Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 23, 2015 10:25 am We are about to start the construction phase of building our dream house, the Barkly 29 with modifications. It's been a great journey so far and Metricon have made it an absolute joy. Cut and Slab is on the 2nd-3rd march and we have already had our first Site meeting. Images plans and renders coming soon. Here are some renderings of what it should look like on the inside. This was so we could view the pain selection and some of our stuff in there like our office area, current couch etc etc. We also have a WIP Walkthrough for those interested. It is large to download and total size is 1.6GB but it allows you to walk through our home. Please be aware there are some collision issues and you can't get out the back or too far to the front yard which I'm still working on. The link to this is: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zqi6l1espms9 ... C3Yaa?dl=0 The plan of our house can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bbnqoikwpqc55 ... n.jpg?dl=0 The following are renders showing you what the inside should look like once completed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7h3z2gssxemur ... g.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/2xhpzpbe0kv63 ... g.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3admkhfumxp7 ... e.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ob30dmvg1hn7 ... 2.jpg?dl=0 And this is a collage of images showing the options we picked at Studio M: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie82r2wnyt7lr ... e.jpg?dl=0 So our journey will now begin....over the coming few weeks we should have the slab and frames up and we will be taking photos to show progress. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 3Feb 23, 2015 7:36 pm Another M build! We are currently building the Lincoln 29 with M in Adelaide. Congratulations on your site start. Which facade did you select? Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 4Feb 23, 2015 8:18 pm Looks awesome! Must be pretty exciting to be getting some movement ! We are just at the beginning stage...waiting for the land to be developed and then soil testing and foootings reports. How long has it taken to get to the stage that you're at? Looking forward to following the build! ☺ Building with Statesman Homes in Myponga, SA View our thread here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75840&view=unread#unread Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 5Feb 23, 2015 8:24 pm The Facade will be the Kingston and it's taken 6 months to get to here. We did have some hiccups but not Metricon related. Periods with current employers and one thing I would note depending the area you build in hiccup with Valuation. Our house exceeds the average home value in the area so we had to pay a gap. All sorted now though! Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 6Feb 24, 2015 5:25 pm Well nice start to our build....yesterday when we had our site meeting with our site manager we noticed the lid to our water mains had been opened. Turns out the mongrels building next to us who had done their scraping used our water to water it down and get it patted down. We have been in touch with them, The house to our left, and have read them the rite act! A message has been left with their director to call us back. The Council have been advised but they can only put a note on their file which they have done saying water used before the 2nd March was not used by us. We may have to even call the Police as it's theft and may have to get our money back from our Rates through the courts. They admitted to not having water on their block....thieving little sods....I would swear but I will hold back. So when building watch your adjacent builds...you never know what they could be doing before you even start!!!! Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 7Mar 04, 2015 10:29 am Can anybody advise how to get it so we can post images directly on the blog and not externally? That would be awesome Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 8Mar 04, 2015 10:33 am So we got the water sorted...we caught them in the act. Land is now scrapped and filled, Monday Drains go in and the following Monday the Slab poured. Tom Cornwell our Building supervisor has indicated there is such a rush on in building that its taking time to get concrete organised. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 9Mar 04, 2015 4:18 pm Gosh thats crap they have been using your water, good on you for getting stuck into them, your the one that has to pay for it. I use a app for iPhone call tapatalk you find the forum you want to connect to and can instantly upload photos from your library. Are you building in SEQ? That's good you have a pour booked in but a pain there is a hold up with concrete. Looking forward to seeing some photos. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 11Mar 06, 2015 12:50 pm We're building in the new estate of Stonleigh Reserve. Ahhhh.....I don't have my iPhone on me as I have an Andriod work phone so I'll give that a try when I get home. Thanks Tribe7. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 12Mar 06, 2015 1:46 pm It's supposed to be a very good estate, good sized lots too. I couldn't figure it out either with photos so had to ask mr tribe, it's super easy when you get the app. Hope your earth works are progressing nicely. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 13Mar 06, 2015 5:47 pm Hi RichandShez, I to will be signing up for the barkly 29 in about 4 weeks. Im building on the coast and just waiting for the earthmover to flatten our block. I am very keen to watch the progress of your build. How exciting for you. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 14Mar 08, 2015 8:05 pm This is our Kitchen looking out towards the backyard, patio and dining room:
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 15Mar 08, 2015 8:14 pm Excellent....ok I will now upload the renders for anyone's perusal so you don't have to go to my Dropbox links. Also Jesse Norris if you are interested in a walkthrough of the Barkly, of course our changes feel free to grab the download from the links further up. Be warned it's a large download. If you do decide to "walk through" your home just press the Play button. I have it blocked from going to the front and out the back due to issues but this was just a quick WIP and of course Escape will take you back to the desktop. Ok so here are the renders of our house, the kitchen looking through the dining, part of the master bedroom is above this message....here are the rest: This is looking towards the backyard but of course our home theatre: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Home Theatre from the couch: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking towards our Office from the Dining room and part of the kitchen: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our Studio M choices: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And last but not least the house plan: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ More are coming as we took photos yesterday AND we even caught ANOTHER company in the act taking from our water!!! I even photographed them the cheeky devils!!!! Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 16Mar 08, 2015 8:16 pm Oh and hey Jesse...do you have Tom for your Site Manager? Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 17Mar 08, 2015 8:24 pm Here are images of the land after cut and fill and that all important Metricon banner around the property: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ To our surprise yesterday we went to visit the land and they had completed putting in the pad footings which is basically what the house sits on and they go all the way down to the bedrock. In our case it's 1.2 metres below the dirt. This is looking up our service side where we will be putting in a herb garden. This is also looking at the 3rd bedroom which is at the front: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is looking from the garage towards the back through the workshop, office and theatre: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Garage again towards the neighbours to our right: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And while we're looking at our property all we could smell was hay and dung...hmmm hmmm....we're in the country now! But it's all good!!!! So close to everything! Hopefully by the end of this week we will have a slab and frames up, Drains are going in tomorrow, slab the next day, frames should be end of this week or start of the following week. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 18Mar 09, 2015 1:48 pm Thank you for the updates RichandShez. I have not signed the dotted line with metricon as yet. Metricon quoted 23k for site prep however I have a private earthmover who will cut and fill my lot for only 4k. When that is done I will go back to metricon. I did download the walk through file from your dropbox however I can not get it to work. Is the file for pc or mac? Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 19Mar 09, 2015 1:56 pm Hey Jesse, It's for PC not Mac. There should be a Play file. If that doesn't work you might need to go into the following folder: C:\Barkly29\WindowsNoEditor\Barkly29\Binaries\Win32\Barkly29.exe Or wherever you have downloaded it to as it might not be your HDD and double click on the Barkly29.exe file. Wow....that's amazing and a huge difference. Re: We're Building a Metricon Barkly 29 20Mar 09, 2015 6:13 pm Thanks mate. I give the walk through another crack. I really want to see the layout before handing over the deposit. I dont like blind faith. What will you do with the builder stealing your water? I use the word stealing because that is what it is..... 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 10715 Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 8157 We don’t live in VIC so want to know the exterior colours of Lumiere display so we can see it at the paint shop. Not building with Metricon so my request went… 0 17321 |