Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 81Sep 30, 2017 5:36 pm Hey there just found your thread! Looking forward to following love your changes we are building grange 25 down in Newie just had site cut and piering last wk Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 82Sep 30, 2017 8:35 pm carrot_stix Cool! Great to see your tender letter. With corner stacking doors what does the fly screen look like? Is the mesh noticeable or not noticeable? I actually dont have any idea.... I will ask at our colour appointment on 10/10 and let you know. If its the super cheap stuff that you can easily push your fingers through, ill cancel it! I have 2 little ones who would have a gay ol' time pushing holes through every fly screen they find 😨 Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 83Sep 30, 2017 8:45 pm BrownDog77 Hey there just found your thread! Looking forward to following love your changes we are building grange 25 down in Newie just had site cut and piering last wk Hey BD! I've been following your progress for the past few months.... im pretty sure i used some of the prices you put up for our build. They were so helpful 😁 Congrats for the start!!!! Hopefully its a quick build for you. Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 84Oct 01, 2017 9:50 am Dylandbrooke carrot_stix Cool! Great to see your tender letter. With corner stacking doors what does the fly screen look like? Is the mesh noticeable or not noticeable? I actually dont have any idea.... I will ask at our colour appointment on 10/10 and let you know. If its the super cheap stuff that you can easily push your fingers through, ill cancel it! I have 2 little ones who would have a gay ol' time pushing holes through every fly screen they find 😨 Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 85Oct 04, 2017 4:12 pm carrot_stix Dylandbrooke carrot_stix Cool! Great to see your tender letter. With corner stacking doors what does the fly screen look like? Is the mesh noticeable or not noticeable? I actually dont have any idea.... I will ask at our colour appointment on 10/10 and let you know. If its the super cheap stuff that you can easily push your fingers through, ill cancel it! I have 2 little ones who would have a gay ol' time pushing holes through every fly screen they find 😨 Hey guys.. here's a snippet of mine. The flyscreen (which you can see beyond the glass doors - the second layer of doors) has a bar across the middle to add support otherwise it would sag. Stainless steel mesh (like crimsafe) wouldn't need that but is very expensive. I'll try and get a better picture tomorrow. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 87Oct 05, 2017 1:09 pm klea carrot_stix Dylandbrooke [quote="carrot_stix"]Cool! Great to see your tender letter. With corner stacking doors what does the fly screen look like? Is the mesh noticeable or not noticeable? I actually dont have any idea.... I will ask at our colour appointment on 10/10 and let you know. If its the super cheap stuff that you can easily push your fingers through, ill cancel it! I have 2 little ones who would have a gay ol' time pushing holes through every fly screen they find Hey guys.. here's a snippet of mine. The flyscreen (which you can see beyond the glass doors - the second layer of doors) has a bar across the middle to add support otherwise it would sag. Stainless steel mesh (like crimsafe) wouldn't need that but is very expensive. I'll try and get a better picture tomorrow. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ [/quote] They look so good I wish I'd pushed for them too Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 88Oct 05, 2017 8:28 pm Today we had our tile appointment at Beaumonts Strathpine. It was so much fun!
Here's our inspo pics for the bathrooms... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Floor tile: Belga charcoal Wall tile: Classic cararra white. Matching grout The long shower wall in the ensuite will also be belga charcoal. We've selected caesarstone snow for the benchtops in the bathrooms, matte black tapware and laminex satin heartwood for the cabinetry. Sorry, my pics are really bad. We will be doing 1200mm height tiles around the whole bathroom and will have a picture rail around the tops of the tiles. This was a cheaper option for us (and hopefully effective) as full height tiles just to the ensuite was 2k! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is our inspo pic for our kitchen, pantry and laundry splashback.... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And this is what we chose: Cararra tile in brickbond with white grout. Caesarstone oyster for the benchtops. The splashback will run up behind the rangehood. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is our inspo pic for the half height tiles with picture rail... hope it looks okay! Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 89Oct 05, 2017 8:48 pm Great collie selections. Will look great I’m sure Building Vancouver 33 - My Thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89689 Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 91Oct 06, 2017 9:21 am Selections look great, very cool style you are going for! Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 93Oct 13, 2017 1:37 pm So annoyed! We were hoping that we'd miss the issues that some others were having with Coral at the admin stage... but 'oh no!' We too, got hit! Coral had forgotten to include the 'build to boundry' council fee in our tender and called to advise of the extra $932 fee that we now had to cough up. Instead of admitting fault, they blamed the issue on some changes we made to the house plan 3+ months ago - before we had even signed anything. After we investigated and found out they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes, they changed the reason to something different. We went back and forth, and in the end we still have to pay the fee on our 'fixed price' contract. Gahhhhhhhhh! Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 94Oct 13, 2017 1:39 pm Dylandbrooke So annoyed! We were hoping that we'd miss the issues that some others were having with Coral at the admin stage... but 'oh no!' We too, got hit! Coral had forgotten to include the 'build to boundry' council fee in our tender and called to advise of the extra $932 fee that we now had to cough up. Instead of admitting fault, they blamed the issue on some changes we made to the house plan 3+ months ago - before we had even signed anything. After we investigated and found out they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes, they changed the reason to something different. We went back and forth, and in the end we still have to pay the fee on our 'fixed price' contract. Gahhhhhhhhh! Fixed price contract hahah Good joke... There is so much fine print and BS that Coral has snuck into their contracts that their prices are so far from fixing price it's not even funny... I'm fighting a losing battle here myself with our issues Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 95Oct 13, 2017 2:43 pm caydenn i hear ya! They advertise the fixed price contract as a way to get you through the door. But when you sign, it's anything but. Your issues are pretty bad - and you've had a few... flooring and retaining are big costs 😩. I hope you guys get a win! Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 96Oct 13, 2017 7:43 pm Love your choices sorry to hear about admin problems I must say our was lengthy with ongoing drama but touch wood cost wise our fixed price contract has been just that hoping I haven't jinxed us now Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 98Oct 24, 2017 4:35 pm We paid around $4500 for build to boundary then once the slab was down when realized it certainly wasn’t built to boundary at all . When we raised it they immediately credited us $3100 . So, if we didn’t check it they’d have kept the money ... not having much luck with coral at the moment with our build either . Bathroom issues, plumbing issues , leaking water from roof ... grr Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 99Oct 24, 2017 8:53 pm jamique oh dear! That's silly - how'd they get that wrong and not build to boundry? You really have to be on the ball and check absolutely everything I've realised. That would peeve me right off if i paid 4.5k and didnt get what i asked for. I'd request the entire amount back!!!! wow! I just had a look at your photos of the bathroom 😟 i would not be happy with that at all 😠 Re: Coral Homes - Modified Grange 29 100Oct 25, 2017 2:58 pm Dylandbrooke @jamique oh dear! That's silly - how'd they get that wrong and not build to boundry? You really have to be on the ball and check absolutely everything I've realised. That would peeve me right off if i paid 4.5k and didnt get what i asked for. I'd request the entire amount back!!!! wow! I just had a look at your photos of the bathroom 😟 i would not be happy with that at all 😠 Well they didn’t give a reason why it wasn’t done . They have an immediate partial refund but we are still almost 2k out of pocket . The reason they didn’t give a full refund was because they said they still spent for council approval and also made modifications to the eaves and also extra piering to the base ... which in the end we didn’t need because they didn’t actuallly build to boundary ... in light of all the new issues we have had I now feel like challenging the partial refund . We spent close to 2 years in a process with TA. It was horrible..... we got to tender, and the first cut was 50% over our budget which "they care such about meeting ". We… 18 27189 Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 13746 In Qld it is a requirement that a builder must have a cost breakdown, for building a home to the same specification, with the same inclusions and the same finish. So ask… 1 1768 |