Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 81Apr 04, 2014 4:44 pm Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 83Apr 05, 2014 4:24 pm Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 84Apr 05, 2014 6:53 pm We are in the same position. Slab went down mid February and the bricks, door frames etc have sat on the block for weeks. Our SS also said that we are waiting for a brickie as there is a shortage. Frustrating to wait, but not much that can be done. Fingers crossed that brickies arrive soon. My Building Thread:https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=66153 Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 85Apr 05, 2014 8:02 pm arauch We are in the same position. Slab went down mid February and the bricks, door frames etc have sat on the block for weeks. Our SS also said that we are waiting for a brickie as there is a shortage. Frustrating to wait, but not much that can be done. Fingers crossed that brickies arrive soon. You are right, very frustrating but like you said not much can be done. It is a bit of a shame that some people are left waiting for weeks while others have no wait though. Where are you building? Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 86Apr 05, 2014 8:07 pm You kids are sooooo cute . I really wonted boys yeh I have a 11 year old boy . I also have 5 other girls . My Nanna used to tell me the reson I had heaps of girls coz I gave my mum hell when I was growing up . Lol boys are great and sooo loving . I'm building with redink too ,I'm at lock up . Just keep ringing them for updates . I always ask them why I don't get phone call updates . They say we don't need to call you coz Your always calling us Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 87Apr 05, 2014 8:31 pm We are building with C0llier in Hammond Park. You are right... I drive through the estate and note all the new houses going up. We seem to be one of the last to get going in our stage and are seeing so many people almost finished when we are still waiting. Still, we can't do anything more about it than what we are doing... so we just have to be patient. We are happy for others, but a bit jealous too. LOL. Our time will come when brickies become available. [sigh] My Building Thread:https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=66153 Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 88Apr 06, 2014 9:36 am Our little Marcus is 11 months old today such an awesome age! Here's to waiting for brickies, I'm sure you will get a nice surprise very soon once that starts the rest will fly up! Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 89Apr 06, 2014 10:53 am Aww your little ones are so cute beejandcait We have also been waiting almost 6 weeks since slab down for a brickie...all this waiting really is the worst part of it all. I just want something to happen now! Fingers crossed we all get a brickie miracle soon!! Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 90Apr 19, 2014 11:00 pm Hii Beejandcait just thought I'd post and see how you are going? Hoping you have a brickie now and you have some lovely walls to look at! Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 91Apr 23, 2014 4:40 pm Rosienchris Hii Beejandcait just thought I'd post and see how you are going? Hoping you have a brickie now and you have some lovely walls to look at! Sorry for the late response, we've been away and had bubba's first birthday celebrations so lots to keep us busy which is just as well because on the house front... Sadly we are still looking at a site with bricks, materials but no walls! I don't want to sit here and be all negative but it hasn't been an easy journey. We got some great news just before we went on holiday that a Brickie had been found. We returned home from our holiday (which was 5 working days later) and rushed to the site to see some walls only to find nothing and no brickie. When we called our CLO they had no idea the brickie hadn't started. What rubbed salt in our wounds was the next door block (same builder) had their slab go down 2.5 weeks after us and there was a brickie busily working on their site. Anyway to cut a long story short we found our own Brickie through a serious of links and I believe the paperwork has all been sent through now and they will begin at the end of this week. I've been warned on here (forum) before about voicing your opinion etc so to be honest I am a little scared to keep this blog up to date and to say it as it is but this is exactly as it has played out and I'm not bagging our Builder because I don't know the ins and outs of all this but it seems a little ridiculous to pay a Builder all this money and in the end you have to source your own brickie - can't quite get my head around this one. Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 92Apr 23, 2014 8:33 pm So sorry for the stress. Yes, that seems very wrong that you have to do the tradie sourcing, def not how it should be. Makes me mad for you! Drove out to our block the other day, mostly to see how much progress had been made on the greenspace next to our block. The whole area titled in Nov/Dec and we're only just getting to prestart so I was a bit ticked when I saw 4 houses already at brick stage(all w celebrations!) and 2 other blocks had slabs and a few had taps. Sort of reminded me how abysmally slow and unproductive things are going. I guess I'd assumed they were all that way but obviously not! Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 93Apr 23, 2014 9:20 pm ardie514 So sorry for the stress. Yes, that seems very wrong that you have to do the tradie sourcing, def not how it should be. Makes me mad for you! Drove out to our block the other day, mostly to see how much progress had been made on the greenspace next to our block. The whole area titled in Nov/Dec and we're only just getting to prestart so I was a bit ticked when I saw 4 houses already at brick stage(all w celebrations!) and 2 other blocks had slabs and a few had taps. Sort of reminded me how abysmally slow and unproductive things are going. I guess I'd assumed they were all that way but obviously not! I feel for you to - it's not a great feeling when you see no progress and it can feel like you are stuck in that waiting stage forever. It shouldn't be this way but like I said before I'm not clued up on the ins and outs of all this but I have a few friends building with other builders that have progressed very quickly and smoothly and I have a few friends building with RI that have experienced the same. And I see so many houses going up around ours and wonder why their builders didn't take long to find a brickie in the shortage. We were one of the first 10 people that bought in pre-sale stage in our estate and are so far behind many other builds. Our Slab has been down for 8 weeks now - I just hope these Brickies will start on time with no delay because I'm not sure how much more disappointment I an take. I hope the ball gets rolling on your build asap too Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 94Apr 23, 2014 10:06 pm Oh you poor thing that's terrible! Can't believe you had to source your own brickie?! Far out! So if you didn't source your eon how much longer do you think you would have had to wait? You should never feel that you can't vent on your thread, we all do it, we completely understand your frustrations and like you say you have friends who have used the same builder who've experienced the same problems! I have to say it but they definitley are slower, we built with celebration homes last time and I know got a fact every stage was MUCH faster with them. Plus like Ardie said we've also got someone building a celebration home near us who had their land titles released the same day as us and they are at lock up. But I guess we've picked our plan and our builder so we just have to ride the redink wave at the end of the day we will end up in our lovely homes before we know it! Good luck with your brickie and fingers crossed he starts for you ASAP, once your bricks are up I'm sure the rest will fly through! Ps happy 1st birthday to your little man our little man turns 1 in two weeks Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 95Apr 23, 2014 10:20 pm Rosienchris Oh you poor thing that's terrible! Can't believe you had to source your own brickie?! Far out! So if you didn't source your eon how much longer do you think you would have had to wait? You should never feel that you can't vent on your thread, we all do it, we completely understand your frustrations and like you say you have friends who have used the same builder who've experienced the same problems! I have to say it but they definitley are slower, we built with celebration homes last time and I know got a fact every stage was MUCH faster with them. Plus like Ardie said we've also got someone building a celebration home near us who had their land titles released the same day as us and they are at lock up. But I guess we've picked our plan and our builder so we just have to ride the redink wave at the end of the day we will end up in our lovely homes before we know it! Good luck with your brickie and fingers crossed he starts for you ASAP, once your bricks are up I'm sure the rest will fly through! Ps happy 1st birthday to your little man our little man turns 1 in two weeks I dread to think how long, esp given our CLO and SS had no idea the Brickie hadn't turned up! He was about the 3rd Brickie they had for us but each time when the Brickie was due on site we would get given some excuse. Then the guy building the house next to ours didn't fill us with confidence about the quality of work of the Brickie he thought was meant to be on our site so we had to act fast and secure our own Brickie. I have no doubt RI will deliver us a quality home as the end result - we loved their practical living plans and found the quality in the show rooms very good - hence why we went with them. I just hope the process improves so we aren't feeling the way we are right now throughout our build. Have fun celebrating your little ones 1st birthday - I was a little stressed as I booked to go camping a year ago over Easter and had no idea my son's 1st bday would fall on Easter weekend. Was a little crazy but we got there! Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 96Apr 23, 2014 11:00 pm I think now you have sourced your own brickie you'll start to feel better about the progress! I'm looking forward to seeing photos of walls and you are absolutely right you will have a quality house at the end with a plan that you chose and love so it will work out in the end and I'm sure the rest of the build will be better than the last stressful 8 weeks of waiting that you've had! Oh yes that would have been crazy with Easter, I remember last Easter was the end of march and hubby and I went down south for the weekend as our last little holiday before baby came, I was 36 weeks pregnant and huge, a year goes so fast!! Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 97Apr 23, 2014 11:10 pm In the scheme of life all this waiting will seem like nothing. Just frustrating if I put too much thought into it happy birthday to both of your bubs. My youngest is almost 18 months and time does fly. Had to reschedule our prestart to coordinate with child care, not sure we'd be very productive with a little one running around! Hope your brickie starts quickly. Would always rather wait a bit for quality. Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 98May 29, 2014 11:38 pm Hii Just thought id check your thread to see how you are going? Did you get the brickie all sorted in the end? Hoping you have a roof by now! Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 99Jul 03, 2014 1:26 pm It's been a while since I checked in on the forum since my husband work sent us to Houston,TX for 3 months. Was very hard leaving the build as I had big plans to follow every stage so carefully and giving this up knowing we'd be overseas hasn't been easy but hey I have a good friend also building on our street that has been keeping me informed of progress and sending pics which has made it a little easier. So roof is on... Finally (material was stollen from our site twice!). We just spoke with our SS and Plastering work will be completed today and we are on schedule for lock up to be on Tuesday. We asked him what sort of time frame we are looking at he said 10-12 weeks from Lock Up. Hoping this will be the case as we arrive back in Perth end of August Now to read and catch up on everyone else's build Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... Re: Building with Redink - waiting for a brickie 100Jul 03, 2014 1:46 pm http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p77 ... 9b3166.jpg http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p77 ... d99ca3.jpg http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p77 ... 8e482f.jpg http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p77 ... 511b41.jpg http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p77 ... 0f69e4.jpg http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p77 ... 318d19.jpg http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p77 ... 9d997d.jpg Our First Build with Redink Found Block - 09/2012 Titles - 09/2013 Interior Design - 19/09/13 Prestart - 01/10/13 Building Permit - 04/01/14 Site Works - 7/02/14 Slab... 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