Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 25Oct 08, 2013 8:14 am Building with Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 Building Photos : http://s758.photobucket.com/user/zultbe ... 32%20Build Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 35Oct 25, 2013 2:17 pm yes they charge for installation of all owner supplied item, we replaced the master bedroom fan with a martec wraptor, exhaust fans are extra as well. At this stage you dont really need to be bothered about fans, once the plans are drawn up yu will get the clipsal interview, just make sure you have a few K in your budget to cover this... we had $1,000 added to our quotation to cover clipssal costs and it wasnt enough... and that was with us supplying our own lights and fan Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 36Oct 25, 2013 7:11 pm here are some prices for fans and installation for a...... -clipsal supplied and installed fan $329 -clipsal supplied and installed fan with light $365 -install owner supplied fan with light $147 We went with the clipsal fans throughout, but installed a martec wraptor fan/light ($285) in the master bedroom costing us $432 in total Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 37Nov 25, 2013 2:52 am Thanks for that bgkdavis, I have asked for prices & am waiting... Some prices I get, some I dont lol. BTW love how your house turned out! We had Martec fans throughout old house & love them. So want to get them again. Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 38Nov 26, 2013 8:50 am Hi Everyone It's been a while since I updated this and only because there has been nothing to update. We were waiting on the 2nd tender to come back with the amendments we wanted and it took 5 weeks to get back to us. Dh and I are not impressed with Coral Homes and there lack of a) communication and b) their lack of urgency to do anything . If it wasn't for the fact that this is the house we want then we were going to go to another builder. We even went and approached 3 other builders. This experience so far has not been pleasant and has left a sour taste in our mouths. In total it's been 4 months from when we paid our deposit to receiving the 2nd tender and that IMO is pretty slack. There was no communication from the SC at all until DH sent a rather pointed email. You don't mind waiting for things as long as there is great communication between the SC and yourselves. The fact that we keep being told "such and such weeks" and then having to wait another week or 2 without any communication is pretty poor customer service. Is it really that hard to pick up a phone and say 'Hi Porsche I'm still waiting on the tender costing's to come back and I've been chasing it up blah blah blah'. Tell us a load of hogwash for all we care but make contact! I know we are not the only customers to have had dramas with Coral. There are 4 other people who are having the very same issues. We have however signed a contract (hoping it's not a huge mistake ) and chosen our tiles. We are choosing all our colours this week. We finally got the 'M' class for our soil (which it should have been in the first place) so saw a great reduction in the over all $$$. So with the savings, we have added a Soffit, driveway, alfresco slab & soffit slab. Even though we liked the 'Elliott' portico we can't have the portico be any further forward than the front of the media room. Which is why the soffit is better for us. The engineers have already made all our eves 450 rather than the 600 they usually are because of the rear boundary. There were some things missing off of the contract which will be made as 'variations'. So hopefully they don't stuff it up. Building with Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 Building Photos : http://s758.photobucket.com/user/zultbe ... 32%20Build Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 39Dec 31, 2013 11:25 pm Kameko Hi Porsche, Nice to see another Coral Home thread. We are building the Longreach and have used Boral Blue Rio as our brick choice, which is defiantly not in the standard range. I do have the brick range for Coral somewhere around in my email if you PM me your email I can forward that on to you. I look forward to following your build. Would you be kind enough to also e-mail it to me? I would love to check out the range also. Currently deciding on which coral home to go with. We like a few Re: Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 40Apr 13, 2014 10:03 am Hi Everyone Well we finally have some progress . We got our start date as the 11th March. So earth works started and then the following week plumbing was done and the slab was layed. We lost 3 days due to the rain but the frame went up in 2 days with 1 minor hiccup which was fixed the very next day. Last week the roof tiles went on and also all the solar panes and house wrap insulation. The roof insulation is sitting in the roof cavity waiting to be installed and all our windows and the front door have been delivered and are sitting in the garage. The brick layer rang Friday and he's starting Easter Saturday. So far things have been running smoothly (touch wood). It pays to speak to your tradies directly as we were able to have our retaining wall dug out with the drot while he was doing our earth works and we just paid him directly. We also changed our mortar from "natural' (which is standard) to off white via the bricklayer paying him directly as well. So I'll start uploading some pics to photo bucket and I'll add the link to my sig. The tradies have been excellent to deal with so far and really are a credit to Coral. Building with Coral Homes - Casuarina 32 Building Photos : http://s758.photobucket.com/user/zultbe ... 32%20Build Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 14335 In Qld it is a requirement that a builder must have a cost breakdown, for building a home to the same specification, with the same inclusions and the same finish. So ask… 1 4377 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 76612 |