Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 06, 2015 10:02 pm Hi all, I have decided to start my own build thread to be read in conjunction with my blog. I have put so much effort into my blog so far so I wanted to keep it going, but at the same time think it is easier to have a thread here with regard to being easily able to interact and bounce ideas off others building as well. This thread starts at the beginning of the construction period, for more background info on the long journey to get to this point, please see my blog. Looking forward to sharing with you all! TIMELINE OF EVENTS 30/08/14 Initial Sales Meeting 25/09/14 Colours Appointment 23/10/14 Tender Appointment 03/12/14 Contract Appointment 03/12/14 Electrical Appointment 24/12/14 Bank Val Received 04/02/15 Unconditional Approval Received 16/02/15 Site Scrape 17/02/15 Fences Up 18/02/15 House Peg Out 18/02/15 Site Re-establishment Survey 18/02/15 Power Cables Installed 19/02/15 Toilet Delivered 19/02/15 Plumbing/Drainage Works Started 20/02/15 Meter Box Installed 23/02/15 Foundations Started 24/02/15 Foundations Inspection 25/02/15 Slab Pour 16/03/15 Timber Delivered 16/03/15 Framers Started 19/03/15 Steel Beams/Posts Installed 24/03/15 Scaffold Installed 30/03/15 Roof Trusses Delivered 30/03/15 External Door Frames/Temp Doors Delivered 31/03/15 Scaffold Extended for Roof Access 05/04/15 Framing Completed 07/04/15 Gutters/Fascia delivered 07/04/15 Ground Floor Foil Wrap 08/04/15 Slab/Frame Inspection 08/04/15 Gutters/Fascia installed 10/04/15 Colorbond base rails installed 13/04/15 Roof Sarking Installed 13/04/15 Colorbond Roof installed 13/04/15 Internal plumbing started 15/04/15 Front Scaff Removed 15/04/15 Air-Con/Heater Install started 17/04/15 Main Roof Scaff Removed 17/04/15 Windows/Doors Installed 18/04/15 Lock-up framers commenced 20/04/15 Plaster Delivered 21/04/15 Electrical Rough-Ins Commenced 21/04/15 The Goop Guy! 21/04/15 Bath Hobs Installed 23/04/15 Bricks and Sand Delivered 28/04/15 Site Walk Through with SS 28/04/15 Glass installed to larger windows 04/05/15 Site Meeting with SS and Plumber 11/05/15 Brickies Commenced 15/05/15 Scaff Delivered 16/05/15 Scaff for Brickies erected 19/05/15 First floor foil wrap 20/05/15 Insulation delivered 21/05/15 Insulation installed 25/05/15 Copper thieves paid a visit! 25/05/15 Police paid a visit 25/05/15 Repairs commenced 29/05/15 Pre-Plaster Inspection 02/06/15 Plaster Installation commenced 15/06/15 Balcony balustrading started 16/06/15 Stairs materials, arcs, skirts and doors delivered 16/06/15 Downpipes installed 16/06/15 Goop removed from upstairs windows 17/06/15 Stairs installed - minus ground platform 17/06/15 Bricks washed top floor 18/06/15 Doors/arcs/skirts install commenced 20/06/15 Painting started 20/06/15 Waterproofing started 24/06/15 Scaff pulled down 26/06/15 Scaff removed from site 26/06/15 Site cleared 26/06/15 Cabinets delivered and installed 30/06/15 Stair Bottom Platform installed 07/07/15 Tiles delivered 08/07/15 Garage roof repairs started 08/07/15 Stone benches installed 10/07/15 Heater/Air-con vents installed 13/07/15 Tiling started 13/07/15 TV Antenna installed 14/07/15 Baths delivered 15/07/15 Electrical fit-out commenced 21/07/15 Sinks, shower rails, basins, toilets install started 21/07/15 Garage plaster delivered 21/07/15 Gas line installed 27/07/15 Shelving/robe fit-outs commenced 28/07/15 Portaloo removed 28/07/15 Ground floor levelling 28/07/15 Shower screens installed 29/07/15 Laminate flooring delivered 29/07/15 Temp fencing removed 29/07/15 Laminate flooring installed 30/07/15 Carpet installed 31/07/15 Gas meter installed 05/08/15 Glass Splashback installed 06/08/15 Garage Doors Installed 07/08/15 Walk Through with SS and Red Dots 10/08/15 Rendering started 13/08/15 Final Inspection by Darbecca (but will be getting a reinspection) 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 Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue 2Feb 06, 2015 10:14 pm I spoke with our Building Consultant this morning, site scrape is booked in for this Friday. Here is the block as it stands now - you can see it has been used as a through road for development behind... When we bought it there were pretty much no houses around except for the one on the right as you are looking at it (it was still under construction). There are only a handful of blocks still vacant. We have to go and reclear the block again in preparation I also started organising the building inspector. Thinking of getting four inspections done - including pre-pour. Undecided as to which other ones, will figure it out tonight. This is my first attempt at posting a photo on homeone, might take me a little while to figure out how to do it. 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: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 3Feb 11, 2015 10:49 am nice to see your thread on H1. that's a big block of land you have. your cross over is on left hand side? cant see on above photo. Re: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 4Feb 11, 2015 9:18 pm mirz nice to see your thread on H1. that's a big block of land you have. your cross over is on left hand side? cant see on above photo. Hi mirz, yes crossover on the left. Block is 656 (big by today's standards) so we should get a decent amount of yard. Our last house was on a quarter acre there are not too many of those blocks around anymore. Hey another question - how clear did your block have to be before the site scrape? 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: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 5Feb 11, 2015 9:44 pm That's a big block of land, with double story backyard would pretty big. What's your set back from footpath? Just visual cleaning should be enough. Their bobcat would take care of the rest. Re: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 6Feb 12, 2015 9:13 am mirz That's a big block of land, with double story backyard would pretty big. What's your set back from footpath? Just visual cleaning should be enough. Their bobcat would take care of the rest. setback to the front of the portico is 4500, two front of house is 6420 and to garage is 6805. I will upload some plans and layouts one day soon 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 Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 7Feb 12, 2015 9:16 am I organised the building inspector this week. After reading many good reports about Darbecca, I have commissioned them to do four inspections - for pre-pour, slab/frame, lock-up/pre-plaster, and PCI/final. Hard to choose which ones, but definitely wanted to do the pre-pour to make sure the foundations for the house were done right, as that is one thing that is difficult to fix after the concrete has been poured. 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: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 8Feb 12, 2015 5:27 pm Darbecca is pretty good with inspections. We have done two with them do far and very pleased with quality of their work. Please keep reminding your admin and SS not to pour without inspection. It's only a couple of hours span where inspection generally conducted for pre pour. Re: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 9Feb 12, 2015 6:19 pm mirz Darbecca is pretty good with inspections. We have done two with them do far and very pleased with quality of their work. Please keep reminding your admin and SS not to pour without inspection. It's only a couple of hours span where inspection generally conducted for pre pour. thanks will do. I found out today our site scrape has already been put back to the 16th of Feb 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 Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue 10Feb 12, 2015 11:32 pm Hi all, Okay, so we are just on the verge of site scrape so I had better start on pages about the house we are actually going to build! We have chosen the 44sq.m Emporio by MainVue. Here is the standard Longbeach façade and floor plans taken from the MainVue website. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The major changes we have made to the plans include : - deleting the struts from the façade - increase the height of the window above the staircase Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ - increasing the width of the garage - blocking off the second entrance to the pantry, creating a double door linen - adding in a platform at the bottom of the stairs - combining the study and theatre to make a room large enough for our oversize pool table Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ - we also added in a walkthrough bathroom for beds 2 and 3, and an ensuite for bed 4 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ - I was adamant on having a downstairs study originally but this was proving impossible to find when also trying to make room for the pool table, so have changed the dressing room into a study - We have created another WIR by adding an internal wall in the master bedroom Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ more detail on why we have made some of these choices is included in my blog version. Still to come, new colours selections, site layout, kitchen design, electrical...! 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: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 11Feb 13, 2015 8:15 am You have made some very interesting changes there. Love that idea of sharing bathroom between two rooms. We would have loved to do that to make girls bathroom. What exactly replacing those struts on facade? Did you go with brick piers there? That study + lounge is going to make a great entertaining area. Any plans to setup a bar there too? Those windows next to staircase, easily openable? I have few displays from different builders where such windows are so hard to reach. Agree with you study downstairs is important part too, but again depends on how someone is planning to use that. I have seen people dumping every other thing and that's right on the entrance. Your house is gonna be stunning. If not mistaken it's on display at greenvale gardens? Re: Project Emporio - building the Emporio ER432 with MainVu 12Feb 13, 2015 9:07 am thanks Mirz, the design feels very right for us. struts (just the diagonal parts) have been removed, still vertical timber posts remaining. the pool room will have a flat screen and lounge area, and probably some other games in there too, I used to have a few pinball machines which I sold when child number 3 came along (to make room) so hoping to get at least another one of those. probably not a bar as such though. Definately needed more than one bathroom for the kids to use (mornings are crazy if they are trying to use the one), but didn't like the idea of a tiny ensuite each. shared bathroom is for my daughters as they will more than likely share their hair straighteners and be more likely to use a bath! not sure how easy the windows are going to be to open (might end up having to keep a step ladder handy, but the main reason was so you could see out the front of the house from the upstairs living. There were taller windows at the Cranbourne display which had a different facade, which is where I got the idea from. That Greenvale display is close to ours, but ours is wider and not as long. Ours was on display at Cranbourne but they were in the process of selling it when we were in the sales process. Yes certain areas do become dumping grounds, so I guess that is one plus of having it upstairs I am sure the family will adopt a new dumping ground to drive me nuts though. 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 13Feb 13, 2015 10:36 pm I was impressed with the level of standard inclusions with MainVue. Many of the things that I would have paid for elsewhere are included as standard. bonus. Some of the things of note included : - timber windows to the façade - double glazing to windows - no charge colourbond roof - most of the splashback colours for the kitchen (except for two) were standard cat 1. - 20mm caesarstone benches with shadowline - the handles I had previously chosen were Cat 1. - 20mm stone in bathrooms - towel ladders, towel rails and toilet roll holders - upgraded tapware, basins and toilets - upgraded shower rail and hand set for the master ensuite - shower rails for minor bathrooms - large choice of cat 1 tiles - upgraded tapware to laundry - 2340 internal doors to ground floor - larger skirts (92mm) as standard - all WIR and ensuites come with doors already included - all WIR have a double hanging rail section - timber treads to first flight and middle landing of staircase - staining of internal woodwork and entry doors is included - timber sliding stackers (with keyed deadlocks) to alfresco and matching timber windows in the same area as the stackers - timbergrain colour to garage sectional door - three transmitters for garage door - slimline powerpoints throughout. 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 14Feb 13, 2015 10:39 pm Here are the changes we have made to the base house (in no particular order) : - we added in roof sarking - step-down to the garage (builder instigated) - three windows had to have obscure glazing and restricted winders due to rescode (builder instigated) - ensuite to all minor bedrooms added, then two of the ensuites changed to a walk through shared bathroom - reinstated the WIL which was removed for the ensuite option to go in - we removed the wall between the theatre and study to create a large entertainment zone - changed the dressing room into the study - changed garage to a double garage plus - added off-white mortar ILO standard natural - added in noggin support for wall mounted TVs (4) - changed staircase ballusters to stainless steel rods with timber handrail, and added a platform in for the bottom step - changed front door to a Pivot door. Originally had the taller door but this was changed back to 2040 high by the builder, as the taller one was not compatible with the façade we have chosen due to the balcony layout - added in support in the stair void for future hanging light - added in Omni trilock pull handle - added in a cavity slider to master ensuite (the only ensuite which did not automatically include a door) - changed three doors to Windsor 21 glazed doors with transluscent glass (laundry, poweder and pantry) - added privacy adaptor to powder room - added in new WIR in master bedroom - increased height of façade window above staircase - changed rear living windows and doors to aluminium (to cut costs) - changed rear windows to 2 x 2057x1810 fixed picture windows - we also moved the splashback window from the pantry and put it in the kitchen, the kitchen window splashback is non-standard, but the pantry one was so we switched them - changed window to shared bathroom to larger size - changed the vertical slimline window on the landing of the staircase to timber (on side elevation) - added aluminium flyscreens to all openable windows - upgraded the heater to 5 star zoned - added in refrigerated cooling - added in some pot draws in kitchen - added a tower to beside the fridge space for the steam oven - upgraded island stone to 40mm - added two cabinets to the rear of the kitchen island - changed grain of overheads to be horizontal - upgraded undermount sink - changed overheads to no handles, with overhang lip (no charge) - deleted all kitchen appliances (except for rangehood) to supply my own after handover - added cold water point in fridge overhead cupboard - upgraded rangehood to smeg undermount- deleted two shelves on one wall of pantry to allow room for spare fridge and freezer - closed of second entrance to pantry to make linen cupboard double door - added shower niches to all showers - upgraded to top carpet underlay - added in the luxury electrical pack - TV antenna added - added in alarm pre-wire - added in intercom pre-wire - added in CCTV pre-wire - added in NBN pre-wire and data cabling, including to all TV points - added in external power points, hot and cold water points, gas points and drain points for pool equipment and outdoor kitchen - deleted solar hot water and replaced with rinnai 26 continuous hot water with 4 hot water controllers and rainsaver toilet water system I think we covered everything we wanted in the house?! 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 15Feb 13, 2015 11:05 pm Wow! Your house is going to be awesome! So many things you have thought about already. Yep i reckon henley/mainvue have pretty good inclusions already. Good luck, hopefully you get your site scrap soon. 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: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 16Feb 13, 2015 11:16 pm PEARZ Wow! Your house is going to be awesome! So many things you have thought about already. Yep i reckon henley/mainvue have pretty good inclusions already. Good luck, hopefully you get your site scrap soon. Thanks Pearz, Yes I am so glad we ended up at Henley, they have been pretty awesome so far. I met my site supervisor today, unless this stupid stormy weather impacts, scrape will be Monday. He seems nice, and mentioned he uses the same trades for all his jobs so hopefully things will go smoothly. You must be nicely settled into your house by now. How has your after handover experience been? 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 17Feb 13, 2015 11:29 pm Not so bad, we only had to organise fencing, blinds, concrete/decking, verandah extension in progress sort of!😃 but we spent the first few months focusing on interior decorations before the outside stuff. Mind you It took us almost a month to properly unpack everything haha we accumulated so much junk from last house! Still got landscaping left to do! Massive amount of work for the hubby hehe hoping to finish before winter sets in Hopefully the weather has calmed down so u get ur start next week. I can't wait to see ur place come together! ! Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 18Feb 16, 2015 11:58 am 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 19Feb 17, 2015 11:21 am That's fantastic news, many congrats for the site cut sassid Re: Building the Emporio ER432 with MainVue / Henley 20Feb 17, 2015 12:24 pm Hi Sassid, You've obviously put a lot of thought into it...well done. We are also building with Mainvue (ER430), currently finalising a couple of points before contract. -Interesting to see that you have increased the size of the window in the stairwell. Will you know be able to open this window? (we were advised that the original window cannot be changed from fixed to openable as it was too high.) -Excellent idea to include the landing pad at the bottom of the stairs. Can I ask what the approx cost of this is? -Also like the look of the window in the garage. We plan to extend the garage by 1m so will need to ask if this is sufficient to insert a window. -We have our electrical meeting this week and definitely plan to include wiring for alarm and intercom. With the alarm did you need to know where you plan to install the PIR's. With the intercom where do you plan to locate the screen (main unit) and power point? Is CCTV pre wire basically a cat 6 cable? sorry for all the questions..... ------------------------------------------- Build Thread - Mainvue Emporio ER430 KDR https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76790&p=1332227&hilit=mainvue#p1332227 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 10514 go upvc window frames ensure insulation under colorbond. not just sarking, lighter color roof also not sure if you have seen this viewtopic.php?t=5823 last couple of pages… 4 110573 |