Browse Forums Building A New House Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 61Sep 30, 2009 9:38 pm Its looking great JBJ! Hubby is sooo jelous of your garage extension! Its something he really wanted but wasn't in our budget. We have chosen the same bath tub and its gonna look great once your tiles are in! Building: Santorini 26 with M*tricon Where:VIC Site Cut 29/09/09 Slab Complete 09/10/09 Frame Complete 22/10/09 LockUp Complete 17/11/09 Fixing Complete 03/12/09 **My Thread:[/i] viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23110 Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 62Sep 30, 2009 9:48 pm Shelz Its looking great JBJ! Hubby is sooo jelous of your garage extension! Its something he really wanted but wasn't in our budget. We have chosen the same bath tub and its gonna look great once your tiles are in! I just love, love, love that bathtub! It looks absolutely devine! Great choice shelz!! I'm not too sure what I will use the garage extension for just yet, as I don't have any tools or 'boy toys' to fill the garage up with, but it seemed like a good idea and something that may come in handy one day! Building a Santorini 26 with M3tr1con Site Start: 11/08/09 Base: Complete 26/08/09 Frame: Complete 09/0909 Lock Up: Complete 06/10/09 Fixing: Complete 27/10/09 My Thread --> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23084 Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 63Sep 30, 2009 11:39 pm jackbellyjean - Exciting stuff! I must remember to ask about that niche! Again, thanks all the for advise. What would we do without this site! Go crazy, I tell ya! I might need to start my own thread shortly though - I'm starting to feel that I'm hijacking other people's Santorani threads! faerie I was told by a guy at austral that they resigned contracts with M, so a few more bricks have moved into Cat 1. Check this with M when u have your appointment. Very interesting... thanks for this info. I drove around Shepp today looking at the bricks on new houses... fun... The only Cat 1 brick that I like is Austral Tan, maybe Mushroom. The only Boral brick from Cat 1 that I could find was Rouge, but I'm not a big fan of red bricks. The only other brick that I don't mind that isn't going to stretch the budget too much is La Trobe. Probably another $600-900? evolvedmonkey - what brick do you have? I can't seem to find any reference to it either in your thread or blog? (I could just be blind ). Also went to BM Tiles to look at the M standard range - not overly impressed. Floor tiles - one white glossy, then in matte three variations of beige, a light brown and a light grey. All very plain, but not sure if I want to spend an extra grand or two for something with a bit of texture and colour variation. Bathroom - white or beige tiles and about eight different coloured feature tiles (allowance of 28 feature tiles?). Certainly not a big range. I think I will be spending a couple of hundred to do some upgrading here... Does this range sound familiar to others experience? Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 64Oct 01, 2009 10:40 am Does anyone know if austral hawthorn has changed categories? Used to be cat4 to the 76mm and 50mm was a higher category? Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 66Oct 01, 2009 12:18 pm Jeffsy The list I got from M last week says Hawthorn is still Cat 4. ah, OK - thanks heaps for that. We had our colour appointment nearly 3 weeks ago and still haven't received our amended colour schedule, and I was thinking if hawthorn had dropped a few categories we could get some money back - we did 76mm to the house and 50mm to the facade - I'm still shivering at the cost of that! Tim Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 67Oct 03, 2009 1:53 pm Jeffsy Also went to BM Tiles to look at the M standard range .... Certainly not a big range. I think I will be spending a couple of hundred to do some upgrading here... Does this range sound familiar to others experience? I think I was lucky enough to get in when they still had their full range, as I've since heard through here that they have downsized their tile range dramatically. During the M colour consultation, I was told that I had to pay $500 to have a Beaumont Tile appointment and that the cost just covered the appointment only. I said there is no way I am paying $500 just to speak to somebody, when I can walk around their showroom myself and pick out which tiles I like and don't like. The Colour Consultant's manager then clarified that paying the $500 would entitle to me to select any tiles from their standard range (with a grey sticker I think), instead of the few boards of tiles M had on display. Inspection with SS was done yesterday. Front door is now on, garage entry door and a few internal sliding doors. Insulation has been put in and wiring for downlights both internal and external is now in place. When SS was pushed for a completion date, he said I might be in by Christmas, but that is if there are absolutely no delays. He said they will be working right up until Christmas week and then usually have 4 weeks off over the holiday period, so even still it's not that far off Plastering is due to commence mid October. 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Building a Santorini 26 with M3tr1con Site Start: 11/08/09 Base: Complete 26/08/09 Frame: Complete 09/0909 Lock Up: Complete 06/10/09 Fixing: Complete 27/10/09 My Thread --> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23084 Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 70Oct 04, 2009 8:12 pm Oh JBJ I am kicking myself that I didn't question it further when they told me at Studio M that it would cost us $500 just for the appointment at Beaumont! Because they told us this we just accepted it and chose one of those boring tile selections they had available! I would have been happy to pay that for an option of feature tiles & different colours! Good on you for picking this up I just wish they would've disclosed things accuratley at the start!!!!! Anyway, Congrats on your progress! Im loving the sliding doors! keep them pictures coming Building: Santorini 26 with M*tricon Where:VIC Site Cut 29/09/09 Slab Complete 09/10/09 Frame Complete 22/10/09 LockUp Complete 17/11/09 Fixing Complete 03/12/09 **My Thread:[/i] viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23110 Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 71Oct 04, 2009 9:19 pm Jeffsy - I'll be putting more photos on the blog tomorrow and later this week as they are going to done this week, hopefully! We chose from the base selection, I believe they are called: Austral Homestead Tan I really like the dark chocolate with bluey black flecks Builder: Me*tricon Homes Design: Freedom Range, Santorini 26 Handover Date: 12th February 2010 Homeone Thread: viewtopic.php?t=22216 Blogspot: http://www.evolvedmonkey-santorini26.blogspot.com Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 72Oct 04, 2009 11:40 pm Thanks mate. I will probably also be going with Homestead Tan. I might consider the La Trobe (Cat 2) depending on how much extra they cost. I have a mate using using Tan (I originally thought he was using Hawthorn) but it doesn't seem to be commonly used in my area, as I have only seen one other house use it. I don't know why they call it Tan - as you say it is more dark Chocolate. I am going with a Colorbond roof (free upgrade promotion but sarking still extra) and I am thinking a very light colour for some contrast with the dark brick - maybe Surfmist? The only problem I have is the front cladding and what colour to make this... I was originally thinking a white / beige colour but this would work against the contrast I was looking for with the light coloured roof - the front facade and roof would all be a light colour! Maybe the roof should be a little darker like a Evening Haze, Shale Grey or Dune - might work better with white / beige cladding. The other option is having the cladding a coffee / light brown colour... I might go an have a play with Envisage now... I am also thinking a light coloured roof for energy efficiency. Am I the only one giving this any consideration - I notice everyone here is using dark tiles... Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 73Oct 05, 2009 12:24 pm geez your bricks have come up nice jelly Builder: Me*tricon Homes Design: Freedom Range, Santorini 26 Handover Date: 12th February 2010 Homeone Thread: viewtopic.php?t=22216 Blogspot: http://www.evolvedmonkey-santorini26.blogspot.com Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 74Oct 06, 2009 8:26 pm Jeffsy I am also thinking a light coloured roof for energy efficiency. Am I the only one giving this any consideration - I notice everyone here is using dark tiles... I can honestly say I didn't even consider having a light coloured roof as I had no idea about it having any effect on energy efficiency at the time I went with a dark coloured roof purely for aesthetic reasons... And emilygirl, I think the garage extension might have actually been around $1,800. I got both the master and garage extension so I can't quite recall which was which... UPDATE - 'Lock Up' was officially reached today!!!!!!! Building a Santorini 26 with M3tr1con Site Start: 11/08/09 Base: Complete 26/08/09 Frame: Complete 09/0909 Lock Up: Complete 06/10/09 Fixing: Complete 27/10/09 My Thread --> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23084 Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 75Oct 08, 2009 11:50 am Congratulations!!!! We're home!!! Site start: 13 Aug 09 Handover: 29 Jan 10 Hubby & I are building the Santorini 26 with M3tr!con My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20570 Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 76Oct 09, 2009 5:02 pm jackbellyjean I've just gone through my contract and they've included the price of the upgrade in with the total costing, so it hasn't been individually itemized but from memory to upgrade to a Cat 4 it was approx. $3k, not including the extra $1k for off-white mortar and flush joints.... I was chatting to my local Austral country reseller today. He quoted the Homestead Range (Cat 1) at $700 per 1000 bricks and the Melbourne Range (Cat 4) at $760. So from these figures he believed the real cost to upgrade from Cat 1 to Cat 4 would be only around $600! How can M justify $3K????? That's over a 200% mark up / profit for M! I like the off-white mortor but again the reseller thought $1K was more than a bit rich... I am going to raise the brick costing with M at my selections appt, but I don't like my chances of them caring... Any more pictures jackbellyjean??? Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 77Oct 12, 2009 4:54 pm congratulations and commiserations on your lock up stage, means you can't go check it out by yourself? or are you able to get 'access'? we dont have many around us so we dont have as much fencing as it appears you do, I know I've mentioned it before, but dang I love your bricks. have you been given any times or dates of when things are happening or walkthrough dates? Builder: Me*tricon Homes Design: Freedom Range, Santorini 26 Handover Date: 12th February 2010 Homeone Thread: viewtopic.php?t=22216 Blogspot: http://www.evolvedmonkey-santorini26.blogspot.com Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 78Oct 12, 2009 8:28 pm Thanks Charlie & EM I've still been able to get access via some unlocked doors, so I guess 'lock-up' is only lock-up on paper Plastering will start tomorrow My SS has been waiting a week for this particular plastering mob to finish another job so that they can start mine, so I haven't really been taking any pics the last week or so as most of the progress lately hasn't been as obvious i.e. cabling, ducted heating installation, insulation, wiring etc. Once the plaster is in, it'll start feeling like a house inside so I'll start up with the excessive picture taking again Plastering is scheduled to take a week and I think after that it's kitchen time Building a Santorini 26 with M3tr1con Site Start: 11/08/09 Base: Complete 26/08/09 Frame: Complete 09/0909 Lock Up: Complete 06/10/09 Fixing: Complete 27/10/09 My Thread --> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23084 Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 79Oct 12, 2009 9:09 pm Hello I really like the floorplan of the Santorini as i've noticed that Metricon homes like to incorporate as many living rooms as possible. They also have the most beautiful display homes i've seen recently. My favourite facade for the Santorini is the Kingston; but they all look fantastic nevertheless. Great choice Re: My first home - Santorini 26 by M3tr!con 80Oct 14, 2009 9:19 am Is the kingston new? I can't remember seeing that when we were planning? But I agree it is the best looking from my style point of view. Looking forward to seeing your plaster work photo's, supposably our plasterers are going in thursday (..which I've worked out to mean tuesday so that I dont get too excited). We dont have our insulation up like you yet though. When did they put that up for you? What type of mortar did you go for? raked, rolled? Builder: Me*tricon Homes Design: Freedom Range, Santorini 26 Handover Date: 12th February 2010 Homeone Thread: viewtopic.php?t=22216 Blogspot: http://www.evolvedmonkey-santorini26.blogspot.com How do you remove one of these ceiling air con vents? And is it possible to disconnect the duct joined to the vent from inside the house, without going into the roof cavity? 0 3949 Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 58546 Hi all, sorting out the ducted air con for a 350sqm double story house. Does this placement sound reasonable to you? Also, I plan to have 6 zones I think. Living room… 0 0 |