Who else is building with Eden Brae?

livewildcard · Feb 11, 2013 9:02 pm

Yea it was last Monday was told going to handover by wed this week as of Sunday nothing even started so unless they had massive day today doubt that's going to happen

Kerith · Feb 12, 2013 7:32 am

Not great, Livewildcard. Are they still within contract period? Maybe they are not in such a hurry. I hope you haven't given notice on a rental property just yet.

livewildcard · Feb 12, 2013 7:35 am

They are still within contract period so yes no rush, but the fact PCI was done and everything says settlement is to occur within 7 days within that I am still pushing them. At the same time I just want it done properly so they can take their time.

We are still living in our PPOR so dont have to give notice anywhere or have to move anytime soon we can stay as long as we want. We will rent it out when we move.

Granadz Drysdale · Feb 12, 2013 8:42 am

livewildcard - That's very disappointing to hear, I hope everything gets sorted for you. It must be so frustrating especially being so close to the end- Fingers crossed for you livewildcard you will be in your home soon :-)

An update on our build- we just get pegged yesterday...Looking forward to some action on our block ;-)

Baulkham Hills · Feb 12, 2013 9:08 am

livewildcard

They are still within contract period so yes no rush, but the fact PCI was done and everything says settlement is to occur within 7 days within that I am still pushing them. At the same time I just want it done properly so they can take their time.

We are still living in our PPOR so dont have to give notice anywhere or have to move anytime soon we can stay as long as we want. We will rent it out when we move.

I do hope they start fixing up all the issues that you found at PCI. I wouldn't be settling until most (if not all) those issues are fixed, especially the tiling issues and poor paint work.

i can understand how you feel about wanting them to take their time to fix the issues so that the work is good quality when you take possession of your house, but at the same time wanting it to be done quickly so that you can move in.

I think we are all at the mercy of the tradies that are booked in to work on our homes. If they are great at their job and know what they are doing then you will have a good quality house. If they aren't, then you will have a lot of stuff ups that need to be rectified!

Baulkham Hills · Feb 12, 2013 9:33 am

Granadz Drysdale

An update on our build- we just get pegged yesterday...Looking forward to some action on our block ;-)

Great to hear that you've been pegged. It won't be long now till you have a slab.

Kerith Any movement at your place after getting pegged or has the wet weather delayed things?

Granadz Drysdale · Feb 12, 2013 9:53 am

Baulkham Hills

Granadz Drysdale

An update on our build- we just get pegged yesterday...Looking forward to some action on our block ;-)

Great to hear that you've been pegged. It won't be long now till you have a slab.

Thank you Baulkham Hills :-)

I really hope so, been a long wait to get to this point ::wornout::

Baulkham Hills · Feb 12, 2013 9:58 am

Welby and Sohnaeo Could you please let me know how your shower niches turned out? What I am wanting to know is did the shower niche turn out to be the right height when it was gyrpocked and tiled? I have a few concerns about what i think are my shower niches. The frame work for them is shorter than the 270mm that is in my contract. By the time they gyprock the area and tile it, I will be lucky to have a shower niche that is 240 mm high!

Please let me know if you measured the frame work for your niches and if the niches turned out OK in the end. If I do have a issue then i would prefer to have it rectified before the gyprock goes in this week. It will mean that I will have to have a meeting on site with SS.

Kerith · Feb 12, 2013 11:49 am

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Kerith Any movement at your place after getting pegged or has the wet weather delayed things?

Well, I received this email yesterday.....

"I have received your pegout survey and your job is now placed in our estimating department for release.
Once your job is released, you will be allocated to a site supervisor."

How long does estimating take? The usual 2-3 weeks for a price/costing??

Granadz Drysdale · Feb 12, 2013 11:51 am

Kerith

Quote:

Kerith Any movement at your place after getting pegged or has the wet weather delayed things?

Well, I received this email yesterday.....

"I have received your pegout survey and your job is now placed in our estimating department for release.
Once your job is released, you will be allocated to a site supervisor."

How long does estimating take? The usual 2-3 weeks for a price/costing??

Kerith, I hope you and the family are coping okay.

Yes I got the exact same email yesterday, was wondering the same thing, we seem to be at the exact same stage :-)

Kerith · Feb 12, 2013 11:54 am

Haha but you will be finished long before us!
Thanks we are coping OK just trying to get back into some sort of normality and doing all the million of things that were put off with his illness plus all the upteen things that need doing for the beginning of the school year!

sohnaeo · Feb 12, 2013 11:55 am

Baulkham Hills

Welby and Sohnaeo Could you please let me know how your shower niches turned out? What I am wanting to know is did the shower niche turn out to be the right height when it was gyrpocked and tiled? I have a few concerns about what i think are my shower niches. The frame work for them is shorter than the 270mm that is in my contract. By the time they gyprock the area and tile it, I will be lucky to have a shower niche that is 240 mm high!

Please let me know if you measured the frame work for your niches and if the niches turned out OK in the end. If I do have a issue then i would prefer to have it rectified before the gyprock goes in this week. It will mean that I will have to have a meeting on site with SS.

Hi

livewildcard - I hope they shouldn't take too long to fix these issues.

Granadz Drysdale - Congratulations for the pegs

Baulkhan Hills - We had our inspection this morning and very happy with the work so far, wet area tiling and painting is done, electricians starting tomorow. Very happy with the paint work and the tiling work, our tilers took 2 weeks for the tiling but the quality of work is unbelievable, at the end its up to the tradies. No, we didn't notice the niche height, we should have done that though

,in the picture niche height looks ok to me but not sure are they really 270mm. Here is the powder room and main bathroom niches. If you have doubt defintaely meet with SS and take the measurements.

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Granadz Drysdale · Feb 12, 2013 12:00 pm

Kerith

Haha but you will be finished long before us!
Thanks we are coping OK just trying to get back into some sort of normality and doing all the million of things that were put off with his illness plus all the upteen things that need doing for the beginning of the school year!

Awww... well I hope your build goes as quick as it possibly can too :-)

Ofcourse, as long as you are all coping ok, A LOT going on by the sounds! XX

Baulkham Hills · Feb 12, 2013 1:29 pm

Kerith and Granadz Drysdale My CSA said it would take 10 business days for estimating to complete the file. I received the exact same email that you have mentioned on the 12th of October and by 31st we had our slab poured. I think that during the time, engineering will go over you plans a final time as it was during this period that a mistake in our plans was found.

Kerith Good to hear the you are all holding up. Hopefully your hubby and inlaws are doing better.

Sohnaeo I love the colours that you chose for you shower niches. Nice and dark colours. We went with a lighter brown colour as it went better with our vanity colours. Looks like things are powering along for you now. I can't wait till I am at that stage. I have emailed my SS to see if he is willing to meet us onsite.

welby · Feb 12, 2013 4:25 pm

Hi Baulkham i'm pretty sure mine's the right size but i'll try and sneak in and check it out. By the way i wish this rain would bugger off, driveway is all formed up just sitting there doing nothing ::angry::

ohmistershefield25 · Feb 12, 2013 5:04 pm

Afternoon,
I came across H1 via a google search for EB Shefield builders.
It has been very helpful and I'm so glad for all the information everyone has provided in their journey of building.

We're in the early stages of building. We found a block by accident one day after viewing an open house.

It looks like we're going with the Shefield 25. The appeal of it was the narrow width (11700) to allow for side access and the seperate rumpus and lounge room. I found some houses they were in close proximity and the noise from one room would compete in another.

We had a meeting with Gary at Spring Farm and have made some initial changes (subject to cost)
* extending the WIR - by removing the second door in the Main Bedroom and 400mm into the lounge room.
* enclosing the study
* enclosing the rumpus (on the display they have shutters closing off the room).

Some minor issues I have thought of include:
* where to hang the towels to dry after use in the ensuite?
* the pantry in the kitchen isn't very user friendly i.e. it will be hard to reach items on the far left of the pantry.
* the length of the window in the bathroom, where the bath and window meet.

If anyone has some helpful hints, it would be greatly appreciated. Already, I'm frustrated with the extra costs to finish the house.

Sheffield25 · Feb 12, 2013 5:31 pm

Hey and welcome to the world of EB

There are always extra costs depending on how you want to finish your house and its up to you to determine what you are willing to settle for and pay.

It's also a cost vs convenience factor for people too.

I pmd you also with the changes we made. If you look through the thread you can see the floorplan we have and some of the additions we made. More than willing to provide information to you as are the fellow EBers.

Bax27 · Feb 12, 2013 5:45 pm

Hi,
I have been following the niche comments, and was intending to make sure they are the right height for my shampoo bottles, we were at the display home on Saturday and luckily there was as another couple with their plans - they had a tape measure so we measured the ones in the display home - ensuite 220mm - main 260mm - so not even the 270mm has we thought the standard was - we will definitely be changing ours to specify 270mm clear.

Sheffield25 · Feb 12, 2013 6:05 pm

The ones in the display home are smaller. Our sales person said to increase the niches to 300mm.

benblinkau · Feb 12, 2013 6:14 pm

Bax27

Hi,
I have been following the niche comments, and was intending to make sure they are the right height for my shampoo bottles, we were at the display home on Saturday and luckily there was as another couple with their plans - they had a tape measure so we measured the ones in the display home - ensuite 220mm - main 260mm - so not even the 270mm has we thought the standard was - we will definitely be changing ours to specify 270mm clear.

We have just raised a pcv to have them changed to 300mm.. It was no extra cost.