Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3201Jul 30, 2015 10:37 am Yep, need more $$ to upgrades, sad now Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3202Jul 30, 2015 11:06 am No Snyde, they didn't give any reason, but I found that the truffle and biscotti bricks have been upgraded to Category 4 now. Sorry, I didn't get any photographs of the inspirational boards because I didn't find them very attractive. But tomorrow hope to go there again, so will take some and post. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3203Jul 30, 2015 11:23 am Hi Mirz, I am new to this forum and felt that this thread is very informative with so much knowledge/experience being shared. Your house looks beautiful (colours, interior, exterior - very much a display home). I am also planning to go with Henley for a Sahara Belle. Land is expected to be titled in Nov, and I might look at this forum for much valuable experiences. Cheers, Mrig Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3204Jul 30, 2015 11:37 am Gees, they're just making it harder for clients. Good luck with your selections then. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3205Jul 30, 2015 11:37 am Neth04 Hi Mirz, built my own thread but not sure how to attach a signature so again posting in your thread. Yesterday we went to colour selections and were in for a surprise, all the colour cards gone and replaced with inspirational boards. We went prepared with Truffle scheme and were quite flustered to see the change. So we had to begin from scratch, selecting bricks and all. I wanted to ask re. the towers behind the island bench. I wanted one long tower and the rest in small cabinets, but was strictly advised against it by the colour consultant. So instead got all small cabinets. I went through your pages Mirz and found that your tower has also got all smaller cabinets. Should I insist on the one tall tower and the rest in small cabinets or will it look too ugly or is there any practical reason apart from being not symmetrical? I really wanted that tower to store the dinner sets. Will post our selections and activate my thread soon. bummer, no more concept boards. That's gonna hurt lot of clients. but they change every now and then to lift their profits. You will notice popular bricks climbing up categories when their market price stays same. Unfortunately, you won't budge them on this practice. But I'm surprised why colour adviser is against your one long tower in wall pantry? Personally I don't think it would look odd. But we dining set storage even small ones are pretty big I'm pretty sure you can store any dinner set in one of them. They are pretty deep. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3206Jul 30, 2015 11:51 am mrig Hi Mirz, I am new to this forum and felt that this thread is very informative with so much knowledge/experience being shared. Your house looks beautiful (colours, interior, exterior - very much a display home). I am also planning to go with Henley for a Sahara Belle. Land is expected to be titled in Nov, and I might look at this forum for much valuable experiences. Cheers, Mrig thanks and welcome to the forums. Belle is a beautiful house, hope you would be finding whole process very entertaining and not hectic pls feel free to ask any question here. members are so helpful on H1. Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3207Jul 31, 2015 8:39 am Tip: Your builder will install GPOs in meter box for tradies to use electricity. But these GPOs are not there to stay. They will remove them after midway through the build. My advise is to request your SS to leave at least one GPO behind. Trust me this GPO will be handy for you later on. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3210Aug 01, 2015 9:37 pm Hey Mirz - are your lintels above the large rear windows and alfresco painted? sassid ...building the Emporio with MainVue/Henley BLOG: http://thewaldorfproject.blogspot.com.au/ HOMEONE THREAD : https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75753 Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3211Aug 02, 2015 8:42 am lintels are painted in alfresco. they are not visible on top of sliders. but on all other windows lintels are not painted. they are galvanised anyway. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3212Aug 02, 2015 3:43 pm Thanks, ours are not yet painted but have crap allover them from brickies so I want them painted. sassid ...building the Emporio with MainVue/Henley BLOG: http://thewaldorfproject.blogspot.com.au/ HOMEONE THREAD : https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75753 Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3213Aug 02, 2015 10:27 pm snyde Charles' was just recently promoted according to my admin, and is now our CM... he's who I wanted as our SS. My best mate had him, and had hardly any issues. Said he was a real legend on his build. Haven't heard of D.I. Just my thought on ss and construction managers.. well they are all the same.. they all work for ahenley at the end of the day not us! We are building in Northern region too and Charles is our construction manager.. I know because we are having problems with the workmanship of our bricklaying so we escelated the issue hence found out that our CM is Charles and even Charles has passed it as acceptable! So i think its just pure luck.. also I would recommend everyone to read through section 13 of their contract which describes acceptable workmanship of henley bricklaying.. it states that upto 20mm mortar thickness is acceptable when the guidelines state 10mm or +5 maximum.. anyways our house is complete but are not accepting it the way it is we have a building inspector booked for Tuesday morning if they still think they will do nothing about it once we have proof from an inspector I am going to take the photos of my house and hand it out to ppl at their display villages.. anyways sorry for long post but just wanted to warn you about these SS and CM.. Building Henley Lexington Lux Q3 Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3214Aug 03, 2015 8:28 am Sorry to hear about your bricks issue. TBH, I'm not surprised. Every time I read people over worried about colours selection, or a tap design, shake my head. Hope no one will get hit by such construction issues, or you will find helpless with these terms "acceptable", "within tolerance" or "within BCA". I know it sounds harsh but your building inspectors won't take you much further down the track either. You would be lucky to receive a response email from your inspector once you have paid his fee. Anyway, not trying to be negative but this is bitter reality of Victorian construction industry at least Good luck with rectifications. Even if they will re brick part of the house, it would be shade of bricks, different color render and you can pick of the excuses listed above. I just hate tradesmen with no work ethics and **** quality work. Unfortunately that's the crap we and builders have to deal with. We consider ourselves very lucky that in three months of post handover Henley has attended all our issues. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3215Aug 03, 2015 8:34 am Thanks tns. As mirz said though - think it's luck at the end of the day on the trades you get. At the end of the day, they're just contractors, and some are working for multiple volume builders - all they care about is getting their pay cheque at the end of every week. I just hope mine goes well. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3216Aug 03, 2015 10:29 am I had an experience on this weekend which would like to share with you all as it might prevent any major accident. I been to roof cavities of at least 10 houses and knows how careful I'll have to be when I'm up there. Wifey and kids were out on a birthday party. I went in roof space on the weekend to check something. I was very lucky to escape this opening almost 1m long and half a meter wide covered with insulation. This opening is going down almost 2.4m which is first floor height. It's literally like a death trap. if I would have fallen in and became unconscious, no one would know where and how I disappeared and won't be here today on H1. I'm not sure why and how it was left like this? God forbid, but this can lead to some terrible accident. I have notified SS this morning and still awaiting for a response. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3218Aug 03, 2015 1:00 pm mirz I had an experience on this weekend which would like to share with you all as it might prevent any major accident. I been to roof cavities of at least 10 houses and knows how careful I'll have to be when I'm up there. Wifey and kids were out on a birthday party. I went in roof space on the weekend to check something. I was very lucky to escape this opening almost 1m long and half a meter wide covered with insulation. This opening is going down almost 2.4m which is first floor height. It's literally like a death trap. if I would have fallen in and became unconscious, no one would know where and how I disappeared and won't be here today on H1. I'm not sure why and how it was left like this? God forbid, but this can lead to some terrible accident. I have notified SS this morning and still awaiting for a response. OMG.. how can they do such a thing and just leave it that way... they have no care for their customers at all! We have booked the inspection with New home inspections they seem very professional so fingers crossed for tomorrows inspection nothing else we can do. They are telling us its the type of brick truffle apparently causes these types of issue well no it doesnt Henley is building another house right infront of us and have used truffle bricks with perfect workmanship so thats just bull**** Building Henley Lexington Lux Q3 Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3219Aug 03, 2015 1:55 pm I'll try to take a photo and post it here for everyone to understand magnitude of danger can be due to such negligence. May be its not you but a Trade person you will hire in future to do some work in your roof. Re: Sahara Q1 - Post handover journey 3220Aug 03, 2015 5:39 pm mirz I had an experience on this weekend which would like to share with you all as it might prevent any major accident. I been to roof cavities of at least 10 houses and knows how careful I'll have to be when I'm up there. Wifey and kids were out on a birthday party. I went in roof space on the weekend to check something. I was very lucky to escape this opening almost 1m long and half a meter wide covered with insulation. This opening is going down almost 2.4m which is first floor height. It's literally like a death trap. if I would have fallen in and became unconscious, no one would know where and how I disappeared and won't be here today on H1. I'm not sure why and how it was left like this? God forbid, but this can lead to some terrible accident. I have notified SS this morning and still awaiting for a response. We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37214 The concreter will take and reuse. In my case I bought structural LVLs and scraped them back and used them as joists. 1 5176 you need to understand the breakdown of warranties. 90 warranty is considered as minor defects rectification period where as the longer ones are more major/structural… 1 5360 |