Coral Homes general build thread

Watch national tiles they have contracts with Metricon so they hold stock for them meaning you can put your order in but they can run out of your tile

We have got 300x600 tiles in our bathrooms and no one said a word to us about paying more or not being allowed them at all.

I think have a copy of the document Beaumont Tiles give you with the restrictions on Sizes, will upload photos tonight if I haven't thrown it out. (We are going with national tiles)

Our tiling started today

For anyone that has built with Coral, once you told them your changes to plans and upgrades etc. how long did they take to get your contract done? We are going to building contract today or tomorrow and wondering how long we should expect to wait before it comes back?

Thanks!!

a good few weeks it ain't quick

Depends on the extent of your changes. First go for us was about 5 weeks to get tender 1 and modified plans. Tender 2 and 3 all took an additional 3-4 weeks each. More changes were required to contract which was from memory another 4 weeks from tender 3.


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We signed our contract 11 January. We ordered it two weeks before Xmas at least. We had contract returned around 23 feb to enable us to pay deposit.

Ahhhh, that's such a pain! Looks like I will find out on Friday at our tile appointment with National Tiles... guess il have to decide on a back up option just in case /quote]

We are with national tiles - we went promenade griege Matt I think it is in the 450x450 and didn't get any extra charge. Selection was last year though and rules can definitely change with coral!


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That's a joke! I WOULD LOSE MY SH*T!

We were told 2-4 weeks because we were doing an 'express packaged price' however it took almost 3 months..

Oh, thank you for that! I guess I will see what happens.. are they able to give you an estimate on pricing at the appointment or do you have to wait for Coral to process it and get back to you..?

We were told 2-4 weeks because we were doing an 'express packaged price' however it took almost 3 months.. /quote]
.... We are being told 3 weeks for ours. They better hope they can get it in 3 weeks because they originally were going to have it done before the end of June for FHOG. Starting to already feel deflated about all this build stuff because of finance We put in our application on the 9th of June and still don't have an answer. We are sending our broker so many documents and important information about where we are at and don't even get a reply to our emails.

Not to mention our finance clause has now started with Stocklands so we need to get our Building contract to get our finance approved... argghhhh

We were told 2-4 weeks because we were doing an 'express packaged price' however it took almost 3 months.. /quote]
.... We are being told 3 weeks for ours. They better hope they can get it in 3 weeks because they originally were going to have it done before the end of June for FHOG. Starting to already feel deflated about all this build stuff because of finance We put in our application on the 9th of June and still don't have an answer. We are sending our broker so many documents and important information about where we are at and don't even get a reply to our emails.

Not to mention our finance clause has now started with Stocklands so we need to get our Building contract to get our finance approved... argghhhh /quote]

I know, its painful.. we just had another issue with our finance. Our finance clause ends on Friday and our bank won't fully approve the loan until the land registers... DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE! So our broker is running around trying to sort it, I am trying not to stress. We paid our initial Coral deposit in March (I think) to get our contract done ASAP for FHOG and they dragged it out until 2 weekends ago. I really hope they do it in 3 weeks for you! I did make quite a few structural changes to be fair.

At least it looks like the FHOG has been extended until December?

That's EXACTLY the same issue for us, loan won't fully approve until the land registers!! Even though the block is flat, pegged and they can walk on it to do valuations they won't go unconditional until it's registered. My concern is though that once the land settles in mid July we have 2 weeks to settle or they start hammering you with fee's and I'm really worried our contract won't be done by then.

Home owners grant has been extended which is awesome ! I just want this all to go smooth sailing and not hearing anything back about finance yet is killing me it's been almost 2 weeks

That's EXACTLY the same issue for us, loan won't fully approve until the land registers!! Even though the block is flat, pegged and they can walk on it to do valuations they won't go unconditional until it's registered. My concern is though that once the land settles in mid July we have 2 weeks to settle or they start hammering you with fee's and I'm really worried our contract won't be done by then.

Home owners grant has been extended which is awesome ! I just want this all to go smooth sailing and not hearing anything back about finance yet is killing me it's been almost 2 weeks /quote]
I just got this email from our broker about it... "what has happened is the title details that Stockland has provided haven't yet registered...the bank is trying to find out the current title details so they can do their searches and ensure Stockland has the legal right to sell to you. Your conveyancer said she will be able to track the info down for us."

So perhaps you need to get a solicitor involved ASAP?

If this works.. Il let you guys know haha

I've heard this from a couple of sources

Hi guys, can anybody please explain the "tender" to me and how long does it take to get to this stage?

Sorry if i sound so in the dark!

Cheers

Tenders are before the contracts drawn up. I would add absolutely EVERYTHING into it including upgrades in kitchen bathrooms, also include$ for variations (colours -in case you've missed something, electrical, bushfire-if you need it, driveway, portico & patio slab) you can take things out but it takes 2-4wks in between to add variations once contract signed and correct errors even if Cs fault. All quite depressing so expect the worst and you will be pleasantly suprised, hopefully sorry if I've missed things...

[quote="StephLee"]Has anyone else noticed in their contract it says you can't select tiles over 400x400 for bathroom floors or they won't lay them? Something to do with the shower space.. The tiles we want are 450x450 /quote]
Coral has several ranges depending on which package to you take up.

the most recent package change is also by far the dumbest.: -

current promos on offer - if you go with the DESIGNER + luxury tiles upgrade pack you get a choice upto 450x450 or 300x600.
BUT if you go elegance + tiles upgrade (in one of several combo packs atm), you only get upto 450x450

go figure...

and it seems this information isn't being made all that clear, even to the SC's - as i recently discovered with my last discussion...

BTW all this info can be found on the coral website under their Terms and Conditions page (yeah, i read it all - and check every so often, as I've been caught with this type of B.S before)

http://coralhomes.com.au/terms-conditions