Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 01, 2010 7:09 pm Just days before we are due to start we are told that our colour selections are not available for our guttering because it's not marine grade. It seems our colour consultant back in January wasn't provided with this information. Although she did know the original colour we chose for our garage door was an upgrade colour and I'm curious now that we already had upgrades because of the marine requirement so perhaps we may have been able to choose that colour anyway. Sorry I digress
We have kidskin as our render (Bristol Colonial P196-N4) Barramundi roof tiles Driveway is pgh peppercorn. Dune garage, dune timberwork on the upper facade posts and pergola. The lower section of the 3 posts is render with loft. We originally chose black guttering and faschia and black windows but it's not available in ultra range for marine environment These are the colours available to choose from • Surfmist • Dune • Windspray • Woodland Grey • Deep Ocean • Loft Internal colour selections are black and white essentially. What to choose? Would you change the render now. It was originally chosen because we decided it worked well with black and the fencing of the estate is woodland grey. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 5Jun 01, 2010 7:59 pm That is the tricky thing trying to describe colours froma 3cm colour sample compared to colours on a computer screen. Maybe it's a little like a cross between dune and bushland from the colourbond range. It's a green hued grey/cream Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 6Jun 01, 2010 7:59 pm bel, our cladding is painted in Taubmans Kidskin. It's like a dirty white, but not grey. EDIT : Isn't Bristol somehow connected to Taubmans? Built the Eden Brae Cambridge 34 Family with Boston Corner Facade Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 7Jun 01, 2010 8:06 pm Hmm our kidskin is nothing like a dirty white. The name was kidskin but the colour description is Bristol colonial P196-N4 I can't find this anywhere, except for the stupid little 4cm colour sample we got at colour selection. After originally choosing it from a larger sample size. Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 8Jun 01, 2010 8:14 pm This is our kidskin - on a cloudy day - maybe not so white afterall. Actually, you're right FH. I've just pulled out my A4 sample & your description is apt : It's a green hued grey/cream. But definitely doesn't look green in real life (thank goodness ) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Built the Eden Brae Cambridge 34 Family with Boston Corner Facade Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 9Jun 01, 2010 8:47 pm It seems to be one of those different paint companies with the same name and completely different colours. Please tell me your colour selections, I'm ready to just find a house I like that has a dark roof and pick the colours and hope it works with the windows,guttering fashia choices we are limited too. DH is rocking into HOG tomorrow after the few hours it takes to get there and demanding a consult immediately. Although I sent the email to our CSO tonight fdemanding she arrange it for 11am Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 10Jun 01, 2010 9:45 pm Hope this helps - I know your frustration : Bricks - Boral Blue Mountains Blackheath Mortar - raked, off white Roof - Colorbond Jasper Alum Windows - Airlite White Birch Garage Door - jasper Gutter - Jasper Fascia - Jasper Wall cladding - Taubmans Kidskin Downpipes - jasper Eaves - Taubmans Burlap Beige Portico - Burlap Beige Alfresco Ceiling - white MOroka - Taubmans Manhattan Built the Eden Brae Cambridge 34 Family with Boston Corner Facade Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 11Jun 02, 2010 6:29 pm I'm glad that stress is over. My other half went down to HOG today to reselect colours, I took some pics of houses I liked and he had a great consultant. The one we had back in January doesn't work for them anymore. I am not surprised either. Apparently our render colour should not have been called kidskin either. The consultant today called it colonial instead. SO we now have Roof Monier traditional profile barramundi Guttering, roof vents and whirlybird - colorbond ultra woodland grey fascia, garage door, downpipes, timber bean and timber posts - colorbond ultra dune render/morka - Bristol colonial (bit darker than dune) Window frames, security doors - Dulux lunar white Eaves and alfresco ceiling- taubman's moonglow Feature render, front door - loft My faith is restored in EB and HOG now. Thankfully. Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 12Jun 02, 2010 6:59 pm Oh yes FH, you will find that is the issue with EB. The quality of your build experience is TOTALLY dependant on the quality of the EB employee, whether your CSR or SS or colour consultant. Good luck FH! That's one hurdle Built the Eden Brae Cambridge 34 Family with Boston Corner Facade Re: Urgent help with colour selections - fixed the options 13Jun 02, 2010 7:58 pm I gathered that from what i could tell from the reviews when we signed up. CSR has been OK, she doesn't answer her phone but does answer emails. I hope the bottle of champas we gave her today will help keep her motivated and pass it on to the SS too. We have our SS name now, I'm curious if he was the one doing a site inspection when I drove to our estate today. There was an EB car driving through the estate. Thank you @. Tried to play with the facade models but the exact colour is not matching up. 2 3275 How much are you ahead in payments compared to where the build is at? Have you fully drawn down the loan? 5 11934 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 17629 |