Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Redink Battleaxe - PCI complete - pics! 482Jun 05, 2015 12:06 pm Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - keys next week - post-handover list 489Jun 10, 2015 12:33 pm Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - keys next week - post-handover list 490Jun 10, 2015 12:42 pm Our build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70984 Re: Redink Battleaxe - keys next week - post-handover list 491Jun 10, 2015 12:48 pm Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - keys next week - post-handover list 492Jun 10, 2015 1:09 pm Our build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70984 Re: Redink Battleaxe - KEYS! 498Jun 21, 2015 12:01 pm Hi all, Thanks for your lovely comments! We got keys on Thursday SOOOOO happy!!!! As of yesterday at 1pm our driveway is complete...yup, all 90m2 our bricklayers were so fantastic! But the day wasn't without it's drama...Midland Brick incorrectly measured our drive so we were short on bricks, 20m2 short to be exact! thankfully one of the guy's that I work with came to the rescue and we were able to quickly grab a truck, head out to Midland Brick, grab some more bricks and unload them (by hand) on site. WHEW. I went around to have a look and half the neighbourhood were admiring it Handy advice: let your brickies do the measurements or do it yourself and triple check it (they told us that Midland Brick are almost always wrong). The big move will be next weekend and we'll put everything into the garage and then move it in once living room flooring is complete . Painting starts on Tuesday and the blackbutt flooring is being installed next Friday and the following Monday. Keeping with the theme of things spontaneous happenings...our carpet colour is the most popular and consequently won't be in stock until July 20 (I need to keep telling myself that building is fun ) so we'll have our bed on the concrete for a few weeks. I feel Ardie's pain with the lack of things ticked off from the PCI list. What annoyed me more was that our CLO told me everything was completed at handover (nope, it definitely wasn't). I would have preferred that she double checked (we wouldn't have minded if there were still things to finished off!) but now it's put bit of a sour note on what was a great home stretch for us A pic of keys and driveway (sorry it's a bit sandy!) below, and I'll get some more pics up once painting and flooring has started Hope everyone has a cracking weekend! x Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68804 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jadeshereejust/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/jadeshereejust/ Re: Redink Battleaxe - KEYS! 499Jun 21, 2015 6:24 pm Congratulations on getting your keys at long last Justy your house looks amazing and your driveway is very impressive What a shame re the PCI list - hopefully they're small things but as you say, avoidable last minute stress Do you think there is a way to avoid this from an owner's perspective? Could we potentially delay keys until it is fixed? Wonder how that would work. Hope all your week's plans work out as expected - looking forward to painting and flooring pics Re: Redink Battleaxe - KEYS! 500Jun 21, 2015 6:40 pm YAY!!!!! Just saw this and it made me so happy. Congrats on keys, that is really fantastic news. Sorry to hear about stuff not being finished. We still have a few things outstanding and have added quite a few more since moving in, but it is wonderful to have our own home. Very glad to hear that you were able to sort the driveway out, I can imagine the stress, but it does look beautiful! Good luck with the move and all the post handover stuff. This is the hard/fun part To answer your question MalSannie, yes you certainly can delay getting keys until absolutely everything is completed. Although I can almost guarantee that upon your parents moving in they'll find more stuff We were just in such a rush to get in with our lease up and other stuff going on that we accepted keys, and accepted their word for it that items had been completed, when in fact they had not. You (or your parents) could probably request a second walkthrough prior to getting keys and post PCI. Thanks for the insight! My plot is a new development so hopefully I won't have too much problem during build as everyone should be roughly building together. I also… 2 3373 Thanks Draftroom that definitely helps a heap. We are still at the very early stage of planning to see what kind of house would fit on our plot. While we are on a… 3 15767 Joe, it depends on your certifier but we are noticing the ones we deal with are really cracking down. So i would recommend you follow your approved landscaping plans to… 4 10972 |