Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 41Aug 11, 2017 1:17 pm PCI 23 Aug!!! Thats the final inspection, to pick on things to get fixed, after that about 10days before settlement/handover, so at this stage, we should have the keys in early Sep. Some recent photos, after having a meet with Cliff (who was surprisingly, was very pleasant.) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 43Aug 24, 2017 7:56 am 223552 Much harder to get in now, with everything being locked up. Managed to sneak in, and take some pictures. Internal painting has begun!!! Some areas I noticed small defects in plaster/timbers, but so far attention to details has been good. So expect these little things will be fixed up during the painting process. Morning shot afternoon shot... and a few more How wide and high is your stacker door? Looks great! Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 45Aug 24, 2017 6:57 pm 223552 The doors are approx 2.35m high, and 4m wide. From A and Windows. I should have gone for much wider doors though....... Nice, they look great! You can't go wider than 4.2m without reinforcement though. Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 46Sep 02, 2017 12:54 pm We had our PCI yesterday. There are still a lot of unfinished works: driveway, some fitoff, caulking, staining front door, and staircase, electrical unfinished, adjustments (doors/cupboards). We got Darbecca to come through as well, so waiting on their report... Fingers crossed its nothing too horrible!!! First impressions so far: Overall it its coming along well, and should be a nice house! A lot of paint touch ups as expected. Picked up on a couple of power points missing, wrong light locations, wrong driveway width(luckily I spotted it before it got poured!!, getting poured in 2 days!!!), wrong towel racks Cabinet maker - f@@@@n i###t... Many stuff ups, a lot of hold ups, and still unfinished! However, most stuff ups, are agreed to be fixed by Hallbury, so we will see... Still needs to finish off cabinets above the bench, and shaving cabinet in ensuite. Our biggest issue is 2nd bathroom.. We don't like how it came out, this is not Hallburys fault, we picked everything, it just doesn't look that nice..... here are some pics I managed to take before the phone battery died! Kitchen from staircase Ensuite, with free standing bath, and still waiting for mirrors to go onto the shaving cabinet 2nd Bathroom (it actually looks decent in photos, just not that nice in real life...) View from top of staircase Staircase... Hopefully, once its stained and painted (black risers) it will look better Master bedroom, with doors to balcony Next week, should get the driveway!!! Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 49May 01, 2018 7:45 pm Hiya, appreciate the updates in your thread. Just wondering how you went after handover in terms of dealing with hallbury for the things that needed to be fixed. Have they been yet or still a work in progress. Would you build with them again? Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 50May 02, 2018 10:35 am Hey, I will post a long post in a few weeks, once the landscaping is complete. Overall, post handover has been a positive experience with Hallbury. Most issues are dealt with promptly. We had an issue with electricals after the handover, and the original electrician had to come out to fix the issues (incorrectly installed rangehood, cooktop, some switches issues) he was a piece of s..t, in the end we told Hallbury that they either call someone else, or we get our own electrician, and send them the bill. They send someone else (Hazard electricals) and these guys were good and fixed everything. 3 months check, there was a list of about 15 items, and all got accepted.Tradesmen were organised shortly after, and everything got attended to. There are 2 outstanding issues. One is sliding doors to alfresco, are very hard to move, so, Hallbury will send someone to take them off, and check rollers/adjust everything. Driveway sealer is coming off. The concreter will be back in a few weeks to reapply the sealer. Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 53May 03, 2018 3:10 pm Had a free moment, and had some photos of the staircase. The old staircase, once painted looked hideous. The painter that was sent to paint it and stain in, was crap (maybe ok for walls,...) we picked a walnut colour stain, but he applied so much of it, it was simply painted ugly missionary brown... and he was messy, got splash marks everywhere, which he cleaned up, but still, how hard is to mask everything?? We complained to the SS, he called out the boss of painter, but it was such a crap job, that they couldn't get out of it. Also a Haymes rep came out to check (stain was from haymes), and he said it was applied incorrectly. They offered us to strip it back, and re-stain it, but we decided to redo the staircase ourselves, and put the same flooring on staircase as the rest of the house. Got 1k credit from Hallbury, and painter boss came back and fixed up things himself around handrails, and other areas. Old .. New Re: Building with Hallbury Homes in Moorabbin 54Jun 17, 2018 7:56 am [quote="223552"]Had a free moment, and had some photos of the staircase. Did you end up doing it yourself? Looks great. I like the light colour on top of the steps. I have a question about demolition back at the start. You said the guy was hard to get a hold of etc but were you happy in the end? Were hallbury happy with the job they did? Putting together a short list for demolition in SE Melbourne. Thanks. 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