Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13944Apr 06, 2016 5:42 pm Building a modified Madison 39 with Clarendon Homes in Tennyson homeone link: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79106 Blog Link: https://minandb.wordpress.com/ Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13945Apr 06, 2016 5:44 pm Building a modified Madison 39 with Clarendon Homes in Tennyson homeone link: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79106 Blog Link: https://minandb.wordpress.com/ Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13946Apr 06, 2016 5:45 pm We received our final invoice today... We were both quite shocked!!! Is that what you received KandRCH? Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13948Apr 06, 2016 6:20 pm kimisstressed We received our final invoice today... We were both quite shocked!!! Is that what you received KandRCH? Building the Fairmont 38 with upgrades @ Castle Hill NSW Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13949Apr 06, 2016 6:21 pm Haven't had a walk through yet... He's hoping to hand over before end of April. I need to move out of this tiny house stat! The sooner the better! Who's building with Clarendon?? 13950Apr 06, 2016 6:29 pm We asked for a walk through today. Our SS is more than happy for us to do this weekly up to PCI so that we can all work together to minimise errors/defects and have a quick turnaround from PCI to handover. We are the same..us four have been living in this tiny place since last February and I'm well and truly over it!!!! Building the Fairmont 38 with upgrades @ Castle Hill NSW Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13951Apr 06, 2016 7:36 pm KandRCH FINALLY received our PCI paperwork today!! Our stuff ups are getting sorted out thanks to our SS. House is looking great. We have a big week planned next week then main floor tiles following. We should have handover first week in May. And we get our initial site costs back!! here are some photos from today.. Loving the space and storage Hi KandRCH, congratulations! Your house looks amazing! Glad to know stuff are getting sorted by your SS. Building Sheridan 34 (38 after upgrades) @ Kellyville, NSW Check out our Clarendon Building Progress Blog Homeone Topic: Clarendon Casadream Build Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13952Apr 06, 2016 8:30 pm Thanks guys..I'm starting to get excited again..finally. I'm starting to imagine how the house will be furnished and how much we are going to love coming back home!! Building the Fairmont 38 with upgrades @ Castle Hill NSW Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13953Apr 06, 2016 8:31 pm We have had no activity on our house for 2 days in a row - feeling very low at the moment after the huge progress last week. Have sent numerous message to our SS, no response. Naturally sent a message to the 'new Construction Area Manager' - he calls me back and tells me that I have to wait for the weekly update. Based on the meeting we had with the Construction Area Manager, he told us there only 8-10 weeks before our house will be completed. This means that only 8 times we can squeeze information out with regards to the construction of OUR house which we are paying Clarendon huge amount of $$$$ to build. Are we just suppose to wait silently to receive the update and react when Clarendon's already stuffed up and further delay the build? We totally don’t understand why there’s reluctance from Clarendon's part to be as transparent, open to their customers and share information on the construction of OUR house. All we’re asking for is to be kept informed of the construction of OUR house. This places us less than 8 weeks (apparently) from the completion of our build – the installation of the entire internal walls on the top floor insulation nearly got missed to be completed if we had not called it out – before the gyprock installation. To make matters worse, our SS called us to relay message from the 'new' Construction Area Manager threatening he will put our construction on hold - what is that? We don't appreciate being threatened bullied We ask for more information and Clarendon slaps us and tells us they would put our construction on hold because of it? Building Sheridan 34 (38 after upgrades) @ Kellyville, NSW Check out our Clarendon Building Progress Blog Homeone Topic: Clarendon Casadream Build Who's building with Clarendon?? 13954Apr 06, 2016 8:42 pm Oh wow mrrrrt that's full on. I'm so glad we are nearly at the end of this crazy ride. I must say our SS feels sorry for us and is doing everything he can possibly do to speed things up for us while maintaining quality. I highly recommend you keep on top of things because as you pick things out that are wrong as you go it's easier to get them rectified sooner rather than later. Then hopefully your build won't be delayed. I must admit we had many days and sometimes weeks with no activity on site and that was so hard, frustrating and upsetting. All the best! Building the Fairmont 38 with upgrades @ Castle Hill NSW Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13955Apr 06, 2016 8:54 pm KandRCH Thanks guys..I'm starting to get excited again..finally. I'm starting to imagine how the house will be furnished and how much we are going to love coming back home!! Definitely very happy and excited for you KandRCH. Just hoping we can soon see the light at the end of this very long tunnel. Building Sheridan 34 (38 after upgrades) @ Kellyville, NSW Check out our Clarendon Building Progress Blog Homeone Topic: Clarendon Casadream Build Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13956Apr 06, 2016 8:57 pm mrrrrt We have had no activity on our house for 2 days in a row - feeling very low at the moment after the huge progress last week. Have sent numerous message to our SS, no response. Naturally sent a message to the 'new Construction Area Manager' - he calls me back and tells me that I have to wait for the weekly update. Based on the meeting we had with the Construction Area Manager, he told us there only 8-10 weeks before our house will be completed. This means that only 8 times we can squeeze information out with regards to the construction of OUR house which we are paying Clarendon huge amount of $$$$ to build. Are we just suppose to wait silently to receive the update and react when Clarendon's already stuffed up and further delay the build? We totally don’t understand why there’s reluctance from Clarendon's part to be as transparent, open to their customers and share information on the construction of OUR house. All we’re asking for is to be kept informed of the construction of OUR house. This places us less than 8 weeks (apparently) from the completion of our build – the installation of the entire internal walls on the top floor insulation nearly got missed to be completed if we had not called it out – before the gyprock installation. To make matters worse, our SS called us to relay message from the 'new' Construction Area Manager threatening he will put our construction on hold - what is that? We don't appreciate being threatened bullied We ask for more information and Clarendon slaps us and tells us they would put our construction on hold because of it? We had our area construction manager say the same thing that we had to sign off on our defect list before they would progress. I said we couldn't sign off if they hadn't resolved the issues and that things such as brick defects should not delay our build. It seems to be progressing now but at the time it really felt like they were bullying is. I never thought I would have to read so much on building standards as I have in the last six months! I also thought the communication would be a lot better than it has been. I also get frustrated when they do fixes which just look *******. A simple phone call to clarify/communicate what is going on would make a world of difference. Building a modified Madison 39 with Clarendon Homes in Tennyson homeone link: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79106 Blog Link: https://minandb.wordpress.com/ Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13957Apr 06, 2016 9:56 pm Does anyone have any pics of walk in pantry or walk I linen rooms with shelves? I like the shelves in the display but ours are different..with ugly pole bits Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Building the Fairmont 38 with upgrades @ Castle Hill NSW Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13958Apr 07, 2016 6:49 am I haven't taken a photo of ours but it looks similar to the wil at the display in capestone Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our post in the wil might be even bigger. I like that display wip that you have a photo of better as it would make the shelves more accessible. Building a modified Madison 39 with Clarendon Homes in Tennyson homeone link: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79106 Blog Link: https://minandb.wordpress.com/ Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 13959Apr 07, 2016 7:17 am Our WIP looks like the above picture. Carpentry hasn't been done for the WIL yet. I queried the SS on this. Apparently the kitchen people do the WIP and the regular carpenter does the WIL the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 6736 The two 15mm holes are obviously not compliant. The Dept of Fair Trading would love to see this one! Do the gutters pool water after it stops raining? Although it's… 4 7859 |