Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17441Jul 02, 2017 7:18 pm Evening all, Has anyone opted to have first stair only in polished timber? If so, would you mind sharing the cost please? I have requested from Genneral Stairs, but they are painfully slow with their correspondence Also, it hadn't even crossed my mind, but in our electrical appointment last week, the consultant mentioned that the understairs storage is not lined as a standard. Is this right? I would assume that it would be? Cheers Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17442Jul 02, 2017 7:29 pm jellytot Evening all, Has anyone opted to have first stair only in polished timber? If so, would you mind sharing the cost please? I have requested from Genneral Stairs, but they are painfully slow with their correspondence Also, it hadn't even crossed my mind, but in our electrical appointment last week, the consultant mentioned that the understairs storage is not lined as a standard. Is this right? I would assume that it would be? Cheers Our understairs is lined. I insisted because it is a storage area that you can walk into. No charge for this. Light point and power point were extra. Also fully tiled. Tile Direct included it in their quote. Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17443Jul 03, 2017 7:09 am Took a tour of our site yesterday (was cleared in first to 2nd week of June) & glad to see that the slab been completed per schedule provided by SS. Frames will be delivered today and hopefully be up within 2 weeks. Hope the rest of the stages stays within the schedule too! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Building a Oceanside 36 @ Kellyville Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17444Jul 03, 2017 12:13 pm jellytot Evening all, Has anyone opted to have first stair only in polished timber? If so, would you mind sharing the cost please? I have requested from Genneral Stairs, but they are painfully slow with their correspondence Also, it hadn't even crossed my mind, but in our electrical appointment last week, the consultant mentioned that the understairs storage is not lined as a standard. Is this right? I would assume that it would be? Cheers Hi jellytot I don't remember exactly the amount for doing two last stairs in timber finish was $700 paying to carpet call and $150 to the staircase people to get it done. ..finally I didn't do it. . Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17445Jul 03, 2017 12:20 pm wingzee Took a tour of our site yesterday (was cleared in first to 2nd week of June) & glad to see that the slab been completed per schedule provided by SS. Frames will be delivered today and hopefully be up within 2 weeks. Hope the rest of the stages stays within the schedule too! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi wingzee where you building Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17446Jul 03, 2017 2:46 pm Mrs RS wingzee Took a tour of our site yesterday (was cleared in first to 2nd week of June) & glad to see that the slab been completed per schedule provided by SS. Frames will be delivered today and hopefully be up within 2 weeks. Hope the rest of the stages stays within the schedule too! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi wingzee where you building Hi Mrs RS We are building in Kellyville NSW Building a Oceanside 36 @ Kellyville Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17448Jul 04, 2017 5:49 pm Mrs RS Hi guys just wanted to know about the prelining walk through. .is it done before electrical has been done or after. .. Definitely after Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17449Jul 04, 2017 6:22 pm bumblebee1985 Mrs RS Hi guys just wanted to know about the prelining walk through. .is it done before electrical has been done or after. .. Definitely after Yes your electrical and data/aircon duct work will be done before the meeting. You will see a yellow cross on the ground where the aircon duct will be(above). So this meeting is the last chance if you want to make any changes to location of certain provisions. Because once gyprock goes on it'a too late. Visit my blog Clarendon Bronte 25 Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17450Jul 04, 2017 10:16 pm ajedi2k bumblebee1985 Mrs RS Hi guys just wanted to know about the prelining walk through. .is it done before electrical has been done or after. .. Definitely after Yes your electrical and data/aircon duct work will be done before the meeting. You will see a yellow cross on the ground where the aircon duct will be(above). So this meeting is the last chance if you want to make any changes to location of certain provisions. Because once gyprock goes on it'a too late. Thanks guys. .we having the meeting on Friday looking forward to some work been done.... Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17451Jul 05, 2017 5:04 pm Hi All, I have my tender appointment this week, can someone advise what kind of preparation I need to do before tender appointment and what to expect as a outcome? Can someone through some light please Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17452Jul 05, 2017 6:43 pm I think a lot depends on how good your sales consultant is. If they are experienced and know how much things cost, then your tender should come in around what you've previously been quoted. Our guy slightly over quoted us, and we were pleasantly surprised when it came in slightly under. In terms of what you can control, I wish I had added in things I was likely to want before tender. I was so focused on keeping final the number as small as possibly that I messed up a lot of things. In hindsight I would have upgraded tiles to gold, allowed myself $10000 electrical budget, plus added in a bit of an allowance for colour appt. Problem we faced was we signed our contract with silver tiles and a $5000 electrical allowance. We took that paperwork to the bank, and got approved for x. We then had our appointments and spent an extra $14000 ($6500 tiles, $4000 extra on electrical, $3000 at colours). We had to find this money ourselves as our loan was already approved for the earlier amount. Just because you've included it in tender doesn't mean you have to spend the full $10000 on electrical, or if you see a cheaper tile you like, you can get credit for what you don't spend. You don't have to use all the money the bank loans you, but it's hard to get more once you've already been approved for the loan. Of course if you don't need finance or have extra cash to spend then this won't apply. On the whole tender isn't as scary as it's built up to be. It's really just you formally saying Clarendon I want to build with you. Hope your experience is a good one. Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17453Jul 05, 2017 7:10 pm BrisBuild I think a lot depends on how good your sales consultant is. If they are experienced and know how much things cost, then your tender should come in around what you've previously been quoted. Our guy slightly over quoted us, and we were pleasantly surprised when it came in slightly under. In terms of what you can control, I wish I had added in things I was likely to want before tender. I was so focused on keeping final the number as small as possibly that I messed up a lot of things. In hindsight I would have upgraded tiles to gold, allowed myself $10000 electrical budget, plus added in a bit of an allowance for colour appt. Problem we faced was we signed our contract with silver tiles and a $5000 electrical allowance. We took that paperwork to the bank, and got approved for x. We then had our appointments and spent an extra $14000 ($6500 tiles, $4000 extra on electrical, $3000 at colours). We had to find this money ourselves as our loan was already approved for the earlier amount. Just because you've included it in tender doesn't mean you have to spend the full $10000 on electrical, or if you see a cheaper tile you like, you can get credit for what you don't spend. You don't have to use all the money the bank loans you, but it's hard to get more once you've already been approved for the loan. Of course if you don't need finance or have extra cash to spend then this won't apply. On the whole tender isn't as scary as it's built up to be. It's really just you formally saying Clarendon I want to build with you. Hope your experience is a good one. Thanks for the information, it really helps me think about certain points... Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17455Jul 07, 2017 8:10 am Hello All, New to building a house. Signed up with Clarendon to build in Box Hill, NSW. First tender appointment in on Monday 10th July. Any tips for the meeting - information overload at the moment! Thanks Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17456Jul 07, 2017 11:47 am Darth Vader Hello All, New to building a house. Signed up with Clarendon to build in Box Hill, NSW. First tender appointment in on Monday 10th July. Any tips for the meeting - information overload at the moment! Thanks Hi Darth Welcome! See a few comments above ^^^ T Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17457Jul 07, 2017 12:08 pm Darth Vader Hello All, New to building a house. Signed up with Clarendon to build in Box Hill, NSW. First tender appointment in on Monday 10th July. Any tips for the meeting - information overload at the moment! Thanks Hi Darth Exciting times! We are also having our tender next week (12th July). We are building at Elara, Marsden Park. This forum has loads of information. All the best! Building at Elara, Marsden Park Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17458Jul 07, 2017 10:22 pm All the best guys with your tender appointment. ..it's very exciting time just add what you want to upgrade...it's basically Going through sheets of paper saying what's all included in your packages. . Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17459Jul 08, 2017 11:25 am Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 17460Jul 09, 2017 2:43 pm So some updates from our prelining meeting have the electrical done rough air con and data done. ..lower roof 90% completed 10% to be done when scaffolds came down. ..having some positivity back in the house after so many delays... the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 6731 The two 15mm holes are obviously not compliant. 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