Browse Forums Building A New House Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 403Oct 24, 2010 7:57 pm McDonald Jones Homes - The Parklane http://ashobuild.blogspot.com/ https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34426 Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 404Oct 25, 2010 10:38 am Building with McDonald Jones - Bordeaux 14m @ the ponds in sydney's north-west Build Blog => http://damianandannasabode.blogspot.com/ Construction status - DONE. Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 409Oct 26, 2010 1:03 pm Building with McDonald Jones - Bordeaux 14m @ the ponds in sydney's north-west Build Blog => http://damianandannasabode.blogspot.com/ Construction status - DONE. Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 413Oct 27, 2010 12:47 pm Building with McDonald Jones - Bordeaux 14m @ the ponds in sydney's north-west Build Blog => http://damianandannasabode.blogspot.com/ Construction status - DONE. Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 414Oct 27, 2010 6:47 pm ___________________ Initial deposit - 31 Oct 11 Signed Contract - Apr 11 Released to Construction - 03 Jun 11 Site Start - 05 Jul 11 (Advised) Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 415Oct 27, 2010 7:45 pm danana mattmaca We're currently in council but was just wondering if anyone went beyond their 140 days? Yeah we did by around a month I think, they notified us about a month after, but since we were due for construction to start that very week, they waved any extra costs. Not sure if we are just lucky or if that was standard practice. Meanwhile things are moving along quickly, gyprock is done, although tomorrow its apparently due to be 'set'. I'm not sure what that means, but it's progress! I think the external cladding has been done, which is a feature on the façade. Doors to be hung on Monday, which brings us up to lockup stage, followed closely by the painting and kitchen... I'd be lieing if I said I wasnt excited... Thats good Danana, Cause I am getting excited walking through the frame looking at rooms and thinking of what furniture I want to buy for what room... and I have a lot longer to wait that you....lol Its exciting times Riccathome Building:Bronte Grand Manor Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 416Oct 28, 2010 10:55 am Hi everyone We have had a call from our SS to say that our walk-through will be next week sometime - can anyone recommend a private building inspector in the Port Stephens area? We have noticed a few things that we're not happy about but feel that they might be "glossed" over during the walk-through. Approximate cost? Also, do you know if a building inspector picks up any faults, are MJH obliged to fix them? Many thanks EvyK Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 417Oct 28, 2010 8:09 pm evyk53 Hi everyone We have had a call from our SS to say that our walk-through will be next week sometime - can anyone recommend a private building inspector in the Port Stephens area? We have noticed a few things that we're not happy about but feel that they might be "glossed" over during the walk-through. Approximate cost? Also, do you know if a building inspector picks up any faults, are MJH obliged to fix them? Many thanks EvyK Hey Evyk, We have just completed our walk-through last Friday. We spent around 1 and a half hours with the SS, they do there our check plus our SS said that his manager also checks the work before handover. that aside you do need to be quite detailed on your checking. We dont have an private inspector so this was a must for us to make sure we were looking for everything and anything that we werent happy with. My tips would be - -Read your contract again before, make sure they have included all your fittings....also get electric plan and colours. Take along with you. -Allow time, dont rush it. -Open and close everything, fill the sinks, flick the switches. -The SS will walk with you. Point out every knick you can find re the painting. All the best to you, we didnt find anything major..... Keys next week!!!! Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 418Oct 29, 2010 6:43 am Hi all, It has now been 8 days since we have been put on the construction list, however still no action! We are now hoping to see the tractors roll up next week, however going on how long things take I think I might be getting my hopes up! Castlevania- I too have been trying to find more information on the Derby Air conditioner, however what I have been able to learn on Derby is that they are a South Australian company, which are more in the commercial sector of air-conditioning game which is why most people have not heard of them. It is a basic system which should be able to cool/heat 1 zone at a time, however it will struggle on a hot day to cool more than 1 zone. My thoughts are as you get it for free keep it for the warranty period (which is 5 yrs) then you just have to upgrade the unit as all your ducting is in the roof already. If anyone has the derby or knows more about DERBY AIR it would be great to hear some further advise. Regards, Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 419Oct 29, 2010 3:51 pm Hi rusty182 Thanks so much for your reply, we'll keep those tips in mind! I had a look at your photos and your house looks lovely, similar colour scheme to mine in the kitchen. Can I ask a question - something that's bothering me? On our benchtop along the kitchen wall, we have a join in the middle of the cooktop - it is about 2mm wide and coloured a light coffee colour. How wide is your join? The first time we saw ours, it was poorly done and the stone was not level so we requested the join to be replaced. We saw it again on Saturday, the join is neater and level, but the colour is still a fair bit darker than the bench top (which is Osprey) and still wider than I would expect. We have looked at heaps of joins in stone recently and they are all fairly small in width, hardly noticeable at all. I probably sound like a whinger, but it's not what I expected in an expensive benchtop! My hubby reckons it's too late to do anything now, as the glass splashback will be up - he thought they may have taken the benchtops off and moved them together so the join was smaller before the splashback was installed. Also, he thinks the join may have been wet when we saw it, thus the darker colour. Congratulations on getting your keys next week! Best wishes Evyk Re: McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread 420Oct 29, 2010 10:09 pm Great to see how everyones build is coming along. Rusty your house looks great. About the Derby. My DH and FIL tried it out for me while I was at work and my FIL said it is really quiet unlike his new Actron while rattles a bit. Although I can't yet comment on it's heating and cooling ability. Well we got handover today . There are soooooo many keys! I think each window must have 3 sets! lol. There are still a few things that need fixing and installing but apart from that the house looks great. The alarm was installed this morning, although we haven't tried it yet as they must have forgotten to leave our instruction booklet. We also booked the alarm people to come back and install a coloured video intercom and to add the alarm to the garage remote to operate both. The paint job has been fixed and looks great. Still to come are another tv bracket as one was wrongly installed in our bedroom, the missing robe shelves and the straightening of another shelf, also a bedroom window has a small crack in it that needs replacing. We came back this arvo to find our missing door handles that our SS had come back to install through the day and a gift basket and our house name 'Colonial View'. Just lovely. The kicker was when we came back tonight to check the alarm system we also tried out the cavity sliding door between our kitchen and study. Last week a piece of gyprock was stuck. Well it was obviously still stuck as it has created a small hole in our WIR wall the size of a 50c piece. Lucky it is on the handover certificate paperwork. So we will be following that one up next week. Overall we are extremely happy with our new house and particularly want to thank our super efficicent SS for his hard work since taking over the job a couple of months ago. We also would like to mention our customer service officer as she was fantastic and always answered any questions big or small. It really did make the building process less stressful. McDonald Jones Homes - The Parklane http://ashobuild.blogspot.com/ https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34426 Hi AKG, We had a base tender of $592 for 31 squares from MC Donald Jones. It looks relatively cheaper than other builders. But I assume there are many hidden things that… 1 16834 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 11116 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 23481 |