Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Coral Homes Grange 28 build time 28Feb 08, 2020 2:26 pm ST-Hardy Hi guys, We are also about to start building with Coral, the Grange 26 with mods, so exciting! We are at the very beginning, just put our deposit on the land and awaiting the final quote and land reports (which should land in my inbox this afternoon or tomorrow morning). Where are we all building? We will be building in College Rise at Sovereign Hills Hi Hardy, I am also going with grange 26 and so excited about it. would you mind sharing with me what changes have you made to your plan and your upgrades. Re: Coral Homes Grange 28 build time 29Mar 02, 2020 2:34 pm Just a suggestion with variations. Try and get most changes done and put into your tender otherwise post contract every variation takes approx 4 weeks to get back. We are still waiting on variations because we missed a few things on our plans. Look closely at window heights and window sizes in relation to where you'll put furniture. Don't forget about whether you want brick infills or FC sheeting. To avoid charges for changes in your colour selections make sure you put in options e.g if you're on a budget and don't want to over spend in certain area like stone pick out two options. Choose the one you really like and also one you like in a cheaper range. We did this with taps and door handles we had 2 different matte black tap options and two different door handle options. If you don't have options they can charge you $200 for a change to the selections if they want. The options also make it fast for them to alter the variation. Anything you don't want you cross it out on the variation and they'll remove it. We had issues with our driveway as they realised they couldn't do exposed aggregate in our area after we signed our contract so we took it out. This worked out good as the driveway has already been approved through council on our plans so we don't have to resubmit to council when our concreter does the driveway. We also got a $12,500 variation back from Coral for the driveway which is expensive for 54m2 black aggregate. We are able to get a bigger driveway and footpath down the side in a white rock aggregate 3k cheaper than Coral's dark aggregate driveway. Re: Coral Homes Grange 28 build time 31May 21, 2020 3:00 pm Shannon288 Just a suggestion with variations. Try and get most changes done and put into your tender otherwise post contract every variation takes approx 4 weeks to get back. We are still waiting on variations because we missed a few things on our plans. Look closely at window heights and window sizes in relation to where you'll put furniture. Don't forget about whether you want brick infills or FC sheeting. To avoid charges for changes in your colour selections make sure you put in options e.g if you're on a budget and don't want to over spend in certain area like stone pick out two options. Choose the one you really like and also one you like in a cheaper range. We did this with taps and door handles we had 2 different matte black tap options and two different door handle options. If you don't have options they can charge you $200 for a change to the selections if they want. The options also make it fast for them to alter the variation. Anything you don't want you cross it out on the variation and they'll remove it. We had issues with our driveway as they realised they couldn't do exposed aggregate in our area after we signed our contract so we took it out. This worked out good as the driveway has already been approved through council on our plans so we don't have to resubmit to council when our concreter does the driveway. We also got a $12,500 variation back from Coral for the driveway which is expensive for 54m2 black aggregate. We are able to get a bigger driveway and footpath down the side in a white rock aggregate 3k cheaper than Coral's dark aggregate driveway. wow that was a bloody expansive driveway. i was quoted 8k for 60 sqm exposed aggregate Re: Coral Homes Grange 28 build time 32May 21, 2020 4:01 pm BuDWiZe Shannon288 Just a suggestion with variations. Try and get most changes done and put into your tender otherwise post contract every variation takes approx 4 weeks to get back. We are still waiting on variations because we missed a few things on our plans. Look closely at window heights and window sizes in relation to where you'll put furniture. Don't forget about whether you want brick infills or FC sheeting. To avoid charges for changes in your colour selections make sure you put in options e.g if you're on a budget and don't want to over spend in certain area like stone pick out two options. Choose the one you really like and also one you like in a cheaper range. We did this with taps and door handles we had 2 different matte black tap options and two different door handle options. If you don't have options they can charge you $200 for a change to the selections if they want. The options also make it fast for them to alter the variation. Anything you don't want you cross it out on the variation and they'll remove it. We had issues with our driveway as they realised they couldn't do exposed aggregate in our area after we signed our contract so we took it out. This worked out good as the driveway has already been approved through council on our plans so we don't have to resubmit to council when our concreter does the driveway. We also got a $12,500 variation back from Coral for the driveway which is expensive for 54m2 black aggregate. We are able to get a bigger driveway and footpath down the side in a white rock aggregate 3k cheaper than Coral's dark aggregate driveway. wow that was a bloody expansive driveway. i was quoted 8k for 60 sqm exposed aggregate Very expensive! We are getting a local concreter to do our 70m2 driveway plus a 1.2mx21m footpath for $8,800 in holcims lighthouse white mix Re: Coral Homes Grange 28 build time 33Jan 10, 2021 9:14 am 100% agree re the cost for electrical. We added $3000 to our standard inclusions and still had to contribute almost that again. I’d recommend having a minimum of $10k for electrical if you want things like fans etc. Selections was only $3500 more for us. Upgraded doors, black taps, upgraded carpet underlay, sunken sink and a few other mods to make the house look nicer. Tiles was the cheapest for us, $500 over to tile to the roof behind the range hood. 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