Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 18, 2019 11:05 am Hi all, Been reading all your threads and posts and finally starting to build our house in the next few weeks. Building permits approved and site start should hopefully be in next few weeks. Has taken 11 months from initial deposit to this stage. We have upgraded virtually every feature of the house and modified the façade extensively. I will post updates as the build process prgresses Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 2Nov 18, 2019 4:20 pm Nice, looking forward to seeing some pics. Did you make any changes to the floor plans? Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 3Nov 18, 2019 4:25 pm Made quite a few structural
general Upgrades 1. all doors Sorrento 11 2. feature doors LIN1 3. Parquetry floor like sorrento 4. Twp pack to kitchen laundry and bathroom with la pyrinee profile 5. 60mm stone in kitchen and 40mm elsewhere 6. floor to ceiling tiling in bathrooms 7. mud room fit out 8. all windows timber 9.flyscreens 10 ducted a/c 11. downlights throughout 12. ethernet throughout Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 4Nov 19, 2019 6:51 am Hi Aussman, what is this facade style name, we are building with Henley, and we picked three exact same facade. Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 5Nov 19, 2019 6:53 am It is called provincial Mark 2 though I customised it a lot - removed the pillars on the side removed the horizontal feature below the parapet moulding and increased moulding sizes
Also increased window sizes and changed middle window from curved to rectangle Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 6Nov 19, 2019 6:57 am What color brick will you pick, how will you match your door and tile color. Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 7Nov 19, 2019 7:01 am Went austral Melbourne Hawthorne 50mm brick
Render colour is dune Windows are wood in charcoal stain Door is wood in charcoal stain - Hume regency with single opaque glass (double doors) Roof tiles are boral linea premium in charcoal Will do portico tiling after handover with landscape and will probably use bluestone Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 8Nov 19, 2019 7:38 am We went to one under construction site, we try to copy this one. [img:ee76bikn]https://forum.homeone.com.au/u/76658_1574113059.jpg[/img:ee76bikn] Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 9Nov 19, 2019 10:40 am Floor plans look great, love the changes you've made, this house is going to be amazing! Looking forward to seeing progress. Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 12Nov 20, 2019 4:35 pm aussman80 Site start date is 27th - Next week exciting Re: Building a Metricon Hampshire 45 KDR in Melbourne Provin 18Dec 12, 2019 4:26 pm Hi Aussman80, Plans look good, should come up great. I only noticed one minor thing when having a quick look over, relates to your 1020 CSDs. We have a few 920's in our build and based on what I have seen and also what our builder advised I would consider upgrading these doors to higher spec. With standard Corinthian/Hume base level CSDs and internal doors they will tend to warp at that size. Our 920s are slightly bowed, but the 820s aren't too bad. If I had my time again I would have gone with a higher spec/heavier duty CSD setup for these larger versions at least. Also thought I would let you know you can also choose between 'flush-to-jamb' (entire door disappears into cavity) or 'flush-pull' (50-60mm of door will protrude from cavity). We upgraded a few of ours to flush-jamb where we wanted to maximise the opening width. Otherwise you essentially lose 60mm in the opening. With CSDs in general they are a particular weak point for air leakage in your building envelope. If you can 'suck up' to your plasterers, see if they wouldn't mind putting some silicon beading against the top plates at least when they hang the walls. I did this later on, by going into the roof space and applying silicon over the top plates<>plaster join. You would be amazed how much air can leak through those CSDs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here The Dulux colour consultants are awesome. If you show them the photos they should be able to figure it out for you straight away 1 1618 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37150 The biggest challenge will be if you take out a loan and then run out of money - you'll have an incomplete security and lenders do not like this so you can get stuck.… 2 19108 |