Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 22Feb 05, 2018 9:29 pm Been a while since I posted here. We have completed colors appointments and a compilation of variations is under progress at Metricon. Bench top stone is Ariel most part of the house. I am trying to get a Balamaine/ Sovereign kitchen look with open shelf , rear pot drawers and a overhand at the side. This would be complimented by kdhw ceiling. Is Metricon Victoria allowing any external inspectors or are they restricting to selected inspectors. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 25Feb 06, 2018 7:57 pm Ok no not yet ours in March. So you doing yours post handover? Which flooring are you going for if you dont mind me asking. Planning on doing our post handover but have no idea who to choose to. How much were the porc in wet areas with M? Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 26Feb 06, 2018 7:57 pm Ok no not yet ours in March. So you doing yours post handover? Which flooring are you going for if you dont mind me asking. Planning on doing our post handover but have no idea who to choose to. How much were the porc in wet areas with M? Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 28Feb 06, 2018 11:38 pm Clean I will give you the number of tile later. Upgrade to porcelean tile would cost a minimum of $60 per square m2 as a thumb rule with Metricon. It would go up as per the tile we chose. Thank you, much appreciated. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 30Mar 05, 2018 3:10 pm Your floor plan is divine. Can’t wait to see this all come to life! M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 32Mar 17, 2018 9:19 am My initial contract signing appointment was cancelled. I requested the CSC to send me documents at least a week before. She could not send. She kept on promising I will send soon. I did not get them at a day before appointment. She continued to say that they will be ready by appointment time. I told her to defer the appointment. She could not send until 3 days later. That is how the things work at admin stage. When we received the contract estimate and plans, we found lot of issues. Which I raised to CSC. She told they will be fixed by variation and not through correcting the contract. So we went to appointment. The contract signer is really good. He noted down all the errors in plans and also estimates. Took almost 3 hrs to go through these errors. He told it will take another 3 hrs to go through the contract signing process. So we made another appointment next week to complete signing. He told that the errors will be fixed through variations only. If I wish these mistakes to be fixed in original contract docs, then the entire file goes back into que and it takes 3 months to redo. However, fixing them through variation is faster because these files are treated with different priority. Not sure if this is the case. Any comments from you guys? I told in advance that I will opt for Method 1 payment method. He told that is fine, but cautioned that this will delay build process. The reason being, in this method, they need to complete 100% in each stage to move to next stage. If they could not finish or fix something relating to that stage, they won't be able to move to next stage and then come back to fix the pending things. Further, sometimes, the house could be left unattended for some days (as they wait to tradies to come and fix issues already found). This unattended house could be at a risk of vandalism, theft, graffity etc...Of course, there is insurance to cover this. However, this could disrupt build process and delay the things. I felt he got some points. I told I will take a decision by next appointment. What are your thoughts please.. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 33Mar 20, 2018 3:44 pm Stick with the Method 1 schedule. Whilst it might delay the build (this mind you comes down to how quickly you want it done) you hold the cards. Money is all builders know and/or care about (which is fair). In the end, if something isn't done to your satisfaction, you at least hold the cards in your hands to not pay up until it's rectified. Trust all SM's with the 'we will fix it later' with a grain of salt. It's a classic stalling tactic and you lose any power you have. It is true however about the contract vs variations. Just make sure every variation is signed and your receive a counter signed copy. Also make sure that the final variation (they increment them up to the Final) has everything all inclusive on it, there should be one Variation each for Flooring/Kitchen/Internals/Externals (you also may have things like site costs/traffic control etc, CDC etc). Each one of these variations will be numbered. Make sure that they carry over the variations you want approved from one to the other (they didn't do this with ours, and we had to go back and get it amended, taking more time) Once the final variations are signed off, they should appear on your Statement that you should receive after Contract signing. Re: Price of security crimsafe or similar flyscreens 35Mar 21, 2018 7:02 am Clean In Freedom Specifications list, it says the shower screens are semi-framless shower screens. Are they giving these? They'll have both in the Studio M to compare them - the prices are quite different from memory Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 38Mar 21, 2018 1:11 pm Clean what I was trying to say was semi-frame less should be a standard inclusion. Are they giving it free of any additional cost.. Semi-frameless is standard/included for Freedom builds. 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