Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jul 13, 2015 9:51 am My husband and I have been living in his grandma's house for the past 6 years. It was always our intentions of demolishing and rebuilding but we hadn't found the right place. In November 2014 we stumbled across the Hollywood III from Highbury Homes and immediately fell in love with it.
After reading other stories we have thought we'd keep track of our time lines and experiences to help future readers with their build with Highbury. November 2014 - found the Hollywood III December 2014 - tinkered around with the design to fit on our block. We have a huge frontage of 28m so we needed to widen and only 26m deep had to shift forward and move rooms a little. March 2015 - signed initial PPA April 2015 - first Kior designer meeting for external selections May 2015 - signed our contract documents June 2015 - after 3 weeks wait for the bank finally got loan unconditionally approved. Seriously though no issues with our loan just bank took their time with the remortgage of the initial bank loan. 2 July 2015 - second Kior interior design meeting took us 1 hour rather than the 4 hours allocated. Helps to have your ideas ready otherwise you'll waste your time there. Great thing about the remaining hours we didn't use with Kior is we can use them later for things like paint furniture etc. 10 July 2015 - PRESTART!! Exhausting but we're able to choose everything we wanted. 14 July 2015 - waiting for adenda contract September - Demolition of our home. November - Site works December - Hit limestone rocks but quickly removed and SLAB DOWN!! January - Bricks up to plate height February - Roof on, but no tiles yet, power points put. 11 March 2016 - Roof tiles turned up, water and gas lines installed. 30 March 2016 - Roof tiling completed, versilux in alfresco and portico done 31st March 2016 - Grey walling started 4th April 2016 - Grey wall completed 6th April 2016 - Ceiling delivered with cornices 3rd May 2016 - Doors delivered and installed 12th May 2016 - Kitchen & bathroom cabinets installed 16th May 2016 - Bar installed & essa stone bench tops installed 25th May 2016 - Water proof layer in bathrooms in preparation for tiling Re: Our Hollywood III with Highbury Homes 5Mar 07, 2016 11:44 am Haven't updated for a while but got a huge amount of photos So had to cull down a little. Roof is huge!! Coming over the hill you can see the green timber roof http://imgur.com/LU1Cd8l Re: Our Hollywood III with Highbury Homes 6Mar 07, 2016 4:09 pm Posting to follow, that floorplan is a really nice one. Re: Our Hollywood III with Highbury Homes 8Mar 13, 2016 9:08 pm Wow moving quick, you are going to have a nice size yard as well. Nice alfresco ceiling Re: Our Hollywood III with Highbury Homes 12May 29, 2016 10:01 pm Looking good! When do you think you will have handover? Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 of course there are legal avenues. You've already mentioned it. Sue them. I find it odd that lawyers wouldnt be willing to take on the case, given CCT evidence and… 1 23988 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 76141 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 106795 |