Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 641Aug 28, 2015 9:24 am seems like sassid forgot about HomeOne in all excitement We all are waiting to see shiny keys Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 642Aug 28, 2015 9:10 pm Hello sassid, Congratulations I am new to the forum, we're also building an Emporio 430 and signed our tender and contract today. I've been silently following your feed for ages now I was hoping if you could provide me with the details of the independent inspector you engaged, as we would like to use them too. Thanks in advance Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 643Aug 29, 2015 2:14 am Thanks everyone! Have been in moving house chaos as soon as handover finished! Handover went well, finished about 12 right when my removalists arrived across the road (started at 10) but during had plumbers there, after HO there were painters, 5 mins after they left moving truck pulled up with first load, sparkies spent most of afternoon doing appliances, had to come back Friday to finish off doing my extra lights (only cost $300 for 10 lights) and hot water controllers. Blind person turned up at 1:30 HO day to install my rollers. Plumbers quoted at the last minute $330 to install dishwasher and connect fridge so I declined and called a plumber friend who did it for much less than that, my security friend visited to check out locations of everything preparing for install. Husband worked all day too so I had my son as my assistant for the day! A few items to be done still - garage roof repairs, some brick washing, caulking and some other minor stuff. SS came past a few times today to check on things which was good! As well as sparkies today, pool table removalists did their thing. My cooktop is in but not fixed properly, cut out is too big for some special clips but can be fixed easily. Smeg range hood (only kitchen appliance supplied by Henley) is damaged and getting replaced. I am getting a refund for the horizontal grain match which is good! Spent so much time organising that have not had much unpacked, half of the kitchen stuff. The kids have a fair bit done but we have soooo much stuff. I just did about 5 Jeep carloads back and forth (finished about 1:30am) as we still had to clear out the wardrobes and study and now what is left of the spare space is taken up by boxes and bags and everything. Going to be a busy weekend running a kids around and trying to get things in order! Husband went to bed hours ago but he will get up early and get the last few things in the garage and house and try and get all the bits of rubbish and crap which had been hiding around all of our stuff as we have an inspection tomorrow morning. I love the house, it suits our family perfectly, going to do a big clean out as I unpack and sell/donate/dump heaps of things as we have too much stuff, half of the things we have not used in 18 months so going to cull cull cull as I want to take a minimal approach. Kids are loving the house and being back in a big house again after our 18 months of rental torture. They love their rooms and bathrooms and having the separate upstairs living is perfect for the older ones. I am loving the house, can't wait to have everything sorted. My lights I got put in look awesome (stair lights, master, facade lights). And loving the downstairs areas, kitchen looks awesome. My new dining table was also delivered today and I love it. No-one is allowed to touch it though as I want to get a glass top made for it so it doesn't get wrecked. Will post some more photos when I take some when it is a bit neater! We hung the void light low so you really notice it and sort of walk around it going down the stairs. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ My perfectly positioned pineapple - might get a stool for it to sit on - not sure - as I quite just like it plonked there on the ground. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The stairs have copped a beating moving in - not sure how they will hold up, I think we will need to restain them as even though the painters did some touch ups they are not impressing me that much when I look closely. I think they could use another coat? Had multiple phone calls with Telstra and NBN as service would not work (when I finally managed to figure out which data points were which - the sparkie who actually put them in was there so he showed me he had labelled them under the face plate). Went round in circles with Telstra they were hopeless, when Telstra transferred me to NBN after transferring me to the Telstra NBN team the NBN Co woman straight away said I should be speaking to Telstra without even knowing anything about my issue. Got it sorted in the end but it was way frustrating. Had to do a new order for a service that had already been connected and delivered! In the end they told me it will be active on Sunday night. Got an automated SMS an hour later saying it was done and voila we have jnternet! Anyhou 2am so might go to bed now I have had a chance to put my feet up (terribly sore feet/legs for not wearing more supportive shoes - wore ones which i could slip on/off easily). Oh yeah did not get a chance to have a shower yet - every time I went to someone turned up. Maybe tomorrow 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 Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 644Aug 29, 2015 2:16 am Duplicate 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 Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 645Aug 29, 2015 2:18 am Duplicate PS inspector I used was Darbecca PPS. I have not had a chance to go through the masses of shiny keys yet to sort them out 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: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 646Aug 29, 2015 3:45 am Lolz, holy cow, sounds like you wish today would go more than 24 hours, really a lot happening today, can only imagine what you have plan for the weekend (poor DH) . So very glad that everything went smoothly apart from some minor stuff that need fixing. I said it before and I'll say it again, so envy and happy with your speedy and almost trouble free progress, feels like only yesterday that I was asking you about MV upgrade prices and looking at your pictures of the empty land, next thing you know the house is done . Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 647Aug 29, 2015 6:37 am Congratulations! You must be exhausted although I think you'll probably be on a rush of adrenaline until your all sorted. The stair light looks great. KDR Under the Flight Path - Dennis Family Homes (Hawkesdale) Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 648Aug 29, 2015 9:45 am Gone all out on the hand over! That pendant looks great in the void. Def looks the goods being down low too. Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 649Aug 30, 2015 6:01 am Congratulations Sassid love your pendant and stairs area altogether! Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 650Aug 30, 2015 10:06 pm Thanks Izzy. Finally got the computer set-up. Gradually finding some small issues to add to the list to let the builder know. TV reception is not working out well for us, especially channel 7 suite. I would have channels programmed and then it would all drop out. not sure if it is because we have 5 tv points, even though at the moment only two have been set-up and connected. has anyone had any similar issues. we did have the tv aerial moved from the stupidly placed front of the roof to right at the back. also realised I may have bought bad tv brackets. I bought slimline ones at aldi when I walked past and they were on special, but now looking at our tv set-up, especially downstairs where I have two aerial cables connecting a TiVo, tbox and dvd player, using a wall splitter, there is going to be not enough room behind the tv for the cables, especially at the actual aerial point has I had to put an adaptor on to change the connection point type. Any suggestions for what to do with my set-up would be appreciated, am thinking I need to take the brackets back and get standard ones? thanks oh and I have had two showers now - and absolutely love our shower head and water pressure/flow! best shower head ever... 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 Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 651Aug 30, 2015 10:12 pm Here is the other stair light - Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 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: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 652Aug 30, 2015 10:14 pm Congrats on finally moving in Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 653Aug 31, 2015 7:34 am deefeez46waldorf Congrats on finally moving in Thanks deefeez 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: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 654Aug 31, 2015 1:37 pm Love your stairs and fixed timber windows! amazing!!! hope you are enjoying it! Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 656Sep 03, 2015 10:20 pm Congrats on moving in! We are hoping we'll be moving into our place in about 12 months! Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 657Sep 21, 2015 8:55 am So how is the house going, are you all settled in or still unpacking? How's the noise from the kids upstairs while you are downstairs? I am wondering if we should be doing insulation between. I looked at the pipes from the toilet and bathroom running right above the kitchen and dinning area. Can you hear it when the toilet is flushed upstairs? Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 658Sep 21, 2015 1:38 pm Conifers So how is the house going, are you all settled in or still unpacking? How's the noise from the kids upstairs while you are downstairs? I am wondering if we should be doing insulation between. I looked at the pipes from the toilet and bathroom running right above the kitchen and dinning area. Can you hear it when the toilet is flushed upstairs? We are insulating between the upstairs and downstairs for noise and thermal reasons... It was a pretty minimal cost Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 659Sep 21, 2015 3:39 pm Drew01 Conifers So how is the house going, are you all settled in or still unpacking? How's the noise from the kids upstairs while you are downstairs? I am wondering if we should be doing insulation between. I looked at the pipes from the toilet and bathroom running right above the kitchen and dinning area. Can you hear it when the toilet is flushed upstairs? We are insulating between the upstairs and downstairs for noise and thermal reasons... It was a pretty minimal cost Hey Drew1 with the insulation you got in the subfloor is it purely thermal or did you get a product which has high noise dampening properties as well? Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 660Sep 21, 2015 4:02 pm siapao Drew01 Conifers So how is the house going, are you all settled in or still unpacking? How's the noise from the kids upstairs while you are downstairs? I am wondering if we should be doing insulation between. I looked at the pipes from the toilet and bathroom running right above the kitchen and dinning area. Can you hear it when the toilet is flushed upstairs? We are insulating between the upstairs and downstairs for noise and thermal reasons... It was a pretty minimal cost Hey Drew1 with the insulation you got in the subfloor is it purely thermal or did you get a product which has high noise dampening properties as well? Pretty sure it will do both... I think we specified SoundScreen, which was about an extra $4 per square metre installed Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Hi, If you give a set of criteria as to what means 'good' to you, it'll give others prompts to respond. We considered Henley early on but there were two factors that… 1 10393 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 29918 |