Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 17, 2012 5:13 pm Hi Guys,
Thanks for the other forum patrons for sharing your experiences with your new home builds. Reading your stories helped me a lot in understanding the process of building a new home. It's time to start sharing my experience building the Henley Empire Q1 in Victoria. Today, I went to the site and was surprised to see Henley has started on the site scrape. Next up I am hoping to see a temp fence and a portaloo soon!! Love to hear from you all! Cheers, Jag Re: Building with Henley Homes - Empire Q1 - Site Scarpe 2Sep 17, 2012 10:42 pm JagSRK Hi Guys, Thanks for the other forum patrons for sharing your experiences with your new home builds. Reading your stories helped me a lot in understanding the process of building a new home. It's time to start sharing my experience building the Henley Empire Q1 in Victoria. Today, I went to the site and was surprised to see Henley has started on the site scrape. Next up I am hoping to see a temp fence and a portaloo soon!! Love to hear from you all! Cheers, Jag Hi Jag, Really hope it all goes well for you Re: Building with Henley Homes - Empire Q1 - Site Scarpe 8Sep 20, 2012 6:55 am How exciting for you ours was site scraped last week never thought I would be so happy to see a toilet and a make shift fence. My build is documented under. (Our Hartley 361- our build) looking forward to seeing your progress. Re: Building with Henley Homes - Empire Q1 - Site Scarpe 12Sep 25, 2012 10:09 am JagSRK Survey for piers done today. I guess they will start digging the holes for the 50 odd piers for the slab. If you don't mind me asking, did they tell you why you need them and how much they intend to charge you for those piers? The one positive about that many piers is at least your house will not move in 100 years! Re: Building with Henley Homes - Empire Q1 - Site Scarpe 13Sep 26, 2012 11:18 am Zerosignal JagSRK Survey for piers done today. I guess they will start digging the holes for the 50 odd piers for the slab. If you don't mind me asking, did they tell you why you need them and how much they intend to charge you for those piers? The one positive about that many piers is at least your house will not move in 100 years! Its actually screw piling system not piers. I was mistaken. The soil report advised to go with M class slab with screw piles due to large fill and weak soil. Also the site is old dam site sitting in a valley!! The screw piling system costed us 22K. Re: Building with Henley Homes - Empire Q1 - Blog 17Sep 29, 2012 7:15 pm Finally got some time to sit and write a blog about the home build. After reading so many blogs on home builds and learning a lot for you guys, I thought it is my time to give back.
Building with Henley Homes - Empire Q1 - Site Scarpe 19Oct 01, 2012 12:09 pm Currently at the site. Happy to see one guy closing up all the drainage trenches. Can't wait for the slab to be poured soon. As per our admin, it should happen this week. Fingers crossed! Btw, updated the blog about our experience with Henley so far. Wow I hadn't realised things had gotten that pricey in just a couple of years since I built, that is crazy with how much land is now costing if you aren't lucky enough to… 3 7136 We hired Darbecca to do every stage inspection, and I strongly recommend them to anyone that asks me. They were amazing. Thorough reports with photos at every stage,… 6 7146 i would not be signing anything on the day read your contract about when builder submits final invoice generally, have to meet builder within 7 days of receiving final… 1 4748 |