Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Provincial Homes 472Jan 18, 2017 7:48 pm Hi Duke 145. I have just had my CDC approved and will be doing internals and electricals soon as well. Seems like we are at similar stages. =) Re: Provincial Homes 473Jan 20, 2017 8:04 am Hi Shadesofpink. Sounds like the race is on although we are probably 4-8 weeks behind you! Please keep us informed along the way as it will be a good indicator as to how we are progressing. We are building the Lindfield at Oran Park with some fairly big ( but good) modifications. Re: Provincial Homes 475Feb 08, 2017 9:03 am Hi guys, been a while since last post. We got piers just before Xmas then slab last week. Got Houspect for inspections and their slab report came back good, no major issues! We're still finalising our tiling selections with Di Lorenzo as our initial selections came out to $20k additional, far more than we expected it comfortable spending. Good to see others starting. Happy to answer any questions on the process so far. Provincial overall is good, but please note they are not the fastest in turning around paperwork or communications. Re: Provincial Homes 476Feb 17, 2017 1:07 pm ![]() Hi ProgD Building with provincial too. Did you end up getting any good recommendations when you posted the below? ![]() Good afternoon Everyone & Happy new year. We have been patiently waiting for the final document to arrive (Construction Certificate) to initiate the actual build process. Still no sign of it, even though Provinicial expects to come soon.. ![]() I have though one query with all the blog followers, need to get following quotes as my bank is asking them for the add ons to be done after the hand over. I need to take some quotes, if any one has got some business names that are good (and cheap) please provide them. 1. Carpet & Tile flooring 2. Blinds 3. Driveway 4. Fencing 5. Electrician (in the Hills district, preferably). Any names, contact will be good. Thanks in advance. Hi Shades Can help you with this one as we're in the Hills and getting prices at the moment. Getting quotes is a nightmare. Still waiting for one we requested in the first week of Jan - gave up on them. We had previously recommended Carpet Court Castle Hill on Homeone but visited the showroom several times and were supposed to get quotes for full house flooring and shutters - still waiting so gave up. Choices Flooring at Castle Hill are brilliant. Helpful and really working with us to get the flooring in as soon as we have a handover date. We've changed the date twice so far and not a problem. We were doing bamboo but were turned off it by Carpet Court - not sure we should have listened to them. Anyway, going with Karndean Looselay Longboards downstairs which are brilliant - look like wood but soccer boot proof. Carpet through upstairs, again with Choices Flooring. Total flooring (carpet and vinyl) is just under $20k for the Nu Caprice with extended family. Driveway is around $10k. We can't recommend the company we used as we've since had problems and whilst they have admitted it needs to be fixed, we've been chasing for 6 months to get something done. Blinds - we're doing shutters everywhere except the family/meals/kitchen. Shutters are around $10k and I've budgeted $15k all up including fly screens, blinds and wire screen doors (Crimsafe or similar). Will probably be a little more than the $15k so might have to wait for some of it. Still trying to get accurate quotes but I suspect suppliers aren't that keen until they can measure up and push you to accept. Tossing up between Wynstan Blinds at Baulkham Hills as we've used them before and EHI Baulkham Hills. Can't help with fencing though our landscaper is doing one fence panel for us. Aerial - Martin Vedris 0431 455 255. Had to get a new aerial in our rental accommodation and he was great - really prompt. No pricing as we'll do that when we're in. We don't need an electrician so none to recommend. Will just have light bulbs for a while! Hope this helps. Our total budget for finishing is about $55k but that includes some additional landscaping. Re: Provincial Homes 478Feb 21, 2017 2:04 pm Hi Everyone, New to the forum - Just about to sign with Provincial so ill be able to have a running update on our build over the coming year. Story so far (Sorry if its too detailed but I figure it portrays reasons for our decision to chose Provincial): My partner and I bought a cute spit of land at Box Hill NSW 390 sqm (12.5m front) and building a single story (Personal preference for single and to get the 750k FHOG. Directly opposite a proposed park so backyard size isnt too big an issue for us) so we started at Homeworld Kellyville. After running through all the brochures eliminating houses that were over budget we narrowed it down to Allworth, Beechwood and Provincial who was more of a Wildcard since we expected them to be over out budget but we didnt want to run 2 quotes only. We returned to homeworld with appointments to get a quote from all 3 builders on the same day. First back was Allworth and we were fairly disappointed. After some discussion with them to get a lady down in Willowdale (She was amazing compared to everyone else we had experienced in Kellyville) to quote us up again. Next came Provincial and the floor plan did not really meet what we were wanting but everything else was mint including the price. George was quick to tell us he will get his design guys to make some magic happen (Shifting a large main bedroom to the front requiring some pretty large changes). Both re quotes came in at the same time as the Beechwood first quote came in. Weren't really feeling the floor plan and the price was slightly cheaper but not enough for us to go with our least preferred plan. In the end Provincial came within 8k of allworth for a larger home with far more inclusions and larger allowance for piers. Negotiations were more fruitful with Provincial compared to Allworth and in the end we decided to go with Provincial. As for the house they do not have a name for the design yet - I think its an attempt to be in the market for the ever increasing small blocks. Expected land rego is March/April 2017 so regular updates should flow over the coming year. Question time: How much cheaper do people find it to get tiles and carpet elsewhere and are there any general pit falls to look out for with Provincial? Ill upload our final floor plan once sorted. Re: Provincial Homes 479Feb 21, 2017 6:53 pm Hi, we are about a week or so away from finishing up, very exciting. For the person who hopes for Christmas final date, we were also ready to start Christmas eve 2015, and obviously didn't make it by Christmas 2016, but good luck. I won't go into massive details, but here are some tips for those on the other side of the tender/contract process where everything seems to be an unknown. 1. Internal selections. It is very tough for Provincial to hand this information as sales stage, as it may be 3 conversations on each product, so the main sales staff stay out of this. For example, you see what you get included for bench top, but you can then go better, better, better, best, and best could add many $000's, while just better might be $800-$1200. MOst stuff was as expected, and some things were free which really surprised us. You only really up the cost if you want fancy anything from my observation. NOTE: Big big thing. You only get 1 internals person for everything but final tile choices, and while Vicky was very good, she missed writing down some things that cost us $1K, plus other things we have to live with. The big big thing is that don't think what she said will happen, make her write down every last detail before signing anything. Don't assume anything, because once you are noticing the opposite of what you discussed with her, us saying we asked for different, or even showing them emails of what we discussed didn't hold up against what we signed off on. It is a big ask, but go over this document half a dozen things, and question everything that isn't clearly written. I'd even encourage you to specify exact positions of rails and anything else, just to make sure. I will note that the default for anything not written is as display home, which can help. Electricals - it's pretty easy to get to about $6K extra, some go up to $15K. $6K is just a decent amount of downlights, a few extra power points and a few extra lights. It also won't include any external light fittings, any oyster light fittings or fan installations, so you'll still need an expensive electrician and some more lights to buy after handover. We scaled it back to not include downlights, just make sure all the positions and switches are in place, then get someone to do the exact lights you like after build. This may actually save you a little, and give you more freedom. Tiling - We added something like $5K, and didn't go crazy by any stretch. You may say the base tiles will be fine, but this is your tiling for 10+ years, you'll use it everyday, I'd recommend leaving $3-5K even if you think base will be fine. PA's - I mentioned above Vicky Sue had mentioned you don't pay these until final payment, we found out why. A huge overestimation on excavation caused a pretty nice credit, which I don't think they really wanted to pay us before seeing if other PA's would come in. With some persistence we got the credit on about the 3rd payment. I still can't say what the final will be, but we are probably in credit on PA's, the biggest difference was concrete piers, which were about $2K extra. What else? I feel the council has asked for way more than what I initially expected, though it may not be as bad if you aren't knock down rebuild. Some fault of ours(ish), some just not knowing they charge here and there. Apparently some is owed back after certification, but we are out about $5K so far. Landscaping... We thought we nailed a nice design, but just wanted to move the retaining wall a little, and remove the front path, which is not an issue. But it is an amendment, which with a lot of work ourselves, and $1K later, we have this slight change approved. My advice here is: Don't draw anything specific that isn't needed in your landscape plans. The certifier has to be strict on landscape plans, because if anything happens down the track, they may be liable. This means, all those wonderful plants we saw on the plan, were 100% expected, exact counts and exact species as written. I'm annoyed at Paul Monaco, because he put everything in such detail, we didn't realise we were going to be accountable for 15 lily pillys in exactly that place, but that is what the certifier would have told us. However, if you put in 0, the council will still approve and you can add 15 after certification without asking anyone. So I'd advise to just put lawn, mandatory trees (don't name it) and retaining walls in your plans, get it certified as that, then work the garden to exactly how you want it later. This will also help if you run out of money. Overall, it hasn't been a smooth ride, but we would say comfortable enough. 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