Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Aveling Build NOR - Handover 27 March 161Mar 21, 2015 6:57 pm Hi You will get a new girl once you enter construction. We had to go back to Kassy a few times for answers too. I'll look out for your build! Hopefully yours goes a bit faster than what ours did. You're more than welcome to borrow sugar haha Update on the house: Garage door in Insulation in Shower screen in Feature tiles redone Can anyone recommend a contractor to quote us on exposed aggregate? We are really struggling to get prices back from people and we're getting very close to needing it poured. Any names would be much appreciated! Thanks Re: Aveling Build NOR - Handover 27 March 163Mar 21, 2015 7:48 pm Thanks Melsie, I'll give them a call Re: Aveling Build NOR - PCI take 2 tomorrow 168Mar 25, 2015 11:47 am Hi tm It went ok. Still a few things to do fixed. They still reckon handover will be friday but I'm not confident Pretty fed up now. Still no definitive end in sight and I'm tired of having to prompt Aveling to do what they are supposed to. I'll PM you later with more info Re: Aveling Build NOR - Dreading Handover Tomorrow 170Mar 26, 2015 7:51 pm Handover is still going ahead for tomorrow and I am dreading it. We'll be put in the unfortunate position of do we accept handover or not. Today we discovered that they have put an internal door on instead of the duracote external door at the back of the garage. The mistakes are never-ending. A lot of the outstanding PCI haven't been done either. Our broker also forgot to sent in our paperwork to the bank so it has been a very stressful afternoon trying to get final cheque organised. This should be an exciting occasion, instead I feel sick. Re: Aveling Build NOR - Dreading Handover Tomorrow 171Mar 26, 2015 9:03 pm Oh no Vines...that's awful. Can't believe this isn't the exciting day you've been waiting for and deserve! If you're able to wait longer to move in can you just cancel tomorrow? Re: Aveling Build NOR - Dreading Handover Tomorrow 172Mar 26, 2015 9:15 pm We can cancel tomorrow and it's still an option for us. I have all my trades lined up though. It's so annoying that they are leaving it to the last minute to fix things, if they even fix them at all. I hope everything works out Re: Aveling Build NOR - Dreading Handover Tomorrow 173Mar 26, 2015 9:25 pm Yep..I would be very annoyed too! It's just got ridiculous hasn't it?!! Hope they find a mutually agreeable solution!! Good luck tomorrow and I hope you find some joy among all this craziness!! Re: Aveling Build NOR - We have Keys! 174Mar 27, 2015 9:00 pm I'm too exhausted to go into a full response but we have keys!
I was a bit of an anti-climax and there are still some items that need fixing, however they should be done by Wednesday at the latest. Our painter managed to get started this morning which was good. When we were sat in reception waiting for handover, REM's Everybody Hurts was playing through the speakers. It was very depressing haha. It is very surreal, I don't think it has sunk in yet that we have keys We have raised complaints with senior management and it seems that they have taken them on board and are trying to makes things right. I appreciate their efforts and I hope their future customers don't feel like I have the past few weeks. A lot of the issues I haven't posted on here, but they have been plentiful. Time to move on now and put this behind us. All the best to everyone and their builds. Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 17518 6 11528 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39469 |