Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 41Aug 28, 2015 2:08 pm I hope your enjoying your colours appointment today Phoenix rose, you set yourself very good allowances you should do well. Colour scheme sounds great, looking forward to seeing the pics of your selections . Have fun pendant shopping I found that painful so many choices . Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 43Aug 29, 2015 2:55 pm Hi Rose! Found your thread. Hope the appointment went well! Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 44Aug 31, 2015 3:51 pm Thanks Tribe, Franky and Mona. We went into the appointment so excited but by the end we were so exhausted that we just wanted to go home. Maybe we should have split it into two days but I didnt want to take more time off work In the end managed to finish everything. I think we did well but hoping that everything comes within our budget. Our electricals came close to 25K so we asked if we could take it home so we can revise it and take out some upgrades we can possibly just do after handover. We will go back on the 18th of sept to sign it off. We received an update from our csc that we have DA number already but not the complete approval yet from council. Im not to sure what that means but at least its progress . We managed to get the upgrade of continuous HWS and melamine shelving for free but we decided to stick to the bath with the hob instead of the freestanding bath in the main bathroom as we have two young children. I will put up our selections as soon as we get our quote back (fingers crossed it will be by the end of this week or early next week). Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 45Sep 01, 2015 10:44 am Congrats on the successful selections day Phoenix, it's a mammoth day with so many important choices to be made. Hope your get your list back soon can't wait to see the colour scheme you have gone with. We felt the same way about the free standing bath. I've passed out at your electrical cost . Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 46Sep 01, 2015 10:49 am Me too. ..25k!!! What did you get rose? Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 47Sep 01, 2015 2:01 pm Tribe7 Congrats on the successful selections day Phoenix, it's a mammoth day with so many important choices to be made. Hope your get your list back soon can't wait to see the colour scheme you have gone with. We felt the same way about the free standing bath. I've passed out at your electrical cost . Thank you Tribe . It certainly was a very long day but glad we did it. I also cant wait to get our quote back so we can get our budget right for our post handover list. Yes our electrical is insane, so glad we didnt have to sign it off on the day. Congratulations by the way on a great PCI and hopefully handover is not too far away for you Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 48Sep 01, 2015 3:41 pm monalisa Me too. ..25k!!! What did you get rose? Glad to know we arent the only one's that had a massive spending spree on electricals . The big spend was mostly on lighting and data points and extra power/light circuits for the house. I will probably get a heart attack when we get our quote back, followed by some disappointment as I know that we wont be able to get some of the upgrades we asked for . Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 49Sep 01, 2015 3:45 pm Sorry i meant i passed out too like tribe lol. We spent about 10k.... more to go post handover. Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 50Sep 01, 2015 6:32 pm So agree, getting the budget ready for handover is super important. Fingers crossed your paper work has a quick turn around. Are you getting m to do all your downlights? We did and I'm so pleased we don't have to have trades back in the house. We are about the same as Mona a bit over 10k but that includes pendants. Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 52Sep 02, 2015 5:09 pm mrmatr56 Hi Phoenix, is your block 450 or over 450. I've just bought a 450 unregistered block and looking for houses I was told we couldn't put a house that big on a 450 due to CDC rules. Hi mrmatr56, yes our block is exactly 450m2. We are going through council so it might be different rules for CDC? We even could have gone with a 41sq house, as it was still within the council house area coverage ratios. It also depends on the ratio of floor area coverage of the ground floor and first floor. Hope that makes sense. Good luck with finding a builder and house Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 53Sep 02, 2015 5:14 pm monalisa Sorry i meant i passed out too like tribe lol. We spent about 10k.... more to go post handover. Oh Lol ! We are trying to cut our electrical down by 3K but finding it hard to see where we can possibly cut it down. We will be doing the downlights for the first floor post handover so we might consider doing the downstairs one after handover aswell. Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 54Sep 02, 2015 5:16 pm Tribe7 So agree, getting the budget ready for handover is super important. Fingers crossed your paper work has a quick turn around. Are you getting m to do all your downlights? We did and I'm so pleased we don't have to have trades back in the house. We are about the same as Mona a bit over 10k but that includes pendants. We are doing the downlights for the ground floor through M but the upstairs we will do after handover. Yes the convenience of just getting everything done through M is great, so that it will be one less thing to worry about after handover. Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 56Sep 02, 2015 6:35 pm mrmatr56 Wow that's interesting. The girl at Metricon didn't tell me that. Is that Camden Council you went through? That's who I'll be building with. We are going through Campbelltown council as we are just pass the camden council boundary line but you should still be able to build a Glendale 38 with Camden. Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 57Sep 09, 2015 9:14 pm Quick update: No word of approval yet from Council No sign of our internal colour selections quote aswell . This is understandable as we asked for a few quotes and apparently there is only one estimator working for metricon nsw. We are nearing our contract end date so we contacted our CSC (about a month ago) regarding extending it with a fee of course. Her reply then was that our file was being assessed by management to see if the delay was due to Metricon (highly likely it is as it took them 2 months after our land settlement for them to submit to council). Hubby got a voice mail from our CSC this afternoon regarding this issue but when hubby tried to call her back she was out of the office already. Hopefully we get good news tomorrow regarding this!! Fingers crossed Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 58Sep 09, 2015 9:19 pm Hi Phoenix - fingers crossed they are able to extend it. I know Sheilzy got a slight extension too ; and I think it shouldn't be a big deal extending it by a short period of time! When do you think you will be in construction? Colour quote takes some time - from memory ours may have taken about 2 weeks or so. Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 59Sep 09, 2015 9:24 pm Hope so too. We've been in council for 4 weeks now so hoping we get approval the next week or two. Depending on how quick they draw up final construction plans, im thinking we will have site start around end of october. Im just anxious about our colour quote as we will be paying it out of our own pocket Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78449 Re: Metricon Glendale 38 (Sydney South West) 60Sep 09, 2015 9:32 pm Dont u get the quote for electricals there on the day? We've had a pleasant experience from the start until now... only hiccup was the ******* painters!!! They barely spoke english and havent done a great job so our handover is not until Tuesday now cos we found a lot of variations with the paint job... viewtopic.php?t=76588 Hi I live in a 100yr old semi and my neighbour added an additional floor last yr and our architect has advised that we can knock down our semi and build a free-standing… 0 37682 Well these guys are not looking good... I sent them a written enquiry last week and they have not yet replied. 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