Browse Forums Building A New House 1 May 31, 2010 12:50 pm What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? One of ours is Roof's must be constructed in non reflective and muted tones, strong colour's such as red brick are prohibited. Not that this one really bothered us though. I have heard one estate won't let blokes walk around with their shirt off. http://burbankascent2500.blogspot.com/ https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28503 [url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/] HOUSE COMPLETED IN 119 DAYS PCI Complete Handover 24th August Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 2May 31, 2010 12:53 pm pinkdiamond What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? One of ours is Roof's must be constructed in non reflective and muted tones, strong colour's such as red brick are prohibited. Not that this one really bothered us though. I have heard one estate won't let blokes walk around with their shirt off. What about women? Demolition August 2009, Construction Started September 2009, Completed December 2010 Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 3May 31, 2010 12:56 pm pinkdiamond What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? One of ours is Roof's must be constructed in non reflective and muted tones, strong colour's such as red brick are prohibited. Can go slightly better than that, roof must be constructed of a non reflective material and MUST be a shade of grey. Also not allowed to park any vehicle over 2.5tonne GVM (iirc) and not allowed to have trailers or caravans visible from the street. (not just parked in the back yard, but not allowed to be seen). Our Build - Places Fairhaven 23+ - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28045 Our Landscaping - Belial's Backyard - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45375 Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 4May 31, 2010 1:06 pm Quote: What about women? Quote: Also not allowed to park any vehicle over 2.5tonne GVM (iirc) and not allowed to have trailers or caravans visible from the street. (not just parked in the back yard, but not allowed to be seen). We also have a similar one to this boats caravan trailer's and commercial vehicles and similar equipment must be stored out of view of the street. . http://burbankascent2500.blogspot.com/ https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28503 [url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/] HOUSE COMPLETED IN 119 DAYS PCI Complete Handover 24th August Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 5May 31, 2010 1:47 pm Any part of the fence visible from the street must be painted or stained to a colour fitting with the wider colour scheme of the house (ie. no standard 1800 wood fence) Painting finished, time to tile! HANDOVER - THURSDAY 3RD MARCH 2011 Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 6May 31, 2010 1:52 pm Quote: Quote: Also not allowed to park any vehicle over 2.5tonne GVM (iirc) and not allowed to have trailers or caravans visible from the street. (not just parked in the back yard, but not allowed to be seen). We also have a similar one to this boats caravan trailer's and commercial vehicles and similar equipment must be stored out of view of the street. We have one the same, but you can't have a caravan at all, permanently on your block (not that we have one, we aren't the Leyland brothers). Then we have have the normal garden must be completed in three months, window furnishings in six, and hide your water tanks and air conditioning units from the street. Have you seen how BIG some of those units are? They would have more of a change of keeping Jason Akermanis out of the media Dear J.K. Rowling, Your books are entirely unrealistic. I mean, a ginger kid with two friends? Sincerely, Anonymous Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 7May 31, 2010 2:39 pm My sister once owned an investment property in Qld where your cars had to be parked inside your garage. . .no cars allowed on the driveway! In our estate we were restricted on brick & colour choices & fencing but were luckier than people in the 1st stage, they had to have full render/bagging.They relaxed this rule when the blocks in the next stage weren't selling! Loretta Built The Jenmark with Cavalier Homes Macarthur. http://camdenacres.blogspot.com/ Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17870 We are in - front landscaping begins Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 8May 31, 2010 2:47 pm Belial pinkdiamond What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? One of ours is Roof's must be constructed in non reflective and muted tones, strong colour's such as red brick are prohibited. Can go slightly better than that, roof must be constructed of a non reflective material and MUST be a shade of grey. Also not allowed to park any vehicle over 2.5tonne GVM (iirc) and not allowed to have trailers or caravans visible from the street. (not just parked in the back yard, but not allowed to be seen). might be a problem there considering i occasionally bring home my 42.5 tonne semi lol Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 9May 31, 2010 5:07 pm 80/20 rule for exterior cladding No face bricks Side fence returns must be horizontial. We had a book full of guidelines, I have just scatched the surface, but in saying that when you drive around the estate you don't see two houses exactly the same which in a way is what attracted us here in the first place. Cheers Lou http://take2-customdesigndownslope.blogspot.com 07-10-09 omg they have cut the block 14-05-10 we finally have the keys Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 10May 31, 2010 7:49 pm We MUST leave our property in a forward gear and therefore must have somewhere to turn the car around before leaving the property. That is probably our most bizarre guideline. At least we have plenty of room to creat somewhere to turn the car around! Sarah Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 11May 31, 2010 9:56 pm No satellite dishes, tv antennas, solar panels, garbage bins, clothes line / washing or air con units visible from the street, footpaths or parks. Not allowed to undertake repairs to a vehicle "on the driveway on or leading to an owner or occupiers lot" Gazebos, garden sheds, pools etc not visible from the road. And my personal favourite - Must have gardens in the front yard - must be turfed and landscaped - at a minimum each front yard is to contain at least 3 trees (minimum pot size 1m) with the ability to reach 3 metres, 6 low level pot plants (minimum pot size 400mm). I can kill a cactus so this should be interesting. Yet the only mention of fencing is that it has to have either colourbond or lapped and capped timber fencing - no reference to colour or height and to be honest, that is something that I would have liked a guideline on... There is another estate here that has a covenant on things like driveways (all driveways on the main road in to the estate have to be the same), and they have to have matching solar powered letter boxes (the logo for the estate glows at night)... Nic. Built the Coral Homes Hamilton 252 - moved in 20/10/2010 and loving it!! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=27215 Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 13May 31, 2010 11:07 pm Crazy thing about these kind of laws is that none of them tend to be enforced. My estate does not allow front fences and nature strips must be lawn however about one if five houses ignore these rules. So they are meaningless as they are not enforced. Some of them IMO make sense. For instance in my street every house has a double garage but almost no one parks both cars in the garage as people store their crap in them. So you have a street full of parked cars where two cars can't fit up it. After a while it becomes a nuisance. Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 14May 31, 2010 11:42 pm You must stop this guys! You are going to give our council more good ideas!!!!!!! Seriously, there is a huge prejudice against caravan owners. Who owns caravans anyway? Families and retirees!! (Yeah + the Leyland Brothers! ) Why do they have to make it so hard! Poor old truck drivers are not allowed anywhere with their truck! This has happened to friends of ours. smallwelshperson We MUST leave our property in a forward gear and therefore must have somewhere to turn the car around before leaving the property. That is probably our most bizarre guideline. At least we have plenty of room to creat somewhere to turn the car around! _______________________________________________________________ We're a knockdown | rebuild ~ Melb SE burbs Building modified version of the Fairhaven Glenaire Homeone thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28429 _______________________________________________________________ Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 15Jun 01, 2010 12:16 am sometimes the truck is my only transport if im coming back from a trip, so ill just take it home anyway one thing id love to see enforced and it never is, is people parking the cars across the footpath, like one car already in the driveway and another directly behind it, blocking the footpath, so tough luck anyone in a wheelchair or pushing a pram really aggrivates me, and its always the ferals who do it Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 16Jun 01, 2010 2:58 am Even if they were enforced, surely the guidelines don't last beyond a few years. Where would i go to find out what the expiry date is on those? I REALLY want a front fence Dear J.K. Rowling, Your books are entirely unrealistic. I mean, a ginger kid with two friends? Sincerely, Anonymous Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 17Jun 01, 2010 11:57 am Quote: Even if they were enforced, surely the guidelines don't last beyond a few years. Where would i go to find out what the expiry date is on those? No they don't my inlaws were told no street parking when they built and now people always do. I suppose when the land in the estate is all sold. Quote: You are going to give our council more good ideas!!!!!!! Quote: We MUST leave our property in a forward gear and therefore must have somewhere to turn the car around before leaving the property. That is probably our most bizarre guideline. At least we have plenty of room to creat somewhere to turn the car around! http://www.mypropertypreview.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=481&Itemid=1 interesting read :Changes to laws governing covenants have builders and buyers wondering where they stand. http://burbankascent2500.blogspot.com/ https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28503 [url=http://www.TickerFactory.com/] HOUSE COMPLETED IN 119 DAYS PCI Complete Handover 24th August Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 18Jun 01, 2010 12:19 pm ~Nic~ No satellite dishes, tv antennas, solar panels, garbage bins, clothes line / washing or air con units visible from the street, footpaths or parks. Gazebos, garden sheds, pools etc not visible from the road. We have these in our estate, along with these others: Homes must have two different textures to the wall construction of the home (brick, render, moroka, cladding etc) AND homes must have minimum of two separate colours to the external walls (different brick colours, feature render colour etc) Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 19Jun 01, 2010 3:46 pm Here is a good one! "Driveways must be semi-permeable. Areas of concrete paving are acceptable if separated by permeable surfaces such as grass, gavel or stabilised pavers. Driveway should also include a minimum of 2 finished surfaces" I thought the concept of a driveway was something solid to drive your car over.... not something that you have to weaken with gaps to let water through! Building Henley Monterey Q3 at Somerfield, Keysborough. Land Purchased: 23rd December 2009 Land Settled: 14th December 2010 Developer Approval: 18th January 2011 Building Permit: 20th January 2011 Site Scrape: 9th February 2011 Slab Poured: 23rd February 2011 Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43214 Re: What did you find to be your most ridiculous guideline ? 20Jun 01, 2010 11:05 pm Well by the sound of some of these guidelines (especially a semi-permeable driveway what the??).. i'm certainly glad that I did not build in an estate. Our house - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31696 Our new house - moved in but so much more to do! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31696&p=442009#p442009 The worst thing you can do is sign a building contract without a pre contract review. Over the years many people have come to me with disputes where they just signed… 0 8339 Thank you. That is really helpful. Once we get the place done and passed for OC we can upgrade in the future once we get back on our feet and not paying mortgage and rent. 4 5727 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39701 |