Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 06, 2016 9:15 pm Hi everyone, So I built the Talbot 28 with Metricon a fews years ago. The house quality was very good and we had minimal issues with after sales service. However we regretted not upgrading things here and there as we were worried that we could not pay the mortgage repayments. Feeling disappointed all those years and coming home to a house that was suppose to be our dream house (which wasn't) we stumbled upon a Metricon display house around the corner from where we live. The Fortitude 37, was love at first sight and quickly after we purchased a 700 square metre block of land in Tarneit and we vowed not to make the same mistakes with building our dream home. The purpose of this thread is to share my experience with Metricon (after building twice with them) and to discuss costs/upgrade options that was available or to the best of my knowledge especially for those first home owners building their first house. I have just recently moved in and I will upload some pics if anyone is interested. Cheers Re: Fortitude 37 Metricon 3Jan 20, 2016 9:56 am Keen to hear of your experience. Did you make many changes to the base plan? We are looking at the Fortitude 37 as a base plan for what we want, and keen to hear about additional costs that are not obvious, especially around changes to the standard plan (ie increasing area). Re: Fortitude 37 Metricon 4Feb 13, 2016 11:35 am Am building the Fortitude 32.. Waiting for land.. Contact is signed.. Excitedly waiting. Love the floor plan. What facade you going with? Building the Metricon Fortitude 32, blogging the development at - https://fortitude32.wordpress.com/ Build thread -ย https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85627 Re: Fortitude 37 Metricon 5Apr 04, 2016 3:18 pm Hi guys,
This is our Pagoda facade. http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j21/nunodagod/055_zpsutm7jmco.jpg I'll post up more pics of the interiors soon! Re: Fortitude 37 Metricon 6Apr 04, 2016 3:28 pm What were the things you put in this build that you didn't in the last one? Re: Fortitude 37 Metricon 7Apr 04, 2016 4:21 pm We actually made some extensions to the base 37. - 1080mm rear extension to the bed 4 through to rumpus and through to outdoor room - $8,700 - 480mm width extension to garage to make 6.00m x 6.00m -$1443 - 600mm width ''projection'' width extension from Bedroom 1 through to outdoor room- $6900 - 600mm extension to laundry - $600 - Turned the larger section of the outdoor room from the original plans into a leisure room, essentially creating extra space/another room 4320mm x 3610mm in open plan living - $2495 All in all the extensions pushed the area to almost 42 squares. Some other structural changes we made: - 2700mm ceiling height - $4590 - brickwork above windows and doors - $2240 - cat 7 bricks - $6270 - flush mortar - $300 - external tiles on facade - $5167.36 - offwhite mortar - $820 - flyscreens -$450 - Upgrade front door pivot and locks - $1820 I spent a reasonable amount on upgrades for kitchen, bathrooms and electricals which I will reveal later. Any questions please feel free to ask! Re: Fortitude 37 Metricon 8Apr 04, 2016 6:17 pm Love the facade! Can we see your floor plan? Sounds like you have a very beautiful home! Re: Fortitude 37 Metricon 12Jun 03, 2017 8:54 pm Hi Nuno, I'm looking at building the fortitude 37, however I wanted to make some spaces bigger as well, so I love what you did. I'm just wondering if you have some pics of the family room extension. I'm also wondering now that you've lived in the house for a year, would you change anything? I'm considering extending the the study and getting rid of the toilet and linen closet. But I'm on the fence. Any pics would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 10991 Hello All ๐ We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 8423 We donโt live in VIC so want to know the exterior colours of Lumiere display so we can see it at the paint shop. Not building with Metricon so my request went… 0 17800 |