Just came on to have a whinge about "after care." 7 weeks I have been living in my house. Shortly after we moved in the plumber came back to fix a leaking tap. Said it needed to be replaced, so moved the faulty one to the main bathroom and put the good one in the ensuite. We still do not h...

@light487 - our estate was like that. Our block was completely cleared (its in the middle of the bush, so would have been a lot of trees)... but the block 2 doors up had about 15 tall skinny trees on it that the owner had to remove. And some houses in the older stages have random tall skinny gum tre...

Anyone here building with Beechwood in Newcastle / Hunter area? We are considering building with them, and has we have just finished another build with another builder, I have learnt that Sydney owners have a completely different experience to us Novacastrians! Well, with our builder we did anyway...

Anyone here building with Beechwood in Newcastle / Hunter area?

Perfect timing on the discussion about registered land guys! We were looking to pay a deposit on a block of land that's not registered, and doesn't have civil works done yet either... but I told hubby that there can be lengthy delays... so we are no looking at registered blocks. We are in a rush, an...

If you google "Dividing Fences Act" all your rights, etc are on there. Basically the neighbour has to pay for half the fence if there isn't one there... and they are entitled to quotes. You can contact your local council to get contact details for the owners. Our fence is "Grey Ridge&...

Cheryl - nope. we just said we wanted them there... so that's crap! Ive just looked at our build photos, and the cabling just runs around the half wall from the bedroom there. not really rocket science! Perhaps you can take this photo to them and tell them to put them there.

@justwondering1 - I reckon your brickies are down the road from my house working on an Allworth house. Its been locked up since the start of December... but no bricks! The brickies turned up first thing on Monday 5th Jan when I was out for my morning walk, and I thought" finally, they are going...

Hi, I drove post a display home after it closed today what caught my eye was Clarendon's promotion at the moment "the summer of free" So i checked out some floor plans, pics and house & land package prices when i got home for the area Gilliestion Heights, which is 10 minutes form wher...

wow tanya... 72 downlights and 58 extra lights!!!! i have half of that!! which home are u building? and u r at kensington right? we r close by - tuscan rise Rose, I think she means she has 72 lights in total.... shes paying for 72 downlights, plus you have to add an extra light point for each downl...

LauraKG - trims & doors are gloss Illusive White - which is the ceiling colour. in NSW there is no upgrade for different colour trims. I cant imagine having the grey as the doors and trims... I think it would be a bit bland?? But ide also struggle to pay the upgrade! If they have to paint them i...

@DG85 - not much has changed since I posted the last lot of pics (page 185). Obviously we have furniture now.... and one side fence. But that's about it. Landscaping will probably be another month or so....

hahahaha $700 odd dollars for something you can get at Bunnings for $135? bit of a no brainer! We were going to finish our fencing this weekend... but the house next door is under construction, and they have a temporary fence that is on our side of the boundry... stupid thing cant be taken down (the...

The Castle - not sure about the poly doors.... but drawers are about $100 each... so we got 2 x banks of 3 pot drawers and it was $600

Sydney-build makes a good point about the eves on the Traditional façade.... we originally got our tender with the traditional façade, and it was $750 to add eves... but our roof is relatively small. so you could be up fro $1000 for eves anyway. Im pretty sure you need eves for BASIX now anyway.

@justwondering1 - we signed under Summer of Free too - but no flooring included - so no credits. We only have the Ruby Specs though. @first timer - walls are Gemeni Silver, trims and ceiling are Illusive white. Floor tiles are Greta Grey 450X450

Sam0412 - your place is looking great! you are getting thru the post handover tasks very fast! :) haha.... you haven't seen the outside ::hyst::

@firsttimer05 - we did our own flooring after handover. But we did use Tile Direct (Clarendon's tiler) for our tiles - they just gave us 20% off which is the mark-up Clarendon charges. These were a new range when we selected them, but I have a friend building with Beechwood (who also use Tile Direct...

@Pennodream.... I know your pain. We currently live in a complete dust bowl. The house is constantly dirty. Fencing should start next week... and then the landscaping. Driveway being laid today.... thank god. Seriously... it doesn't stop once you get handover.....