Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260

Wow Maddie. I was wondering why it sounded like you were having smooth sailing when we weren't. Turns out you just hid it better.

They did my tiling before benches because of scheduling. Now we have tiles that don't sit even right under our island bench. We will be requesting this be fixed as it is very obvious. More than once they have issued invoices for incomplete jobs. It seems the office girl doesn't work every day so she does them on the days she is there. That's not my problem, quite frankly. They should issue them to their customers advantage not theirs. Scubabe has had issues with this too.

Scubabe is doing it by herself and I am being her sounding board when required. You are more than welcome into the cma fold. Just PM us. We are all on this journey together! Ps, I checked out your house when it was at frame stage ~ pretty sure it was yours. Few houses down from another CMA?

Our niches still haven't been finished or splash backs (that I'm aware of) because the cabinetry went in after. And the tilers were smoking in my house! We are meeting onsite with Sam and Chris (director) tomorrow at 3 so I will be bringing up everything then!


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Thanks lovely!

Yes, that is my house. A few down from another CMA which started after mine but is now way ahead of mine.
It is sad really as it HAS actually been smooth sailing for me haha (minus my bank - the bank has been my issue), up until this week. They are ahead of schedule with my build and even moved my tiling and driveway forward. It's just the admin that I am having an issue with, my SS is amazing and has even tried to move painting forward but the painters are being difficult apparently. He has met with me twice and gone through everything with me and he replies straight away to my emails. I have a different SS to you two, that could be the issue? My house is very small and I changed barley anything from the plans so it might just be a little easier as well. But I think above all, I am just trying to not let it get to me too much as I am so grateful and proud of myself for even getting to this stage.

It is such a shame to hear about all of those issues, I cannot believe they did all of that before tiling, that makes no sense whatsoever. Please keep us updated - we will all have beautiful houses by the end of it all.

Ps. The tilers are also smoking in my house, which is in fact against the law. But I am not sure what to do about it? They leave their butts every where.

We had ash in our cutlery draw! I will discuss this with the director tomorrow


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Our electricians are on site today. I know this because he messaged me directly. The tradies (with the exception of the tilers) have been great during this build.

I'm excited about seeing all our fancy (expensive) gadgets fitted. Thanks husband for not killing me over spontaneous purchases

We still have not come to a resolution over the neighbouring retaining. We have given it until the end of next week for them to contact us to arrange something otherwise we pull the fencing off that side in the contract.

We have made every attempt this week to try get in contact- calling Metricon to pass along our details. Visiting stockland and not moving til they called and left a voicemail then emailed. Sent a request to council for adjoining neighbours details. I can't think of any other options as I don't think they visit their build site, especially not while we are there


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No site super. A personal issue came up and he had to reschedule. But we met with the electrician and paid for our cash jobs and checked out their handy work.

Pendant lights


Internal paint colours


Alfresco fan


Still a fair bit to do and just under 2 months to do it in. The estate is booming though. Everything is coming together so nicely!


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Looking amazing! I must drop off my lights next week.
What more do you have to be done? It is look great - I am assuming you are getting landscaping and fences through CMA?

Keep us updated!

Love those pendants D They just pop and look so good with your kitchen.

I'm not 100% sure what else needs to be done. Looks like some wire got delivered for the driveway today. So scheduled for the very near future. Electrician told us plumbing stuff next week then appliances the week after. But I'm taking his word for it so I could be talking rubbish.

Painting isn't finished but mostly done.
Tilers have to come back and finish niches and splashbacks.
Security screen and blinds.
Carpets
Shelving - wardrobes, laundry, pantry
Appliances
Sinks, taps, bath and toilets
Caulking
Driveway

CMA aren't doing our landscaping. Just fencing and retaining - ugh! I hate that word right now!

I've just spent an extra hour at work trying to research what rights we have in regards to retaining. QLD is ****! I wish they would just say straight out who is responsible instead of so much grey areas!



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Thanks Dawn. These are just the standard builders range one. Husband was outside calling me to help him take photos of the boundary/retaining saga and I found myself distracted and staring at the kitchen. I am so happy with how it is all coming together. Super happy with our colour choices.


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Gorgeous kitchen

Thanks Charli. I'm looking forward to being able to have more than one person in there at a time. The only problem we should have will be keeping the kids (2 cats) off the bench and out of the pantry. They have figured out how to open sliding doors. Crafty buggers!


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Who does the retaining favour? Are you on the high side or the low side?

Hi Butters,

We are on the low side. They need to fill their block.

Here is a pic for your reference. Lol. This is their garage which is built on the boundary - this is also their temporary fencing on our dirt




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Sounds very pleasing! I think I am about the same - except my driveway is down already (very odd but maybe there was a space in booking or something). We will change the word retaining to 'he who shall not be named' haha.

CMA are actually fixing the broken retaining wall that was already there on one side, they said they will fix it just in case it was their tradies who broke it/damaged it (I actually think it was the neighbours builders who destroyed more than just a retaining wall).

I'm honestly thinking that it won't be long for you now at all. VERY exciting!

Apparently we are on schedule for PCI 26/7!!


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We had a similar issue on our block. We were the lower block and cut our block slightly and it was our responsibility. Then the neighbours decided to fill their block so they proposed to us that we should go halves. In the end they paid for the lot as they filled their block substantially.

I hope our neighbours come to the party. We really can't afford to pay for their retaining when we are paying so much for the other side and have to pay to turf as well! We aren't rolling in it. Every cent we have is going into this expensive patch of dirt!


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I wonder if today will bring us a driveway...



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Ooh fingers crossed for you