Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 24, 2009 7:17 am Hi all, We are building Carlisle's Vogue 40 and are absolutely in love with it.... http://www.carlislehomes.com.au/affinit ... vogue.html. The house is huge and has everything we need, including an oversized master with a spa and a balcony and generous storage. I will upload all details about the house in my next post after my tender appointment. Our journey to this point has been tough.... Bought a park facing plot in Innisfail, Point Cook. Our land settled in Feb 09 and we ran into valuation troubles with Westpac resulting in last minute stress. Thankfully we managed and have reached this stage. Now we realise there's 450mm worth of fill on our land and haven't been provided with a compaction report. Peet has assured us that the land has been compacted and we have ordered a DCP test. Hoping we are not presented with another shock at tender. We have our tender appointment in the next couple of weeks. Stressing about a) site costs b) bank's valuation. Does anyone have any updates on how bank's value double storey's? As in are valuations still coming in short or has the market recovered a bit? Thanks to the FHOG we are comfortable now, but as I've read in countless cases on this forum, anything could go wrong. Cheer's to the next few weeks full of sleepless nights... G Re: Building the Vogue 40 2Nov 24, 2009 7:42 am I hope it all goes well for you - I have not heard many storys about problems with valuations in Point Cook Re: Building the Vogue 40 4Nov 24, 2009 12:11 pm Agree with Zero. Our place was valued about $40k over what we are paying... (Mostly thanks to increase in land price since we got it)... If you are having problems with valuation you should ask the bank to revalue your land. Blocks our size in Alamanda are selling for about $30k more now than what we paid for originally (Not sure about Innisfail but would assume it was the same) Building Monaco32 with Carlisle Homes in Alamanda Estate 20/08/2010 - HANDOVER 24/8!! Blog - http://ourmonaco32.blogspot.com/ Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=14415 Re: Building the Vogue 40 5Nov 24, 2009 1:00 pm didnt you get a copy of the compaction report from Minloo? i'm also building in innisfail with the same problem as you and it "went away" with a photocopy of the compaction report. your next concern would be to get the building permit across ASAP, otherwise you'll be running into overlooking issues for which there is almost no solution for, except to live in a house with only highlight windows (which will look like a prison cell)... genegoveas Hi all, We are building Carlisle's Vogue 40 and are absolutely in love with it.... http://www.carlislehomes.com.au/affinit ... vogue.html. The house is huge and has everything we need, including an oversized master with a spa and a balcony and generous storage. I will upload all details about the house in my next post after my tender appointment. Our journey to this point has been tough.... Bought a park facing plot in Innisfail, Point Cook. Our land settled in Feb 09 and we ran into valuation troubles with Westpac resulting in last minute stress. Thankfully we managed and have reached this stage. Now we realise there's 450mm worth of fill on our land and haven't been provided with a compaction report. Peet has assured us that the land has been compacted and we have ordered a DCP test. Hoping we are not presented with another shock at tender. We have our tender appointment in the next couple of weeks. Stressing about a) site costs b) bank's valuation. Does anyone have any updates on how bank's value double storey's? As in are valuations still coming in short or has the market recovered a bit? Thanks to the FHOG we are comfortable now, but as I've read in countless cases on this forum, anything could go wrong. Cheer's to the next few weeks full of sleepless nights... G Re: Building the Vogue 40 6Nov 24, 2009 3:07 pm nietzche, M hasn't been very helpful since she made the sale. After numerous calls to PEET I managed to get through to the project Manager Des who said that our block wasn't tested and hence there is no report for our block! Can't imagine why! On another occasion I spoke to M as someone has dumped a mountain of rubbish on our block (includes an old tv, a broken couch, ceramic tiles, aluminium sheets, iron rods, mud and liquid cement which has now hardened ofcourse!). I asked her for advice on how to deal with it and instead of merely saying she can't help us she went on to ask us to knock on everyone's door in innisfail and check the colour of their tiles! I was extremely annoyed with her sarcasm and don't think i'll go to her again. Des on the other hand was helpful. Although he hasn't told me why they didnt test our block atleast he tried to locate our report and came back to us saying it has been compacted. Anyways thanks for the heads up on the building permit - I had no idea that even that takes time! Hopefully it will go smoothly as we haven't made any structural changes to the floorplan. G Re: Building the Vogue 40 7Nov 24, 2009 9:01 pm Good luck with the build genegoveas!! Hope the bank valuation and site costs come out okay. The Vogue is an awesome design! Re: Building the Vogue 40 8Nov 25, 2009 8:34 am Hiya, I am disabling this account and switching to the a new username. Will keep you guys posted on how we go with our dream of building the Vogue . Here's the new link viewtopic.php?f=31&t=26517. 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