Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2381Jan 17, 2012 7:24 pm Hi i have just signed my last hurdle now are counting down the 20 days they have to start my build i would like to thank everyone on this site and would like to say that on a whole it has been a postive experience. What im after is how long does it usually take to do a slab. from this point. Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2382Jan 17, 2012 9:14 pm squashedrex That is just for a bayonet fitting, if you want them to supply a downlight as well I think it was an extra $75. We were quoted $75 for a bayonet or SBO Building Masterton Overture Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2383Jan 18, 2012 5:29 am Banj squashedrex That is just for a bayonet fitting, if you want them to supply a downlight as well I think it was an extra $75. We were quoted $75 for a bayonet or SBO Sorry whats an SBO? Thanks viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46741 Clovelly - Masterton Homes 5% to M 290312 CDC 21/06 20 days 29/08 Slab 17/09 Frame 26/09 Bricks 24/10 Roof tiles 20/11 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2384Jan 18, 2012 6:18 am buildingbee Hi everyone - It's been awhile since I've posted! We have just received our first drawn up plans from Masterton and have a meeting to discuss with pre-contract co-ordinator (rather than our sales consultant who we have been dealing with up to this point) - they call it "Presentation Plan Appointment" I have a couple of questions for those who have already gone through this process: 1. External colour selections Apparently this should be completed for the Presentation Plan Appointment? Is this what everyone found? Also what sort of help did others get with the external colours? The brick people were able to help with brick, roof, gutter, windows and fascia but when it came to render colour they mentioned it was not really their job? How did everyone else go with their external colour selections and in particular if you have render did you get any help with colour selection? Are others using Taubmans? 2. Structural changes Apparently we are not suppose to make any further structural changes? But we haven't even signed off on the contract so I can't understand how this could be the case? Any thoughts? Hope to hear from someone (anyone??!) soon! Hey sounds like your doing well, we are not that far ahead of you only a few weeks, Yes external colours need to be completed at this stage (which is a pain), we have done render to the front and bagging to sides, all we did is picked a colour from the Taubmans range and we are just hoping and praying it looks ok!! Its so hard to imagine evertything together!!! No you cant make any structural changes after you have signed. Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2385Jan 18, 2012 8:53 am Novo - Does the 5 week Christmas shutdown affect the 20 days? I thought the contract is 6 months/178 days? Our lease also ends in May so we are hoping to be done by then as well. The race is on I guess. Buildingbee/Susiebunt - Your external colours do need to be picked but you can change them all the way up to your colours appointment, at least we did. We did everything with our Sales Consultant up in Newcastle. No special people to help us. We did visit the brick places though which helped a lot. We also got plenty of ideas from the many display homes we visited. I'm not sure why they are saying you cant make any structual changes at this stage. We were able to make any change we like up until the point of Contract Signing/DA Submission. After this any structual change will incur a $1000 fee. Unless they have changed things very recently, you should definately argue this. Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2386Jan 18, 2012 9:28 am Squashedrex - we got a letter from Masterton just before xmas advising us that they would be shutting down for 3 weeks, not 5, returning on 16 January. so I have counted the 20 working days as 6-23 December (final validation occured on 5 Dec), and 16-23 January. The contract we signed says "the building works must reach the stage of practical completion no more than 130 working days after the contract period commences". Does yours say something different? About external colours, you just need to provide Masterton with your brick, roof and windows colours I think, because they need to classify them as dark or light for council submission for Basix. I dont think they are set in stone until your colours appointment. Re structural changes - what squashedrex said. A pile of rubble was delivered to our block yesterday. I'll go for a walk around there later to see if anything else is happening. Novo Overture by Masterton Contracts 20/8/11 DA submitted 31/8/11 DA approved 27/10/11 Site scrape 30/1/12 Slab 6/3/12 Frame 21/3/12 Brickwork 24/4/12 Lockup 8/6/12 PCI & HANDOVER 27/7/12 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2387Jan 18, 2012 10:22 am susiebunt buildingbee Hi everyone - It's been awhile since I've posted! We have just received our first drawn up plans from Masterton and have a meeting to discuss with pre-contract co-ordinator (rather than our sales consultant who we have been dealing with up to this point) - they call it "Presentation Plan Appointment" I have a couple of questions for those who have already gone through this process: 1. External colour selections Apparently this should be completed for the Presentation Plan Appointment? Is this what everyone found? Also what sort of help did others get with the external colours? The brick people were able to help with brick, roof, gutter, windows and fascia but when it came to render colour they mentioned it was not really their job? How did everyone else go with their external colour selections and in particular if you have render did you get any help with colour selection? Are others using Taubmans? 2. Structural changes Apparently we are not suppose to make any further structural changes? But we haven't even signed off on the contract so I can't understand how this could be the case? Any thoughts? Hope to hear from someone (anyone??!) soon! Hey sounds like your doing well, we are not that far ahead of you only a few weeks, Yes external colours need to be completed at this stage (which is a pain), we have done render to the front and bagging to sides, all we did is picked a colour from the Taubmans range and we are just hoping and praying it looks ok!! Its so hard to imagine evertything together!!! No you cant make any structural changes after you have signed. susieburnt - I know what you mean about visualising and imagining how everything will look - we're having such a hard time picking external colours! Will Masterton be doing the rendering and painting at the front? Do you mind sharing how much they charged for this (don't worry about sharing if you don't want to, no biggie ) ? Ok well we haven't signed off on any contracts (the only thing we signed off on was for plan preparation to kick off) so we shouldn't have any issue making structural changes at the stage we're at? squashedrex and Novo - thanks for your input as well - very reassuring to know the colours can still be changed up to the colours appointment - looks like we should be able to get a bit more time to think about these colours squashedrex - we will definitely be re-clarifying when structural changes are acceptable - agree that this should be once contract is signed/DA submitted - doesn't make sense to have this restriction in place anytime earlier?! Building ??? with ??? Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2388Jan 18, 2012 1:22 pm Novo The contract we signed says "the building works must reach the stage of practical completion no more than 130 working days after the contract period commences". Does yours say something different? I'll have to check the wording tonight. Have you been assigned a SS yet and is so have you spoken with him? Good news on my side, checked the block at lunch, the site is marked out and we have red pegs! Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2389Jan 18, 2012 4:32 pm Quote: Have you been assigned a SS yet and is so have you spoken with him? Good news on my side, checked the block at lunch, the site is marked out and we have red pegs! Awesome news! So you are just waiting for your construction certificate now? We have been assigned a SS, received a letter from head office with his name and mobile number. Called him on Monday and had a very brief chat. His name is Scott. If there is only 1 in Newcastle you will get him too. Novo Overture by Masterton Contracts 20/8/11 DA submitted 31/8/11 DA approved 27/10/11 Site scrape 30/1/12 Slab 6/3/12 Frame 21/3/12 Brickwork 24/4/12 Lockup 8/6/12 PCI & HANDOVER 27/7/12 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2390Jan 18, 2012 6:42 pm Yep just waiting on the CC. I'll chase them on Friday if I don't hear anything beforehand. You'd have to think he would be the only SS in Newcastle. Lets hope he is a competent one. Do you have a fence yet? Just went over the contract and ours is also 130 working days. I think that's where I got confused, 130 working days/26 weeks/6 months which is 178 odd days. Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2391Jan 18, 2012 8:02 pm dsa39 Banj squashedrex That is just for a bayonet fitting, if you want them to supply a downlight as well I think it was an extra $75. We were quoted $75 for a bayonet or SBO Sorry whats an SBO? Thanks Supplied By Owner Basically means we supply the light fittings, the electrician fits them. And that is costing us $75 per fitting. At about 40 fittings we decided to go SBO, because the masterton price to supply and fit was over double that, even though the light fittings are only $10 each from bunnings. I think that's because they're locked into certain suppliers Building Masterton Overture Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2392Jan 19, 2012 5:42 am Basically means we supply the light fittings, the electrician fits them. And that is costing us $75 per fitting. At about 40 fittings we decided to go SBO, because the masterton price to supply and fit was over double that, even though the light fittings are only $10 each from bunnings. I think that's because they're locked into certain suppliers[/quote] WOW I didnt realise it was that expensive. I know we can do our own however we are going split level so the double story part of the house they will have to do. Thanks for lettinng me know that surely puts a crimp in the budget. We paid our deposit on 31 Oct and were told at the end of Dec our plans would be ready by end of Jan. Im still a little confused in terms of all the steps in the process as we only seem to get told one at a time and each one takes a month. At this rate I dont know if we will be in by the end of the year. Also dissapointing one of the reasons we chose M was because we were dealing with one person during the "office" stage and now we have been told they have changed the process and we have a coordinator to present our plans. I think the plans are taking so long because we gave them all variations from word dot so Im hoping there will be only one lot of plans we have to sign off on. Do you know roughly what happens after that? Thanks for your help were getting a bit antsy. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46741 Clovelly - Masterton Homes 5% to M 290312 CDC 21/06 20 days 29/08 Slab 17/09 Frame 26/09 Bricks 24/10 Roof tiles 20/11 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2393Jan 19, 2012 7:56 am You can still jsut get them to put in a bayonet fitting in the second storey. After handover just get an electrician to swap it with your prefrerred light. As long as the wiring is there its fine. Thats a long time to prepare your your first set of plans. Ours took a week. Then 3 weeks for the second set. I wouldnt count on signing off on the first set though, we had mistakes even though what they missed was clearly documented. There were also things like placement of water tanks etc that we wanted moved. Once you approve your plans they go away and prepare your contract, do BASIX and get the plans ready for Council. This only took a week for us. I'll be putting a post on my blog about this stage today. Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2394Jan 19, 2012 5:20 pm squashedrex You can still jsut get them to put in a bayonet fitting in the second storey. After handover just get an electrician to swap it with your prefrerred light. As long as the wiring is there its fine. Thats a long time to prepare your your first set of plans. Ours took a week. Then 3 weeks for the second set. I wouldnt count on signing off on the first set though, we had mistakes even though what they missed was clearly documented. There were also things like placement of water tanks etc that we wanted moved. Once you approve your plans they go away and prepare your contract, do BASIX and get the plans ready for Council. This only took a week for us. I'll be putting a post on my blog about this stage today. Hey squashedrex Yeah thats what I thought. We made some structural changes when we paid our deposit as we had done quiet a bit of research on the standard plans before we paid. Apparently our CSM said that their process has changed and now they order everything up front. So I will have something to say if BASIX etc hasnt been done. I really feel like we've been dragged along alot longer that others so thanks Ill be placing a call to them tomorrow. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46741 Clovelly - Masterton Homes 5% to M 290312 CDC 21/06 20 days 29/08 Slab 17/09 Frame 26/09 Bricks 24/10 Roof tiles 20/11 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2396Jan 20, 2012 5:33 am Banj The NSW pricing is different to the ACT pricing too - NSW use different suppliers (I.e. cheaper) and labour to fit them is also less expensive. Good to know. Will keep you posted. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46741 Clovelly - Masterton Homes 5% to M 290312 CDC 21/06 20 days 29/08 Slab 17/09 Frame 26/09 Bricks 24/10 Roof tiles 20/11 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2397Jan 27, 2012 4:17 pm Hi, is quiet in here, how's everyone going? Our contract "officially began" on Monday, but its rained or been a public holiday up until today, so I was hoping to see something happen on the block today and.....we got a portaloo. Never been so happy to see a dunny LOL Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ No fence yet, maybe thats coming on Monday. Hoping the rain stays away and something significant happens next week, patience is not my strong point Have a good weekend guys Novo Overture by Masterton Contracts 20/8/11 DA submitted 31/8/11 DA approved 27/10/11 Site scrape 30/1/12 Slab 6/3/12 Frame 21/3/12 Brickwork 24/4/12 Lockup 8/6/12 PCI & HANDOVER 27/7/12 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2398Jan 27, 2012 5:15 pm Glad to hear you have some action Novo, bugger about the rain. Hope it holds out for you. After being told we would have our CC today, I was not surprised when I called and was told there were mistakes with the engineers report and it would be at least another week away. Great start to the weekend. And just to makes things better they sent through a copy of the construction plans for sign off and we found another mistake. I'd say well now be another month or two away from a CC whilst they redo the plans. I'm about ready to throw the towel in. Patience, definitely none of that in our house at the moment. Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2399Jan 31, 2012 2:15 pm squashedrex, thats rough, I really feel for you, but surely it wont take longer than a few weeks if they get their finger out? These things are sent to test us, and test us they do! How's everyone else going? We have started! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Site scrape happened yesterday and the excavator has been on site all day today. It is so good to see some action SS is pretty keen to get it all progressing, they want a progress payment I just need the rain to hold off! Novo Overture by Masterton Contracts 20/8/11 DA submitted 31/8/11 DA approved 27/10/11 Site scrape 30/1/12 Slab 6/3/12 Frame 21/3/12 Brickwork 24/4/12 Lockup 8/6/12 PCI & HANDOVER 27/7/12 Re: Masterton Homes - The new thread 2400Jan 31, 2012 9:29 pm Hi, I am new to this web site so sorry if this has been answered before. We are in the process of getting our quote from Mastertons. Did you guys negotiate after they gave you the quote. I mean did you try to reduce there quote by bargining with them? 4 16862 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 11333 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 24666 |