Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Aug 12, 2015 10:48 am Hi All,
I have been reading all threads and following all the blogs! I thought it is about time I share some my building journey to help others building with their building. As the title suggests we are building a custom home with a new builder. We are building in the South West Sydney suburbs. With a frontage of over 11m it was a challenge finding a house that can fit the block! This is our first and most likely forever home. We purchased a property in 8 years back with fibro house and moved out of it 1 year back to get the new house build. We started house design process in July and now the design is complete and we have signed build contract .Signed contracts with A in June 15. We received our CDC approval on 10/08/2015 and yet to choose our selections. Knocked down in schedule for tomorrow 13/08/2015 and builder is planning to handed over in December 15. We had few delays with getting demolition application and then disconnecting all utilities. Hope everything goes well tomorrow. Our timeline so far: Contract signed with builder- 13/07/2015 CDC approval received - 18/08/2015 House demolition started - 20/08/2015 Visited Austral for brick selection - 21/08/2015 Demolition Finished - 25/08/2015 Land levelling for slab - 27/08/2015 Piering for slab - 7/09/2015 Plumbing for slab finished - 09/09/2015 Exterior Selections - 11/09/2015 Slab completed 19/09/2015 Framing finished 1/10/2015 Roof tiles finished 8/10/2015 Bricks started 9/10/2015 Handover 10/12/2015 Re: New home Custom build Sydney 2Aug 12, 2015 10:53 am I am still figuring out how to post plan and photos. Can somebody help please this newbie?? Re: New home Custom build Sydney 3Aug 12, 2015 11:00 am Hi & welcome to H1! You can either use tapatalk to upload photos from your phone, very easy just click on the + beside your text and get from gallery etc or use external host such as photo bucket or the like. Hope this helps! Looking forward to following your build! Custom build Northern NSW viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72217 Re: New home Custom build Sydney 4Aug 12, 2015 11:12 am TraceyWayne Hi & welcome to H1! You can either use tapatalk to upload photos from your phone, very easy just click on the + beside your text and get from gallery etc or use external host such as photo bucket or the like. Hope this helps! Looking forward to following your build! Thanks Tracy. Will try when I reach home today. Re: New home Custom build Sydney 5Aug 12, 2015 11:16 am House is scheduled to knock down tomorrow. I dont have strength to see it down as I have lived in that for 8 years..I dont know it is good news or sad news. I will be going to the site on saturday to see the progress. Re: New home Custom build Sydney 7Sep 07, 2015 10:12 am The house is down now. Took us a week to demolish as there was too much asbestos. It was every where under the clothes line buried under pavers. But I am glad finally the land is flat. Builder could not do slab preparations as there was rain in sydney 2 weeks back and concreters were running behind. They are on our block today to do some work. Re: New home Custom build Sydney 8Sep 07, 2015 10:13 am I am using taptalk but still not able to post pictures Re: New home Custom build Sydney 13Sep 07, 2015 10:34 am This is a narrow block. 12.2 meters wide and 40 meteres long. We could not go with bulk builder as there were not many single story designs which might fit on our block. We approved few other builder and they none of them was confident to fit a double garage on our block. So we decided to explore custom home builders. This builder came to through a good reference and we decided to use him. New home Custom build Sydney - brick selection help required 15Sep 08, 2015 2:09 pm which brick do you think matches with matellix Bronz. Is it Austral urban one pepper or Urban one Chiffon? Anybody build with these bricks? how they look in real time? We have chosed Matellix Bronz for front house brick but not sure which one we should choose for other 3 sides. Thanks in advance guys. Re: New home Custom build Sydney 16Sep 08, 2015 2:10 pm Re: New home Custom build Sydney - brick help needed.. 17Sep 08, 2015 2:22 pm what do you think guys which brick maches well with middle one? Re: New home Custom build Sydney - brick selection help requ 18Sep 08, 2015 2:51 pm I like the bottom one but I guess it depends on what colour your roof etc is as well and if you want more grey tones or browns? Re: New home Custom build Sydney - brick selection help requ 19Sep 08, 2015 3:07 pm I also like grey tones I believe they are in trend. roof will be dark grey to charcoal..but this pepper(brown) was also looking good with the bronz. with grey roof which one you think look better? Re: New home Custom build Sydney - brick selection help requ 20Sep 08, 2015 7:38 pm Hi Seema! Just subscribed. Amazing your build will be done by December!! Metricon Glendale 38 - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&p=1298363#p1298363 Selections: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=75696&start=60 Tiles - p25 6 55346 So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27716 I'd get the gutters to match your roof and pipes to match the paint - otherwise they become a feature. Nice pick with the paint colours! 1 34269 |