Tender appointment tomorrow! Back on!

stonecutter1309 · Apr 04, 2008 10:07 am

Very excited as our tender appointment is tomorrow. We already know that we have H class soil but no idea what the contour survey results are.

Luckily thanks to all the great posts on homeone - I have a list of 72 questions on everything from tiles to electrical and brick selections to ask!

bobbuilder · Apr 04, 2008 11:00 am

Good news stonecutter!

We've had our tender with Wisdom already, and are now awaiting our Contract appt. They've been very good so far, and so much quicker to respond to queries than our experience with the larger project builders has shown. E.g. Wisdom turned the entire tender around in less time than it took our previous builder to even wait for an appointment to become available!

Be good to hear how it goes for you, so keep us posted.

stonecutter1309 · Apr 04, 2008 4:10 pm

A slight setback - apparently the contour survey was supposed to arrive this morning - but didn't - so our appointment is delayed :cry:

stonecutter1309 · Apr 24, 2008 1:17 pm

We are back on for our tender appointment tomorrow.

I was surprised that they are open on Anzac Day. Fingers crossed that the price doesn't give us conniptions

stonecutter1309 · Apr 24, 2008 2:44 pm

Yeah - I asked and they said they were open!

bobbuilder · Apr 24, 2008 3:52 pm

we have our contract & colour appointment tomorrow so might bump into you!

stonecutter1309 · Apr 24, 2008 4:03 pm

bobbuilder - we are there from 11am until however long it takes. look for the short asian gal and the tall white guy

Rob said that both he and Domenic will be there and they are trying to get a whole stack of appointments - both tender & contract done on the day.

Kryten · Apr 24, 2008 8:59 pm

I hope everything goes smoothly for you tomorrow

stonecutter1309 · Apr 26, 2008 9:51 am

Phew! What a meeting!

Apparently tender presentations take on average 1 hour - ours went for 3

However, we were very thorough, specified a lot of small things - privacy locks, fancy mirrors, extra course of tiles in the showeres etc - so that they are in our contract and not variations later.

Big thanks to everyone on Homeone - we had a list of about 50 questions to cover - and they were all taken care of. The CSR actually thought it was good that we'd put a lot of thought into everything now - rather than making PCVs once construction starts.

We did have a small heart flutter at the cost - but nothing we weren't really expecting to pay anyway!

Most surprising thing - an underground concrete 10,650L water tank was only $6.5k. Considering ahuang paid almost that much for a 2000L steel slimline one - I'm really happy!

stonecutter1309 · May 20, 2008 4:27 pm

Woohoo we have some prelim plans!

My inbox just received the elevations, full internal plans, shadow diagrams & electrical.

There's a lot to look at - the way I was going to go about it was:

1. Check that everything in our documented requests is on the plans (certain windows awning, window sizes etc)
2. Check that everything on some original rough drawings was a documented request & is in the plans - if not - then add them to the list
3. Then put a list to the builder of discrepancies or changes

Sound reasonable?

Southies · May 20, 2008 5:49 pm

Very

You sound like you've got it all together.........you go girl :!:

ahuang · May 22, 2008 2:41 pm

check if your downpipes crashed with your external lights...

stonecutter1309 · May 22, 2008 4:43 pm

ahuang - first thing I looked for on the elevation plans was the downpipes - didn't want one on my front facade

I'll put up some pics soon!

Amazingly we only found 11 things missing/incorrect in the prelim drawings

ahuang · May 22, 2008 5:18 pm

that's good!

Spend a few days in other houses in home world/display homes from other builders and you will want to change another 20 things...

Visit a few houses already built by the same builder and you will want to change another 10 things...

Then after 2 weeks of waiting, you will be shocked by the high prices your builder charge and decided to revert back 80% of those changes....

Then you noticed you wasted a few weeks on these and start feeling a bit upset about this...

That's what happened to us....

bobbuilder · May 23, 2008 4:19 pm

stonecutter1309

I'll put up some pics soon!

Any luck with the pics? Would be interesting to see...

stonecutter1309 · May 23, 2008 4:37 pm

Front facade:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee276/amanda_simple_savings/Frontofhouse.gif

Rear of house:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee276/amanda_simple_savings/Rearofhouse.gif

Side of house facing golf course:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee276/amanda_simple_savings/Golfcoursesideofhouse.gif

How are your plans going? No contract signing yet - they are still pricing some things we've requested that they don't usually do (sandstone cladding, special bathroom mirrors)

bobbuilder · May 23, 2008 4:45 pm

That looks fantastic... you've added a lot of extra windows on the golf course side. loads of natural light! Love the modern facade.

We;re almost ready to submit to council.. just waiting on confirmation that they have home warranty insurance in place before we pay the 5% (after the beechwood story i want to be sure our deposit is insured). I'll try and upload our elevations to our blog.

You not having air con by the way?

Rikster · May 23, 2008 4:59 pm

Wow, looks really funky !

Plenty on windows on the Golf Course side.

stonecutter1309 · May 23, 2008 6:13 pm

bobbuilder - the golf course side is North facing as well - perfect for all our living areas

We are having air con - the motor unit is down the side of the house closest to our neighbour. It was originally located at the rear (as it usually needs to be 3m from the boundary) - however Design Rules state that no air con units can be seen from the golf course. We'll see what the council says.

I wonder if the motor units can be insulated for sound?