Browse Forums Building A New House Building with Dennis Family Homes 562Sep 26, 2017 5:12 pm So it's been about a month in our new home and we still have so much to do. Here's some progress pics of what we have done so far. Excuse the mess Lounge room,still have rug,pictures and coffee table to go. Working progress Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Kitchen. Pendants are in finally Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Entrance pendant Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Laundry Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bathroom Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Garage floor has been done in epoxy Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ No landscaping as yet. Will hopefully get around to it once all internal items have been done. Still lots to do but so little time when you have kids. Hope everyone is having some progress with their contracts/build Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 563Sep 27, 2017 1:36 am Oh, nice! Looking good! Really like your colour choices and your front door. Must show the wife your lounge room photo. I want all that comfy seating that you have. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 564Sep 27, 2017 8:19 am Thanks rattle. It's taken us a while to get here and im exhausted already. Still so much to do but we're taking a break for a bit. The lounge is awesome, the seats can also be extended. If interested it was from adriatic furniture at essendon dfo Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 565Sep 27, 2017 10:07 am Oh, nice. We're taking the kids down to Melbourne for the Show in a few days. We can stop at DFO on the way in. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 566Sep 27, 2017 5:11 pm Oh my! I love that front door rtforresters!! And the pendant at the entrance. Starting to look like home now. Glad that you are settling in. Week 5/6 now since our plans were submitted to council. Letters have gone out to our neighbors in regards to our setback. We are sitting at a 7.6 setback currently. Apparently, we should be the average of our two direct neighbors, which is 8.15. Obviously, we dont want to have to go further back then we are currently so we had to apply for the dispensation. So ridiculous but so far, we have spoken to all the neighbors and no one has any issues. Some baking may have been involved! =D Otherwise, all good here, I am a little bit stressed thinking of how hectic its going to get once we get the permit to start though! Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 567Sep 28, 2017 11:01 am Good luck with it Lenz88. Sounds like you aren't too far away at all. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 568Sep 28, 2017 2:12 pm Thanks for recommending I join this thread rattleAU! Hubby & I have just purchased land (settling mid-2018) in West Melbourne & after making too many changes (& driving up the price a fair bit) to the Onyx 23, changed to Pearl 26. Looking forward to seeing everyone elses' builds come to fruition & hearing your tips and experiences. Has anyone got shaker style kitchen/ bathroom cupboards? Did you do them thru Dennis or sourced them yourself for cheaper? Our sales rep is pushing me to forget them but I really love this style and have for years. He said I'd be looking at $4000+... is this realistic? And has anyone opted for vinyl/ 2 pac marble look laminex benchtops? Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 569Sep 29, 2017 8:12 am Thanks Lenz. Good luck with your build. Will check in now and then to see all your builds. Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 570Sep 29, 2017 8:13 am SweetnSassy7 Thanks for recommending I join this thread rattleAU! Hubby & I have just purchased land (settling mid-2018) in West Melbourne & after making too many changes (& driving up the price a fair bit) to the Onyx 23, changed to Pearl 26. Looking forward to seeing everyone elses' builds come to fruition & hearing your tips and experiences. Has anyone got shaker style kitchen/ bathroom cupboards? Did you do them thru Dennis or sourced them yourself for cheaper? Our sales rep is pushing me to forget them but I really love this style and have for years. He said I'd be looking at $4000+... is this realistic? And has anyone opted for vinyl/ 2 pac marble look laminex benchtops? Sorry, I can't help with those 2 things. Good luck with your build Building with Dennis Family Homes Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 571Oct 06, 2017 6:34 pm Just wondering if anyone knows how many (if any) powerpoints, TV points, phone points, data points are included as standard with DFHs? And when we start paying for them? Our sales consultant mentioned there was something like 1 TV point, 2 phone & 2 data points standard (included for free) but when we requested more he has charged us for all of them. Queried him & got a kind of brushed off answer. I know the NBN basic package includes 1 ph & 1 data point but DFHs claims this must be in the garage. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 572Oct 06, 2017 10:27 pm SweetnSassy7 Just wondering if anyone knows how many (if any) powerpoints, TV points, phone points, data points are included as standard with DFHs? And when we start paying for them? Our sales consultant mentioned there was something like 1 TV point, 2 phone & 2 data points standard (included for free) but when we requested more he has charged us for all of them. Queried him & got a kind of brushed off answer. I know the NBN basic package includes 1 ph & 1 data point but DFHs claims this must be in the garage. We are building the Macedon. From what I can see, we have 2x double power points in bedrooms 2,3,4, living, family, theatre, study, 3 doubles in the master. Single double points in the bathroom, ensuite, meals, alfresco, kitchen, butlers, island bench. We have added a few more and I think it was around $60 per double. There are two TV points and I think there is only one data point and phone point included as standard. And I think we were told that yes, the data point is in the garage but we can have it moved - not sure whether that was at a cost though. Don't let them brush you off - you are the customer and this is your home and a huge investment. Make sure you clarify everything! And if possible email as opposed to phone/ face to face so there is a trail so there can be no disputes down the track. Good luck! I should add that the Macedon is part of the Inspirations range - not sure what the difference it is to Aspirations in terms of their electrical allowances. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 573Oct 08, 2017 9:18 am Lenz88 SweetnSassy7 Just wondering if anyone knows how many (if any) powerpoints, TV points, phone points, data points are included as standard with DFHs? And when we start paying for them? Our sales consultant mentioned there was something like 1 TV point, 2 phone & 2 data points standard (included for free) but when we requested more he has charged us for all of them. Queried him & got a kind of brushed off answer. I know the NBN basic package includes 1 ph & 1 data point but DFHs claims this must be in the garage. We are building the Macedon. From what I can see, we have 2x double power points in bedrooms 2,3,4, living, family, theatre, study, 3 doubles in the master. Single double points in the bathroom, ensuite, meals, alfresco, kitchen, butlers, island bench. We have added a few more and I think it was around $60 per double. There are two TV points and I think there is only one data point and phone point included as standard. And I think we were told that yes, the data point is in the garage but we can have it moved - not sure whether that was at a cost though. Don't let them brush you off - you are the customer and this is your home and a huge investment. Make sure you clarify everything! And if possible email as opposed to phone/ face to face so there is a trail so there can be no disputes down the track. Good luck! I should add that the Macedon is part of the Inspirations range - not sure what the difference it is to Aspirations in terms of their electrical allowances. Which Macedon are you building? We have been 15 months in ours!! Love it do much but wish we did WIR for the kids rooms.. Macedon 322/DFH 2016!! Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 574Oct 08, 2017 9:25 am Cass Row+4 Lenz88 SweetnSassy7 Just wondering if anyone knows how many (if any) powerpoints, TV points, phone points, data points are included as standard with DFHs? And when we start paying for them? Our sales consultant mentioned there was something like 1 TV point, 2 phone & 2 data points standard (included for free) but when we requested more he has charged us for all of them. Queried him & got a kind of brushed off answer. I know the NBN basic package includes 1 ph & 1 data point but DFHs claims this must be in the garage. We are building the Macedon. From what I can see, we have 2x double power points in bedrooms 2,3,4, living, family, theatre, study, 3 doubles in the master. Single double points in the bathroom, ensuite, meals, alfresco, kitchen, butlers, island bench. We have added a few more and I think it was around $60 per double. There are two TV points and I think there is only one data point and phone point included as standard. And I think we were told that yes, the data point is in the garage but we can have it moved - not sure whether that was at a cost though. Don't let them brush you off - you are the customer and this is your home and a huge investment. Make sure you clarify everything! And if possible email as opposed to phone/ face to face so there is a trail so there can be no disputes down the track. Good luck! I should add that the Macedon is part of the Inspirations range - not sure what the difference it is to Aspirations in terms of their electrical allowances. Which Macedon are you building? We have been 15 months in ours!! Love it do much but wish we did WIR for the kids rooms.. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 575Oct 11, 2017 12:09 am No news from DFH for me. Still waiting for the contract to come back after a final fix to the bathroom tiles, which were slightly wrong in the final contract. Been a couple of weeks, but not too stressed as we are not in a rush. Went to our block today, just to see if there was anything wrong or anything need doing. Never is as it's just outside a country town and backs onto the forest, so it's dead quiet there and my future neighbour mows the block with his ride on. So nice of him. However... I park on the back half of the block and as I walk over to look at where I'm going to plant more natives on the rear boundary to the forest. A brown snake pops its head up at the neighbors rear paving and then another does the same further back on their lawn. Great, I was in thongs and shorts. The closest one saw me and took off into the forest though. Followed it til it was out of sight and lost the other, so went and let the neighbours know that they had visitors. Gotta love living in the country. Heh, heh.... Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 576Oct 20, 2017 4:29 pm Update!! The council said yes tto the dispensation and we have been given the green light to proceed! Yippee! Permit for tree removal done and received, power pit appication completed - now waiting. Demolition scheduled for early in the New Year. In the meantime, trying to declutter and pack everything up and look for a rental is in progress. So much to do!! A wee bit stressed but how exciting to be beginning. And amongst all the other things, I am going to start a blog now htat we are on the way. I will post the link once I work out how! LOL Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 577Oct 21, 2017 11:44 am Good stuff! Sounds great! Will be reading the blog and keeping up on your progress. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 578Oct 22, 2017 7:22 am Nice one Lenz, we have had a bit of an issue recently. Our Sales Consultant didn't understand the procedure in requiring a planning permit to remove trees from our block prior to obtaining a build permit, which I find absolutely astounding. On top of that they pushed our contract back another month too!! Anyway, we are just about to get an Aborist report and submit details for the planning permit, so hopefully not too many hold ups there....Can I ask all of you, did you sign the contract before or after the build permit is received? Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 579Oct 26, 2017 8:59 pm Hi everyone, We too are building with the DF. I am so nervous... We have been to the colour selection and should have the plants finilised by mid November. At what stage do we hear about Council approval? We are building the Alexandra 293. Can't wait. Re: Building with Dennis Family Homes 580Oct 26, 2017 9:05 pm Mathjic Nice one Lenz, we have had a bit of an issue recently. Our Sales Consultant didn't understand the procedure in requiring a planning permit to remove trees from our block prior to obtaining a build permit, which I find absolutely astounding. On top of that they pushed our contract back another month too!! Anyway, we are just about to get an Aborist report and submit details for the planning permit, so hopefully not too many hold ups there....Can I ask all of you, did you sign the contract before or after the build permit is received? Hi Mathjic, We haven't heard anything about the permit yet and I am not sure what comes first to be honest. In fact, I am assuming the permits are organised by the builder and in this case we would only sign a contract after permits were given but I really have no idea. Would love to hear from the others with more experience. Lilly Hi everyone, Newbie renovator here, after some advice for combining our family room in the picture and the alfresco and make a larger family room. 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