upgrade) and our height is pretty well perfect - I was a little concerned we would lose height as we had tiling done ourselves after handover, but it's all ended up completely fine. And this is coming from someone who has always had extra high benchtops in previous houses (father is a builder - apparently it's a "thing" that they like the extra height!). I'm sure you'll find yours will be ok. Fingers and toes crossed for you! Thanks for that . Yes I am a joiner and I know what thing cost like that. I'm doing a new kitchen after handover as to upgrade it was more that I can make a new one in polyurethane for. So I'm doing 60mm stone as well . I'm keeping the mirrored splash back thought so I'm just try to get that installed a bit higher . Ahhh.... I see.... makes sense that you want to have the splashback installed a bit higher then. Did you end up doing it? Postal Service Vermont Estate at Pitt Town 1080Jul 30, 2015 9:15 am Anyone heard any news regarding the postal service in Vermont? The Estate is almost full and we still have our temp letter boxes out front making the streets look average. O_Jay Here is the update: - Called PO - "Nothing to do with us, mail is delivered by Aus Post Contractor, contact Aus Post. Developer should have told you" - Called Vermont - "Oh, we only just found out about this recently" [Oh please!!!] "We will look into it and getting something into our design guidelines" [Not going to help me is it] - Called Aus Post - "We have lodged your complaint with the delivery centre, someone from our back office team will call you back in 1-2 weeks with an update" [Waiting for "too bad we aren't changing anything until maybe the whole estate is finished" call] I will be joining you all with my cheap Bunnings letter box this evening DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair Hey all, 6 months ago we moved a town house which is 9 years old built and is a above average condition for that age. When we moved in we got the house inspected as well… 0 197 Wish you all the best. Once you signed the contract, they will find millions excuses to charge you. And have seen their sites unfinished for a long time. 4 25632 |