Coral Homes general build thread

I can’t seem to find the answer to this question anywhere (and Coral admin take forever to get back to you). Has anyone looked at swapping sliding windows to double hung? Are they a similar price of is there a big difference?

Thanks in advance

We went the other way and made all our windows sliders. Bedroom windows saved $77 coming from awning. Likely double-hung will be more expensive, so maybe expect $120/avg increase per window. We did this at the tender stage.

We have our PCI walk through next week and we were going to get a third party inspector to come with us and inspect the property and write their report. However, we are concerned that this delay handover and we have the driveway, landscaping and fencing booked for completion prior to Xmas. We are confident we have rectified majority of the errors throughout the build (there were a few) so we don't think there will be a lot to fix before handover.

Looking for some advice from people who have had the third party inspections and if anything out of ordinary was picked up? Or if we should be looking for anything in particular?

Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Emily

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Anyone know what the warranty is on electrical fittings? Would have thought it was unusual for LED downlights to die so soon. Any idea how to have lights replaced under warranty? Thanks guys

2-3yrs pending make and model. Best to get intouch with coral to advise who the electrician was that did your house.

Very unusual to loose multiple downlights if less than a yr or 2 old.

Hth

No probs out of curiosity how many have failed ?

No probs out of curiosity how many have failed ?

No probs out of curiosity how many have failed ?

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Two so far. I don’t want to buy Clipsal again but I’m hoping there isn’t too much of a colour difference with beacon

Hey ya,

I just finished my clipsal appointment and I was told the downlights have three years warranty on them. She said they should last between 10 to 15 years on average as well.

We are having our driveway completed next week, I’ve asked for an idea of how long it will be after to completion but haven’t had a reply yet, so how long was everyone’s build after driveway? Thank you

We has delays with getting someone to pour our driveway so we actually had handover the afternoon that our driveway was poured.

Hi guys
We are building the Longreach 33 with some changes. We have had all of our appointments only electrical to go.
Council approved we are just waiting to sell our home so we can start.
Has anyone gone over their contract?

Thank you!!! The inspector is booked and going through on Thursday morning ready for PCI on Friday afternoon!! Cheers

Wow. So an FYI regarding Clipsal Warranty process...

Downlight has died... had to lodge a claim with Clipsal which is going to take them 1-2 weeks to assess then they book in an electrician to come out, inspect and replace the downlight! If we move it from it’s location ourselves we void the warranty.

It’s an ordinary bloody light switch that just plugs into the ceiling!!

So a whole day off work and weeks and weeks to wait to have one light globe changed.

Not worth it.

If anybody doing downlights with builders for $100++ could look at these philips downlights. I know you will need downlight+bridge ($69+35+installation) , but you get from cool white to warm in a single light.

But you get a bit more piece of mind and more modern solution there...

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The nightmare continues... I really do hope it doesn't affect you but it is going to be a test alright!

Hi, has anyone done a raised platform in the theatre room for the back seats? If so what was the cost?

Thanks