:-). yeah, we are pretty much buying everything from Focuson ( except for the bed maybe ). Wifey and me fell in love with this couch package. already selected what we are after. waiting for Boxing day sale..hehe..by that time our housie shud be all done. yeah, it went lightning fast initially and it...

Wow !!!..looking great, AV. good job !! Did you get that couch package from focusonfurniture??? thats exactly the one we were planning to get :-). love the pics.. :-)

Well, you cant do much about the weather :-). The good thing is the 'wood' is pre-framed. So its a matter of 1 day (or maybe 2 days for 2 storey ).. Good weather's on its way !!

katman, where are you hiding mate? :-)Any more updates? Your shiny new frame should be up by now, isn it??

thanks hparis. Bit expensive for what I am after. Probably will end up getting the one from ebay and work with it.

Great ! Are you going to start your build thread?? we are looking forward to see your plans and colors :-) good luck !

Hi all For those building with Clarendon, have a question for you regarding the wrapping around the house. I noticed that for my house, they havent wrapped the 'internal' walls of the garage. One is the wall shared by garage and one of my bedrooms and other is the wall shared by garage and our entr...

thanks kexkez, i thought of that but then will have the wire hanging. :-)

hi all I have been looking for towel rail similar to the one shown in the pic, but non-heated. i tried looking at ebay and few other sites and found some nice ones, but all of them as a heated option. one option i have is to buy a heated one off ebay and cut off the wire :-). any idea where I can ge...

may I ask, did you find that Clarendon priced some extras in the pre contract stage more competitively than they may have otherwise done so?.. did they offer you discounts / incentives / special packages?.. I have so far found that they appear a little inflexible and pretty set in their pricing (no...

@ope, I thought the same. Lets hope i can negotiate with Cl@rendn about this. i know most of other builders usually wrap those walls since technically, they are exposed to the garage area which is neither insulated nor wrapped. so the cold air from garage can easily get into the house. @devo, its th...

Hi loftus, welcome to the forum. Hope you will find lots of useful info here. I cant say for the others, but my experience so far has been wonderful. We are building in Victoria. This is our first home and have learnt a lot so far in our journey. Our Sales lady was really helpful and made sure that ...

Hi all For those building with Clarendon, have a question for you regarding the wrapping around the house. I noticed that for my house, they havent wrapped the 'internal' walls of the garage. One is the wall shared by garage and one of my bedrooms and other is the wall shared by garage and our entra...

Had our frame inspection done today by Alex, Urban inspections. He was really good. picked up few bits and pieces which I would have never thought of :-). Anyway, the major one was the frame hanging out of the slab as in the pics above. They will have to fix the entire frame around the garage. Our S...

Thanks ravenhard. i am planning to get the 2 globe heater lights they sell at bunnings. I will check with the sparkies doing my electricals and see what they have to say about it.

thanks meatbag. yeah, i know it does consume a lot of power. :-( I have seen these heater lights which have 2 switches to control them: one for heater and another one for light. so i am assuming if i can, then i might have to replace the existing switch for ceiling light with these 2 switches to con...

Congrats Bindi. Its come up really nice. Good luck

Guys Post handover, I would like to convert the existing bathroom ceiling light to a heater light. Just wondering whether this would be a straightforward switchover or the wiring would be different from the ones used for normal ceiling lights. I spoke with this guy from Bunnings and he reckons it is...

Received a call from our SS today informing that they have fixed the issues picked by their building inspector and are now waiting on the inspector and his engineering guys to give the final ok. I can then get my inspector onsite to carry out the inspections. And then Mr. SS informed me that he had ...