Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 13, 2008 7:18 pm Hi All,
Wondering how many of you have actually had mistakes in your favour? We've had a lucky month in that we've had two such mistakes - nice to have them in our favour for a change ! 1. We decided to stain the bottom two steps and rails of our stairs and carpet them due to cost. When we visted the house recently, stairs are in and all of the steps are the high quality stain grade timber! So I enquired and it looks as though they got it wrong and are staining the entire stair case 2. We went with vinyl gloss white cupboards in the kitchen and chose a "teak" laminate for the island cabinet. They made a mistake... and ordered the entire cabinate in the more expense vinyl gloss white.. luckily we like it Pics on our blog http://windsor42.blogspot.com - any other positive mistakes out there? Can we build it? Yes we can ! http://windsor42.blogspot.com/ Original Artworks http://www.debbierobinson.com.au Re: Mistakes in your favour 2Nov 13, 2008 7:23 pm Charged half price for an alfresco extension, only charged for one bench of the pantry to be Caeserstone, there was two benches, wording said "provide stone to butlers pantry"
Undercharged for an extension. They basically charged for the upgrades within the extension, but not for the extension itself ...... heaps... still not enough to keep me with the builder though. Figured they owed me for every other rip off they have. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Mistakes in your favour 3Nov 13, 2008 7:42 pm We nearly got a spa bath instead of just a normal bath. However, this got fixed in the next version of the colour selections. Oh well... Winnie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Built PD Regent 23 in Brimbank Gardens Re: Mistakes in your favour 4Nov 13, 2008 8:02 pm We were required to have concealed glass for the upstairs windows at the back of the house,even though there,s no way we can see into our neighbours houses anyway somehow we have ended up with regular windows which is fantastic as we have a great view out the back
Well done Fletch on getting the stairs you wanted and the kitchen..it,s nice to have a win occasionally Cheers Mel Building on 9 acres Re: Mistakes in your favour 5Nov 13, 2008 8:14 pm Mistakes/freebies are always nice!
We had to change the location of a window in our ensuite for our estate, and so in turn we got a wall length mirror instead of the standard mirror...that was done at no charge We also had to get a bulkhead above where our bed will be in the master bedroom and our csc/ss are going to give us downlights in them for us woo hoo! Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39747 Broker here - legislation says that every true broker must put the clients best interests before theirs so in theory they must offer you the best options for you on their… 2 46017 The worst thing you can do is sign a building contract without a pre contract review. Over the years many people have come to me with disputes where they just signed… 0 8351 |