Coral Homes general build thread

Jessiej · Aug 19, 2017 9:24 pm

dougang287

Jessiej

Any advice for this? We went and had a look at the house today and it seems this wall isn't straight as the tiles don't match up. On the other side is the garage and the architrave is cracked and so is all of the paint. Is this something that can be fixed?

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tell SS you want it fixed and it will get done

Oh we will be, just wasn't sure how big of a job it is

em-n-craig · Aug 19, 2017 10:43 pm

We had some gaps on our tiles but wasn't noticeable when the caulking was done

Jessiej · Aug 20, 2017 7:42 am

em-n-craig

We had some gaps on our tiles but wasn't noticeable when the caulking was done

Good to know! Thank you

Tamara1975 · Aug 20, 2017 8:05 am

Jessiej

em-n-craig

We had some gaps on our tiles but wasn't noticeable when the caulking was done

Good to know! Thank you

One thing I learned during our previous builds is not worry about the little imperfections during the build stage. It all comes together in the end.

em-n-craig · Aug 20, 2017 10:05 pm

For those of you with completed builds, has anyone had trouble fitting ready made blinds inside your window frames? I've had some windows slightly larger and some are smaller than the stated sizes. I bought some venetian blinds and can pack the space in the larger windows and will cut them down for the smaller ones. It's not the end of the world, just a real pain and strange how they are not consistent.

Eight_3_Home · Aug 20, 2017 11:02 pm

em-n-craig

For those of you with completed builds, has anyone had trouble fitting ready made blinds inside your window frames? I've had some windows slightly larger and some are smaller than the stated sizes. I bought some venetian blinds and can pack the space in the larger windows and will cut them down for the smaller ones. It's not the end of the world, just a real pain and strange how they are not consistent.

That's a&l windows for you. The windows are non standard sizing because the timber reveal is incorporated into the overall window size.
Hubby is a glazier and curses these damn windows.

MrsJM · Aug 21, 2017 8:05 am

Anyone able to share photos of the joins in your kitchen bench? I'd like to compare what is reasonable in terms of colour match and the size of the join. Thank you

Ryalls_first_build · Aug 21, 2017 12:39 pm

MrsJM

Anyone able to share photos of the joins in your kitchen bench? I'd like to compare what is reasonable in terms of colour match and the size of the join. Thank you

Oh Mrs.. That doesn't sound good!

We used snow for our benchtops and the joins i must say are brilliant! Although we only have them for the waterfall ends so nothing in the middle

klea · Aug 21, 2017 6:51 pm

I'm sure everybody does this but I want to stress that when it comes time for your final progress payment to check the final account summary that Coral sends to you. I ran through my variations again (which were all correct) and noticed that Coral had missed a $2000 credit!! I had a $2k allowance in my contract for colour room upgrades and another $2k for Clipsal upgrades. After each of those appointments they charged me the full amount of the upgrades but had only credited the colour room allowance back. I queried it today and a new Variation popped into my inbox for $2000 credited back for clipsal allowance... can't believe I was about to pay twice for that!!

Becs Coral · Aug 21, 2017 6:55 pm

em-n-craig

For those of you with completed builds, has anyone had trouble fitting ready made blinds inside your window frames? I've had some windows slightly larger and some are smaller than the stated sizes. I bought some venetian blinds and can pack the space in the larger windows and will cut them down for the smaller ones. It's not the end of the world, just a real pain and strange how they are not consistent.

Yep. All of ours were smaller than the size stated. Had to get all ours cut to size.

Caydenn · Aug 21, 2017 7:43 pm

Fellow Coral home builders in QLD I need help!! We are working through getting all of our documents through to Coral Head office as they are working on getting our final council approval and getting ready for our start date.

As part of the required documentation they have requested that we organise council approval, either ourselves or through our driveway contractor, to construct a vehicular crossing.

I have 2 small issues doing this and wanted to know what others have done/if anyone can give advice.

Problem 1 - We haven't organised a driveway contractor yet as most of them will not lock in with pricing etc. until you get a lot closer to being ready to do the work.

Problem 2 - I have no idea what even to do to get this approved.

Please help!!

Tamara1975 · Aug 21, 2017 7:45 pm

Caydenn

Fellow Coral home builders in QLD I need help!! We are working through getting all of our documents through to Coral Head office as they are working on getting our final council approval and getting ready for our start date.

As part of the required documentation they have requested that we organise council approval, either ourselves or through our driveway contractor, to construct a vehicular crossing.

I have 2 small issues doing this and wanted to know what others have done/if anyone can give advice.

Problem 1 - We haven't organised a driveway contractor yet as most of them will not lock in with pricing etc. until you get a lot closer to being ready to do the work.

Problem 2 - I have no idea what even to do to get this approved.

Please help!!

Wow they never asked us for that. As far as I am aware we do it before the driveway is done.

H Family · Aug 21, 2017 7:45 pm

Caydenn

Fellow Coral home builders in QLD I need help!! We are working through getting all of our documents through to Coral Head office as they are working on getting our final council approval and getting ready for our start date.

As part of the required documentation they have requested that we organise council approval, either ourselves or through our driveway contractor, to construct a vehicular crossing.

I have 2 small issues doing this and wanted to know what others have done/if anyone can give advice.

Problem 1 - We haven't organised a driveway contractor yet as most of them will not lock in with pricing etc. until you get a lot closer to being ready to do the work.

Problem 2 - I have no idea what even to do to get this approved.

Please help!!

Why do you need a driveway contractor before starting. I got my start date tpday and never had to do this.

MrsJM · Aug 21, 2017 7:46 pm

Caydenn

Fellow Coral home builders in QLD I need help!! We are working through getting all of our documents through to Coral Head office as they are working on getting our final council approval and getting ready for our start date.

As part of the required documentation they have requested that we organise council approval, either ourselves or through our driveway contractor, to construct a vehicular crossing.

I have 2 small issues doing this and wanted to know what others have done/if anyone can give advice.

Problem 1 - We haven't organised a driveway contractor yet as most of them will not lock in with pricing etc. until you get a lot closer to being ready to do the work.

Problem 2 - I have no idea what even to do to get this approved.

Please help!!

Can't imagine it is much different up there. Just call your local council or pop onto their website. Look for 'crossover application'. All I sent was the Coral diagram together with the all important payment for $220, and within a couple of weeks I had the approval back. If you want to let me know what council you're in I can try and help you to find the application

vonsta76 · Aug 21, 2017 8:35 pm

Caydenn

Fellow Coral home builders in QLD I need help!! We are working through getting all of our documents through to Coral Head office as they are working on getting our final council approval and getting ready for our start date.

As part of the required documentation they have requested that we organise council approval, either ourselves or through our driveway contractor, to construct a vehicular crossing.

I have 2 small issues doing this and wanted to know what others have done/if anyone can give advice.

Problem 1 - We haven't organised a driveway contractor yet as most of them will not lock in with pricing etc. until you get a lot closer to being ready to do the work.

Problem 2 - I have no idea what even to do to get this approved.

Please help!!

if you're getting this done post handover, you don't need to do anything right now. I engaged a contractor before my build started, but that's only because I am the type of person who is always prepared and like it all ready beforehand. I applied with GCCC just a few weeks before handover.

Coral Homes Avoca 25 in Gainsborough Greens Gold Coast

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klea · Aug 21, 2017 8:44 pm

Caydenn are you Gold Coast city council? Should be a few on here who can help. But you should only need council approval for the house and the crossover to be done later. Ps. Coral submitted my plans to council for me (my sales consultant did this from memory).

Caydenn · Aug 21, 2017 8:45 pm

klea

@Caydenn are you Gold Coast city council?

Hey Klea,

Yes I am

klea · Aug 21, 2017 8:46 pm

Caydenn

klea

caydenn are you Gold Coast city council?

Hey Klea,

Yes I am

Hey caydenn. I updated my post above. And realised you meant coral is only asking you to organise the crossover approval. What vonsta76 said...
When you get to appointing a driveway contractor if they won't organise the council approval for you (I'm sure they will) then it should hopefully be simple for you. Brisbane city council's is a simple online self-assessment form that takes about 5mins to complete, unless you're doing something crazy.

Caydenn · Aug 21, 2017 8:49 pm

klea

Caydenn

klea

@Caydenn are you Gold Coast city council?

Hey Klea,

Yes I am

I updated my post above. And realise you meant coral is only asking you to organise the crossover approval. What vonsta said.

Thanks Klea,

Our construction plans have gone to council they weirdly just wanted us to organise the vehicular crossing approval.

I'll let them know we are doing driveway post handover and not to worry.

Thank you!

1st time builders · Aug 21, 2017 9:46 pm

Crossover permit is now required with your plans even if you are doing the driveway after handover. It's a new gccc thing! It's recent too because we built in 2015 and we didn't have to then. We are with Clarendon and we also had to this time.