New Family Home - Forest Park - Plantation Homes - SLAB!!!!!

thecapz · Dec 05, 2009 5:35 am

We just bought the Doulton Q3. We go for our appointment this month.

What do you guys recommend we outsource?

From what I've read...we can save a lot outsourcing

Driveway
Floors
Rendering

I'm curious to see what the Plantation bag and paint job looks like.

andrewn · Dec 14, 2009 12:20 pm

YAY! The land has finally settled and we are going in for our New Home Proposal this week!

thecapz - We are outsourcing tiling and carpets. We are considering outsourcing the driveway and all concreting around the house including the porch and alfresco areas. I am not sure if you should outsource the rendering as that is one thing you don't wanna get wrong. The PH bag and paint is excellent compared to other builders but you still see the brickwall and rendering far out beats bag and paint IMO.

Andrew.

b0b555 · Feb 11, 2010 10:38 pm

We are going with the Doulton Q2.

We are definitely outsourcing:
Driveway
Render
Air Con
Floor Coverings

Including in Contract:
Alfresco concrete as part of the slab

We are in an area that has a recycled water connection as well as the normal town water. Costs about $2K extra for the 2nd water connection and supplies the toilets and 2 external taps. But we still have to have a 5000 ltr water tank. $7K to just connect to our washing machine cold water tap... Not happy... ... ...

An there have been at least 3 instances I have heard of in the area of the council pumping the recycled water through the town water connection and vice versa.

mummamichelle · Mar 18, 2010 1:35 pm

Hi Andrew,

We're building the Doulton Q3 on Brisbane Northside. We signed our initial contract in October 2009 as well. I was just wondering how far along you are? We are currently waiting (impatiently) for the final draft to be finished so we can sign and start building!!! We had the colour selection, electical, ect all finished before Christmas and STILL waiting....sigh.

n&n02 · Mar 18, 2010 2:26 pm

mummamichelle

Hi Andrew,

We're building the Doulton Q3 on Brisbane Northside. We signed our initial contract in October 2009 as well. I was just wondering how far along you are? We are currently waiting (impatiently) for the final draft to be finished so we can sign and start building!!! We had the colour selection, electical, ect all finished before Christmas and STILL waiting....sigh.

Hi

Where abouts are you building on the northside??? Pl@nt@tion have beautiful homes. All the best with your build!

mummamichelle · Mar 18, 2010 3:14 pm

n&n02

mummamichelle

Hi Andrew,

We're building the Doulton Q3 on Brisbane Northside. We signed our initial contract in October 2009 as well. I was just wondering how far along you are? We are currently waiting (impatiently) for the final draft to be finished so we can sign and start building!!! We had the colour selection, electical, ect all finished before Christmas and STILL waiting....sigh.

Hi

Where abouts are you building on the northside??? Pl@nt@tion have beautiful homes. All the best with your build!

Hi N&N--We're building in Kallangur, when we ever get to that point!! Have had council approval and all PCV signed for some time now, but still waiting for the final draft. I guess all this rain has just everything backed up big time! How about you?

n&n02 · Mar 19, 2010 1:17 pm

Hi mm

We are in WL. There's a few on here building northside of brisbane.

Will you be starting a building thread??? It'd be great to follow your build process!

We are currently waiting on council approval and then we should be good to go.

shelby75 · Apr 18, 2010 8:46 pm

How's it all going, on site yet??

ritat · May 16, 2010 12:20 am

Hi Andrew,

went by today for an appointment with a concreter and was so pleased to see your site cut. So the start won't be too long now

andrewn · May 19, 2010 10:53 am

Yeah! Everything is on the go! Got told by the builder we had to remove the big pile of dirt in front of our house! Does anyone know of any cheap earthmovers around here? Rita, have you had your dirt removed yet?

mummamichelle · May 20, 2010 1:53 pm

Congrats Andrew! Hope to hear more about your build as things start to happen.

liveonimpulse · May 20, 2010 3:52 pm

andrewn

Yeah! Everything is on the go! Got told by the builder we had to remove the big pile of dirt in front of our house! Does anyone know of any cheap earthmovers around here? Rita, have you had your dirt removed yet?

I need some dirt for my block, building with Plantation Brisbane north as well. Maybe we could do some swapping?

ritat · May 21, 2010 12:32 pm

Hi Andrew,

surprised you were told to remove the dirt. Ours was cut from side and fill on another and they still had about 1.5m high pile left then it disappeared one day. Looks like we will need more dirt though because stepdown from doors is too low.

By when do you need to remove the dirt?