Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 10, 2010 4:24 pm We are building our second home, this time with DAH in Cockburn. We signed up on 30 June and are building a promotional home - The Boston. http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af314/koolsville/Our%20New%20Home/Floorplan-1.gif[url] http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af3 ... vation.gif[/url] We added a third garage, moved the laundry from the rear of the garage to the rear of the house (in lieu of a 5th bedroom) to allow for storage in the garage, and extended both the kitchen and the alfresco. We also changed the elevation of the house - we added the gabled roof and planter boxes (we'll be applying the stone cladding after handover), changed the windows and rendered the front of the house. DAH was very accommodating to make all these changes for us given it is a promo house (we may have tested the friendship a bit here!). We have gone with Leonora (red) bricks and Aniseed (black) tiles. The render is a light grey and the garage doors will be Surfmist. Our front door will be red. It was a long process getting everything right - being our second house we wanted to make sure we got everything right this time... although I'm sure we'll come up with a few "I wish I'd done...". We will be organising our own driveway and alfresco covering after handover - probably aggregate cement, and also all our own flooring (undecided) and window coverings (white venetians). We will also be adding overbench cupboards to the kitchen afterwards as we are going for a 1950s look in the kitchen and ideally want glass sliding doors on the front of the cabinets. We have "Night Sky" (black with silver chips)caesarstone bench tops, ice blue cupboards and retro looking handles. We added pot draws, a bin cupboard and 900mm cooktop and oven. The bathrooms and laundry are an art deco style with black and white tiles and we have bought art deco mirrors which we will install after handover. We added shower screens, upgraded to "Liano" square basins and added a bank of draws. We also added more storage in the laundry, with a broom cupboard and pull out laundry bin. Our siteworks started on 9 February (as advised) and our slab is due to be laid on 15 February. It finally feels real now that we can see something happening. We were advised it would take 6 months for the actual build, so I guess we'll be finished mid August? Fingers crossed it all goes to plan! Building in Cockburn, WA, with Dale Alcock https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29597 Siteworks 9 February 2010 Slab 15 February 2010 Bricks commenced 6 March 2010 Roof commenced 30 March 2010 BIR Submitted 14 May 2010 Lockup 27 May 2010 PCI 22 September 2010 Keys 8 October 2010 Roof finally finished 13 Oct Moved in 30 October 2010 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 2Feb 10, 2010 5:56 pm Hi Koolsville Just asked you on the other thread where is your land... and here you are.... how funny... Wow - love the plan... I'm having a "special" plan due to the fact that my land is very wide (front elevation) and shorter so we had combine 2 plans to get it right. How much they charged you for the pull our laundry bin? I added a pull out bin in the kitchen and they quoted me around $450 from what I remember. It's a Hafele one. 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: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 3Feb 12, 2010 1:16 pm Hey Bagheera Hmmmm, yes the bins were expensive.... the kitchen "cargo" bin with the separate compartments was around $600 [gulp] and the plain pull out laundry bin $350. But, had to have them, so what do you do (husband wanted to know why we couldn't just put a bin oun the ground...). Other things that I thought would cost a lot, were really all that bad... the cooktop upgrade from 600 to 900mm was only abouh $50! We upgraded to nicer "regalL internal doorframes too, and that was only a couple hundred. Mind you, it all adds up quickly! Soakwells were going to cost a bomb, so decided we'd do those ourselves (or get a contractor in) - we are doing all our own concreting afterwards, so that can wait until the end anyway. Do you have a thread? I'd love to see your "special" plan. Bring on the weekend! Building in Cockburn, WA, with Dale Alcock https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29597 Siteworks 9 February 2010 Slab 15 February 2010 Bricks commenced 6 March 2010 Roof commenced 30 March 2010 BIR Submitted 14 May 2010 Lockup 27 May 2010 PCI 22 September 2010 Keys 8 October 2010 Roof finally finished 13 Oct Moved in 30 October 2010 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 4Feb 12, 2010 1:27 pm That looks like it's going to be a gorgeous house. Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 5Feb 12, 2010 1:28 pm Hi Koolsville, welcome to H1. Lots of people on this forum seem to be building in Cockburn. We are in Aubin Grove, which part of Cockburn are you building in? I bet you will find Pre-Start a breeze second time around, as this is our first build there has been a lot of 'I wish I had done this and that!' I will be really interested to see your ideas for your 1950's kitchen and Art Deco bathroom. I love the Art Deco period and have a few pieces myself. Re: Soakwells. We did our soakwells ourselves, it takes a lot of hard work and energy but it can save you loads! 18/06/09 Pre-Start / 18/09/09 Slab / 05/10/09 Brickwork / 21/10/09 Roof / 11/12/09 Lock-up 18/02/10 PCI 04/03/10 HANDOVER My Building Thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=24789 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 6Feb 12, 2010 1:33 pm Hi Koolsville So you survived Pre-start. Ours should be in around 3 weeks. So many decisions yet to make. We've increased our allowance but i'm still nervous as to what it's going to cost. I've started making my list and I think it might be a good idea if I ranked them according to priority of "really wanting", "better to complete now than later" to "can be done after handover" and "just wishful thinking". Ha ha. Love the ideas of the pull out kitchen and laundry bins. Might have to take on that idea - I for one hate the kitchen bins on the floor. We are building one of DA's promotional homes The Osprey. We've made changes to the Master bed and ensuite and extended the Alfresco and gone with a smaller version of the Reflection frontage. The Osprey is largely based on the Ambrose - which helped to visualise when we did a walk through that display. Did your site works start? Looking forward to following your build. jbarry My build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25713 13th Oct - Offer on block 4th Dec - Settlement of block scheduled (delayed due to titles) 22nd Feb - Titles Issued 17th Mar - Land Settlement 17th Mar - Pre-start meeting Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 7Feb 12, 2010 2:05 pm Hi everyone We had pre-start on 30 November. We'd done lots of research and was pretty sure about what we wanted (mind you, we did completely change the kitchen colours right at the end - we were going to go all white and modern, but in the end went for the blue and black 50s style!). We were out of there by 12. It is pretty stressful, probably more so the second time round, because you really want to get it right. Caesarstone upgrade was a must have, whereas overhead cupboards could come later (mind you, we said that the first time and it never happened). We changed all the cupboards under the island bench to draws (for pots and those annoying plastic containers). The Reflection is very similar to our floorplan, and we had to use that to get a feel for what our house would be like. I can't wait to have a bigger wardrobe and ensuite bathroom. I don't know about you, but I've thought about the new house so much, its like it already exists and I've been there a thousand times. I can't wait to post pictures up of the kitchen and bathrooms - they better look as good as they do in my head! We are building in Success (we actually live around the corner, wanted to upgrade and didn't want to leave the area now that it is finally getting built up). A lot of people think its so far away from Perth, but its such a convenient location - right on the freeway, close to Freo and easy to travel down south. Only 16 mins on the train to Perth. Don't know about you, but I keep thinking that I have to have all this new stuff to go in a new house, new towels and sheets, new furniture, new outdoor setting - its like the old stuff just won't be good enough. Which isn't really helping at our current house because we've already started buying all this stuff and there's no where to put it all! We can barely get into the 4th bedroom now. We actually need to sell the house we live in now, and it is looking very cluttered!! I'm glad there are some others building with DA - and look forward to sharing your building experiences. Cheers! Building in Cockburn, WA, with Dale Alcock https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29597 Siteworks 9 February 2010 Slab 15 February 2010 Bricks commenced 6 March 2010 Roof commenced 30 March 2010 BIR Submitted 14 May 2010 Lockup 27 May 2010 PCI 22 September 2010 Keys 8 October 2010 Roof finally finished 13 Oct Moved in 30 October 2010 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 8Feb 12, 2010 2:43 pm Hi Koolsville You are in such a similar situation to us. We are also upgrading and selling our existing property. I have started buying the new towels, dinner sets, decoration items etc and I think driving my husband crazy. I would start buying the new dishwasher, fridge etc too if we had somewhere to store it. Then again might be better to wait after all so we get more out the warranty. I like you can visualise the house as though it's already built. It's so clear for me as though I'm walking through the front door and going through each of the rooms in the house, I can see the flooring, wall colours, furniture in the rooms, even the fans on in the Alfresco. Unfortunatley my husband doesn't have these same skills which I think is a shame. I'm finding this process quite streessful too and have had a few minor melt downs. But thankfully our sales guy has been able to smooth everything without any trouble and honestly without him (and my patient husband) I probably would have thrown in the towel. Cheers jbarry My build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25713 13th Oct - Offer on block 4th Dec - Settlement of block scheduled (delayed due to titles) 22nd Feb - Titles Issued 17th Mar - Land Settlement 17th Mar - Pre-start meeting Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 9Feb 12, 2010 4:11 pm koolsville Hey Bagheera Hmmmm, yes the bins were expensive.... the kitchen "cargo" bin with the separate compartments was around $600 [gulp] and the plain pull out laundry bin $350. But, had to have them, so what do you do (husband wanted to know why we couldn't just put a bin oun the ground...). Other things that I thought would cost a lot, were really all that bad... the cooktop upgrade from 600 to 900mm was only abouh $50! We upgraded to nicer "regalL internal doorframes too, and that was only a couple hundred. Mind you, it all adds up quickly! Soakwells were going to cost a bomb, so decided we'd do those ourselves (or get a contractor in) - we are doing all our own concreting afterwards, so that can wait until the end anyway. Do you have a thread? I'd love to see your "special" plan. Bring on the weekend! I know what you mean... I am so over bins on the ground as it contradicts the concept of building a contemporary new house where everything has its place. They only create a place for dirtly laundry to pile up and are a hazard to trip over or have to move them out of the way .... for another $1K or so I will get them done and avoid the regrets later . oh by the way what are "regal" doorframes - didn't know we had that option? Did you go with their Redicote flush - standard internal doors or did you upgrade? I don't have a thread yet but will start one soon as I'm waiting for my contract to come next week - fingers crossed!!! I have a million things to decide as my mood changes from one week to the next - a couple of months ago I was already set with my choice of colours and materials for the bathroom, ensuite, kichen and laundry now I'm changing my mind... Oh an btw I do the same thing - I work in the city and everyday I go through the shops hunting for bargains - as you girls, I did buy new towels, bed spreads, decorations etc etc,.... I love bargains..... I have to restrain myself from buying any big items as I might change my mind by the time the house is finished.... soooo haaaaaaaaaaaarrrrdddddd..... 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: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 10Feb 12, 2010 4:49 pm Hi Bagheera At prestart, they go through all these different choices for upgrades that you wouldn't have even thought about... door frames is just one of them! "Regal" is just a bit fancier than the standard square frame. They look nicer, and for a small price, I thought it was worth upgrading. We only upgraded our front door, and the double sliders to our home theatre (in the main living area), all the other doors we left as plain, flush doors. The standard door handles are nice, I think the doors will look fine plain. Hey Jbarry I'm glad I'm not the only one with a virtual home in my head, and all this extra, new stuff in my old house!! I'm thinking I might need to get a storage unit when we go to sell, so that people can actually get inside my house Might be a drive past the block tonight and see if the siteworks are finished. The outline of the house looks pretty big at this stage, but when the slab goes down, it always looks really small... Building in Cockburn, WA, with Dale Alcock https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29597 Siteworks 9 February 2010 Slab 15 February 2010 Bricks commenced 6 March 2010 Roof commenced 30 March 2010 BIR Submitted 14 May 2010 Lockup 27 May 2010 PCI 22 September 2010 Keys 8 October 2010 Roof finally finished 13 Oct Moved in 30 October 2010 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 11Feb 12, 2010 5:11 pm Hey koolsville Your house is going to be spectacular when it's finished, like the idea of a 1950's kitchen koolsville At prestart, they go through all these different choices for upgrades that you wouldn't have even thought about... door frames is just one of them! "Regal" is just a bit fancier than the standard square frame. They look nicer, and for a small price, I thought it was worth upgrading. We only upgraded our front door, and the double sliders to our home theatre (in the main living area), all the other doors we left as plain, flush doors. The standard door handles are nice, I think the doors will look fine plain. I upgraded to the Regal door frames too, just looks a bit more upper class than a bog standard door frame and it was only a couple hundred dollars too. I was amazed at how much I hadn't thought of going into Pre start and therefore how much money I bloody spent!! Ended up upgrading all my doors and getting nice front doors with those tri way locks on. Compared to other builders the DAH standard range in general isn't too bad from what I've seen. Exciting times for all of us! Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 12Feb 12, 2010 5:22 pm [quote="koolsville"]Hi Bagheera At prestart, they go through all these different choices for upgrades that you wouldn't have even thought about... door frames is just one of them! "Regal" is just a bit fancier than the standard square frame. They look nicer, and for a small price, I thought it was worth upgrading. We only upgraded our front door, and the double sliders to our home theatre (in the main living area), all the other doors we left as plain, flush doors. The standard door handles are nice, I think the doors will look fine plain. I did get one of those pre-start booklets from them - the one you can write your selections on as you go but don't remember seeing different door frames - need to have another look tonight. I am thinking to keep my doors the same as my house will have a contemporary look with clean lines - this is a recent conversion for me so I'm still learning that less is more in contemporary/modern design - that's why I said before that everything has to have its place and hence my pet hate for bins on the ground. I even decided to have my kettle and toaster and the coffee machine in the WIP - I have a large WIP and going to install an exhaust fan in there and keep the kitchen counters pretty clean... 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: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 13Feb 19, 2010 11:23 am koolsville Our siteworks started on 9 February (as advised) and our slab is due to be laid on 15 February. It finally feels real now that we can see something happening. We were advised it would take 6 months for the actual build, so I guess we'll be finished mid August? Fingers crossed it all goes to plan! Hi Koolsville Your slab should be down already - any photos? 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: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 14Feb 21, 2010 6:00 pm Wow - I almost missed this one. Welcome to the club koolsville - look forward to watching your build progress. 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: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 15Feb 26, 2010 11:54 am Hi there Here's some pix of our slab: http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af314/koolsville/Our%20New%20Home/IMG_2806.jpg http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af314/koolsville/Our%20New%20Home/IMG_2804.jpg I thought it would looks small, bit was pleasantly surprised at how big it actually looks. We won't have much backyard! That's ok though, less garden means less plants and less watering The Bricks should start next week (2 weeks since the slab went down). We are expecting a call to go and meeting the site supervisor when he starts. Very exciting - its great to finally see something happening, makes it more real. Hopefully we won't have slow brickies!! BUT as long as they do a good job and my walls are straight, not going to complain too much... Oh yeah, paid our first progress payment too - the extra large mortgage has begun! EEK!! Hope to have an update soon!! Building in Cockburn, WA, with Dale Alcock https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29597 Siteworks 9 February 2010 Slab 15 February 2010 Bricks commenced 6 March 2010 Roof commenced 30 March 2010 BIR Submitted 14 May 2010 Lockup 27 May 2010 PCI 22 September 2010 Keys 8 October 2010 Roof finally finished 13 Oct Moved in 30 October 2010 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 16Feb 26, 2010 12:34 pm Hey Koolsville - congratulations - your slab looks great... I just picked up my contract from DAH office last night and going through everything.... Did you get your contract checked by a professional? Did you add any special clauses?? 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: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 17Feb 27, 2010 12:18 pm Congratulations Koolsville! Your slab actually looks huge! Must be nice to now see some 'tangible' progress. Is that your car sitting out the front? If so, I can see where you're getting the 1950's inspiration from Really looking forward to watch your progress!!! Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 18Mar 03, 2010 3:19 pm Hi Koolsville, congrats on your slab, ours went down recently too. How big is your block? Plan looks great too Building the Claremont with SPH viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28206 Earthworks 16/02 Slab 23/02 Drainer 26/02 Bricks 03/03 Brickies started 30/03 Brickie meeting 31/03 Tile meeting booked for 21/06 Paving started 29/07 1st PCI 29/07 2nd PCI 13/08 Handover 09/09 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 19Mar 04, 2010 12:57 pm Hi guys Thanks for the messages. Our block is 649m2 - we needed a wide block so we could have a triple garage across the front (we have too many cars! - including the 54 Caddy you can see in the slab picture). Been visiting the block regularly waiting for something to happen... yesterday they finished all the pipes and flattened out all the sand, we also have a shed and cement, yellow sand and a front door frame! No bricks yet, but I'm sure they are imminent Waiting for my call from DA to set up a meeting with the SS... Bahgeera - no, we didn't get anyone to look over the contract, or have any special clauses - mainly because it is such a standard contract. We were more worried about checking through the variations and making sure everything else was correct! There were three errors on the final version which were fixed without too much trouble. Hope it all goes well for you! Building in Cockburn, WA, with Dale Alcock https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29597 Siteworks 9 February 2010 Slab 15 February 2010 Bricks commenced 6 March 2010 Roof commenced 30 March 2010 BIR Submitted 14 May 2010 Lockup 27 May 2010 PCI 22 September 2010 Keys 8 October 2010 Roof finally finished 13 Oct Moved in 30 October 2010 Re: Koolsville's New Pad - DAH, Cockburn, WA 20Mar 16, 2010 12:20 pm Hey there! Yay - the bricks started on 6 March (a Saturday too!) http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af3 ... G_0016.jpg http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af3 ... G_0013.jpg Can't wait for the internal walls to start so I can see the size of the rooms... The kitchen is a great size, but I'm a bit worried about the size of our bedroom!! Our current house has a master bedroom with a retreat, but this one is only 4 x 4. However, the ensuite and WIR are twice the size, so I think I can live with it Hubby's really happy with the size of the garage! We've been out getting quotes for flooring, decking, stone cladding etc for the planter box. We could easily spend another $60K (that includes the driveway). Geez!!! Amazing how fast it all adds up... We're looking at doing polished concrete in the living areas - just polishing the existing slab. There seems to be heaps of debate about this on the forum and I'm still not 100% sure on it, but we are getting some quotes. I like the idea that it is low maintenance, scratch and stain resistant; and it looks quite modern - Decisions, Decisions... 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