Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 442Jul 08, 2010 3:35 pm Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 445Jul 08, 2010 4:47 pm Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 447Jul 08, 2010 6:20 pm Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 452Jul 09, 2010 7:33 pm Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 454Jul 10, 2010 5:56 pm Oceanus - Yep, my handles were in the wrong spot as well - best to tell them ASAP as it takes a few weeks for the new doors to be made up (mine still aren't installed...) Congrats Bagheera - full steam ahead now! Can't wait to see photos of the house going up up and UP. Only a short update from me, as I need to go to Bunnings. I have learnt something that should assist all people building the Nautilus (or Oceanic) - the two downpipes at the rear of the house (each side of the sliding doors) get ALOT of water flow, and effectively service the entire rear section of the house (look at the photos). Poor design in my opinion - but the end result for me is that I need another 2or3 x 600x900 soakwells at the rear to accomodate this flow. Visited the house in the rain on Friday afternoon to find both of these soakwells 'gushing' out the top, and with pavers about to start Monday/Tuesday, guess who will be digging soakwells during the storm tomorrow! I will post a better 'progress update' on Monday/Tuesday after I thaw out! My soakwell expedition is now (after this upcoming Bunnings trip) at $3500ish, in hindsite maybe I should have just paid DAH to do this *sigh* lesson learnt (for the second time I might add...) P1T Read about my building experience: http://secondhomebuild.blogspot.com Dale Alcock Homes - 'The Nautilus' in Bletchley Park, Southern River - WA Read about my Clipsal C-BUS Home Automation Project: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=20854 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 455Jul 10, 2010 7:59 pm P1T, on your plans, do you have drainpipes showing on the alfresco against the piers? We have 4 them written on our plans for the rear of the house - 1 near the living, 1 near the theatre & 1 on each pier, but only have 2 drainpipes have been put in, which are the living and theatre ones. Our pier columns aren't fully bricked so it would look stupid on those anyway, but maybe 2 more need to be put in between the sliding doors and other windows in the same position as yours are in? We weren't going to put proper soakwells in. We were hoping to go with Fu's idea of ag pipe. Maybe that won't be viable for the back area now. Is there not a particular formula for the minimum amount of drainpipes needed according to the area of the house? I'm sure i've read something about it somewhere.. will have a search on google. the red arrow is where the living pipe is. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Oceanic with Nautilus upgrades. Handover 8 September 2010 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 456Jul 10, 2010 9:48 pm My downpipes are going to be piped around the perimeter of the house and going to interconnected soakwells... just counted how many downpipes are marked on my plan and I found 13 but there's a note that the roof plumber can install them as required... Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 457Jul 10, 2010 10:21 pm Bagheera, note that the note says that it is DA's discretion as to how many they use, too. My question is.. there are 2 rwp's on my plan that now aren't on my house. Yes, it is at their discretion as to how many they put in.. but do I now get a credit for the 2 they decided not to put in? Our cabinets have been installed.. I'll update my thread. My blog hasn't been touched for a few weeks so will do that next week, too. Do yu hae a blog? Oceanic with Nautilus upgrades. Handover 8 September 2010 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 458Jul 11, 2010 5:15 pm I will definitelly insist that they do install all 13 of them as my house is so wide... I'll keep an eye on this once we get there and check with both my CLO and SS that they install all of them... I'll hate to see overflown gutter just because they were too lazy to install the correct amount of downpipes to be able to cop with the amount of water flow... Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 459Jul 11, 2010 8:01 pm Anyone after prestart got a separate sheet for the costs of the electrical options like having different light fittings to f ront elevations and cost to install heat lamp in wet area and cost of conduit and extra tv point etc.? Our PC said it is in the addenda and don't get to see it and what we choose is it? What if we what someone else to supply light fitting after handover? Re: Anyone building with Dale Alcock or recently built 460Jul 11, 2010 8:46 pm Oceanus2 Bagheera, note that the note says that it is DA's discretion as to how many they use, too. My question is.. there are 2 rwp's on my plan that now aren't on my house. Yes, it is at their discretion as to how many they put in.. but do I now get a credit for the 2 they decided not to put in? Our cabinets have been installed.. I'll update my thread. My blog hasn't been touched for a few weeks so will do that next week, too. Do yu hae a blog? A computer generated the amount of rwp required to disperse water off the roof with margins. So the guy knows better? The house was priced based on those materials used. Just doesn't compute. https://form.jotform.com/240284569218058 Please spare a moment to fill out this survey form for a project. You stand a chance to win a digital gift voucher. Legitimate… 0 2834 I’m loving the potential versatility and practicality of a bench seat in a shower. Anyone had one of these done recently? Not sure if they are straight forward and easy… 0 776 Hi All, we are starting to think of building with Masterpiece Builders in Victoria, has anyone had any feedback or experience with them 0 13603 |