Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Provincial Homes 326Aug 01, 2015 12:14 am Building Nu Caprice 35 Accepted Tender 3/14 Construction Cert 11/9/14 Slab poured 19/11/14 Frame completed 21/1/15 Bricks completed 26/3/15 Roof completed 29/5/15 Lockup 15/6/15 Walkthough is NEXT! Re: Provincial Homes 330Aug 04, 2015 11:15 pm Building Nu Caprice 35 Accepted Tender 3/14 Construction Cert 11/9/14 Slab poured 19/11/14 Frame completed 21/1/15 Bricks completed 26/3/15 Roof completed 29/5/15 Lockup 15/6/15 Walkthough is NEXT! Re: Provincial Homes 334Aug 05, 2015 10:40 pm Hello all, Good to see people updating the forum frequently. Reading the contents, I am bit confused on occupancy certificate thing, is it required before you start 'living' in the house and on what conditions. As I am in hills district, not sure what it means to the council. Also, I have a retaining wall in the plan, does that mean to have the wall done before I can move in. As for driveway, I think council gives 3 months time period to build it, correct me if I am wrong here. Yes, we all are keeping our fingers crossed with so much to happen, not sure when will it end. I was looking at end of Sept, but from all the forum experiences, I may be extremely optimistic. May be October or dreaded Nov ..... I am just praying and getting chillax.... Re: Provincial Homes 335Aug 11, 2015 12:23 pm ProgD you can apply for an interim occupancy certificate which should allow you to move in. This of course costs a little bit of money. Our driveway was done over the weekend, and looked pretty good when it was poured. Council wouldn't allow us to use anything other than plain concrete for the council strip, so we decided to dothe whole driveway in plain concrete. We tried to make it a little more appealing with some dummy joints. Place mroe than necessary, and used a simple brushed finish. I think it looks quite nice. Will update the blog with photos of tiles and driveway soon. Our carpet color is out of stock till the end of the month, which has delayed us moving in. Once carpet is in we plan on moving in, and then finishing off the house once in. Need to try and get some fences up either this week or next week, am just waiting on one more quote back. Re: Provincial Homes 336Aug 12, 2015 10:29 pm kavehman your pictures are looking great - loads of action! Must be challenging being so close, yet not having moved in! We were out in your neck of the woods the other day looking at the only other Woollahra with our façade built so far which is right near you. I am keen to know what others views on independent inspections being done are?... Do you recommend them, and if so what are good points to get them done? Did you get a lot of value out of yours? I did my first calculation yesterday on how far into our contract period we are... Our documented start date was the 24th April, so we are currently in week 16! Just 4 weeks shy of the middle! Given bricking just started today how do we compare to where others were at 16 weeks? Re: Provincial Homes 337Aug 13, 2015 8:37 am With independent inspections I had one done at frame stage, and not sure how worthwhile it was. I don't think the guy I used was all that good to be honest. From there I did my own research and read the building rules. Provincial in the end corrected the errors I did find, but I still haven't been in the roof to see if there are any problems with insulation or sarking. It's the little thing's that start to irritate you after a while. I just wish trades just cared a little more. I'm not sure who much Provincial will fix up at the maintenance period but we shall see. Re: Provincial Homes 338Aug 13, 2015 10:47 am I agree fully with Kavhman, it is not that worth to spend money at the framing stage inspection. I got it done but practically knew the issues that this inspector raised. Having said that, I think it is good to get one last inspection done before the hand over as it will contain all the issues that might plague you after you move in. I am still trying to find a good person for the final review. So far no luck in that.... I hope to get the lock up happening by end of next week and with that will have the next big task come into focus, wet areas tiling. As we went for floor to ceiling tiles in all the bathrooms (from start) and did not go for very exotic tile types, di-lorenzo should start my job with out too much issues. Finger cross, the tiling is the biggest time consuming task and just praying to get it happen with out too much drama and issues. One more thing, Kavehman, did you applied to council for your driveway ?? NikNandy, it is good to see your progress, looking at it you are not that far from lockup stage... More to follow soon.. Re: Provincial Homes 339Aug 13, 2015 11:23 am ProgD i think each council is diifferent but we did need a $130 inspection to take place before the driveway was poured. Most concrete rs should be across this. My driveway guy went to meet the the council guy on site before the pour, but council had already inspected and approved the formwork. I was actually really impressed with the concrete er. He left the site very clean. One of the better trades I have used. Tiler left his garbage behind but that was something I didn't think to negotiate with him before he started the job. Re: Provincial Homes 340Aug 15, 2015 7:28 pm Hello everyone, Just an quick update, went to the site this morning and was amazed to find the carpenter working on a Saturday morning. Had a quick walk past the house and it is in the locked stage. We have the front and garage doors installed and secured. Could also see the electricity connections and power in the house. Also, have the stairs installed. Finally. Things are moving, I can see and given all these activities, my measure and quote day appointments should be ok at this stage. We have quite a few people turning up for measuring. It should be a good exercise in doing estimating before we get the keys. Will update more at the end of next week... My building TIMELINE =================>>>>>>>>>>>> Provincial Fixed Price contract signed - 30th Aug 2014 Settlement of Land Purchase - 25th Sept 2014 HIA Contract signed - 26th Sept 2014 DA in council - 15th Oct 2014 Internal color selections - 12th Nov 2014 DA approved from council - 14th Nov 2014 Electrical selections - 21st Nov 2014 Final Electrical and Internal variations document signing - 4th Dec 2014 Final contract after variations signing - 8th Dec 2014 Construction certificate issued - 5th Feb 2015 Commencement of work on site - 12th Feb 2015 Piering complete - 18th Feb 2015 Slab complete - 5th March 2015 Frame complete - 5th May 2015 Roof complete - 24th July 2015 Lock up complete - 15th August 2015 Final completion - TBA Key Handover - TBA 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 1667 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 76245 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 106907 |