Matt's Brando - We're in!

DrMatt · Jul 08, 2011 6:16 pm

Beaumont Gloss Green Tea

deb17 · Jul 09, 2011 10:28 am

DrMatt

It's brilliant. I'd buy everyone at Bentley a cold one if I could.

wait until you move in, it's pretty hard to find anything wrong with the house. Our 3 month maintenance will be all minor fixes, we have been in 3 weeks and the list is very small. The carpet is just beautiful to walk on Matt, I think you got the Dark Stone, the same as ours, it's luxurious.

DrMatt · Jul 09, 2011 1:20 pm

Carpets look good. The cleaner was on site today so I got to have a peek inside.

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deb17 · Jul 09, 2011 1:49 pm

Looks great Matt, someone looks very happy.

DrMatt · Jul 10, 2011 3:17 pm

The cleaner has prettied it up a bit

We just have screens, mirrors, some paint on the garage, porch and alfresco, a driveway and we're done.

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deb17 · Jul 10, 2011 3:36 pm

Looks great Matt, we have a problem today, water is pooling at the side of the house where the retaining wall is. It's heading to our back door, where the patio is.

Tarleaf · Jul 11, 2011 12:40 am

wow Matt!! you're moving with the speed of light!! well, not quiet, but you get the meaning!!

I have to say yours has been one of the fastest build I've seen on homeone! And it looks picture perfect

How much better does the house look when it's all cleaned up!!!

deb17 · Jul 11, 2011 2:37 pm

It is quick Matt, Bentley did ours in 16 weeks, I think they will do yours in under that :lol:

. I was rapt with how quickly they did ours, you must be very happy.

MelNRob · Jul 12, 2011 12:41 pm

I agree with Tarleaf Matt! Seems like only yesterday that i stumbled across this thread when i was looking for brick examples. The house looks fantastic! You must be so rapt. REally love your colour selections. Congratulations!

DrMatt · Jul 12, 2011 6:13 pm

Yep, we're rapt. Feeling very lucky, and hopeful that Friday's inspection will go without drama. It was busy out there this morning, with last minute things like adjusting windows and doors, silicone, painting front door and so on, but looking great.

deb17 · Jul 12, 2011 7:12 pm

Good Luck for Friday Matt, remember to take a check list, i'm sure you won't have any major problems.

DrMatt · Jul 14, 2011 5:48 pm

PCI tomorrow. Wish me luck!

deb17 · Jul 14, 2011 6:35 pm

DrMatt

PCI tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Good Luck Matt, make sure you ::study::

everything :lol:

Just think, if all goes well, you will be in next week. ::cheerleader::

you will be fine, Bentley do a good house. Our neighbor is building with Simmonds, they started building ages before we did, there roof was on when our block got cut, he came to visit last night, he still isn't in and we have been in for a month.

deb17 · Jul 15, 2011 4:39 pm

Hi Matt, so how did it go?

DrMatt · Jul 15, 2011 5:11 pm

Mostly good. We spent 3 hours carefully looking it over and found very few issues. Darren has delivered a lovely house 5 months ahead of contract and I count myself very, very fortunate. More than that he and Bentley have spent a lot of time and effort to make sure I was comfortable with everything every step of the way. They have been great and if I had to do it all over again I would go with the same builder without a moments hesitation.

Darren has done his best to complete the build before I went away to Japan for work, as requested, and I really appreciate it. I was a bit disappointed to arrive today to find the driveway had not been poured, but that's down to the tight time lines I requested and the rain this week. Hopefully it can be done soon, I'd like to see it before I fly out. The lack of driveway was the only major issue.

There was one other item at inspection involving a hand basin that wasn't level and, though I couldn't find a leak, noticed that water had collected under it. Apart from that all issues were minor and cosmetic. The usual paint touch ups and a few minor cosmetic cracks and chips (actually very few).

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deb17 · Jul 15, 2011 7:34 pm

That's great Matt, glad to hear it all went well. Love the light fittings, we replaced ours very quickly.

Tarleaf · Jul 15, 2011 11:32 pm

WOW! Congratulations Matt!!! Kudos to your builder. So when is the move??

DrMatt · Jul 16, 2011 7:33 am

First week of August, after I get back from my conference.

MelNRob · Aug 04, 2011 10:14 pm

Congrats on the very quick build Matt! be sure to update us with some more piccies

All the best with the move!

Mel

DrMatt · Aug 07, 2011 4:19 pm

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I survived! ::hyst::

An eventful few weeks but we are in! I took the keys on Tuesday, appliances went in Wednesday, the heating was commissioned on Thursday and we started heading back and forth with a truck on Friday (all while trying to catch up on my teaching load after spending a week and a half at a conference in Japan. The house is great and we're slowly starting to fill it with our stuff. I'm absolutely exhausted, completely beat ::dizzy::

No issues with the house at all though (well, yet).

One problem I didn't expect though, is that Telstra called me on Wednesday to let me know that the phone and internet connection booked for Saturday wouldn't happen because they didn't have any wire in the the ground on my street. I just about hit the roof! Sure it's a new release and we're the first house finished on the street, but it's a new release of a fairly established suburb and all the streets around me have internet (I can see their wireless networks on my laptop), and it titled in October last year for goodness sake! How long does it take to pop a bit of copper in a hole!? So in the mean time I'm paying through the nose for mobile broadband while they get their act together (Mid September, apparently).

Oh well rant over. Apart from that minor issue we're loving it! No photos though, it's all boxes and full of mud tracked through during the move and I'm far too exhausted to break out the mop right now ::smile::