Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Hudson Homes 83Feb 23, 2016 2:48 pm AM4400 just wondering how long they took to actually begin and pour the slab once you had council approval? Apparently they have 20 days to start construction from council approval, does the slab count as construction or is it from the frame up? I don't know why we can't just have our electrical appointment done now either while we are waiting for everything else it would make sense I'm hoping its soon. Was your electrical appointment prior to the slab going down or after? Sorry just getting antsy for it too actually start after all this faffing, lol I live with my inlaws Re: Building with Hudson Homes 84Feb 23, 2016 10:20 pm hi Lexi, I am not sure exactly about the time frame from council approval to pouring of slab. i will have to check that one. The actual construciton start from the moment they start digging your plot. because before even slab, They will have to pour pillers, once that is done they will then pour slab. so i would say you start counting from when they start leveling you plot. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 86Feb 23, 2016 10:39 pm if they are building multiple lines all together, They work on one line after another, so it also depends upon where your plot is situated. with us they started from the line on the road side, and we are on (lets assume) on 4th line, they they wont start digging our plot until the first 3 lines are completed Re: Building with Hudson Homes 88Feb 24, 2016 1:13 am Awesome I think she said the bloke would go out to inspect the block towards the end of this week and put the temp fencing up but we thought it would make sense to put the fencing up after the site is cut/filled. I may need to chase up more info on this. Your block looks lovely btw it has a beautiful aspect does anyone know if it causes major problems if the T2 treated wood frame gets rained on excessively before the roof goes on? Just as April is such a wet month typically and we may possibly be at that stage around then hopefully we have at least made decent progress by then lol. Hope everyone's progressing well Re: Building with Hudson Homes 90Feb 24, 2016 10:41 am I am interested to see the electrical costs too. We have our own electrician and have been given permission to access the site to rough in all our extra cables etc before sheeting is done. We have nearly 70 downlights going in plus fans, 12 pendant lights, led strip lighting, tv points, hdmi cabled, cctv cameras among other things all being roughed in pre sheeting so once we get the keys we just have to cut holes and pull things through. Our plans still aren't approved, hopefully done this week or by end of next. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 91Feb 24, 2016 10:45 am We were told they won't give external contractors etc. access to the site before handover for this. Going to have to hit them up about it. Still waiting as well for estimating to get back to me on the cost to drop the slab in the wet areas so there isn't a 30mm step-up when everything has been tiled (will never comprehend why builders don't make this standard - money hungry :S). Really wish they would hurry up so we can re-sign the contract and go to council Re: Building with Hudson Homes 92Feb 24, 2016 11:59 am Lizard, I should clarify re access pr hand over, this was the big issue for us, our consultant at the display home we first spoke with said this was fine, turns out it isn't. He got sacked for doing the wrong thing and this was just one of many. The CEO gave us approval after things spiraled out of control and there are hoops our contractor has to jump through but this is not standard practice and not something he said he would allow again. If we were told no from the start that would have been fine, but my argument was we were told (and in writing) it was ok but it wasn't. The bathrooms will have a ramped edge to them, not the square edge. I like this and it is unobtrusive and the robot vac can get into the bathrooms! So i wouldn't personally spend the money on a dropped slab there, but we did get a dropped slab for our alfresco for the same reason as above, the consultant told us we could delete the slab completely as we wanted to deck it, turns out they either need the slab or strip footing there to hold the roof line and brick pillar in place for alfresco, Hudson don't do strip footings (builders tend to do one or the other) so the solution was to drop the slab to allow for the decking to go over the top, again not standard practice but Hudson far exceeded my expectations here by doing this for us. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 93Feb 24, 2016 12:28 pm lizard94 Hey! Just wondering if you paid for the retaining wall on your block AM4400? We need one on the side which will be next to our house and just curious on cost. Hi Liz, no we didn't had to pay for the retaining wall. As the builder is building all the houses in our line, he is providing it to us in our package even the cutting and filling is done by them only at no cost. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 94Feb 24, 2016 12:32 pm jhiace I am interested to see the electrical costs too. We have our own electrician and have been given permission to access the site to rough in all our extra cables etc before sheeting is done. We have nearly 70 downlights going in plus fans, 12 pendant lights, led strip lighting, tv points, hdmi cabled, cctv cameras among other things all being roughed in pre sheeting so once we get the keys we just have to cut holes and pull things through. Our plans still aren't approved, hopefully done this week or by end of next. hi Jhiace, we did the exact same thing. we just asked the builder for points but we did not include down lights in that as we will be doing that later. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 95Feb 24, 2016 12:39 pm [quote="lizard94"]:o We were told they won't give external contractors etc. access to the site before handover for this. Going to have to hit them up about it. Still waiting as well for estimating to get back to me on the cost to drop the slab in the wet areas so there isn't a 30mm step-up when everything has been tiled (will never comprehend why builders don't make this standard - money hungry :S). Really wish they would hurry up so we can re-sign the contract and go to council /quote] We had recently requested the builder for access in the area for measurement of Doors and windows we are gonna arrange from an external supplier. and they allowed us the access. i am not sure why they should not agree access. yes one thing - they won't allow external contractors to work on ur site until the hand over is done. because of the safety reasons. but that is a standard process every where. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 96Feb 24, 2016 12:52 pm Checking our plans our retaining wall is marked: "PROPOSED TIMBER RETAINING WALL BY OTHERS". Hopefully at 27m we can do this relatively cheap. When Carly was working there I was sure she said they included this in the site costs but guess that was incorrect -_- Getting pricing this arvo (if all goes to plan). Haven't forgot about pics of the stone just haven't had the chance yet That's ok. We will just do everything after handover and see if their electrician will run extra wiring to connect to for a cashie. Ultimately I think we will just deal with the changes in floor height - it's not a major issue and we can't afford it now we will have to do a retaining wall. I did think this was something they would have told us after site inspection - not after signing a contract. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 97Feb 24, 2016 1:15 pm Carly no longer works for Hudson either, she had a habit of giving the wrong information and in this game it can cost thousands per stuff up! They are flexible with people going in to measure things but not running anything, Our cabling has to be identifiable separately to their electricians work and is not allowed to touch his cabling OR be connect pre hand over. In essence it is just runnings lots of string lines but without the need to pull cables through later on. We too need retaining walls, no biggie. Rare a builder will include it, we have a dropped edge beam on the most sloped side which means the house can be build without a retaining wall being installed first. The cost of the retaining wall should be shared with your neighbour anyway, My understanding of paying for a retaining wall is if you cut into the lay of the land then it is your responsibility to install the retaining wall, but if you add onto (fill) the lay of the land you are responsible, for us we have cut/fill 600mm from the front left corner to rear right corner, so we will just have to go halves with both neighbours on either side of us. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 99Feb 24, 2016 3:27 pm You're building in the Hudson Communities right? They would just include these costs into every house built either through land cost or slab etc.. It is good because you don't have to worry about it later but you still have to pay for it, though it doesn't feel like it. Re: Building with Hudson Homes 100Feb 25, 2016 6:34 am I thought the cost of a retaining wall falls solely on the person who alters the natural slope of the land. Therefore if I cut into the land closest to a boundary where retaining will therefore be needed - it will be at my cost. Especially considering retaining is generally not on the boundary but slightly onto ones property. Pricing is back Can fit everything into budget and will only need to pay a few hundred out of our own pocket thanks to that $5000 voucher. Also got a price on dropping the slab in wet areas - $1490. Considering a lot of builder's seem to be charging toward the $3000 from what I've read, this seems really reasonable. I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 109239 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 26437 Wish you all the best. Once you signed the contract, they will find millions excuses to charge you. 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