Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 02, 2017 9:55 am Hi All, I've been following a few build threads on here and now it's finally time to start my own! My wife and I are building with Simonds Homes, the Express range. Decided on the Westbury with Premium specs. Our block is a small 420m in the East Estate in Cranbourne East. Title is expected towards the end of August this year. We have just signed our contracts with Simonds so all is progressing well, just hoping the land titles as expected. I look forward to sharing the build experience with you all! Any questions or queries as we go, ask away -Pete Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 2Jun 02, 2017 1:12 pm smithfamily Hi All, I've been following a few build threads on here and now it's finally time to start my own! My wife and I are building with Simonds Homes, the Express range. Decided on the Westbury with Premium specs. Our block is a small 420m in the East Estate in Cranbourne East. Title is expected towards the end of August this year. We have just signed our contracts with Simonds so all is progressing well, just hoping the land titles as expected. I look forward to sharing the build experience with you all! Any questions or queries as we go, ask away -Pete Hi smith Good to see one more Simonds build here. We are building Hudson at Craigieburn. Hopefully they will start by next month.. happy to share any experiences over the build Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 3Jun 02, 2017 1:16 pm smithfamily Hi All, I've been following a few build threads on here and now it's finally time to start my own! My wife and I are building with Simonds Homes, the Express range. Decided on the Westbury with Premium specs. Our block is a small 420m in the East Estate in Cranbourne East. Title is expected towards the end of August this year. We have just signed our contracts with Simonds so all is progressing well, just hoping the land titles as expected. I look forward to sharing the build experience with you all! Any questions or queries as we go, ask away -Pete Hi smith Good to see one more Simonds build here. We are building Hudson at Craigieburn. Hopefully they will start by next month.. happy to share any experiences over the build Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 4Jun 02, 2017 1:27 pm p.dark smithfamily Hi All, I've been following a few build threads on here and now it's finally time to start my own! My wife and I are building with Simonds Homes, the Express range. Decided on the Westbury with Premium specs. Our block is a small 420m in the East Estate in Cranbourne East. Title is expected towards the end of August this year. We have just signed our contracts with Simonds so all is progressing well, just hoping the land titles as expected. I look forward to sharing the build experience with you all! Any questions or queries as we go, ask away -Pete Hi smith Good to see one more Simonds build here. We are building Hudson at Craigieburn. Hopefully they will start by next month.. happy to share any experiences over the build Hi p.dark, Excellent. The more the better! Starting next month, very exciting for you! Hearing your experience would be great as building commences! Good luck Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 5Jun 02, 2017 3:43 pm smithfamily Hi All, I've been following a few build threads on here and now it's finally time to start my own! My wife and I are building with Simonds Homes, the Express range. Decided on the Westbury with Premium specs. Our block is a small 420m in the East Estate in Cranbourne East. Title is expected towards the end of August this year. We have just signed our contracts with Simonds so all is progressing well, just hoping the land titles as expected. I look forward to sharing the build experience with you all! Any questions or queries as we go, ask away -Pete Hi smith Good to see one more Simonds build here. We are building Hudson at Craigieburn. Hopefully they will start by next month.. happy to share any experiences over the build Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 6Jun 02, 2017 10:47 pm smithfamily Hi All, I've been following a few build threads on here and now it's finally time to start my own! My wife and I are building with Simonds Homes, the Express range. Decided on the Westbury with Premium specs. Our block is a small 420m in the East Estate in Cranbourne East. Title is expected towards the end of August this year. We have just signed our contracts with Simonds so all is progressing well, just hoping the land titles as expected. I look forward to sharing the build experience with you all! Any questions or queries as we go, ask away -Pete Currently building with Simonds also, Hudson same as p.dark. Ours is almost finished... Happy to answer any questions. Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 7Jun 05, 2017 2:48 pm Hi Asha, That's great! Have you had any/many hiccups along the way? Our contract signing guy seems to think the express houses go up in about 12-14 wks on average. Is this what you've experienced? Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 8Jun 05, 2017 5:04 pm smithfamily Hi Asha, That's great! Have you had any/many hiccups along the way? Our contract signing guy seems to think the express houses go up in about 12-14 wks on average. Is this what you've experienced? We didn't build an express however ours has only taken. 13 weeksish so far. We have had a few, especially with our electrical. They have done a really poor job with placement. I find our SS pretty laid back and we have to chase contact. Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 9Nov 08, 2017 1:27 pm First update! Our land titled on 15th September. We then had to gain our Construction Finance approval, which was completed 10th October. Our final construction drawings and final PCV's were signed off last week, admin stage was completed on Friday. Pre-start meeting this coming Friday, we should be on site this week with Temp fence and crossover protection expected to be put up, and full commencement on site next week. Finally almost starting construction after months of anticipation. Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 10Nov 10, 2017 3:40 pm Hi SmithFamily Looking forward to hearing your progress. We're building a Simonds Flinders in SE Melb. Ours is a knock down rebuild. We've just recently gone to site. Slab is booked to be poured this coming Monday. Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 11Nov 10, 2017 8:12 pm I have seen your thread and looks like you have had a few headaches along the way! Glad to hear your slab is booked in! Looking forward to tracking your progress. We had our Site Start meeting today, if all goes to plan (weather) we should have slab down, frame up and roof on by end of November. Let's hope! Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 12Nov 10, 2017 9:03 pm smithfamily I have seen your thread and looks like you have had a few headaches along the way! Glad to hear your slab is booked in! Looking forward to tracking your progress. We had our Site Start meeting today, if all goes to plan (weather) we should have slab down, frame up and roof on by end of November. Let's hope! Ah yes. The joys of a knock down rebuild. Hoping things run smoothly now we’re on site. That’s fast. Hope it all goes to plan and the weather behaves. Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 13Nov 21, 2017 5:24 am That’s awesome! What colour choice have you chosen? I’ve just built the Westbury also, have our inspection this Thursday! The build has gone smooth so far with no issues. I wish you all the best smithfamily First update! Our land titled on 15th September. We then had to gain our Construction Finance approval, which was completed 10th October. Our final construction drawings and final PCV's were signed off last week, admin stage was completed on Friday. Pre-start meeting this coming Friday, we should be on site this week with Temp fence and crossover protection expected to be put up, and full commencement on site next week. Finally almost starting construction after months of anticipation. Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 14Nov 22, 2017 6:57 am Sharni3121 That’s awesome! What colour choice have you chosen? I’ve just built the Westbury also, have our inspection this Thursday! The build has gone smooth so far with no issues. I wish you all the best smithfamily First update! Our land titled on 15th September. We then had to gain our Construction Finance approval, which was completed 10th October. Our final construction drawings and final PCV's were signed off last week, admin stage was completed on Friday. Pre-start meeting this coming Friday, we should be on site this week with Temp fence and crossover protection expected to be put up, and full commencement on site next week. Finally almost starting construction after months of anticipation. Hi Sharni3121, That's great to hear that you haven't had any issues so far and that your inspection is this week! We chose the Ash colour palette Our slab gets poured today, a few days later than originally planned and not sure why that's the case but we're moving along so that's the main thing. Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 15Nov 23, 2017 3:27 pm Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Slab was laid yesterday! Wooooo! And the framers then came in late afternoon and marked out the frame on the slab. It has been raining here this afternoon so unsure if anything has been done today, and likely won't get a chance to go and inspect today either. Received first Invoice as well..... Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 16Nov 23, 2017 3:55 pm [quote="smithfamily"] Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Slab was laid yesterday! Wooooo! And the framers then came in late afternoon and marked out the frame on the slab. It has been raining here this afternoon so unsure if anything has been done today, and likely won't get a chance to go and inspect today either. Received first Invoice as well..... /quote] They’re quick with the invoices aren’t they, lol Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 17Nov 23, 2017 7:18 pm Bri1234 smithfamily Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Slab was laid yesterday! Wooooo! And the framers then came in late afternoon and marked out the frame on the slab. It has been raining here this afternoon so unsure if anything has been done today, and likely won't get a chance to go and inspect today either. Received first Invoice as well..... /quote] They’re quick with the invoices aren’t they, lol Alot quicker than building the damn house! Haha Re: Building Simonds Express - Westbury Premium - East Estat 20Nov 28, 2017 7:55 am Yay. Ours did too. Really looking like a house now, lol 1 2941 The warning is on the sticker on the door too. Second the aluminium powdercoat 6 19176 Hi, can anyone recommend a custom home builder who can build in north east area? Looking to build a custom 4-br energy-efficient home with a max budget of 750k. If they… 0 23704 |