Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 702Sep 28, 2015 12:02 pm Orpheus Yeah oh well there's always small things you will miss out or forget to include Yep that's right Next home build we will go all out Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 704Sep 28, 2015 12:23 pm It looks fantastic mona! Follow my Coral Daydream 28 build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72384 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 705Sep 28, 2015 12:23 pm Hi Mona how is looking great and very grand! The front facade looks fab and really good. So happy for you......don't worry about the little things you missed out, we all have and I am finding new things we should have done going through the build. When you move into your home all this little things will be forgotten viewtopic.php?t=78985 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 706Sep 28, 2015 5:45 pm mona that was not meant to be "wow" not "how"! Lol Btw our gutters got installed today hopefully we will see a house without scaff soon viewtopic.php?t=78985 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 707Sep 28, 2015 7:16 pm Mellywil It looks fantastic mona! Thank you Melly Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 708Sep 28, 2015 7:19 pm Franky40 Hi Mona how is looking great and very grand! The front facade looks fab and really good. So happy for you......don't worry about the little things you missed out, we all have and I am finding new things we should have done going through the build. When you move into your home all this little things will be forgotten viewtopic.php?t=78985 Franky40 mona that was not meant to be "wow" not "how"! Lol Btw our gutters got installed today hopefully we will see a house without scaff soon viewtopic.php?t=78985 Thanks Franky Yes - I am sure little things wont matter anyway - this home is a huge 'upgrade' from our current place - so I am happy Looking forward to seeing your home pics without scaffs Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 709Sep 28, 2015 10:32 pm Hi Mona, Quick question on your blinds and shutter quotes. What type of plantation shutters did the companies recommend? I've had two coats from different companies and they say the completely opposite things! Company 1 : basswood shutters are the best as they are light, strong and will keep the house cool. They don't even recommend aluminium shutters for interior! Company 2: Recommend PVC or aluminium as wood can warp and fade. I'm a bit confused so curious to see if you've had a similar experience viewtopic.php?t=78985 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 710Sep 28, 2015 10:44 pm Franky40 Hi Mona, Quick question on your blinds and shutter quotes. What type of plantation shutters did the companies recommend? I've had two coats from different companies and they say the completely opposite things! Company 1 : basswood shutters are the best as they are light, strong and will keep the house cool. They don't even recommend aluminium shutters for interior! Company 2: Recommend PVC or aluminium as wood can warp and fade. I'm a bit confused so curious to see if you've had a similar experience viewtopic.php?t=78985 Hi Franky, from memory they are timber ones. The sales consultant got us to hold timber vs aluminum one, and timber was lighter - sounded like he favoured the wood more. We are looking at Elite Blinds - which Sheilzy and Ausbuster used. They found them to be competitive. We got a quote for $9.5k :O which I think will increase, as we want to get plantation shutters to family, dinning and study windows too now :O Seems a lot to me! But feel as we haven't got any other features, these would like nice. Which company are you using? There seem to be so many out there! Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 711Sep 28, 2015 10:51 pm Hi all! We have our pre-lining inspection and walkthrough booked on the morning of 7th October. Excited and nervous too - as I think this is a big milestone, and I think time will fly!!!! A bit concerned re landscape plan - as we went CDC turns out that landscape plan was not approved with the plan - I think M did not provide the right info to us - they told us draw whatever, and you can do as you please - which now sounds ridiculous! Anyway - we got a landscape plan drawn up by someone in July - well the process started in July. Used due to word of mouth - but found this person to be highly incompetent. We are now in October (almost) - the Local Certifier has rejected the plan due to too many hard surfaces. Whilst we wanted hard surfaces / concerete on the side paths, we also wanted to ensure we meet the 'rules' - the Local Certifer has now gone on leave - and will be back in November. We have sent the plan back to the landscape designer - its bizarre she wanted to get paid real quick - but too slow to respond. I think we may have to have stepping stones - I am not looking forward to this - esp in the narrower side of the house. Does anyone have any ideas on this? or pictures? I want big stepping stones if possible - to ensure that maintenance is easy. Any suggestions from you all lovely helpful people any alternatives? I am stressing out - if we do not have a plan finalised ASAP - we cannot get quotes - and I really want all this lined up when we move!!! It is such a simple / basic plan - seriously I am not sure what it would take the landscape designer to fix it, and put this matter to bed. Its cost us more time, and money (time is money!). Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 712Sep 28, 2015 11:25 pm Hi Mona, Please see some photos of our plans for our landscape design. We are looking at getting stepping stones to the side path too. http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii548/Liem_Nguyen/Landscape%20design%201.jpg We used Eco Design for our landscape concept. Feel free to pm me if you want to see our design concept. Thanks. Orpheus Building the Metricon Glendale 38|Sydney Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 713Sep 28, 2015 11:28 pm Hi Orpheous Thank you for sharing!!! How big is your block? Ours is huge in comparison to the house size with 300sqm+ outdoor area With stepping stones, I am concerned re all the rocks/stones around how to keep those clean? What an effort! We will definitely need to hire someone to look after the gardens! How much did you pay to eco design for your plan? Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 714Sep 28, 2015 11:34 pm monalisa Hi Orpheous Thank you for sharing!!! How big is your block? Ours is huge in comparison to the house size with 300sqm+ outdoor area With stepping stones, I am concerned re all the rocks/stones around how to keep those clean? What an effort! We will definitely need to hire someone to look after the gardens! How much did you pay to eco design for your plan? Our block is only 650 sqm and yours was 740sqm from memory? Haven't thought about clean the stepping stones but envisage I will need to buy a pressure cleaner to clean the blocks and retaining walls Eco charged us total of $1.1k for the design service but it's well worth it! Orpheus Building the Metricon Glendale 38|Sydney Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 715Sep 28, 2015 11:36 pm Orpheus monalisa Hi Orpheous Thank you for sharing!!! How big is your block? Ours is huge in comparison to the house size with 300sqm+ outdoor area With stepping stones, I am concerned re all the rocks/stones around how to keep those clean? What an effort! We will definitely need to hire someone to look after the gardens! How much did you pay to eco design for your plan? Our block is only 650 sqm and yours was 740sqm from memory? Haven't thought about clean the stepping stones but envisage I will need to buy a pressure cleaner to clean the blocks and retaining walls Eco charged us total of $1.1k for the design service but it's well worth it! Yep - it is about 740sqm. Wow that is great, We paid $660, for a medicore, slow service - I know you get what you pay for. Damn! argh!!! Its so basic - anyone can draw such a plan! Regretting it. Great you can look after your gardens - saves getting someone else in. Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 717Sep 29, 2015 8:05 am monalisa Franky40 Hi Mona, Quick question on your blinds and shutter quotes. What type of plantation shutters did the companies recommend? I've had two coats from different companies and they say the completely opposite things! Company 1 : basswood shutters are the best as they are light, strong and will keep the house cool. They don't even recommend aluminium shutters for interior! Company 2: Recommend PVC or aluminium as wood can warp and fade. I'm a bit confused so curious to see if you've had a similar experience viewtopic.php?t=78985 Hi Franky, from memory they are timber ones. The sales consultant got us to hold timber vs aluminum one, and timber was lighter - sounded like he favoured the wood more. We are looking at Elite Blinds - which Sheilzy and Ausbuster used. They found them to be competitive. We got a quote for $9.5k :O which I think will increase, as we want to get plantation shutters to family, dinning and study windows too now :O Seems a lot to me! But feel as we haven't got any other features, these would like nice. Which company are you using? There seem to be so many out there! Hi Mona, Thanks for the reply we got quotes from both Elite and Shutters Aust. both the quotes were pretty close. It came up to $10k for plantation shutters for the front facade (ground and first floor), shade screen blinds( so we can see through them to the outdoor but cuts off light and glare) to all other window and stacker/sliding doors + motorised for the rumpus room and family room stacker door. However with shade screen blinds we will need to add a shut out blind or curtain for bedroom windows so this will push the price up again I am leaning towards Basswood shutters for the living rooms and tossing up if we want to do PVC for the bathrooms. viewtopic.php?t=78985 Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 718Sep 29, 2015 8:15 am monalisa Hi all! We have our pre-lining inspection and walkthrough booked on the morning of 7th October. Excited and nervous too - as I think this is a big milestone, and I think time will fly!!!! A bit concerned re landscape plan - as we went CDC turns out that landscape plan was not approved with the plan - I think M did not provide the right info to us - they told us draw whatever, and you can do as you please - which now sounds ridiculous! Anyway - we got a landscape plan drawn up by someone in July - well the process started in July. Used due to word of mouth - but found this person to be highly incompetent. We are now in October (almost) - the Local Certifier has rejected the plan due to too many hard surfaces. Whilst we wanted hard surfaces / concerete on the side paths, we also wanted to ensure we meet the 'rules' - the Local Certifer has now gone on leave - and will be back in November. We have sent the plan back to the landscape designer - its bizarre she wanted to get paid real quick - but too slow to respond. I think we may have to have stepping stones - I am not looking forward to this - esp in the narrower side of the house. Does anyone have any ideas on this? or pictures? I want big stepping stones if possible - to ensure that maintenance is easy. Any suggestions from you all lovely helpful people any alternatives? I am stressing out - if we do not have a plan finalised ASAP - we cannot get quotes - and I really want all this lined up when we move!!! It is such a simple / basic plan - seriously I am not sure what it would take the landscape designer to fix it, and put this matter to bed. Its cost us more time, and money (time is money!). Hi Mona - how exciting pre lining inspection is just around the corner !! With the landscape I did the same for our council something quite simple hand drawn by me. We went through council and my "lovely" landscape plan is on the website . Anyway we are getting quotes and plans for landscaping now. Some larger landscapers will do the whole lot for you from drawing a landscape plan to meet soft/hard ratio, dealing with council/CDC etc. The landscaper who came out to quote on the weekend said the options for the sides are stepping stones, pebbles or fake grass if we can't concrete it due to soft/hard surface ratio. Depends what you are going to be using the side for if its not a high traffic area fake grass might do the trick. Once I get more details and quotes happy to share. viewtopic.php?t=78985 KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 719Sep 29, 2015 9:14 am Congrats on your upcoming inspection and getting rid of your scaffolding. Looks fantastic (I might be biased though as it's the same facade ). The landscaping stuff sounds painful to say the least. We are so lucky we don't have to do anything like that. I hope you can come up with a plan that suits your needs (or always add what you really want later on once the approval has been granted, i remember having the same conversation with sheilzy ) re the bricks above the garage, we weren't even offered it!! I wouldn't worry the fc sheeting looks good. Franky a word or warning with the sheer privacy roller blinds, if you add them without making them double hung at the start its near on impossible to add a block out roller blind later as they require a special double hung roller bracket, curtain wonderland have them but it's a ridiculous amount of work to change over to the bracket. If you want double hung rollers with a block out and sheer roller get them as one unit. I looked into the same thing and discovered I would have to recess fit the sheer roller but then face fit the block out blind (I didn't love that idea) I spoke to the ladies at curtain wonderland and they explained how fiddly it is to change over to the double hung roller and the connection to the poll that goes in the middle of the blind is a specific type of connection that doesn't fit every type of roller. I shoved that one in the to hard basket Re: KDRB Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney) - Lower Roof Tiles 720Sep 29, 2015 12:31 pm Thanks Tribe - exactly my dilemma! If I was to get them I will need to get the double hung as one unit or thicker curtains for the rooms. For the ground floor we are lucky to have a lot of privacy and probably can get away with just the screen blinds for the back of the house. Let's see Mona - Is your quote $10k for Shutters through out the house? If you are getting blinds are you getting double hung? Your quote does seem expensive viewtopic.php?t=78985 Your best bet might be to go visit the display homes and walk around in them, and take photos. Get a feel for it in person instead of deciding from the floor plan. There… 1 21437 Keen to hear from people in the area who have got KDRB done on whom they got the build from? Looking for recommendations. Thanks 0 21099 Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 10749 |