Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 148Feb 26, 2015 1:03 pm tmwoburn Hi Vines. Everything went really well with mtg. Hopefully, fingers crossed, we should be finished by end of March. I'm actually waiting for a pci date from Scott today. That's excellent tmwoburn Bet you are really excited! They should start laying tiles this week then? Can't believe the quick progress on yours. You will be finished before us easily now. We still have heaps to do. Our ceilings aren't fixed up yet, mistakes are being made and not corrected, damage is being done inside the house and still haven't been given a PCI date yet. Gemmill won't give me any PCI dates and still haven't met our supervisor either. This has to have been the worst experience of my life. Not even excited at all by it. Just want it done so I can have my life back! Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 149Feb 26, 2015 7:50 pm Hi tmwoburn Glad you're meeting went well, shame trades keep causing damage, why can't they take care with their work. So annoying. I'm quickly running out of money, so much to do after handover. Luckily the developer is paying for our dividing fence. I've tried organising it but our boundary pegs are missing so need to sort that out too. We still haven't got our front landscape plan back yet, after 5 weeks! I emailed them today asking to send it through, they are quoting for our exposed agg. drive too. We asked to do raised planter boxes across the front and got quoted the same. We still haven't got a PCI date but must be around 4 weeks away now. I'm going to the house tomorrow morning to meet someone about curtains and blinds, and I'm meeting a Dulux colour consultant (we are too indecisive haha), so hoping to see what's been done and hopefully run into the supervisor. Sorry to hear that dsellars, for some reason I thought your build was going pretty well, other than the ceiling fix. Hope things get better for you! Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 150Feb 26, 2015 10:33 pm VinesBuild We still haven't got our front landscape plan back yet, after 5 weeks! I emailed them today asking to send it through, they are quoting for our exposed agg. drive too. We asked to do raised planter boxes across the front and got quoted the same. Sorry to hear that dsellars, for some reason I thought your build was going pretty well, other than the ceiling fix. Hope things get better for you! Have you already started the front landscaping options with the free one supplied from the developer? If so I might have to jump onto that as we haven't even started that yet! In regards to our build, yes things starting to slow up. Not hugely just frustrated with the whole process. Beginning of January last year we started this process so it is getting a bit tiresome. Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 151Feb 26, 2015 10:40 pm Know how you feel, we signed up around the same time. I've spent the last year thinking about nothing but this house. I'm looking forward to it being over and getting my life back. We're using the developer nominated landscaper. They have been ok but we still haven't got any designs back yet. When I first contacted them they said to allow 8 weeks to do the design and finalise etc. By using the nominated landscaper you don't have to pay the developer's contribution either, just the extra on top, if there is any. We were told using other landscapers means you have to pay for everything, then LWP will inspect and give you the money back after completion. But check this in case your package is different. Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 152Feb 26, 2015 10:42 pm VinesBuild Know how you feel, we signed up around the same time. I've spent the last year thinking about nothing but this house. I'm looking forward to it being over and getting my life back. We're using the developer nominated landscaper. They have been ok but we still haven't got any designs back yet. When I first contacted them they said to allow 8 weeks to do the design and finalise etc. By using the nominated landscaper you don't have to pay the developer's contribution either, just the extra on top, if there is any. We were told using other landscapers means you have to pay for everything, then LWP will inspect and give you the money back after completion. But check this in case your package is different. Thanks for that VinesBuild will get onto LWP about that one. Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 153Feb 28, 2015 9:44 pm VinesBuild We still haven't got our front landscape plan back yet, after 5 weeks! I emailed them today asking to send it through, they are quoting for our exposed agg. drive too. I wonder how expensive it will be through the landscaper to do your exposed agg? we've looked around $100m2. It would be great to get landscaping and driveway done at the same time. Interested to see what they quote you. How are you feeling today, little better? I read somewhere building a house can be as stressful as getting married and having children. Holey cow!!!!! Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 154Feb 28, 2015 9:57 pm Landscaper said it would be around the 100m2 mark so figured they might as well quote. Like you said, would be so much easier to get the front done by the same company. Supervisor even said that he'd be happy to let our trades do stuff between PCI and handover...depending on what is left to be done is of course, but drive / painting might be ok. Feeling a little less angry but still annoyed that no one seems to care when this house gets finished, no sense of urgency even though they are about to run out of time. I now need to wait another week before I can check on progress, wish I lived closer. Paving should be done on Wednesday. Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 156Mar 01, 2015 12:26 am I'll PM you tomorrow. Don't want to give anything away in case they read this Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 158Mar 06, 2015 11:52 am Not very happy today!
Tiler has been walked off job because after a week of tiling he has ripped up his work 3 times. He was such a nice young guy! Hopefully Aveling will sort that out. Now our bathroom cabinets/bath are in we can see we're not getting the same bathroom as the display version we paid for. It seems our window is too big and doesn't allow for enough tiling under the window. Our shower frame should go up over bath but can't get confirmation on that. We paid for hobless showers but the slab flooring doesn't seem to have allowed for it properly. I've been waiting for 3 days now for our SS or CLO to comment on all the above and none of my emails are being answered other than they still going ahead with tiling!!! My hubby is just furious. We've had our fair share of structural problems which we have accepted their apology for as mistakes from Aveling and got over it but this is just too much. The more I get ignored by Aveling the more angry I get. I know problems happen all the time but to not communicate with me is just unprofessional to say the least. Very, very frustrated and angry today! Not happy Aveling. Not happy at all! Re: Aveling Homes Build - Vale S2 Woburn Park, The Vines 159Mar 06, 2015 11:53 am Let's meet up tonight tmwoburn and burn both our houses down! I'm equally as angry Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 19592 3 51684 |