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Is the pergola actually supported in any way by the house (I can only see the 4 posts at the front)?
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 561Aug 31, 2010 12:30 am Lex Is the pergola actually supported in any way by the house (I can only see the 4 posts at the front)? Built the C£arend0n Cambridge: Moved in. Happy campers. Here's our story on HomeOne I might be old, but I have no trouble finishing my... er... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 562Aug 31, 2010 7:49 am Oh, those clever pergola people ... It will be interesting to see what can they suggest in our case (we have a 2-storey flat wall at the back, but we don't want the pergola to be supported by them, it will need to stand on its own). Oh, hang on, you didn't DIY this job, did you ? My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 563Aug 31, 2010 2:33 pm Lex Oh, hang on, you didn't DIY this job, did you? No, too much like hard work It was done by a local (Sutherland Shire) company. The quality of the work looks OK, but the workers (I won't call them tradesmen) stuffed our recycle bin with non-recyclable plastic packaging and left a lot of metal in our lawn - aluminium shavings, roof bolts, offcuts, etc. Built the C£arend0n Cambridge: Moved in. Happy campers. Here's our story on HomeOne I might be old, but I have no trouble finishing my... er... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 564Aug 31, 2010 8:50 pm Geez, looks like they should have left you a metal detector so you can clean up after them! Ah well, as long as it all withstands storms and winds BTW, great to see that someone is actually showing pics of their pergola - they are so scarce on this forum My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 565Sep 29, 2011 10:12 pm Hi Helldad - hope you don't mind that I'm adding a post more than a year after the last one. I wanted to ask about your Optus installation please. Did Optus have to dig a trench from your private pole to the house or was there an underground conduit/drawstring installed by the builder? Also, we are wanting our Optus phone line separate from the Optus cable internet, and we are having difficulty getting answers from Optus. The reason being that we will have a back-to-base alarm system and also to make use of the phone points. (My elderly parents recently had Optus cable installed and their phone is connected to the new modem, making their phone points redundant). Is your phone separate from your cable internet? Thanks Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 566Sep 30, 2011 10:49 pm Hi DB, The Private Pole installed for electricity had two conduits installed between the base of the pole and the side of the house. The electrical contractor used one conduit for the power cable, and the other was left underground with a pull string in it. Our Optus cable runs overhead from the street pole to our private pole, and the Optus installers used the spare conduit to continue the cable to the side of the house. We have NO separate phone cable in that conduit because our "landline" is carried as VoIP within the Optus co-ax cable - it can't be used for a back-to-base monitor system. If I was to get a "proper" landline in the future, the installers would draw the cable through the existing conduit to reach the pit and pole out on the street. I hope that's useful info for you DB. BTW, I'm writing this from Würzburg in Germany, we're on holiday. Built the C£arend0n Cambridge: Moved in. Happy campers. Here's our story on HomeOne I might be old, but I have no trouble finishing my... er... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 567Oct 21, 2011 8:44 pm Yes, your answer was helpful and much appreciated. Sorry it's taken so long to say thanks - especially as you took time out from your holiday. Hope you had a great time - I've always wanted to go to Germany, particularly near to Christmas as I've heard it's quite special. Optus have confirmed that they can not facilitate "back to base", so we have to go with Telstra if we want that. We have the same as you regarding underground conduit with drawstring from the house to our private pole on our boundary (same builder as you). What we are now having to ascertain is whether we are responsible for digging a trench from there to the Telstra pit. Telstra have said that we need to contact their approved contractor - so that's the next step. We should get handover in a few days - at last! Thanks again Helldad. Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 568Oct 22, 2011 12:05 pm Congrats on the handover DB. I always thought that Telstra (or its contractors) worried about all street digging. In my case the pit is only about 2 metres from the private pole, and it was never mentioned that I had to contact any contractors. This was when I was trying to get Telstra to do the installation - they couldn't guarantee a date that suited our moving in day, that's why we went with Optus. Built the C£arend0n Cambridge: Moved in. Happy campers. Here's our story on HomeOne I might be old, but I have no trouble finishing my... er... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 569Oct 25, 2011 4:23 pm Hi HellDad, Firstly, you've done a great job on your home, it looks fantastic. We too live in the shire and are seriously considering building with Clarendon (we've paid the deposit to get a tender done) and was just wondering, all in all were you happy in your choice to build with them, do you have any advice before we take the big step? Regards Bec Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 570Oct 26, 2011 3:03 pm Hi Bec, All in all, we are happy with our new home. I don't have any advice that'll help you make (or not make) the decision to take the big step, other than to go in with eyes open - expect things to go wrong and you won't be too disappointed. Our DA process seemed to be less painful than most we've read about (Clarendon charge extra for dealing with Sutherland or Kuringai councils). When we rebuilt, Clarendon were advertising "talk to us about knock-down-rebuild" - they are absolutely not interested in knock-down, will have nothing to do with it. Our other gripe with them was that it's very difficult to deal with your customer liaison officer, they hardly ever answered or returned phone calls, although emails fared slightly better. The person who is absolutely key is your Site Supervisor (SS), and we were lucky enough to get a good one. He was efficient, flexible, easy to contact, reported regularly, and kept errant tradies in line, you can't ask more than that. At the end of the project there was only one lingering issue with the range hood, and that has proven to be workable. In 2.3 years we've had only two warranty repairs - aircon controller and rainwater pump controller. The latter was only recently, see this post. We wish you luck in your big adventure. Built the C£arend0n Cambridge: Moved in. Happy campers. Here's our story on HomeOne I might be old, but I have no trouble finishing my... er... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 571Oct 26, 2011 7:27 pm Thanks HellDad, After paying the $$ to get the tender done, I looked on Product Review, and freaked myself out! I knew I could only take it with a grain of salt, but decided I needed to find some of my own reviews before we go ahead. We also thought I silly they don't do the knockdown. We are actually in the process of getting quotes for that at the moment. Who did you use? Good to hear you've not had many unresolved issues worth mentioning, feeling more confident now. Thanks again. Bec Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 572Oct 26, 2011 10:36 pm Hi Bec, I don't think you'll find any large builders that also do demolitions. We used a company called Gabrael - I wouldn't recommend them, look at the beginning of this thread to see why. Built the C£arend0n Cambridge: Moved in. Happy campers. Here's our story on HomeOne I might be old, but I have no trouble finishing my... er... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 573Oct 29, 2011 2:15 pm Hi HellDad Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ , just wanted to say hello Nice one with the water pump ... hope it was all good with Pen Air too ! My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Cambridge Chronicle - We Moved in a Year ago! 574Oct 29, 2011 2:41 pm Hi Lex A few months ago Penrith Air replaced under warranty the internal aircon remote controller. They also installed a magnetic interference suppressor on its connecting cable, claiming success with that technique on other installations. It's been ok ever since. Built the C£arend0n Cambridge: Moved in. Happy campers. Here's our story on HomeOne I might be old, but I have no trouble finishing my... er... Joe, it depends on your certifier but we are noticing the ones we deal with are really cracking down. So i would recommend you follow your approved landscaping plans to… 4 6643 Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. In my opinion you dont need to replace or paint the roof other than treat surface rust… 1 5781 Hi Simeon, Thank you for laying it down for us. Makes sense. Appreciate it very much. Have a nice day. Cheers 2 4998 |