Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Apr 23, 2014 11:55 am I have been reading some blogs and sharings in this website and found this very helpful and interesting. So I figured its probably worth sharing my experience now.
We have been looking at purchasing a piece of land in Mandurah/Rockingham to either live there (we currently live in Bertram) or rent it out (still deciding). With a bit of luck we managed to secure a lot in Lakelands near the school behind the display houses. Its a 600sqm (20m X 30m) lot in a lovely neighbourhood. So after going through a few builders and considering we don't want to spend too much on the building, we decided to go with Contentliving (built with them before). Content is very accomodating. Being a return customer, they are willing to give extras such as aircon, kitchen splashback, etc The design we chose is Wingrove with a little amendment to the original plan. We decided to convert the study at the front to be part of the master bedroom to cater for people with babies or kids who would like to keep the little ones in the same bedroom. Other than that, we asked the normal things like high ceiling in living areas + home theatre, dishwasher recess, extra lightings, etc. I must say so far the experience with Content is quite good - still long way to go as far as building is concerned. Managed to get the photos attached, please see the link for the plan and site works http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/111_zpse4085f31.png http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG-20140405-WA0053_zps8495632e.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG-20140405-WA0044_zps3f61ad0d.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140315_163827_zpsa050da17.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140222_160151_zpsabe810bf.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140215_181407_zpscc45f00c.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140215_180627_zps669d4d82.jpg Here are the plans and photos attached - feel free to comment We are currently waiting for the chippies to do the roof So here is the timeline 01/11/2013 - Land settled 20/01/2014 - Prestart meeting 16/02/2014 - Slab down 02/03/2014 - Bricks + Frames on site 22/04/2014 - Brickworks completed progress Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 2Apr 23, 2014 11:59 am welcome! we lived in Bertram before too! I will be following your build Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 3Apr 23, 2014 12:13 pm Cool, will try our best to update with the progress. I am still trying to figure out how to attach some photos here Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 4Apr 23, 2014 3:38 pm managed to get some photos upload, see above cheers Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 5Apr 23, 2014 3:43 pm Welcome - we are having a great experience with Content-Living too. I look forward to following your build. Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 6Apr 24, 2014 1:29 am Got a message from builder that there is a shortage of chippies hence a slight delay. I don't know that the building industry is still going strong, in contrast of what was predicted by some experts in the news (bust, recession, etc). Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 7Apr 24, 2014 8:25 am sorry but the link didn't work Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 8Apr 24, 2014 8:41 am Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 10Apr 25, 2014 2:48 am Hi 2-cupcakes-pls, Thanks for the pointers! Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 11Apr 29, 2014 4:10 pm Posting to follow your build as we are also building in Lakelands, plan looks great by the way Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 12Apr 30, 2014 11:58 am Thanks, will follow your build too. I like your colour selection! Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 13May 05, 2014 12:25 pm Called the builder last week and they indicated that the chippies is likely to start this week. So I took a quick drive last week to the site and found there have been some work on the roof frame. Quite happy with the outcome and here some photos. Sorry for the quality as we went there unplanned Hope the weather is holding up this week so they could continue http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140504_175812_zps2d7456c9.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140504_175725_zps9d0b045c.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140504_175719_zps1d283335.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140504_175237_zps048001b6.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140504_175228_zps7e40efe5.jpg Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 15May 20, 2014 12:40 pm Went to the site last week and found the roof is progressing but not to my desired speed overall they do a good job and quite happy with it. Here are some photos Will post more photo in due course cheers http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140517_151536_zpsc9a90e12.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140517_151655_zps82995f10.jpg http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/perthUser198011/IMG_20140517_151730_zps44da432a.jpg Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 16May 20, 2014 12:48 pm Looks great that roof will be on in no time!! Where about in Lakelands are you? Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 18Jun 09, 2014 3:38 pm Not sure how I missed your thread, we are building in Lakelands too, nearly at PCI. Where abouts in lakelands are you? Trying to spot the area in the photos but cant hehe Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 19Jun 09, 2014 4:27 pm My building is near the Baptist college Re: Building with ContentLiving - Lakelands - Wingrove desig 20Jun 09, 2014 4:28 pm perthUser198011 My building is near the Baptist college Cool, will have to have a stalk tonight hehe. Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog From a pure legal perspective, if you've signed the variation, it is a very high bar to have it set aside. No-one can give you legal advice on a forum, but you would need… 3 5480 Once you know the basics, the rest is easy. Read my post in the thread linked below. viewtopic.php?p=1919271#p1919271 2 19521 Although I am a big opponent of using waffle pod slabs over H2/P soils under any circumstances, in your case I would certainly opt in to keep piers under central… 1 2433 |