How is everyone going? Have you all started building, I am ready to go, just waiting for my builder to give me start date! Woo Hoo, excited now!! Going along well so far. October 9 - Site cut and pegged October 15 - Slab October 22 - Frame October 29 - Roof and Windows Rough-ins are happening this ...

uhuh, i guess coral homes are cutting corners and using fibre cement on one of their walls, i had a look at their springfield display centre, their walls seems to be rendered fibre cement That's a bit odd. My builder was cheaper than Coral for a similar sized house and they are doing full brick. I ...

congrats! I've got mine earlier this week too; but I'm not too happy with it and thinking of changing builders. btw are any of your walls fibre cement? all of my south-western wall is fibre cement Not sure exactly what you mean? Are you saying that some of your external walls were fibre cement inst...

Working drawings received yesterday, express posted today. Fingers crossed for fast council approval.

Still waiting for titles, driving me mad! My build includes landscaping. I went full turn key price. Choosing my colours tomorrow! :D So everything will be ready to go, expected settlement for land is now mid september, original date was early June! Bugger as I dont think I will be moving in till a...

there's about 10 sites in construction mode already, and i'm still waiting for the drawings. what are you guys doing about the landscaping /retaining walls /driveway? are those included in your build costs? i think i might have to diy for everything except the driveway Still waiting on drawings too...

We drove pass stage 11A today, i saw 3 blocks started building already, 1 with steel frames up already.. how did they get things rolling so quick? Our soil test came back as a H1, but the site cost is about $15k higher than we budgeted for, we're still waiting for the working drawings Haven't actua...

Soil test done, come back as M, so happy, no extra costs for slab!! Still waiting for land titles, taking for ever!! Great news about the soil test. Ours came back as H2, but we had budgeted for E so it worked out well. You must be in stage 11B? Our land settled at the end of June. Just waiting for...

Turns out lendlease didn't have my mobile number (home phone disconnected). Got the soil test info and forwarded it to Bold.

I didn't know about the event so i didn't go. I got a call from lendlease this morning, soil testing for stage 11a/b can start next Tuesday (22/4/14). Not long to go now :z: Awesome! :z: I didn't get a call. Might have to get on to them tomorrow. (Somebody really should start a Fernbrooke Ridge com...

Hi, I have purchased land in Fernbrooke Ridge Welcome future neighbour! i just drove pass fernbrooke ridge yesterday, the road base is down, apparently stage 11a&b will be completed in 2 weeks and it'll take another 3 weeks for council approval.. not long to go now Let's hope for good weather. ...

Our roof has started going up and it's in the new Wallaby colour. Thanks for the photo. Was originally looking at Gully because we liked it on screen. It is actually more green than I thought. I am liking Wallaby over Basalt. I think Wallaby has more character to it.

may be worth checking with local Lysagth store for a sample. http://www.lysaght.com/tools/colour-chart/colorbond-steel Great suggestion! Turns out there is a Lysaght about 5 minutes away from my work. Got a colour chart and some swatches.

Does anybody have pictures of Gully and Wallaby? I am trying to get an idea of what these look like but can't find a lot of pictures around. Is there somewhere I could get samples?

i saw earth movers in around fernbrooke today.. not long to go Was just wondering today if any progress had been made. Should we start a thread for those of us building in Fernbrooke Ridge? There seems to be a few of us, and I am guessing we are all going to be building at around the same time. It ...

the quote i got was pretty much the listed price with a few add ons that i can't do myself (eg, sarking in the roof, floor to wall tiling in bathroom/ensuite, NBN) Sounds good. You should make sure they know that the estate isn't NBN, but Opticomm. Shouldn't make a difference, but worth pointing ou...

I've decided to build with coral homes, the Sapphire 19 indulgence package Awesome. Was the quote you got much different to the listed price? How much are you going to have to do yourself?

First of all, the great start grant is only paid out after you pay your base (slab) progress payment. So once the slab is poured, about 1 week later, if you are lucky, the money shows up :) I think it depends on the lender. Some will advance the grant, others won't. You have to start paying for the...

the block i wanted, had a deposit put on it a month before it was released, so i bought the block next to it.. i hate my neighbour already Luckily I don't think that was me :)