Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Snaggers Home - Nearly Finished!!! 281Dec 08, 2011 1:24 am Custom build Perth Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=44112 Purchased block: May 2009 Building approval: July 2011 Bricks complete: Jan 2012 Re: Snaggers Home - Nearly Finished!!! 282Dec 08, 2011 9:29 am For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Snaggers Home - Nearly Finished!!! 287Dec 17, 2011 5:27 pm Custom build Perth Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=44112 Purchased block: May 2009 Building approval: July 2011 Bricks complete: Jan 2012 Re: Snaggers Home - FINISHED & MOVED IN!!! 293Dec 18, 2011 7:01 pm Building in Adelaide, SA Slab poured 08/09/2011 Handover 18/01/2012! WORLD CONCEPT HOMES Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=44725 Re: Snaggers Home - FINISHED & MOVED IN!!! 296Jan 20, 2012 12:26 am Pauankim Well done SS your place looks fab!! Cant wait to see your landscaping pics Ditto that , doesn't look half bad for the beginning of a move, my place looked like a Vietnam war nightmare when moving in. Two months later and I was still finding the neighbors pets buried under a pile of boxes in the spare rooms. How's the progress now. Timeline Aug 08-Land Mar 09-Demo/Titles Sept 10-Handover No1 Sept 11-Handover No2 April 12-Sold No2 Aug 14-Land/Demo Jan 15-Slabs viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25736 Re: Snaggers Home - FINISHED & MOVED IN!!! 297Jan 26, 2012 4:19 pm Hi all! Sorry for the slightly extended leave of absence, but I've been busy enjoying my new house Thanks for all your well wishing. I've spent the last few days outside in the searing heat with some dedicated mates and the obligated family member (love ya dad!) & beautiful girlfriend digging trenches for ag pipe to disperse the roof runoff/stormwater. In total we probably dug about 35metres worth of 600mm trenches, which we then put 50-100mm of blue metal in the bottom, laid tge ag pipe, plumbed it in to the drains, added mroe blue metal and back filled! Also skimmed some sand around in the front yard to bulk up around the retaining wall where my mate took a little too much away, but haven't quite finished yet. Landscaping is set to start on the 7th with the irrigation and should be finished on the 9th (front and rear). That will happen while I'm at work so you'll have to to wait for pics, but I'll try get the ones of our awesome efforts from the last few days up for ya'll to have a gander at. P.S. Also got my latest tenant living in the house too. My best mates girlfriend has moved into the other back room, bringing the live in population to 3 (although I'm only part time live in ) Re: Snaggers Home - FINISHED & MOVED IN!!! 298Jan 29, 2012 10:04 pm Ok, so I have finally managed to get dining chairs!!! Woot Woot! The first lot that came with the table were stuffed, so they wrote the whole lot off and let me keep the table with a full store credit, which I used to order a new set of chairs. Anyways, last week I went in and after a quick call to the supplier, it turns out theres none left and they're not making any more! Bugger. Thought, I'm in a bit of a hurry and wasn't sure what to do, so I just left the order in limbo with the intention of going back to claim it later. Monday rolled around and I received a phone call saying my chairs were in. Must've been in transit which is why there were none left Anyways, here they are! Also, I've started on the landscaping works. I've had the front yard levelled out by a mate with a bobcat to the required level for the landscaping company to do there thing, and we've put in 35 metres of Ag Pipe for all the downpipes out the back of the house (but not the 4 down the dead side). One of the front pipes was already piped away somewhere, and after a bit of probing we found a soak well. Saved us digging another 10 metre trench for the 2 front downpipes cos we just plummed the second one into it as well. We had to dig about 40 metres of trench about 600mm deep....on a 35+C day. Thankfully Dad and a cppl of mates helped me dig it all out and put it all together. Borrowed Dad's gazebo which made a HUGE difference letting us work in the shade Also kudos to the gf for keeping us well watered and also lending a hand on the shovels I've still got a little more digging to do when I get back from work next week. One of the drains is crooked and on a lean so will be digging it up again to straighten it all out. Also gotta skim some sand from the back yard to bring down the level a little and will be dumping it out the front to bulk up around the retaining wall where my mate got a bit carried away with his bobcat Gotta have it all done before the 7th though because thats when the landscapers move in to get it all prettied up! Looking forward to being able to sit back and watch my grass grow with a beer in hand Re: Snaggers Home - FINISHED & MOVED IN!!! 299Jan 29, 2012 10:48 pm nice work and look at all that lovely sand. If you want to give your gardens a bit of a helping hand before the landscapers come in you can buy bulk bentonite clay in bags form the parkland plant nursery ( Lot 11 picton-boyanup rd) and the spa and pool place jsut off picton road in bunbury can get in zeolite for you or I believe you can buy it at the clark rubber.( the guys at the busso one told me all stores stock it. they call it zelbrite) get a couple of bags of each into that sand. Re: Snaggers Home - FINISHED & MOVED IN!!! 300Jan 29, 2012 11:12 pm kexkez nice work and look at all that lovely sand. If you want to give your gardens a bit of a helping hand before the landscapers come in you can buy bulk bentonite clay in bags form the parkland plant nursery ( Lot 11 picton-boyanup rd) and the spa and pool place jsut off picton road in bunbury can get in zeolite for you or I believe you can buy it at the clark rubber.( the guys at the busso one told me all stores stock it. they call it zelbrite) get a couple of bags of each into that sand. Hi kexkez! What does each of them do? Joe, it depends on your certifier but we are noticing the ones we deal with are really cracking down. So i would recommend you follow your approved landscaping plans to… 4 10928 Hi Simeon, Thank you for laying it down for us. Makes sense. Appreciate it very much. Have a nice day. Cheers 2 8971 interesting situation what happened after builder issued final invoice? did you list as defect or not does the building surveyor have any responsibility? ie. issuing… 13 46866 |