Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 26, 2009 8:48 pm I have been reviewing some of these blogs on and off for the last 2 months and must say it has been very helpful in the lead up to "our build". My husband and I have bought a block of land on the Sunny Coast and are building a 2 storey Plantation home. We are about to sign off on our NHP. So many of you have already been so helpful and it is reassuring to see some quality building and to know what we can expect in the months that lie ahead. We have sold our beachside house and are about to move into a rental so are keen to get the building underway!! Our experience so far: building covenants blah, council fees blah and as helpful as our sales consultant was we still were shocked with some of the "provisional" costings and their final price!!! Plus we of course have upgraded and made variations on far too much, so already the budget is blown! I am a mum of 2 boys aged 3 and 1 so this is adding another perspective to the whole building experience. My 3 year old has become quite an expert in choosing tiles and laminex colours!! Will try to keep up as we progress as I know how helpful we can all be to each other Re: Plantation Homes 2Sep 26, 2009 9:05 pm I'm building a two storey with them too also on the sunny coast. ’’Quondo Omni Flunkus Mortati ’’ If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. Stila BK1 Build Thread The best place to talk about sport Re: Plantation Homes 3Sep 26, 2009 9:15 pm Welcome Shelby, Nice to see another P homes customer here! We are building the Retreat on an acre south of Brissy. About 3-4 weeks from site start as we have just signed off on our final construction plans and they have gone into production. Which home are you building? Looking foward to your progress. Seast Building the Pl@ntation Retreat on 4009m2. All moved in!!!!!! Now for the real work https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20588&p=285640#p285640 Re: Plantation Homes 4Sep 27, 2009 2:29 pm We are building the Castella, we intend to sign the NHP early this week, fortunately are doing the amended NHP via email and phone so we don't have to make a trip to Bris. Are considering combining the colours/contract into one appt due to the hassle of driving to bris and organising a babysitter, although the thought of doing all of this in one day seems as horrible as doing it over a couple of appts. Are the colours people good?? We have renovated before so have a good idea already of what colours etc we want but it will be the tweaking of it all that I am hoping they can help with. Re: Plantation Homes 5Sep 27, 2009 2:40 pm Contract and colours are usually booked for same day anyway. We did our contracts in the morning (3hrs) then had lunch and did the colours in the afternoon (another 3hrs). We had all of our colours chosen as we had been to the place several times to check out the options (highly recommend it), and had already chosen our tiles at the tile shop previously. Can't imagine walking into the colours appt with no decisions made. Electricals were a few weeks later for another 2hrs. We have done much of our stuff by email back and forth. Much easier. Building the Pl@ntation Retreat on 4009m2. All moved in!!!!!! Now for the real work https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20588&p=285640#p285640 Re: Plantation Homes 6Sep 27, 2009 4:05 pm We're building the Peninsular in Manly West, reached lockup on Friday and it's only been 8 weeks since site scrape. We too had our contact and colour appointments on the same day, much more convenient to do it this way. We had most of our colours sorted so the colour appointment only took us 1.5 hours. Re: Plantation Homes 7Sep 27, 2009 4:46 pm shelby75 We are building the Castella, we intend to sign the NHP early this week, fortunately are doing the amended NHP via email and phone so we don't have to make a trip to Bris. Are considering combining the colours/contract into one appt due to the hassle of driving to bris and organising a babysitter, although the thought of doing all of this in one day seems as horrible as doing it over a couple of appts. Are the colours people good?? We have renovated before so have a good idea already of what colours etc we want but it will be the tweaking of it all that I am hoping they can help with. we commuted twice to the P offices to do the NHP first up and then contract and colours the second time. on the first trip we went off to Carpet call warehouse to check out our options there. on the second trip we did just as Seast said; the contract in the morning and the colours in the arvo. me and the missus had the contract sorted out before 11:30 and the colours done by 2:30 - back on the road to sunny coast before the afternoon commute. easy peasy and recommended. ’’Quondo Omni Flunkus Mortati ’’ If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. Stila BK1 Build Thread The best place to talk about sport Re: Plantation Homes 8Sep 28, 2009 7:51 am congratulations shelby on your new build, I have to say the castella is a very nice house from the plantation range. The begining process with contracts signing, cosham colour, electricals and so on is the longest bit in our building process. But once that was over the build itself has been very fast and smooth. It helps if you get a very good SS and CSA as we have been fortunate to. We are building a two storey house in Nth Lakes and we are due for handover next tuesday. Good luck with your build and hope its also a smooth build. Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74702 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 105564 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 23483 |