Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Ask land developer to have the location of the garage mo 13Sep 07, 2017 9:45 am bananarama Good point on the neighbor's end, yes sounds like a PITA if this change affects neigbour's i realised we'll be odd one out in the entire street if we change garage location, rum_home thanks but flipping the sacramento will give me heartaches haha most of the living areas and kitchen are in the eastern side, i'm afraid it might get glooomy (like in our current rental) this means bedrooms will be on western side, very hot during summer (i think i can work around this but all these small reasons just makes my cup full) laundry is on eastern side but i'm planning the clothesline in the western side for sun exposure and i don't want to walk a loooong way just to hang the laundr but i'm still open to flipping it IF i can convince myself that living areas won't be gloomy and for sure i can find ways to shade the bedrooms of the western sun come summer time. am i thinking too much at this stage of house layout selection? i'm going nuts.... i wish i have the budget to custom build... anyway... g33kerb0t i'm glad your garage crossover went well, no headaches. in the engnineering drawing, i can't find location for the utilities, i guess its a very initial draft? BTW, is your land slopy? how much fall? with all these possible PITA, hubby and i decided to just stick with original garage location and work with it. i think we'll say goodby to sacramento and go with boutique's catalina 25, i just wish they have a 27 though, i find it too small but their next size, a 31 won't fit in our land. anyway, my post is getting long.. hopefully we'll meet up with boutique this coming weekend. thanks all for taking the time to share your inputs, appreciate it. I love this site. Re: Ask land developer to have the location of the garage mo 14Sep 07, 2017 9:56 am reps @bananarama Good point on the neighbor's end, yes sounds like a PITA if this change affects neigbour's i realised we'll be odd one out in the entire street if we change garage location, rum_home thanks but flipping the sacramento will give me heartaches haha most of the living areas and kitchen are in the eastern side, i'm afraid it might get glooomy (like in our current rental) this means bedrooms will be on western side, very hot during summer (i think i can work around this but all these small reasons just makes my cup full) laundry is on eastern side but i'm planning the clothesline in the western side for sun exposure and i don't want to walk a loooong way just to hang the laundr but i'm still open to flipping it IF i can convince myself that living areas won't be gloomy and for sure i can find ways to shade the bedrooms of the western sun come summer time. am i thinking too much at this stage of house layout selection? i'm going nuts.... i wish i have the budget to custom build... anyway... g33kerb0t i'm glad your garage crossover went well, no headaches. in the engnineering drawing, i can't find location for the utilities, i guess its a very initial draft? BTW, is your land slopy? how much fall? with all these possible PITA, hubby and i decided to just stick with original garage location and work with it. i think we'll say goodby to sacramento and go with boutique's catalina 25, i just wish they have a 27 though, i find it too small but their next size, a 31 won't fit in our land. anyway, my post is getting long.. hopefully we'll meet up with boutique this coming weekend. thanks all for taking the time to share your inputs, appreciate it. I love this site. Might be worth asking your developer where the utilities would go. This might not be in the plan of subdivision (which I'm guessing is what you have). Ask for the engineering drawings which is more detailed. Building the Arden Votivo 43 Follow me here: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88553 Re: Ask land developer to have the location of the garage mo 15Sep 07, 2017 10:20 am g33kerb0t reps @bananarama Good point on the neighbor's end, yes sounds like a PITA if this change affects neigbour's i realised we'll be odd one out in the entire street if we change garage location, rum_home thanks but flipping the sacramento will give me heartaches haha most of the living areas and kitchen are in the eastern side, i'm afraid it might get glooomy (like in our current rental) this means bedrooms will be on western side, very hot during summer (i think i can work around this but all these small reasons just makes my cup full) laundry is on eastern side but i'm planning the clothesline in the western side for sun exposure and i don't want to walk a loooong way just to hang the laundr but i'm still open to flipping it IF i can convince myself that living areas won't be gloomy and for sure i can find ways to shade the bedrooms of the western sun come summer time. am i thinking too much at this stage of house layout selection? i'm going nuts.... i wish i have the budget to custom build... anyway... g33kerb0t i'm glad your garage crossover went well, no headaches. in the engnineering drawing, i can't find location for the utilities, i guess its a very initial draft? BTW, is your land slopy? how much fall? with all these possible PITA, hubby and i decided to just stick with original garage location and work with it. i think we'll say goodby to sacramento and go with boutique's catalina 25, i just wish they have a 27 though, i find it too small but their next size, a 31 won't fit in our land. anyway, my post is getting long.. hopefully we'll meet up with boutique this coming weekend. thanks all for taking the time to share your inputs, appreciate it. I love this site. Hi my block is (according to the engineering drawings) relatively flat - 200-300mm of fall from back to front, which our builder said will easily be flattened out when they do the site scrape. Might be worth asking your developer where the utilities would go. This might not be in the plan of subdivision (which I'm guessing is what you have). Ask for the engineering drawings which is more detailed. i just realised we have a copy of the engineering, but the utilities connection doesn't make sense to me, its like in the middle of the front house!? wanted to post it here but i can't seem to find how to attach pics haha i'll work it out first Re: Ask land developer to have the location of the garage mo 16Sep 07, 2017 3:46 pm reps @rum_home thanks but flipping the sacramento will give me heartaches haha most of the living areas and kitchen are in the eastern side, i'm afraid it might get glooomy (like in our current rental) this means bedrooms will be on western side, very hot during summer (i think i can work around this but all these small reasons just makes my cup full) laundry is on eastern side but i'm planning the clothesline in the western side for sun exposure and i don't want to walk a loooong way just to hang the laundr but i'm still open to flipping it IF i can convince myself that living areas won't be gloomy and for sure i can find ways to shade the bedrooms of the western sun come summer time. am i thinking too much at this stage of house layout selection? i'm going nuts.... i wish i have the budget to custom build... anyway... I didn't mean the whole plan, you can flip just sections of the of the home in some plans. Like only the garage and main room. But the rest stays the same. There are some plans that have that feature in their designs for the problem you're facing. I know Metricon has it in the house I'm looking at. Re: Ask land developer to have the location of the garage mo 17Sep 07, 2017 4:04 pm rum_home reps @rum_home thanks but flipping the sacramento will give me heartaches haha most of the living areas and kitchen are in the eastern side, i'm afraid it might get glooomy (like in our current rental) this means bedrooms will be on western side, very hot during summer (i think i can work around this but all these small reasons just makes my cup full) laundry is on eastern side but i'm planning the clothesline in the western side for sun exposure and i don't want to walk a loooong way just to hang the laundr but i'm still open to flipping it IF i can convince myself that living areas won't be gloomy and for sure i can find ways to shade the bedrooms of the western sun come summer time. am i thinking too much at this stage of house layout selection? i'm going nuts.... i wish i have the budget to custom build... anyway... I didn't mean the whole plan, you can flip just sections of the of the home in some plans. Like only the garage and main room. But the rest stays the same. There are some plans that have that feature in their designs for the problem you're facing. I know Metricon has it in the house I'm looking at. Ah i see what u mean... like flip only the front or the back.. i have thought of this but its not applicable to this layout, its not partly-flippable-friendly... Re: Ask land developer to have the location of the garage mo 18Sep 07, 2017 4:20 pm Depending on the developer and how far along the estate is you may just be able to have the crossover/driveway changed from one side to the other which sounds like it would solve your problem? I'd imagine the developer puts all the driveways on the same side just because it's easier and symmetrical, but there shouldn't really be any reason why it isn't changeable if you need it. That obviously depends on how far along the estate is with being developed. If they've already put in crossovers, utilities etc then it would be more difficult and expensive, but if it's just a plan on a wall at the moment then really they should be able to do it fairly easily. We changed the side of our crossover when it was just a plan on the wall, the developer charged us a fee for it as they presumably needed to change some drawings etc but then they gave us a cheaper price on the land to balance it out so no real extra cost to us. As it turned out the contractor who did the crossovers etc stuffed up and they had to relocated our crossover to where it was supposed to be, but we didn't have to pay for that. I'd say just call up the developer and ask them what the go is, it's certainly doable in theory though. 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