Browse Forums Building A New House Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5421Aug 11, 2014 1:19 pm Hi guys
We're newbies and have recently decided on building with carlisle. Have a question about feature tiles. We are planning a strip of vertical mosaic tiles in the shower (approx 7 tiles in total). Has anyone else done this and if so how much were you quoted. We went to Beaumont tiles and saw them approx $30 per tile. Thanks heaps http://www.buildingourcarlislehome.blogspot.com.au Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5422Aug 11, 2014 5:17 pm Operation Clyde Hi guys We're newbies and have recently decided on building with carlisle. Have a question about feature tiles. We are planning a strip of vertical mosaic tiles in the shower (approx 7 tiles in total). Has anyone else done this and if so how much were you quoted. We went to Beaumont tiles and saw them approx $30 per tile. Thanks heaps Welcome! I can help you with that. We've added a strip 10cm wide of mosaic tiles to our ensuite and main shower. For the two of them it's $324 total. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5423Aug 11, 2014 11:24 pm Nick2k OceanBlue Nick2k Does anyone knows how much Carlisle charge for Data points, I am looking to have around 20 data points around the house. Just want to future proof and for IP cameras. Hi, I paid $154 per data point. Thanks Oceanblue. I also called my CLE and they are offering me data points for very cheap price. Win win for me. Never thought can negotiate prices with them. Got approval for data points for $14 per data point - It is too cheap to be true. I have upgraded to 30 data points in my whole home. I am a IT person and on this pricing I even can't do it myself even if I buy it in wholesale. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5424Aug 13, 2014 3:03 pm Has anyone been quoted on a fully tiled ensuit? It's show etching I've thought of in the past but forgot to ask about at colours. If som how much and which design (so I can check the size). Thanks. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5425Aug 13, 2014 10:40 pm Nick2k, That data point cost is definitely too good to be true. I paid $154 per point and ended up only have 4 for the whole house. I will figure out something with wireless as I am also working in IT. Do you know if that will include the face plate, terminated, patch panel somewhere in the house and all you got to do just plug your cable in every point? Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5426Aug 14, 2014 12:03 pm courthaven Nick2k, That data point cost is definitely too good to be true. I paid $154 per point and ended up only have 4 for the whole house. I will figure out something with wireless as I am also working in IT. Do you know if that will include the face plate, terminated, patch panel somewhere in the house and all you got to do just plug your cable in every point? Looks to me like Nick's might have benefited from a typing error, someone left the 5 out when typing $154. God on you nick for sticking to your guns, but I feel it's a mistake that is unlikely to be made again, and an offer that they are unlikely to match for anyone else. Does anyone have specs on what they use? Cat 5, 6, 6A, and what sort of jacks and wall plates. Cheers Glenn Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5427Aug 14, 2014 12:15 pm Hi All, I have recently completed my tender appointment and recieved my contract and have been stung by an additional $4 K for meeting energy star rating, because we changed from having two sliding doors to a corner stacker (as per display). I've already have had to accept almost double the site cost then advised at sales and now this.... Is anyone else having last minuite additional costs added? Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5429Aug 14, 2014 1:25 pm Viera29 Hi All, I have recently completed my tender appointment and recieved my contract and have been stung by an additional $4 K for meeting energy star rating, because we changed from having two sliding doors to a corner stacker (as per display). I've already have had to accept almost double the site cost then advised at sales and now this.... Is anyone else having last minuite additional costs added? You should go for double glazing, it would give you something instead of paying them 4k. You should be able to meet energy star requirement. For viera 29 ( if this is the one you are building) Your double glazing would not even cost 4k. I am building Viera 29 and went for double glazing with corner stacker just like display and met energy star requirements. Enquire as much as about site costs, they increased my site cost by 20k but when the work started they don't need to do as many things as they stated but they wont refund the funds now. They stated you agreed to pay and now you have to pay. Nick Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5430Aug 14, 2014 1:32 pm bards courthaven Nick2k, That data point cost is definitely too good to be true. I paid $154 per point and ended up only have 4 for the whole house. I will figure out something with wireless as I am also working in IT. Do you know if that will include the face plate, terminated, patch panel somewhere in the house and all you got to do just plug your cable in every point? Looks to me like Nick's might have benefited from a typing error, someone left the 5 out when typing $154. God on you nick for sticking to your guns, but I feel it's a mistake that is unlikely to be made again, and an offer that they are unlikely to match for anyone else. Does anyone have specs on what they use? Cat 5, 6, 6A, and what sort of jacks and wall plates. Cheers Glenn They have mentioned CAT6 with Shielding Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5431Aug 14, 2014 1:36 pm Thanks Nick. They are charging me $4K for double glazing the stacker door to meet the energy rating requirment! Henley's got a promotion to do the whole house for $1999 (yes that is cheap) but $4K for the corner stacker double glazing is too much. How much did it cost you? I've tried negotiating my site costs, they don't give me a good enough reason and won't let me speak to structrual works. You make a good point if I don't see 68 bored concrete piers and steel reinforcement I want my money back. I should add it as a clause. Our developer site report said we only needed a H-Class slab, but CH do not consider that report. I believe they are making up for some incorrect prices, but due to tCH giving us incorrect information in writing, therefore they had to give us the price. Now they are trying to recover the costs by asking us to pay $4K for double glazing the stacker door. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5432Aug 14, 2014 1:42 pm Viera29 Thanks Nick. They are charging me $4K for double glazing the stacker door to meet the energy rating requirment! Henley's got a promotion to do the whole house for $1999 (yes that is cheap) but $4K for the corner stacker double glazing is too much. How much did it cost you? I've tried negotiating my site costs, they don't give me a good enough reason and won't let me speak to structrual works. You make a good point if I don't see 68 bored concrete piers and steel reinforcement I want my money back. I should add it as a clause. Our developer site report said we only needed a H-Class slab, but CH do not consider that report. I believe they are making up for some incorrect prices, but due to tCH giving us incorrect information in writing, therefore they had to give us the price. Now they are trying to recover the costs by asking us to pay $4K for double glazing the stacker door. If you are building Viera 29, I have upgraded all the doors as per the display, so Master bed room ( sliding door 3 panels), Bed 3 ( sliding door 2 panels) And Meals living exactly same as display. I have got whole house double glazed including windows ( All doors and windows) I have side light as well at the entrance( that is double glazed also) and it costed me 5k. They will put the piers as it cost very less to do as compared to what they charge, they did 2 time soil test on my property and 1 preliminary soil test and came up with a opinion of that my site have rocks and they have to excavate it and cost in excess of 25k. When they did excavate they found one small truck of rocks which are not rocks but are floaters. I think Carlisle is becoming just like other big builders. buyer beware. Nick Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5433Aug 14, 2014 1:49 pm We are building somewhat the same as the display, however have converted the study into a bedroom with the WIL as the WIR and added a double door laundry cupboard. We don;t have the sliding doors in the master and bedroom 3 either, but do have the corner stacker. If you don't mind is it possible for you to PM me your buidling estate, so I can atleast ask CH to review their $4K for just the corner stacker. I am assuming you went through Tender this year, so prices should not have inflated so much. I'm really over this whole process with them. It's getting tougher and tougher. You are right they are becoming like volume builders! Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5434Aug 14, 2014 2:30 pm Viera29 We are building somewhat the same as the display, however have converted the study into a bedroom with the WIL as the WIR and added a double door laundry cupboard. We don;t have the sliding doors in the master and bedroom 3 either, but do have the corner stacker. If you don't mind is it possible for you to PM me your buidling estate, so I can atleast ask CH to review their $4K for just the corner stacker. I am assuming you went through Tender this year, so prices should not have inflated so much. I'm really over this whole process with them. It's getting tougher and tougher. You are right they are becoming like volume builders! My house is not in any estate so sorry cant give u much info but I have attached a screent shot of my tender. I am happy to show you in orginal if you want and save u some money. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5435Aug 14, 2014 2:34 pm Viera29 We are building somewhat the same as the display, however have converted the study into a bedroom with the WIL as the WIR and added a double door laundry cupboard. We don;t have the sliding doors in the master and bedroom 3 either, but do have the corner stacker. If you don't mind is it possible for you to PM me your buidling estate, so I can atleast ask CH to review their $4K for just the corner stacker. I am assuming you went through Tender this year, so prices should not have inflated so much. I'm really over this whole process with them. It's getting tougher and tougher. You are right they are becoming like volume builders! Anyways internal doors and changes wont effect your double glazing cost. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5436Aug 14, 2014 3:15 pm Thanks Nick, it would be wonderful if you could send me an original. It will definately help me argue my cause with CH. Although i have a feeling they will say that glazing fo the corner stacker costs $4K and remaining were $800. I work for an engineering consulting which has a division for sustainable energy group. I am in the process of getting them to review whether the original standard would've met the 6 star requirement, given CH claim that their standard homes meet the 6 star rating on any block orientation. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5437Aug 14, 2014 3:23 pm Heard today that our titles have been finalised. Yay. We settle on our land in two weeks, a day before tender. Emailed CLE to let her know titles were done and they could do soil tests. She said they already have, they were allowed on early. Cool. Asked her to email me soil and survey reports and I got them back with a couple of hours. Pretty happy with that service. I'm no expert with ready these things, but from what I can tell the soil report calls for a P class slab, all three bore holes found no rock. There is some in our area but non evident where we are. P isn't too bad is it? It mentions surface movement of 20-40mm with moisture changes. The survey notes a slight slope. Contour lines show about a meter over the entire block, but it would only be about half that over the building area. Does anyone know how they read this when they allow for their 300mm? Would it be from corner diagonal to corner where the house sits? The only thing that concerns me is the surveyor has ticked the box for bush fire assessment recommended. However this area used to be under the government bushfire area but has since been removed, so it should be ok I think. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5438Aug 14, 2014 3:25 pm Viera29 Thanks Nick, it would be wonderful if you could send me an original. It will definately help me argue my cause with CH. Although i have a feeling they will say that glazing fo the corner stacker costs $4K and remaining were $800. I work for an engineering consulting which has a division for sustainable energy group. I am in the process of getting them to review whether the original standard would've met the 6 star requirement, given CH claim that their standard homes meet the 6 star rating on any block orientation. Could you contact A & L and ask them for a quote on stacker doors and double glazed stacker doors? There may be a little extra installation costs (but I doubt it) but at least you'd be armed with some facts. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5439Aug 14, 2014 4:01 pm Thanks Bards. Our site was classified P by CH and H by the developer. The reason why was we had upto 450mm fill and although there was a compaction report, it wasn't site specific. Our costs came around the 24K mark. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 5440Aug 14, 2014 8:21 pm I've had a builder mate look at our soil report. P means nothing other than problematic. It could be a minor problem or a major one, the devils in the detail. Good news for us is that ours is minor. There are some trees at the front of our block and at some stage some trees have been removed. This means that soil conditions could potentially change apparently. He said the actual conditions reported in our report would normally be around an M class slab which is great. I told him our house is to be positioned away from the trees and he said that's even better. He was more concerned about the 800mm fall across the block, he said expect to he stung there. I'll eagerly await what they charge for cut and fill as my future neighbor, who I know, runs an excavation company so if CH want to charge heaps, I might have to present them the block a little flatter! 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