Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 41Mar 23, 2018 7:48 pm Signed the contract today. I have queried the rendering area calculation for facade. Yep, they recalculated and going to adjust in variation. Couple of surprises as well, not reduced pricing for a few items... Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 42Mar 25, 2018 1:28 pm Good luck with the build. It will be 3-6 months before they get started. We built the Merricks 42 with some structural changes and absolutely love it. Now you need to go thru every contract item and double triple check what it says. Each item should be self explanatory but check all measurements and descriptions. You can amend or clarify by variation (no cost unless changing). Every conversation should be followed up with an email to establish an email trail should anything happen. Watch every step of the build and hammer the site supervisor when required. We engaged an independent inspector (Darbecca) and they were amazing and well worth the $2000. Ask me anything! Good luck. “Love where you live”. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 43Mar 26, 2018 6:50 pm Thanks mate for your input. Yes, there are 30 plus variation items. They need to draw final plans and change the color schedule as well. They are very disorganized. Well, I started my journey around 2.5 years ago making a deposit for Merricks42. Changed to Glendale 45. Then moved back to Merricks (Bentleigh42) with an extension to make similar to Glendale. Added rumpus. Added an ensuite. Preferred Merricks for bigger bed rooms and big pantry. On a different note, I am building in a new estate and the on the blocks either side of mine the construction was started. They did put the soil dug on my lot. Do they normally remove this, or do I have to alert the supervisors. Thanks. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 44Mar 26, 2018 10:07 pm I hear you! We signed Oct 2015 and moved in July 2017. I like your plans and yes we built it for the big kids bedrooms. We changed our pantry a bit and opened it to the laundry and put the bathroom where the laundry was. When I have another minute I will put up a photo for you to see. i would call the builders on either side of you and tell them to move their dirt. It will be your responsibility but depending how much there is it could get moved in the site scrape. Great to see another Merricks in the works. Looking forward to seeing it grow. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 45Mar 29, 2018 10:01 pm After signing the contract, submitted for bank valuation. It is weird, the building value (excluding land) came $8k more than the contract price. Not sure how is that possible. But happy with that.. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 46Jun 12, 2018 9:51 pm Metricon is taking ages to complete the variations, looks like they are inundated. First variation/corrections took almost 45 days. They could not fix everything, has to fix around 4/5 things. They are not able to do this almost 20 days now. It is so frustrating... Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 47Sep 26, 2018 10:19 pm Finally all the corrections are done to my satisfaction. Hoping to move to build stage soon. They took quite a while to get my island bench as I wanted. I was looking for a balamaine finish to island bench, with a corner openshelf. Bench size is 310x135, this provides for a overhang of 30. Island bench profile is 80mm...Ariel.. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 49Jan 18, 2019 10:50 am I will update the progress. The construction reaching lockup stage. The construction phase is going satisfactorily. I am expecting the completion by Mar/April at this pace. Plaster has been done. Brick work is in progress. Staircase (Open staircase) was fixed a couple of days ago. Yesterday the Kitchen cupboards were installed. I am happy the way kitchen is shaping out. I am trying to achieve a similar look to the balamaine kitchen, a picture i have already uploaded in here some time ago. The eaves at 600 looking good. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 55Jan 18, 2019 12:18 pm Clean looks like something wrong with my photos upload.. I can't see any photos... I can see them. Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 56Jan 18, 2019 1:20 pm Love the eaves, and the staircase is a strong choice! Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 59Jan 18, 2019 8:36 pm I wish we'd gone for 600 eaves... 450 isn't enough when it's raining hard Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Merricks 45 with Metricon 60Jan 25, 2019 12:58 pm My island bench size is 310 x 135 (Silestone Ariel). And I insisted it to be a single piece without joins. On the final plans it was mentioned - Continuous Jumbo Slap without Joins. When I had a peep yesterday in the house, they prepared some final things to put on the slab. I noticed that they are planning to put two pieces. 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