Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our Benham 33 journey 4422Feb 06, 2014 6:55 pm Modified Fernside 38 Rawson Homes Blog: http://www.thehousethatmatandjenbuilt.blogspot.com Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60501 Re: Our Benham 33 journey 4425Feb 07, 2014 7:14 am Modified Fernside 38 Rawson Homes Blog: http://www.thehousethatmatandjenbuilt.blogspot.com Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60501 Re: Our Benham 33 journey 4433Feb 08, 2014 6:02 am http://camdenbuild.blogspot.com.au/ by invite only please pm me Re: Our Benham 33 journey 4435Feb 10, 2014 7:31 am Modified Fernside 38 Rawson Homes Blog: http://www.thehousethatmatandjenbuilt.blogspot.com Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60501 Re: Our Benham 33 journey 4438Feb 11, 2014 10:17 am Interesting about the air conditioner, I haven't had a spare moment to cross check our contract. We didn't have any birthday specials or builders promos, just the add the caesarstone/air con/blue frames for $5,900 from memory. We have used the air conditioner more this summer than last, and it is more effective if you don't use both zones at once, on the occasional time we have, it didn't have enough grunt to get all the way to our bedroom, so we have screwed closed the vents on two of the bedrooms we don't use and it has helped a lot. Maintenance started 9 months ago and is still going, I have had a brand new front door (warranty issue with Corinthian) sitting in my front hall since before Christmas, at lest Rawson are going to foot the bill for the window frosting we had done after we moved in. Still waiting on glass replacement, bricks to be fitted to the inspection hole in the alfresco, and a replacement pump for our water tank. Most of these are booked in for Friday week, but I am over the whole thing. For those who follow my blog, I have temporarily closed it down, due to an increase in break and enters in our estate, and I just wanted to be careful about what info has been shared. I will probably lower the security settings again in the near future. Built the Seaview 36 with Rawson Homes - Read about it on my blog http://lamaisondemorgan.blogspot.com.au/ Re: Our Benham 33 journey 4439Feb 11, 2014 2:21 pm Hi All, Long time no post! We finished our final round of maintenance last week, was just a few plaster patchings and paint touch ups. Everything on my maintenance list has now been completed, which when reading through all the other issues seems like nothing in comparison! (either that or we're blind). We did have numerous issues through build, but being able to visit the build site quite often and double checking the paperwork and variations as we went through meant there weren't too many issues left standing by the time we did handover. I'm pretty happy with most of our trades, and especially our SS, who went above and beyond time and again to resend trades out, fix issues that were incorrect on his versions of paperwork compared to ours, and generally dealing with me calling him heaps! AirCon for us seems to work pretty well, even if we have the whole house going (3 zones), though we do have to pump it up to max fan setting. (and we had no specials, just the same as smorgzzz, the $5900 upgrade package) We're expecting our front fence shortly, and I need to organise the garage flooring and we should be done. All these once off purchases sure are expensive! Hello to all the new builders, I hope your experience goes as smoothly as possible. My main advice: 1. Don't sweat too much about anyone getting things wrong in the build, just point it out, be on top of where things are in your paperwork, and they WILL fix it. I always went back with the signed documents, variation numbers, descriptions, plans, whatever. I found that the paperwork the SS got ended up having quite a few differences than what we signed off on (for whatever reason). 2. Visit as regularly as you can, check out the major stages of build. 3. Get that independent inspection done. We only did one at PCI, but for the cost, recommend getting one done earlier before lock up too. Re: Our Benham 33 journey 4440Feb 11, 2014 4:22 pm Koroboo - what are you doing to your garage floor? We used a diamond grinder and then epoxy painted it, was about $500 from memory, best thing we did. It has reduced the dust being tracked through the house. Built the Seaview 36 with Rawson Homes - Read about it on my blog http://lamaisondemorgan.blogspot.com.au/ Any advice on how to ensure the kit home granny flat that im thinking of buying will get council approval. The kit home companys wont release plans without a deposit and… 0 7380 of course there are legal avenues. You've already mentioned it. Sue them. I find it odd that lawyers wouldnt be willing to take on the case, given CCT evidence and… 1 24044 "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 24156 |