Browse Forums Building A New House Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 161May 16, 2017 8:39 pm Woohooo!!!!!! Can't wait to see pics GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=83643 Re: First Home :) Building with Dixon Homes 162May 16, 2017 8:53 pm Yayyyyyyyyy! Can't wait to see photos
Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 163May 16, 2017 8:57 pm Hooray on the roof Flea, glad no one pinched your sheets. Maybe a early Morning visit tomorrow?? . Great progress with the plumbing rough in too, electrical next. Did you go for a ducted air con? Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 164May 16, 2017 9:22 pm Thanks guys I can't wait to see it during the day! Had to walk into the house to actually see it dark roof and night time = roof blends in too much No we haven't had any aircon put in..... that will come after we move in hopefully mates rates through a friend 🤞 Lol yep yep early visit so I can take another million pics you can never have too many pics right? Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 165May 17, 2017 9:20 am Photo spam coming!!! Some are dark as the sun was in the wrong spot ☀️ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 167May 17, 2017 1:48 pm Good stuff you can get some mates rates on the air con Flea . Roof looks great and the 3 pitches to the front make for an interesting facade . Your motoring along now. Your a lucky sausage to get your air con at mates rates. One less thing to deal with now too. Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 168May 17, 2017 2:23 pm Thanks Bank & Tribe Electrical is being done today & tomorrow than we are adding to that on Friday! Hubby is away ATM so my brother is going to run our extra wires etc love him to bits for helping us out as he's very busy with his own job as an electrician ❤️ Hoping that we can still do mates rates 🤞 lol if not it'll be more expensive afterwards Re: First Home :) Building with Dixon Homes 169May 17, 2017 2:25 pm Wow looking good! Starting to take shape for sure now! Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 170May 17, 2017 8:18 pm that didn't take long fleabee. Loving your Colorbond roof moment! Re: First Home :) Building with Dixon Homes 172May 17, 2017 9:16 pm Roof looks awesome and fantastic having a electrician as a brother too - so he should help you out haha Re: First Home :) Building with Dixon Homes 173May 17, 2017 11:07 pm Hi. I've just built with Dixon Homes and we had a fairly smooth ride except when it came to the bathroom cabinets and basins. Initially they did a pretty ordinary job of installation - and knocked off a pipe cap that flooded the main bedroom, WIR and into the hall. One vanity was meant to be put against the wall but wasn't so they had to move it. A chunk had been taken out of the front panel and they just coloured it in with nikko (ours are dark grey). The cuts under the basins were too large so there were gaps. All this was rectified by someone who did a better job HOWEVER, the basins themselves do not drain properly. The vanities also are not level. The cabinet installer said the steel frame makes them sag x amount (can't remember how much) so this is not helping the basin situation. We are left with basins that pool water. We delayed hand over by weeks waiting for them to fix the problem but we needed to move on so we handed over with email evidence that they would be fixing it. There's been no update thus far even after asking repeatedly. I don't know if you had to have the same square, flat bottom basins that we did? I asked our supervisor if this problem has occurred previously and he said it had (he wouldn't tell me how they dealt with it) so I suggested they change basins!! Good luck and hopefully this doesn't happen to you. Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 174May 18, 2017 12:38 pm dixon_build Hi. I've just built with Dixon Homes and we had a fairly smooth ride except when it came to the bathroom cabinets and basins. Initially they did a pretty ordinary job of installation - and knocked off a pipe cap that flooded the main bedroom, WIR and into the hall. One vanity was meant to be put against the wall but wasn't so they had to move it. A chunk had been taken out of the front panel and they just coloured it in with nikko (ours are dark grey). The cuts under the basins were too large so there were gaps. All this was rectified by someone who did a better job HOWEVER, the basins themselves do not drain properly. The vanities also are not level. The cabinet installer said the steel frame makes them sag x amount (can't remember how much) so this is not helping the basin situation. We are left with basins that pool water. We delayed hand over by weeks waiting for them to fix the problem but we needed to move on so we handed over with email evidence that they would be fixing it. There's been no update thus far even after asking repeatedly. I don't know if you had to have the same square, flat bottom basins that we did? I asked our supervisor if this problem has occurred previously and he said it had (he wouldn't tell me how they dealt with it) so I suggested they change basins!! Good luck and hopefully this doesn't happen to you. Thanks Dixon_build! I will be looking into that now I know SS hasn't come back to me yet saying if the main shower head is position correctly or not We have the dark cupboards as well & I'll definitely be paying a lot of attention to it! Sucks how you can pay thousands of $$$ & have things like that not fixed straight away! We've also asked where our gas for the cooker gets located as it's apparently been done yet there isn't anything in the walls or roof! Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 175May 18, 2017 12:41 pm shellu It looks so good Fleabee! Thank you Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 176May 18, 2017 12:43 pm em-n-craig Roof looks awesome and fantastic having a electrician as a brother too - so he should help you out haha Thanks em-n-craig Lol we have no shortage o sparkies that's for sure my brother, husband, brother-in-law & father-in-law are all sparkies! Told my sister she had to marry a plumber 🤣 but that never happened Re: First Home :) Building with Dixon Homes 177May 18, 2017 9:44 pm Haha, Fleabee, i'm the same - My husband, brother and dad are all spray painters! I had a customer in today that just built in Jimboomba Woods with Dixon and had nothing but good things to say Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 178May 18, 2017 10:56 pm fleabee86 em-n-craig Roof looks awesome and fantastic having a electrician as a brother too - so he should help you out haha Thanks em-n-craig Lol we have no shortage o sparkies that's for sure my brother, husband, brother-in-law & father-in-law are all sparkies! Told my sister she had to marry a plumber 🤣 but that never happened Nice.......that will have saved you a small fortune - haha how rude is your sister???? Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 179May 19, 2017 6:10 am em-n-craig fleabee86 em-n-craig Roof looks awesome and fantastic having a electrician as a brother too - so he should help you out haha Thanks em-n-craig Lol we have no shortage o sparkies that's for sure my brother, husband, brother-in-law & father-in-law are all sparkies! Told my sister she had to marry a plumber 🤣 but that never happened Nice.......that will have saved you a small fortune - haha how rude is your sister???? A massive saving on our side with the electrical we got quoted just over $600 for the NBN box, 2 switches that work 2 ways (so I can turn the lights on at the front of the house & turn the off at the back) & an extra double power point we took that out & have done it ourselves for around $300! The only thing we kept with them was the NBN box PMSL she's so rude! Can't believe how selfish she was only thinking of herself 🤣 Re: First Home 😀 Building with Dixon Homes 180May 19, 2017 6:13 am allblaqk Haha, Fleabee, i'm the same - My husband, brother and dad are all spray painters! I had a customer in today that just built in Jimboomba Woods with Dixon and had nothing but good things to say Lol maybe we could swap one?? 🤣 There have been a lot of good things about Dixon and so many people are really happy! And even out of the little things we are really happy so far as well! 11 40694 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 27233 Can anyone give me any onfo on New Homes WA? Good or bad, hopefully good just need to know if my choice was good or not? Thanks ❤️ 0 8933 |