Who is building with Beechwood

poppet, I believe they are the 500*500 instead of the standard 450*450. You could always go to the top and spend an absurd amount of money and get the 600*600.

At Oran park. Have asked tender for Vardelho guest (increased the width of house by 1 mtr. Also some changes internally.

Happy to share that we've received our commencement letter stating 10 April as the magic date .... can't wait...I'm pretty sure it will feel like eternity just waiting for it...
Hope everyone is well in this crazy weather afternoon....

Yeah, we will be concreting and tiling. The tile we have chosen for our Terraza are the same as the ones we are laying throughout the house; heartwood eucalypt, but with a different slip rating.

Good luck tomorrow with your PCI tomorrow Sheridan. Let's hope that it is all sorted for you. Make sure you send us all some pictures through too!

Thanks Grace.

That basically means we won't be finished this year
Plans need to come back again. So possibly 1 week. Council 6 weeks. 28 days, then build. So 11 odd weeks before we start.
Puts us in June roughly.

Aaaahhhh.

Been going since September.
Blacktown council
I think they average 6 weeks.
I think 2018 is on the cards.

So exciting! Congratulations!!!! Hooe this wild weather calns down so they can get started ASAP

Thanks Broadynest!!! Very excited and nervous.
I have a list of things to look for so I'll share them and any other issues we find. And photos of course!
BH called today and said they've sent two lots of cleaners out this week so it should be spotless

Hope so too, thanks Sheridan... and hoping that 28 days (26 now lol) goes really fast

JonesyGT, we started Sept with Beechwood as well but we had a CDC so that only took 2wks to be approved. Is Blacktown council DA or CDC because if it's DA some say: here that took 10wks to be approved depending on how busy the council is.... Anyway hope it gets faster for you mate.

Exciting times Sheridan...take heaps of photos and share to us your experience ok...We love photos here

Does anyone have any recommendations for under cabinet lights in the kitchen for under the high wall cabinets, that do not require the cabinets to have a 'false floor" ?

Also, do i need to stipulate the location of the laundry power point? i dont want it to be ground level.

Hey Braddy, did you do your electrical plan when you did colour selections?? That's when we stipulated what heights we wants power points as well as location of lights.
I'd give your SS or the office a ring to clarify. They "shouldn't" put it on the ground, if you're talking about the washing machine power point. They are generally above the machine on the wall. But don't take any chances. Double check that they know the right spot to put it and if you didn't specify, I'd act like you did just in case to avoid being hit with $1000 variation fee.

Registration, tenders and council are a pain and drag on but once the build starts it seems to go quicker. Work started on our block on the 3rd November. We are now up to the internal wood work. But we had the 4 week break over Christmas. I am hoping we are in by mid June but I will let you know how many weeks it takes. My lease runs out early July so I am worried we may cut it close. My real estate has already asked if I want to sign another 6 or 12 month lease. Dont know if I should be honest or not.

Tecnoz don't forget that beechwood place their builders margin on top of all the costs from the supplier from contract signing I think it stated 21 or 31% builders margin. So depending on what you wanted it might be easier discussing directly with the trades doing the work. Like talking directly to the tile company etc

Great news I bet it's a relief to see some movement.. looking forward to the pictures

Jonsey you might get lucky prior to Christmas. Beechwood don't like holding over houses but the looks of some prior posting if they are nearly completed due to the risk of something happening over the month shutdown period. Fingers crossed

We did basic Elec plan at contract and then went to south west electrical in Sydney who are doing the electrical for beechwood in our area and done the electrical plan in detail about a month after contract signing. It was far cheaper than paying the beechwood prices for electrical items. All our heights we chose and were able to move all the points around where we wanted them and anything we wanted added was all done costed and printed on site for us to review. Only thing I can say is do your research prior as they may try to push you in a certian direction when not required. Example being they strongly recommend connecting Fibre throughout the house and from the house to the road for NBN. However there would be no point as it's only copper from the node to the house. Huge money and no gain. Few other things with smoke alarms (we are fire fighters kinda funny debating this one) they advised they needed to replace all the smoke detectors to 12v detectors at another cost. If you go to south west electrical do your research and will save you a packet