My new home in Capestone Mango Hill with Clarendon Wentworth

Legend!!!
BTW - you're house looks really good. Good work

Hi BrissyBloke,

Did you end up proceeding with Clarendon and the Wentworth 35?

Hi,

Could you please share your final product experience because we are also planning to build with Clarendon.

I have a mixed feeling. We are first home builders as well, so we did miss a few and few more checks during build stage. Over all it's alright, decent and they were bit flexible as well.
Push a lot and don't shy away in asking dumbest of dumb questions. We are not professional builders to understand every term. they might laugh but you can have have last laugh when you push them on their limits . Take time, review every item multiple times .. you might miss few as it happens .. make sure you don't miss major items. Add site visits to your contract if you can. Site Supervisor is bit lazy and you won't see him much.

There is a facebook page "Building with Clarendon" . You can see posts in there and every item price has been submitted by one or other person. Clarendon hides their prices a lot, so you better review, join page and figure out your items.

Oh my god... they have already blowing us out by giving their quote still there could be hidden charges.
Yeah definitely I'll look into that page.
Thanks

Good luck. See my pics on how big is the kitchen that I extended vs standard kitchen in went worth.These kind of things make a lot of difference. We extended which gave us a big kitchen which we love it .. Go visit site and see which side is sun rise and sun set. We missed it and now we have kitchen facing direct east.. cooking generates heat and add QLD heat to it which doubles up your sweating and irritation .. we now regret for not checking the sun path .. we would have flipped the house..

[quote="kishore":qealwpju]Good luck. See my pics on how big is the kitchen that I extended vs standard kitchen in went worth.These kind of things make a lot of difference. We extended which gave us a big kitchen which we love it .. Go visit site and see which side is sun rise and sun set. We missed it and now we have kitchen facing direct east.. cooking generates heat and add QLD heat to it which doubles up your sweating and irritation .. we now regret for not checking the sun path .. we would have flipped the house..[/quote:qealwpju]
We changed downstairs study to bedroom.
Added shower to powder room.
Instead of normal Alfresco we asked for grand alfresco.
We asked to increase the size of theatre room but they said they can't move stairs so no possibility to increase the size of theatre room.
On first floor moved master bedroom at rear and Rumpus at front.
We got lot no. 32 on Brooks release.
We didn't thought about sunrise nd sunset.
We'll check this one now.
I'll check pics of your home as well

Hi

Could you please let me know which kind of hidden cost you did find with Clarendon?
Thank you

Difference between provisioning vs allowance. Like I described my issues with tiles.
site cost is seperate from soil test and wind rating. Every choice you make for adding anything there is admin fee.
The most useless things are thrown in for free. The moment you change your item you price shoots up.
I would suggest to join facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/258116618031482 . Most of people are really nice and will have latest inputs .. but that is for entire Australia... post your questions asking for details for Brisbane.

Thanks for your suggestion.
I have sent request to join clarendon group.
They have added 12k for all site expenses,
5k for electricity, 5k for carpet and 6k for tiles.
Especially for tiles, I have a feeling they have added less amount.

All 3 are less. Electrical prices go beyond 10K. Our initial estimate came up 12K and we ended up at 8K .
Carpet 5K will go for a nice underlay itself. On top of it carpet price will be around 5-6K for two storey.
Tiles will go beyond that. Make allowance for 10K as matching grout and going to porcelein or bigger tiles will cost a lot.
Add allowance for Cabinets.

They said Cabinetory is all included.
How much total should be for carpet and tiles?
Do you have any idea which basic stairs are included in their luxe inclusions?

Cabinetry is included which is very basic polytec. They won't tell you what is that basic vs bit nice ones. Go to Beaumont tiles in Strathpine and ask them the clarendon luxe inclusions for both tiles and cabinet. They will show you. Kitchen Splashback for Madion costs us 3K for Porcelain. Charges will be high if you go for type of laying tiles like herringbone, slab type, etc...
https://www.beaumont-tiles.com.au/tile-types

Carpet is from carpet call I believe. It depends on the size and type.