Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West)

Phoenix Rose · Jul 08, 2015 1:39 am

Hi all,

As the title suggests, we have decided to build the popular Glendale 38 Plantation design by Metricon on our newly registered block of land (450sqm) in Sydney's southwest. Our land registered in June 2015 so we are still awaiting for developer and council approval.

Here is a quick timeline of our progress so far-

Land purchase: June 2014
First deposit to Metricon: December 2014
Tender: February 2015
Contract/ external colour selections: March 2015
Land registers: June 2015
Land settled: 4 July 2015
Stockland approval: 24 July 2015
Plans submitted to council: 7 August 2015
Internal colour/ electrical appointment: 28 August 2015
Council approval: 12 October 2015
Final construction drawings received: 6 November 2015
File passed to construction: 11 November 2015
Site pegged- 17 November
Site cut- 18 November (official start date)
28 nov- piering
03 dec- drainage and formwork
04 dec- formwork and waffle pods/ steel works
08 dec- slab poured
15 dec- storm water drainage
18 dec- ground floor frames delivered
06 jan- ground floor frames commenced
11 jan- ground floor frames finished
14 jan- windows delivered
19 jan- First floor frames delivered
21 jan- first floor frames commenced
29 jan- first floor frames complete, windows installed
02 feb- bricks delivered
03 feb- first walk through
15 feb- bricking commenced
18 feb- plumbing
23 feb- scaffolding delivered
24 feb- scaffolding erected
29 feb- fascia/gutter delivered
02 mar- fascia/gutter installed
30 mar- bricks finished
7 apr- eaves installed
9 apr- first floor bricks cleaned
10 apr- upper gutters installed and painted
18 apr- render to front pillars
21 apr- roof tiles delivered
26 apr- sarking and tile battens installed
27 apr- roof tiles on
2 may- fascia and gutters to garage and rear rooms
3 may- painting/ stain to balcony gable
6 may- electrical rough ins
12 may- lower roof tiles/ cladding
17 may- insulation
18 may- pre lining inspection, plaster start
19 may- plaster finish
20 may- stairs installed
24 may- front door, internal doors, door jambs, skirtings and architraves
26 may- cornices
30 may- cabinetry delivered
31 may- waterproofing
1 june- rainwater tank/ cabinetry installed, painting commences
2 june- 2nd layer waterproof
15 june- benchtops, sinks and basins

We have not made much changes to the standard floor plan but here is a list of some of our upgrades:
- 450mm eaves to ground and first floor
- semi cantilevered staircase with glass balustrades
- 2550mm ceiling to ground floor
- convert powder room to bathroom
- butlers pantry
-square set and full wall tiling to all bathrooms and ensuite
-additional robe in master bedroom
-increase first floor linen cupboard
-added wash basin to first floor WC

Here is our floor plans as of 2 July 2015

Here is a visual of our facade

Bricks: Austral Whitsunday Orpheus
Roof tiles: Bristile Classic Coal
Gutters/ Windows/Downpipes: Monument
Fascia/ Render: Surfmist
Gables/ Timber posts/ Front door: Jarrah stain
Garage: Colorbond Caoba

This is our first ever build so any suggestions/ comments are very much welcomed

!!

Vikas77 · Jul 14, 2015 10:39 am

Hi Phoenix, are you building your house in the new Willowdale estate....?

Tribe7 · Jul 14, 2015 11:01 am

Wow another Metricon build, lovely colour scheme to the facade. Hope all your approvals come through quickly and you can get started.

Phoenix Rose · Jul 14, 2015 4:12 pm

Vikas77

Hi Phoenix, are you building your house in the new Willowdale estate....?

Hi Vikas, yes we are! Where abouts are you building?

Phoenix Rose · Jul 14, 2015 4:15 pm

Tribe7

Wow another Metricon build, lovely colour scheme to the facade. Hope all your approvals come through quickly and you can get started.

Thank you Tribe. I've been following your build and i love your colour scheme too! Fingers crossed our build goes as fast as yours is going.

Vikas77 · Jul 14, 2015 4:17 pm

we are buiding in elara estate in marsden park but we also considered wilowdale while selecting the location as we currently live in glenfield

Phoenix Rose · Jul 14, 2015 4:25 pm

Oh we could have been neighbours! What made you guys choose Elara?

Tribe7 · Jul 15, 2015 12:32 am

I hope you get a quick build time too Phoenix rose, looking forward to seeing your internal colour selections.

Phoenix Rose · Jul 15, 2015 9:49 am

Thanks Tribe! We haven't had our internal colours appointment yet as M is waiting till we put our plans through to council.... hoping we will be booked for later this month or early August.

Tribe7 · Jul 15, 2015 10:54 am

Interesting it's so different, we do all our colour, electrical and tile appointments before we get our final contract. Then it goes to the certifier for approval. Any idea on when the final plans are going to council, hope they are quick and you can get on to picking stuff, it's really exciting but slightly daunting too.

Vikas77 · Jul 15, 2015 12:08 pm

Phoenix Rose

Oh we could have been neighbours! What made you guys choose Elara?

just that we have most of our friends in north west...also personally we feel the shopping malls, restaurants and general living in that area is better ..though I am sure soon leppington will become new rouse hill kind of place....thats why we were confused.

another reason was to have better access for white collar jobs....from there we have easy access to parramatta cbd, northwest business centre, not too far from macquarie centre or easy to drive to chatswood, north sydney...also direct train to CBD from schofield station.

Phoenix Rose · Jul 15, 2015 8:59 pm

Tribe7

Interesting it's so different, we do all our colour, electrical and tile appointments before we get our final contract. Then it goes to the certifier for approval. Any idea on when the final plans are going to council, hope they are quick and you can get on to picking stuff, it's really exciting but slightly daunting too.

We are hoping to get the plans to council either this week or early next week. We are just waiting for developer (Stockland) to approve our plans first since our land is in an estate. Yes i cant wait to pick our colours already and hopefully its sooner than later.

Phoenix Rose · Jul 15, 2015 9:08 pm

Vikas77

Phoenix Rose

Oh we could have been neighbours! What made you guys choose Elara?

just that we have most of our friends in north west...also personally we feel the shopping malls, restaurants and general living in that area is better ..though I am sure soon leppington will become new rouse hill kind of place....thats why we were confused.

another reason was to have better access for white collar jobs....from there we have easy access to parramatta cbd, northwest business centre, not too far from macquarie centre or easy to drive to chatswood, north sydney...also direct train to CBD from schofield station.

We chose Willowdale for same reason as you for Elara. Family and work is closer to us here in the south west.

Tribe7 · Jul 15, 2015 11:55 pm

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We are hoping to get the plans to council either this week or early next week. We are just waiting for developer (Stockland) to approve our plans first since our land is in an estate. Yes i cant wait to pick our colours already and hopefully its sooner than later.[/quote]

Oh fingers crossed they get signed off by Stocklands and on to council by Friday. Internal paint colour I found tricky, I didn't know there were so many whites

. If the budget allows the dulux wash and ware paint upgrade is a good idea. Ohh and a tv antenna, it's not standard for us and something on our after hand over list.

Phoenix Rose · Jul 16, 2015 2:54 pm

Yes who knew there could be so many variations to one colour. We will most likely go for a cooler white for walls and ceiling. I have to check our standard inclusions but i vaguely remember that the paint used will be a wash and wear one.

Tv antenna will also be on our post handover list amongst many others!

Tribe7 · Jul 18, 2015 10:52 am

I prefer cooler whites too, not a lover of the yellow hue that some whites through out. We picked Casper white quarter as it's nice and crisp. Bonus the wash and ware is included it's a upgrade for qld.

We had the option of getting m to do the antenna through our electrical appointment but at almost double the charge we bowed out.

Phoenix Rose · Jul 22, 2015 12:17 am

No word of approval from Stockland yet :-(

CSC will chase it up!

Tribe7 · Jul 22, 2015 7:31 am

Damn so annoying when paperwork is causing the delay. Fingers crossed your csc can get a rocket up there bum

Phoenix Rose · Jul 22, 2015 8:35 pm

Lol! Thanks Tribe! The slight push did the trick and we got developer approval today. Yay! This admin phase certainly drags.... but at least we are one step closer to construction!

Tribe7 · Jul 22, 2015 11:06 pm

Ohhh hooray that's great news. On to council next and then the fun can really start. I found the audit and ordering phase the worst, everything is approved it just waiting to get everything sorted to get a site start.