After a long time of considering designs and builders we selected New Choice Homes to build our second home. Homeone was valuable in our research so thought we would share our build with NCH.We had set ideas of what we wanted and decided to draft our own drawings to suit our requirements and work within our block orientation. We wanted our design to have a theatre at the front of the house which faces NE and the dining/alfresco doors facing SW so that we could enjoy the breeze. We designed the house so that the kitchen and dining areas are on the NW side of the property to utilise the light. The study is large enough to be multi purpose and we have access to the powder room without going into the kids zone.Timeline01.07.17 - Preparation of Plans signed
04.09.17 - Working Drawings and addenda signed
13.09.17 - Building Permit received
14.09.17 - Pre-start
05.10.17 - Signed and returned pre-start docs
12.10.17 - Unconditional finance approved
31.10.17 - Final Plans signed and returned
01.11.17 -
Scheduling09.11.17 - File sent to construction18.11.17 - Earthworks 23.11.17 - Footings24.11.17 - Slab down27.11.17 - Soakwells arrived29.11.17 - Temp Power and power run02.12.17 - Soakwells and water run installed06.12.17 - Bricks arrived11.12.17 - Window and Door frames arrived15.12.17 - Brickwork started30.01.18 - Brickwork completed31.01.18 - Roof beams delivered01.02.18 - Roof timber delivered02.02.18 - Fascia and Eaves delivered05.02.18 - Roof Carpenters started09.02.18 - Roof Carpenters finished12.02.18 - Wall chasing for electrician13.02.18 - Electrician started13.02.18 - Intelligent Homes 1st stage done16.02.18 - Roof plumber started today17.02.18 - Roof plumber finished 1st stage and brick cleaning started19.02.18 - Battens for roof tiles started
26.02.18 - Roof tiles finished
06.03.18 - Rendering started
16.03.18 - Rendering finished
20.03.18 - Ceilings started
23.03.18 - Cornice & glazing install started
26.03.18 - White set started
04.04.18 - Atco gas onsite
05.04.18 - Doors and shelving melamine delivered
06.04.18 - Doors installed and shelving started
07.04.18 - White set finished
07.04.18 - Lockout
10.04.18 - Baths installed
12.04.18 - Ceilings painted & doors undercoated
13.04.18 - Cabinets installed
17.04.18 - Wet areas screed
23.04.18 - Waterproofing
27.04.18 - Tiling started
30.04.18 - External render sealed
01.05.18 - Stone bench tops, basins and sinks installed
14.05.18 - Tiling finished
15.05.18 - Oven, toilets etc delivered today and power meter installed
16.05.18 - Plumbing finals started
17.05.18 - Plumbing and gas finals finished
21.05.18 - Insulation installed
23.05.18 - Garage grano
25.05.18 - Shower screens and mirrors installed
28.05.18 - Gloss coat internal doors
31.05.18 - Earthworks for paving started
07.06.18 - Pavers delivered
08.06.18 - Door handles fitted
11.06.18 - Acrylic texture coat
15.06.18 - Flyscreens installed
19.06.18 - Paving finished & site meeting
28.06.18 - PCI
05.07.18 - Handover
06.07.18 - Wall sealing started
23.07.18 - Electrician day 1
24.07.18 - Electrician day 2
24.07.18 - Security door install
30.07.18 - Wardbrobe fit out
31.07.18 - Wardrobe doors
07.08.18 - Carpet installed
10.08.18 - Reverse cycle instaled
18.08.18 - Move in started
22.08.18 - Solar system instaled
31c house, garage and alfresco with 28c to kitchen and 34c recess to Theatre 28c eves with no spandrel
External Selections1c Bricks - Vintage Red
Vienna Roof Tiles - Aniseed
Colorbond Gutters, Fascia, Downpipes - Basalt
Acrylic Render - Basalt
Garage Door - Shale Grey
Paving to Driveway - Flagstone Stonewash Charcoal
Jason Windows - Silver Lustre
Internal SelectionsEssastone - Monte CervinoFormica - Brushed SilverDoors and Frames - Solver Spirit Grey
Other itemsLots of extra power points apx $ 1500.00
Lockwood Nexion Vision Door Handles - Summit
Hobless Showers - Semi Frameless Bright Silver $ 598.00
Micro framed mirrors - Bright Silver $ 40.00
Tiling extended height to powder room and Laundry $ 499.00
Upgraded soap dishes to extra towel rails $ 22.00 ea
Raised bath heights to 500mm included in quote
Mitered Tiling $ 432.00
Tiled seat to ensuite included in quote
Increased size of showers included in quote
2 sets of 3 draws to vanities $ 226.00 ea
Full height robe recess included in quote
Lots of storage
Extra high shelf to pantry, store and linen
Waterproof Plasterboard to Alfresco and Portico
Acrylic render to sellected areas
Laundry hamper draws $ 189.00 ea
Lots of draws to kitchen 30 various sizes $ 4536.00
Upgrade to Aspire handles throughout $ 880.00
Bin Draw
Tap for Fridge $ 113.00
Gas & Water, drain and WGPO for BBQ $ 859.00
Alfresco insulation $ 308.00
Upgrade paving to Stonewash $ 573.00
Limestone sub base to Driveway, Crossover and additonal Hardstand
Mesh and colour to Garage hardstand
All included in contract
Looks great. All the best with your build!
Renee
Good luck, hopefully an easy build for you.
New Choice are flying through ours, should have Colorbond on the roof next couple of days which was about 7 weeks from when the slab went down.
That is great news that they are running to schedule.
One of the questions we had at the start of our dealings with NCH was the time frame, which was a lot better than what other builders were offering.
Looks great!!!
I especially love your gigantic pantry! And brick choice, very much like mine
That is great news that they are running to schedule.
One of the questions we had at the start of our dealings with NCH was the time frame, which was a lot better than what other builders were offering.
Their scheduling is pretty impressive, always something happening on site to keep it moving forward.
We were told about 6 months from slab to PCI, but Supervisor says he aims for about 5 months. We will cop the Christmas slowdown for 3 weeks though
How big is your block? Looks like you are going to have lots of space, and the upgrades you've gone for all sound pretty similar to what we are looking at doing. Hopefully goes up nice and quick for you now.
Looks great!!!
I especially love your gigantic pantry! And brick choice, very much like mine
Thanks, it took us a while to get the design to tick all the boxes considering what needed to be located where and try to balance out the sizes.
We also had mundaring red, restoration red or vintage red on a our list, we like them all, yours look great.
Your plan looks amazing Choosy.. You even have BBQ recess!
I am building with NCH too.. I picked mostly their standard select range.
Your aspire upgrades look good. Wish I have done that.
How big is your block? Looks like you are going to have lots of space, and the upgrades you've gone for all sound pretty similar to what we are looking at doing. Hopefully goes up nice and quick for you now.
Our block is in an established area so we steped the garage store back which allowed us to bring the house forward and leave almost 13 mtrs to the back fence.
Our pre start upgrades were not much as a lot of items are included in the standard select range and we included most other items in our original pricing.
We are looking at a maximum building time of 190 working days (in our contract) to allow for any delays, however this is a lot better than other builders who wanted 250+ working days in their contracts.
Good luck with your prestart next week.
Your plan looks amazing Choosy.. You even have BBQ recess!
I am building with NCH too.. I picked mostly their standard select range.
Your aspire upgrades look good. Wish I have done that.
We took a long time at the beginning of our journey and asked for information on their Select and Aspire range early so that we could do the rounds well before going to prestart.
A lot of the select range is very nice and having renovated a kitchen and bathroom in our current house, nothing lasts forever.
Glad to see another NCH on homeone
Thursday 23rd Footings done and ready for slab
Friday 24th Slab down
Soakwells last week
Soakwells and water run done Saturday morning.
Site cleaned Monday morning before the mess starts again.
Facebricks arrived Wednesday morning, Internal bricks arrived Wednesday lunch time, unfortunately they supplied horizontal instead of vertical bricks which will have to be changed over. No windows or door frames however site shed and WC are on site.
Window and Door frames arrived this morning.
Be interesting to see if they try and push it out by Xmas to get to plate height for a nice Christmas present of a progress invoice!
Our brickies took about 10 working days from memory.
We are happy with just the slab before the break, we don't expect the bricks to be started until the new year. It will probably take the brickes a month to do unless they put two teams on it given it is mostly single face brick and just under 400m2.