Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 16608Jan 04, 2017 8:25 pm KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 16611Jan 04, 2017 8:31 pm KDRB Paddington 29 Bed 1 to Rear with Home Theatre & Grand Alfresco (Paddington 31) blog: Southern Sydney Knockdown & Rebuild Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 16616Jan 11, 2017 3:32 pm Micdeez amiarm Anyone attended tender appointment in Clarendon Sydney office recently? How to prepare for tender appointment? Any tips. Hi amiarm, we signed up for tender appointment too, booked in for Feb 17th. My simple thought process as follows: - Prepare with any requested "final" design plans/anything that you want priced up. We want to make additional tweaks to the design and it should still be ok for CDC/DA approval. - Be prepared to negotiate as much as you can with the tender presenter. I am sure that they have sign off to do this so do your best! - DO NOT sign the tender on the day! There is a period of 7-10 days (I think?) until you have to sign. This will give you more leverage too as they will probably work harder to get you a better deal. From all of the above, we are in talks with another builder and may pay their deposit too so really want to get the best deal we can get. Thank you. They booked us for 17th Feb morning as well. Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 16617Jan 12, 2017 5:00 pm Hey, Currently starting the very long process of deciding what/who to build with. I really just want to ask is there a really bad range of standard tiles, carpet, paint etc? Im just worried that once we get to this stage our original tender price will go out the window due to builders ranges being rubbish? Im sure this question has come up before but appreciate any help finding out. Thanx Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 16618Jan 12, 2017 5:06 pm pholly Hey, Currently starting the very long process of deciding what/who to build with. I really just want to ask is there a really bad range of standard tiles, carpet, paint etc? Im just worried that once we get to this stage our original tender price will go out the window due to builders ranges being rubbish? Im sure this question has come up before but appreciate any help finding out. Thanx Hi pholly! We actually stuck with the basic tiles as we found one that we absolutely loved and therefore didn't look into upgrading...the colours of basic carpet are good but the quality is pretty average so we decided to upgrade to save us down the track...they don't give you much back to do your own carpet - it was basically 3k total for upstairs and downstairs so wasn't worth it. Basic paint is only 2 coats from a selected range - tinted undercoat and then 1 of colour so you can upgrade to 3 coats in any colour for $1.5k. My suggestion is to try and visit the suppliers before you sign so you know what you're in for - we visited Tiles Direct before signing the tender and it gave us a great insight. Goodluck! viewtopic.php?t=83651 Building a modified Sheridan 35 Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 16620Jan 12, 2017 7:55 pm Spart We found standard tiles and paint great. Carpet looks good but feels pretty yuk under your feet. We got carpet done by another company after handover. Hi Spart. Did you upgrade the carpet or underlay at all? We've upgrade the underlay three levels and went to silver level carpet. the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 6688 The two 15mm holes are obviously not compliant. The Dept of Fair Trading would love to see this one! Do the gutters pool water after it stops raining? Although it's… 4 7822 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 30234 |