Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 81Mar 02, 2018 12:11 am Hey Breebarter, Congrats on your upcoming settlement, every exciting Your colours look great, stoked to see another surfmist roof. I can’t believe how quickly they are making land over your way, I went to chambers flats a fortnight ago and it’s amazing how much is happening. It depends on how your neighbours might want to deal with the fall, an option would be to cut the batter to make a clean line and then retain and pop the fence on top of the retaining wall, I would guess you might go halves?? If they pop the fence up top of the batter on your flat land and the retaining wall is solely in there yard then normally they pay. If it’s on the boundary you generally share the cost. Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Estate 82Mar 02, 2018 8:11 pm Hey Tribe! Thanks we are quite excited! Seems that the builder is already getting ready too with submitting plans/water metre applications to council. Funny how quick they are when is comes to getting their first payment! Lol There seems to be about 4 or 5 new estates going up in Bahrs Scrub/holmview. Interesting about the retaining wall, this is the thing that is making us most nervous about the build to be honest and the cost involved. Any idea on how much a 500mm retaining wall would cost? Lol Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 83Mar 02, 2018 8:48 pm We were responsible for a retaining wall on our land. So I can give you a rough idea...
Ours was 26m long x 0.8m high, treated timber retaining wall = $5824 Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 84Mar 02, 2018 8:52 pm staceyrussell We were responsible for a retaining wall on our land. So I can give you a rough idea... Ours was 26m long x 0.8m heigh, treated timber retaining wall = $5824 Thanks Stacey, wow retaining wall are expensive. Were you lower or higher than your neighbour? Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 85Mar 02, 2018 8:55 pm We are higher. But we knew when we bought the land that we were responsible for the retaining wall. It was a part of the land details and why our land was $5k cheaper than the land below even though they were the same lot size. We just decided being higher was better and we got our builder to do the retaining wall. Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 86Mar 02, 2018 8:58 pm staceyrussell We are higher. But we knew when we bought the land that we were responsible for the retaining wall. It was a part of the land details and why our land was $5k cheaper than the land below even though they were the same lot size. We just decided being higher was better and we got our builder to do the retaining wall. That’s what makes me wonder because Valeco and the developer told us that we didn’t need a retaining wall, and now we’re getting mixed messages from neighbours, so stressful to not know which way it will go lol Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 87Mar 02, 2018 9:08 pm Did you get land plans? Do you know if the developer specified on plans who was responsible for retaining walls? Definitely worth double checking. Maybe if it sits right on the boundary you go halves with neighbour. But I would just ask the question to the developer. Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 88Mar 03, 2018 12:13 am Jay4Becs Wow 8 weeks, yikes Initially with Plantation last year, before kicking them to the kerb, Ipswich Council took 3 weeks. We are in the final leg, colours on the horizon then sign off and awaiting council approval. Yeah it was a long wait. 3 weeks sounds like a dream. Are you building in Ipswich? Do you have a thread? (Sorry Bree!) Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 89Mar 03, 2018 11:04 am breebarter Any idea on how much a 500mm retaining wall would cost? Depends how long it is and what material you build it out of. A 20m long wall that is 500mm high has a face area of 10sq.m. I just built my own retaining wall with a face area of 7sq.m (and max. 600mm high) at a cost of around $300/sq.m. That's materials and equipment only, with all labour done by myself and family. I used concrete sleepers and galvanised steel posts, which is supposedly more expensive than timber but will last a lot longer. With economies of scale the cost per sq.m should come down for larger walls (not necessarily for tall walls though, as engineering and Council approval is required for walls taller than 1000mm). Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 91Mar 09, 2018 6:11 pm congrats breebarter how exciting Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 92Mar 11, 2018 10:09 pm breebarter And it’s officially ours! Settlement occurred today. Crazy how the calls and emails come flooding in afterwards lol! Haha yeah your sure know when its happened because of all the phone calls/emails! Congratulations! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 93Mar 15, 2018 9:39 pm So much has happened in one week! Council approved plans received today and have now moved onto dealing with customer service (I hope they will be okay in regards to answering all our questions!) I really quite liked the administration manager as most of the time she got back to me within half an hour! We have now got an estimated completion date of 13th September, but this seems a little long? Not sure Also noted a few things were not ‘allowed to do’ - has anyone had their electrician complete cash jobs? Like hanging our kitchen pendants and our alfresco fan? Didn’t think it would be a problem but starting to think otherwise. Hope everyone else’s builds are going well! Noticed it was a bit of a negative week for Valeco on HomeOne. Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 94Mar 15, 2018 10:20 pm hey breebarter, our electrician did a couple of cash jobs for us. Just a few powerpoints and ceiling fans. We have had so many SS changes, so hoping this one we got will stick around till the end now. Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 95Mar 15, 2018 10:21 pm breebarter So much has happened in one week! Council approved plans received today and have now moved onto dealing with customer service (I hope they will be okay in regards to answering all our questions!) I really quite liked the administration manager as most of the time she got back to me within half an hour! We have now got an estimated completion date of 13th September, but this seems a little long? Not sure Also noted a few things were not ‘allowed to do’ - has anyone had their electrician complete cash jobs? Like hanging our kitchen pendants and our alfresco fan? Didn’t think it would be a problem but starting to think otherwise. Hope everyone else’s builds are going well! Noticed it was a bit of a negative week for Valeco on HomeOne. Whooop! Your build will be underway in no time!! 7 months is right. "216 days" is the HIA contract (well, ours was). 8th April was our initial estimate (given on 4th Sept 2017) and is looking pretty accurate... we might even be longer than that for our build. We havent done any cash jobs. It doesnt surprise me that it "isn't allowed"... coz that means they miss out on builders margin. You could still try your luck though. Yeah... negative week indeed. All the posts are freaking me out a little, haha. We havent seen our build for a few weeks but heard from our SS yesterday. Alfresco decking almost done and carpet in and gap fix done very soon. Once the gap fix is complete we will probably meet on site again to check progress and will get more updates on when we might have PCI. Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 96Mar 16, 2018 1:11 pm gr8ly hey breebarter, our electrician did a couple of cash jobs for us. Just a few powerpoints and ceiling fans. We have had so many SS changes, so hoping this one we got will stick around till the end now. Good to know, thanks gr8ly! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 97Mar 16, 2018 1:12 pm staceyrussell breebarter So much has happened in one week! Council approved plans received today and have now moved onto dealing with customer service (I hope they will be okay in regards to answering all our questions!) I really quite liked the administration manager as most of the time she got back to me within half an hour! We have now got an estimated completion date of 13th September, but this seems a little long? Not sure Also noted a few things were not ‘allowed to do’ - has anyone had their electrician complete cash jobs? Like hanging our kitchen pendants and our alfresco fan? Didn’t think it would be a problem but starting to think otherwise. Hope everyone else’s builds are going well! Noticed it was a bit of a negative week for Valeco on HomeOne. Whooop! Your build will be underway in no time!! 7 months is right. "216 days" is the HIA contract (well, ours was). 8th April was our initial estimate (given on 4th Sept 2017) and is looking pretty accurate... we might even be longer than that for our build. We havent done any cash jobs. It doesnt surprise me that it "isn't allowed"... coz that means they miss out on builders margin. You could still try your luck though. Yeah... negative week indeed. All the posts are freaking me out a little, haha. We havent seen our build for a few weeks but heard from our SS yesterday. Alfresco decking almost done and carpet in and gap fix done very soon. Once the gap fix is complete we will probably meet on site again to check progress and will get more updates on when we might have PCI. Me too, I’m Sure everything will be fine, I’m trying to have a positive outlook! Can’t wait to see your alfresco decking! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 98Mar 16, 2018 1:13 pm So our SS initials are SK. Has anyone had him yet? Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 100Mar 17, 2018 8:00 pm hey breebarter - nope haven't had him. Has he been with Valeco a while? apparently they get about 10 houses or so each to look after 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 27739 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 8950 |