Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 16, 2009 11:53 pm Hi Everyone, Spent many hours here, buit this is my first post. Myself and my partner are building in Mernda, Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis. I have spent many hours looking at plans and checking things, four and five times. But this is our first home and first build. Every now and again I find out something I missed or did not know. I thought any body who is building the Cumberland 21 could share there thoughts and also Porter Davis customer could also share those little things they have come across during there build. The things that I have just found is that the master bedroom has awning windows and the rest of the house has sliding. I thought this is very strange. Also we are building on a corner block and have to have a corner treatment, which for us is a side pergola, and now stockland have also asked that we move the meterbox else where (I am not sure where) now also they have asked for two extra windows on the side of the house, in the master bedroom. Where do we put the bed? We will not have a wall just windows, and we are also now also worried about security, with no fence some body could have access to the window where our head is, that does not make me feel safe. Has anybody had anyluck appealing there design Approval or have had corner treatment problems .... Would love to hear .... Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 2Sep 18, 2009 12:01 am So now body building the Cumberland 21 or want to share there experience ? Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 3Sep 18, 2009 7:32 am I can't comment on the Cumberland but just wanted to say that all our downstairs windows are awning and upstairs half are awning and half are sliding. I don't think it really matters too much if you have different ones throughout your house. Personally I think sliding let more air in (that's why I changed some). Side treatment pergola's are common, a few houses down from me have them and also the extra long windows. Maybe if you can measure your bed width and have the window position closer to the corner rather than the middle of the room. It won't matter if you have side tables in front of the windows. I don't think you'll have much luck in getting S'land to agreee not to have these windows as all the other houses have them As for the Meter Box, our neighbour a few doors down had to move theirs, they put it in the front porch. Alternatively, see if it can go on the garage wall. Welcome to Mernda, you'll have to join us on the Mernda Villages thread. There are a few of us building/built in MV and others in Laurimar, Eminence, M/Run, H'stowe etc. How far off starting are you? Happy at Home Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 4Sep 18, 2009 10:37 am Hi House to be, Building is set to start in December, I hope if the land get titled in time. cross fingers. I have been watching the Mernda thread, was wondering if the sewage has been conencted yet, seen soem stories ont he thread. Thansk for letting me know about the windows, I like sliding too. Stockland have been great, they were happy to talk to me on the Phoen discuss what they woudl be happy to do, whiel I feel Porter Davis are just trying to get out of it as cheap as possiable, as it is a fixed price contract. Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 5Sep 18, 2009 2:11 pm VengaPalace So now body building the Cumberland 21 or want to share there experience ? hi, clueless2009 is building the same house , not sure what facade, maybe u can send message and ask her for details. nott Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 6Sep 19, 2009 11:24 am VengaPalace ....the master bedroom has awning windows and the rest of the house has sliding. I thought this is very strange. Awnings are usually tall narrow windows - it would be impossible for windows that shape to be sliders. Most of ours are sliding, but we have a few awnings, and I like the mixture. One benefit of awnings is that you can have them partly open without worrying about rain coming in. You won't get as much airflow as with a slider though. VengaPalace Also we are building on a corner block and have to have a corner treatment, which for us is a side pergola, and now stockland have also asked that we move the meterbox else where (I am not sure where) now also they have asked for two extra windows on the side of the house, in the master bedroom. Where do we put the bed? We will not have a wall just windows, and we are also now also worried about security, with no fence some body could have access to the window where our head is, that does not make me feel safe. Has anybody had anyluck appealing there design Approval or have had corner treatment problems .... Would love to hear .... Have a walk around the estate and see what other people have done on corner blocks to get some ideas for placement of the meter box. As for the bedroom window, is it possible to have a high, horizontal window? That way it would be well above the bedhead, so wouldn't affect furniture placement at all. Quite a few corner houses seem to go for this option on the side wall. One like this: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 7Sep 19, 2009 12:23 pm Hi Kek, I totally agree one of the high windows wiould be the way to go, but Stocksland dont seem to like the idea......... as with our stage the front windows, but we are trying ..... I will hunt around the village and have a look at meter boxes ... Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 8Sep 21, 2009 11:49 pm not sure about the corner block windows but PD Access mostly use high winows for the bedrooms. so probably you can argue this with the estate people.
yes im building the cumberland 21 @ MW my land title is in Feb 2010. i have added few extra's. main structural is the High ceilings $3800 approx, this i think better to do because cant change ur mnda after building tiles throughout $3405 overhead cupboards $1351 Facade is coolum so $850 awing windows top 2 extra lighting, data points & GPOs $1658 niche t the bathroom $168 water line for the evaporative cooling $230 approx Recycle water tap extra $230 approx I found out from a friend that the canopy exhaust pipe stop in the ceiling it wont go outside the roof if you want make it go through the roof another $200-300 ( ihave to check this with my PD admin) Alfresco is $3900 plus the slab $1500 or more dpend on if i have to put H class. this what i can remeber from my head Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 9Sep 23, 2009 1:22 pm Hi Clueless2009, We are builing in MV too, and are booked to start in Dec in Stage 80, what stage are you in ? Could I ask some details about your Afesco area, as mine was a lot more then $3,900, also what is the Recycle water tap? I am interested to compare .... What farcade you going for? Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 10Sep 23, 2009 6:29 pm VengaPalace Hi Clueless2009, We are builing in MV too, and are booked to start in Dec in Stage 80, what stage are you in ? Could I ask some details about your Afesco area, as mine was a lot more then $3,900, also what is the Recycle water tap? I am interested to compare .... What farcade you going for? Stage 9 Yes my Alfresco was initially 6.5 x 3.5 - $6300 i think but then because of the back easment i have to cut down some of it, Now its not really a alfresco its a Verendha now the size is 6.5m x 1.8m - so around $3900 We get 1 x recycle water tap and 1 x normal Tap for Free, So if you put both in front i guess its better to have 1 extra recycle water Tap in the back so that you can water the garden (if you have one or planning for one) Facade it Coolum $850 As i mentioned in previous post those are the additions i made. cheers Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 11Sep 23, 2009 6:56 pm Since when did MV start doing recycled water?? I never got that option 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 12Sep 23, 2009 7:16 pm Clueless2009 said.. *********************************************** As i mentioned in previous post those are the additions i made. *********************************************** I am sorry I was unsure as Iwa not aware that Coolum was a facade. I did not know Merdna did recycled water either, tell me more ... I think Boots is also very interested... Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 13Sep 23, 2009 11:48 pm Well i think you have miss understood for my Post MW = Marriott Waters not Mernda Village. Am I right. so im not building in Mernda. Im Building in Marriott Waters @ Lyndhurst. sorry to miss lead you but i think Mernda not providing Recycle Water only Rain Water Tank Am I right?? Marriott Waters provide Recycle water so we have to have it. Coolum is a Facade in http://www.porterdavis.com.au/#/facades (access coolum) cheers Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 14Sep 24, 2009 12:11 am Yes Clueless2009 you are right MV to MW very close but no close enough ... Yeah you can have a tank if you want to... Sorry got overly excited .. Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 15Sep 24, 2009 1:24 am I'm building a PD house Smart Living / Access (it's a Lawson, which technically no longer exists but actually has been upgraded from SL to Access and renamed the Lisbon), and I too have awning windows in the Master bedroom and sliding windows everywhere else. I had a peek at the plan for the Cumberland and it, like the Lawson/Lisbon, has the Master bedroom at the front of the house. Now, I've seen the Lawson/Lisbon in facades other than the one I've chosen (Barwon) and it has sliders in the front bedroom in both of them. But the Barwon and several other Access/SL facades require long, slim windows for their overall 'look' in front, and PD being PD the cheapest way to do it is to put awnings in rather than sliders. Also, some of the facades will be different rendered in your design than in the pictures they provide (because they provide one-size-fits-all depictions). (Don't get me started on awning windows. I think awning windows are the world's most useless crap invention and I can't stand them. Having lived in various houses over the years that got very hot in summer I became enraged each time at the utter failure of awnings to encourage airflow. My husband is American -- and a glazier -- and he always had double-hung windows so Australia's love affair with awnings is bizarre to him as well.) So I would suggest that the awnings in the Master bedroom come as a standard feature of whichever facade you've chosen. I've had some interesting experiences thus far with PD. Our contract appointment and colour appointments were lengthy and bizarre, because between the sales guy (who is no longer with them, cough cough), the colour selection assistant and my CSO, they all repeated the same mantra or reverse of it, depending on whether they liked my request or not. This is the mantra: "Oh, but Access IS Smart Living!" or "But Access ISN'T Smart Living!" We are on a corner block as well, but all our side windows are high up (like the one posted above), and we've not had any comments yet about what we can or can't do with fencing. We're building in Evadene and we don't really know much about it yet, except that the fencing type is regimented by the design guidelines, but that we're allowed to have some form of side fence. Our driveway and landscaping is included as part of Evadene, but we also have not been given any info on exactly what that will entail! Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 16Sep 28, 2009 11:33 pm **** Bumped **** Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 17Sep 28, 2009 11:40 pm Quote: The things that I have just found is that the master bedroom has awning windows and the rest of the house has sliding My house is like this, awning windows are more expensive so I have them at the front of my house, but the rest of my house is sliding windows. Re: Cumberland 21 with Porter Davis - Any hints or Tips - Mernda 18Sep 29, 2009 12:15 am buildingwithhamra Quote: The things that I have just found is that the master bedroom has awning windows and the rest of the house has sliding My house is like this, awning windows are more expensive so I have them at the front of my house, but the rest of my house is sliding windows. Truth is i didnt care about the windows whether they sliding or not. but it is intersting the detail that people go. so im curious about this. For me most of the time the windows are closed so duno its affect everyone but thats me. I realised that, since I get double vanity in ensuite i have to change my window. now they have put one similar to the above pic but its awning. so i have one in front and one in side. This was on google. Development controls 2.3.1 Front setback D1 New buildings within residential areas shall adhere to a front building line, which is 5.5-6m to the… 1 3666 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12337 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14266 |