Building the Waterfall by Clarendon in Sydney

Just choose the smallest plant that you want to get rid off. (if you can and save you some money)

we choose what we want from the beginning so there is no wastage in that sense. mine is a very simple layout (just the plant turn out to be quite pricey)

thats okey WF2, there is always something we "wish would have done it"

btw we received our colour, kitchen and electrical PCVs at one shot today. guess what.. there are mistakes... (kinda of expecting it)

writing to them to add or amend something.

btw does anyone know how long does it take for them to put the fence and start doing the slab?

mp

Hi GFdo

we spend quite a bit of money on electrical to be honest. yes we have extra 78 light points, 34 double power points, 13 junction box for external light points, pre wire CCTV camera as i can remember, there are more than that but i cant remember all. we budgeted 4k, we spend way way too much that i am a bit embarrassed to disclose the figure

you cant really do a deal but what we do is, whatever that we can, we will do it after handover. its cheaper

we are going to put downlights on our own and so we asked them to put light points for future downlights. apparently according to them, their sparky will put baton in place where there wont be any timber above so that in future downlights can be put up

i have found a sparky myself. turn out my ex-landlord is a cop/sparky. i have good relationship with him as i did with other landlord and so he will do it for me. pretty good price and he said he done it before and so not an issue putting down lights on.

the electrical pcv was quite quick. done on 28 june, get it today 8 july. about 1 week.

the colour and the kitchen is the nightmare. after sending a letter complain, finally they get it done. i told the CSO that i will make a big hoo-haa if the thing is not by friday and demand a meeting with upper management in their office because waiting more than 1 month for PCVs is ridicilous.

I am paying rent at the moment and they just cost me an extra 1 month rent that can be into good use for other thing.

anyway back to electrical. plan early. think where you want to put stuff. for example are you going to have back to base alarm? if you do, need to telephone point nearby.

how are you going to wire the internet?

all our TV points has conduit which is wall mounted and will hide the cable behind the wall so that it is neat and do not collect dust

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if you need any help PM me, maybe i can give you more pointer

mp

Hi Waterfall2,

I think you will find that you dont have to stick to the landscape plan submitted for approval.

I have read on other posts that it doesnt need to be the same. Ring your council and they will be able to tell you.

We did not ask for the deep edge slab, it our council requirement. It cost us more than 30K.
We don't need to pay extra for the treated pine. We build in south of Sydney.

Regarding to the landscape plan, I did called my council, they advised us to contact our PCA they are the one who will issue the final occupancy certificate. I've email our PCA but they have not yet come back to us.

Meatpie - Good luck with the meeting Hope everything will be sorted soon

for our site, there is no fence before the slab and external Drainage is completed.

Hi Guys, got a few questions, we've just attended our tender presentation.

Q1. the provisional cost for sewer conection for our is approx $6k. i feel this might be a little excessive. when we queried this, clarendon said that they might need to replace the whole plumbing from my land all the way to the connection under the road. i ran this past an architect, i was told that it is also possible to pickup the plumbing just outside our boundary. i went back to clarendon and got told that they dont like to use old with new plumbing, apparently its standard for them to replace the entire sewer line????? are they telling me the truth?

Q2. clarendon have recommended me to pay(through them) for a townplanner since we potentially may not complying with our front and rear setback. they r saying that while the townplanner does not guarantee that the council will approve our the DA but apparently they can put in some cases that may favour us if anything is not complying.

got any advice or thoughts for me please?

royboy

your council should have guideline in regards to the setbacks allowed. we can find and download from our council website and read it for yourself.

after that sit down with the townplanner on duty and told them what was your concern, they should be able to advise you if it is possible or not

we did also prelodgement appraisal on our own as we want to raised our house FFL and we are concerned from the beginning that it will be a tricky one since none of our neighbour did it. Council did not allow land filling as it means that i need high retainers wall. in the end we get council review, give it to clarendon, revised plan using drop H beam around the house and it was approved in 6 weeks. (the one that took a long time was for C to get it out to council)

agree with lex's advice on this

Thats the million dollar questions, C has promised us to start working by the end of the month as per bank requirement

MP

Sorry if this has been asked but can anyone tell me what C charge for extra gas points.? I have the price list for electrical but wondered what they slug you for a gas point.
Do you get at least one with the house, as I heard that you don't even get one tv or phone outlet?

Thanks guys.

I am so happy roof is covered for the first level. The SS advised the ground level will be covered and scafford will be remove by coming weekend