Alkira Homes Elyse 15 Sydney Northern Beaches

I too would love to know the details of this also, we have upgraded ours to another brand - however just wondering what was installed with your build sydneyalkirabuild

just out of curiousity, exactly how close is the outdoor unit to your neighbour?

Were they already living there when you submitted for construction? They would have seen where you had placed the unit. They could have voiced their concerns at that point.

I know its not ideal and you don't want to have any neighborly dispute...

Didn't even consider the dbs of the outside unit. You would think that only complying models would be sold. I would be interested in the outcome. Cheers

Kach.. great to hear you've moved in... what did you build and what has been your experience?..

I'm also on a corner block but the air con is on the neighbour side of my house.. my unit isn't as large and last time i checked the noise output is within the allowable limit.

what floor plan did you build?

I stand corrected our model is OSA 235RKTH 23.5 kw. It's almost the same except for the last couple of letters and obviously this makes a big difference with the noise factor. We ran ours the last two nights, it sits just outside our theatre room and below our sons bedroom window on the first floor. We really can't say there was much noise from inside the house.
I'm glad to hear that Alkira have attempted to fix the problem for you sydneyalkirabuild and hopefully it will do the trick.

Deluded to answer your question we built the Elyse and it feels surreal to be in. Like you we experienced some long delays with wet weather and 9 weeks of brick laying. But some how after 30 days of extensions they were able to deliver the house to us almost 2 weeks early. We're very happy with the finishes throughout the house. During our walk through we brought to the attention of our SS things that were unsatisfactory; bad plaster joins, crooked corner in stairwell, badly lacquered stairs and squeaks on the first floor. All of these issues were addressed and rectified without question.
Things we're not happy with are the appliances, we tried to keep costs down and went with the items included in the tender, with the exception of the oven and cooktop. After all they are ilve and you expect good things from good brands. Well in our opinion they are all rubbish. The range hood is small and useless it hardly has any sucking power. The microwave is extremely small internally and the dishwasher can't even fit a bread and butter plate on the top rack and a dinner plate on the bottom, its one or the other. We've had 4 dishwashers in the past from kleenmaid, electrolux, bosch and miele and never have we come up against this problem before. Can't wait to replace them all.
I must say we have had our moments with Alkira, it wasn't all smooth sailing but we couldn't be happier with the end produce and that's what really counts.

My better half got a 3-month subscription to Choice online, and researched appliances with them. Whatever came out best in the categories she was looking-at were what we ended up with, and the only problem I've found so far is that the clock in the oven is a bit fast so it gains about a minute per week on the microwave. It's all Electrolux except for the Samsung microwave, the model numbers wouldn't mean anything to someone buying now because they change every 9 months anyway ... but I think Choice was worth the cost.